I've lived in my house for 23 years, and I've always had the same two next door neighbors. Now one of them is going to move and I'm going to have to break in a new neighbor. I don't like the pace of change that I'm seeing.
I don't know what to expect. What will my new neighbor be like?
Poll coming in a moving van that will park in front of my house. [Reply]
Originally Posted by banecat:
Hope for the best. But the worst will happen. Three out of the four houses on the street and across the street have changed owners in the past three years. A fifth will happen soon as the neighbor directly across the street has put up a for sale sign. On each side the new neighbors are worse than the old ones, but not as bad as across the street on the corner
The neighbor on one side has a dog