Vjo the neighbor issue is a sensitive one for me, I won't bother with getting into it but have had a few real class acts. One of the downsides of home ownership I guess, best bet is just to step back and ignore.

Thanks :thumbsup

other then the ocassional HI when we see each other i dont interact with my neighbors at all

Thanks man, its all cool now. Eh sometimes things just dont go right. If I didnt let the cat wander around it wouldnt have happened.

But conversely am I going to keep my cat inside all his life just so some asshole wont ever see a cat walk in his yard.

People are too uptight now days. Where I come from noone cared if a little cat wandered thru the yard once in a while.

This guy was NOT orig from MN. He is from Wisconsin. Booooo. :) J/k WI. Actually he was from way southern WI down just north of Chicago so lets blame his lame ass on IL. :)

Up here we call it Minnesota nice. A native Minnesotan would never have been an asshole like that.

It's true. You betcha. :)

Fucking cheeseheads. =p

LOL and again LOL :)

I'm blaming him on IL tho since WI is a little too close to home. :)

On one side we had an 89 year old war veteran who we'd occasionally go over to visit and have him drink me under the table on good scotch. Really sweet guy to us although he had a bit of a mean streak in him to other people apparantly.. but then again other people are douches so I don't blame him. I'd chat with him and help weed his garden whenever I saw him, which given my hours I can't say was overly often, but still. We bought him a nice present for his 89th.
We knew he had cancer but he'd had it for over ten years.. we knew he was getting treatment up the coast but left a note in his door to contact us as we were starting to get a little worried we hadn't seen him in a while. One day i see his only relative and find out he's on death's door in hospital so I race over.. i'm about 20 feet from his room when I decide to buy some flowers at the supermarket 5 min away.. I was gone maybe 15 min.. when I came back with the flowers there was a nurse outside his door and she shook her head at me. I asked stupidly if he was asleep. I broke down. How fucking stupid not to have known. But we weren't family and he hardly had any either so there was no one to really contact us. Can't believe I missed him. He was going to leave his cat to us in his will and some money to take care of her, but his relative put it down, presumeably to take the money.

Now the people that live there after his house was sold are complete trash and whose incessently barking dogs make our lives a sleepless living hell.

One night I hear a scream for help.. I run outside with my baseball bat and see a girl on the corner.. I run over to her and she says her boyfriend has been beating her. I ask where he is and she says "behind you" I freak out and turn around ready to swing but he's actually about 30-40 feet away.. He sees the bat and says a few drunken things and we walk her to my parents house. We find out the domestic I've just hero'd in on was from our next door neighbours on the other side - the block of six apartments.
They are the only people I know in them and very occasionally have loud parties till all hours on innappropriate days.

I can't believe I went from having a really good neighbour you could have a drink with, sit around listening to war stories and who was always trying to help you out with a bit of second hand building material or something to fix your house to cunts on both sides I wouldn't use for bulletproof vest testing. Third neighbours that are a little futher away are nice though. The one on the opposite corner to the dogs apprantly has a gun and wants to shoot them so she's roughly my favorite person in the world.

My last house I stood at the window giving him the finger yelling what a fuckhead
he was.

This place is worse during the day, I wear industrial headmuffs most of the day but
at night it's safe to open the balcony and listen to the waves.

(did I mention listening to the waves...)

Nice post man. That gen was the coolest it is true. Just plain good people.

Same thing happened to me. I had a nice older couple as neighbors. Fellow dies so wife moves, now the new people also have a dog that barks at me all the time. They are cool and bring it in tho if I am out there.

But yeah seriously I want to start a thread on barking dogs. I will take 24 cats. One walking thru my yard every hour of the day (which I wont even know about) rather than a constant barking dog. So fucken annoying.
Most dogs bark when the owner is away more than while they are there so the owner doesnt know.

I recorded one neighbor's dog and then went over and played it for em. I mean it was so bad I could here it constantly inside with all windows up whatever for like 3 hours straight. You can only take so much of that.

I mean this thing was a big fucken dog like on pcp and meth barking from the time they left till the time they came back.

Luckily most a-holes tend to have bad karma, shit happens and they move on. Hopefully yours will too. :)

It depending on the neighbors. If your neigbor is an old alcoholic it's hard to be friendly with him all the time...

I would rather have Charles Manson move in next door with Squeaky Fromme over every night rather than a constant barking dog in the neighborhood. :)

I just met the new peeps that moved in

The power is out so I was outside smoking and he said hi to me and introduced himself they are Asians and he
seemed nice but I couldn't undestabd what he was saying
Hope he ain't yakuza or head of some Asian mob lolol

Hope he ain't yakuzza

Great topic, I hate every single of my neighbors...

I am friendly with anyone that isn't a dick, I also think that in my building my neighbors feel safe having me around ;-)

Dude. They leave at 5:30am and get back at 8:30am each morning.. the fucking rottweiler which is kept in this shitty little yard that puts it literally 20 feet from my bed goes off it's nut each and every morning. Closing windows does nothing. Once early on while we were planning to approach it civilly they were having a party and I overheard them laughing about how noisy their dogs bark (they also howl between 12am-2am but that doesn't bother me.. I'm usually still up or have only just gone to bed.). Also once she shook the shit out of her bird in it's cage because it was chirping. When they laughed at the nuisance they were being I realised there was no sense talking reason with them.. They really and honestly are white trash. He has a car up on blocks and everything. I've still got to end up recording the thing and doing something about it.. I'm about to start getting up each morning and turning a hose on it to condition it not to bark at the fence but until then i get woken up every morning and it's my cue to put my earplugs in and put my head under the pillow WHICH STILL DOESN'T DROWN OUT THE DOG EVEN THOUGH I HAVE TINNITUS! It's just too big and loud and close to my bedroom. Seriously these people should be shot. Sleep deprivation is a fucked up thing.. I honestly don't know whats worse than a barking dog... I mean sure the threat of violence maybe.. like the week after I ran out with my baseball bat wondering if the boyfriend was going to try and beat me up coming back home from work or something.. but nothing is as relentless as a dog like this.. I really wish I could kidnap it and take it to a vet to debark it and put it back before they notice it.

I have met a couple of them, talked with one of them more than once, waved in passing at the rest. Never hung out with them, I don't visit the neighborhood gatherings, I've never had them over or visited any of them or know any names of anyone here...

All they know about me is Marine and guns, that's exactly how I like it. I get more work done that way and nobody asks questions about what I do!

About the same as me.

And the whole fucking village seems to have moaned about my car at some point :disgust

im friendly with my neighbours.

we have parties almost weekly....thats with say 2-3 different ones.

then there are the others that ill talk to when they are outside at the same time

recently someone disposed of a dead raccoon in my compost in the backyard....when i find out who did it....im going to go apeshit....should be good

epic even

I am civil to those I don't live directly against, and try to be nice to those I have to endure. The insurance scamming alkie who can't hold down a job more than two weeks at a time across the street is going to have fun, though, since I'm installing motion cams and a DVR.