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[lexiemom]

We live on the edge of our town and have one neighbor that lives across the street from us. We moved in two years ago and he has never said a word to us. I try and wave to him, but never get a response. This past Saturday we were told by a friend that our neighbor is trying to CHANGE the name of our street! He said it would only affect him and the "character" that lives across the street from him...that character being my DH. He went to city council because he wants to change the name of several streets in town to veterans names that have passed away. I am not against naming streets after the veterans in the new neighborhoods that are being built...but changing the name of a street that already exists, what a pain! Luckily DH's cousin is on the city council, so he won't let the name of our street get changed.

So, do you get along with your neighbors or do you have grumpy neighbors like mine?

[Disney_Scarlett]

We get along with our neighbors, but it helps that none of them live close to us at all. That's one good thing about living out in the boonies on a farm -- everything I can see from our house, in all directions, is ours. (that hardly makes up for the fact that we can't get cable or DSL internet though ). Our closest neighbors are a family we've known forever, way before we ever moved to this house (small town and all that) - they are a little strange, but very nice. The rest of neighbors (within miles) are mostly relatives, so while they are also strange, it's the same kinda strange we are. So no problems here.

That's weird that he wants to change the name of your road. He should try to get new roads named. And yes, it is a pain - the road I grew up on changed names when I was in about first grade. Went from being named after my great-great-grandpa to being named after my great-grandpa. I mean, what was the point of that? Same family, different name.

[snoozin]

We get along pretty well with our neighbors, even tho they're a pretty 'interesting' .

However, for about 3 years in CO we had a grumpy old man (to the max!) across the street. We had covenants, and the guy would walk and drive around the neighborhood (3/4+ acre lots, trees, forest area, mind you) with a notebook and then call our 'police' department and give them the list of everything everyone had done... boy, was everyone glad when he finally moved!

[ilovedisney0_0]

I am pretty anti-social, mostly because I am never home. I am on smile, wave, 'hi' basis with everyone, though.

[tndisneyfam]

Your neihbor is insane!!!! I have a home based business and would be upset if they changed the name of our road, think of evrything you would hve to change!

Glad your cousin is on the City Council.


We are lucky, we have good neighbors all around us.

[lauren-roxy]

We only have neighbors on one side of us and they are wonderful!!

[akleos]

Our neighbors are pretty good, it's the guy living next to the neighbor who is a looney. I kind of laughed when I read this question,not because of the situation you're in but because I have been wanting to post this same thing to see if anyone else had a neighbor who did things that made you go I think he is quite the humorous spectacle, and makes for a great story, but our joint neighbor thinks he is the most annoying person on the face of the planet and can't wait for him to move out.

Our 2nd-door-down neighbor leaves his toilet plunger on the roof of his house just under the bathroom window. His reason? He can't stand that the plunger smells. Our 2nd-door-down neighbor blows up a Christmas Elmo in his front yard 365 days a year. His reason? His 2-yr. old daughter likes Elmo's World. Our 2nd-door-down neighbor has empty (stolen) shopping carts in his front lawn. His reason? They might come in handy some day. Our 2nd-door-down neighbor talks to us from inside his house. Not like he is on his porch or standing just inside his front door... he talks to us from a window on the second story, or from his attic... you never seen him, you just hear him. He is a very odd person indeed, but harmless. I just think he is funny.

[Joanne929]

Our neighbors are pretty good (except the lady on one side of us who wanted me arrested . . . another story). DH grew up in this neighborhood so more than half of the people are the parents of his friends and/or their kids. I like it.

Interesting that he wants to change the street names!

[SouthernBelle]

We are friendly with our neighbors across from us, I dog sit for them occassionally. and the ones that live on the corners, we live in a nice quiet cul de sac.

But Our neighbor to the left of us has a riding mower and a small postage stamp lawn, so what's he doe he comes over and mows our front lawn
Grumpy asked him no to do it, Grumpy is very precise or should I say A____ Rententive when it come to his front lawn, and this neighbor gave our lawn a buzz cut, like a Marine Haircut, we had a beautiful lawn so thick, lush and green and nice to walk barefoot in, but thank goodness it has grown back. They also have a very nice pool and I think they have only used it 5 times and they have kids

The neighbor ont he right side is just the opposite will not mow his lawn at all :forheadslap: My friend says it reminds her of a haunted house.....

Then we neighbors across from us that would never speak or wave and they would mow their postage stamp lawn at 9pm with a big professional lawn mower...... They just moved....

[wvugrrrl]

We live in a townhouse development, so there's lots of families around us. We don't have any bad neighbors...just kind of annoying ones, similar to akleos' situation. I'm pretty lucky that my neighbors on either side of us are quiet and anti-social like us. But our neighbor's neighbor, although he's the nicest guy ever, is just generally creepy...I keep telling DBF that he's like the neighbor in Disturbia - a serial killer . He's always offering to loan us his power tools...I'm not sure why...it's not like we ever take on these huge tool-worthy projects.

We also have a lot of families around us, and while I don't mind the kids playing outside, and whatnot, I do mind when they're constantly knocking on our door trying to sell us stuff. I don't mean to be anti-social, but c'mon already! I don't need any more magazine subscriptions, and my dog is about to jump down your throat. Go away already!

[JaimeandChad]

I have one comment, my neighbor is for the most part great.

[fourdrawfs]

oh canI tell you stories about my next door neighbors !!! both acroos the street and next too me! but I don't have enough time to write a book... involves knock down drag out fist fights,, the cops ,, one hitting the other with the car..( and I'm talking females not the males!!)LOL..

[Lemap760]

Most of my neighbors are great. We do have the lady next door who we refer to as the "neighborhood watch". I think she sits in her front room looking out the window all day to see who's coming and going. She will also take walks around the neighborhood to see what's going on. When I moved back to the neighborhood she was actually outside pretending to brush snow off a bush while looking over at my car that had been in the driveway for 3 days.

The neighbors across the street just refuse to take of their dead trees. There is a neighborhood bet going on as to when one of them is coming down in the next storm.

[DisneyFanAnn]

Our neighbors are ok for the most part. Older couple next door (she calls herself the nosey neighbor and REALLY lives up to that title), couple next door with 4 kids are nice and the person on the other side of them is WACKO!
Our dream is to buy a house with no neighbors - or an electric fence, whichever works

[ripkensnana]

Neighbors....Ah, well.....

We life on a corner - the neighbors on one side are really nice, an elderly couple. Her sister (I think) lives across the street, another nice couple. The neighbors behind us....well, they're nice enough....I don't think I've exchanged 5 words with the husband, but the wife? Again, I'm sure she's trying to be nice, but I got a bit tired of hearing about how wonderful her daughter was, and how well she was doing with her home schooling, and how she was going to be a doctor, and how she wasn't interested in boys because her schooling came first....

After I ran into the daughter in a gay bar that my husband and I used to frequent (to see the drag shows - but that's a whole different story), I had to bite my tongue about the last bit...not interested in boys because of school? Guess again - her daughter wasn't at the bar to see the drag show....at least, that wasn't the only reason.

Eventually, the daughter came clean with her mom, which resulted in a whole lot of pain and anger for a while, but things seem to have calmed down,. But I'm not hearing all the bragging about her dear daughter anymore....

The main problem we have with the neighbors now comes from the proliferation of rental property which litters our neighborhood, including an apartment house about a block away....for some reason, our area seems to attract the type of person who likes to take their family disputes out into the yard, driveway, street, what-have-you, with the sort of language which one usually only hears in R or X rated movies (or in our house now and then....I tend to swear like a trooper when I get aggravated....).

So, we have all kinds....but some day in the not-too-distant future, we want to sell the house and move to Florida....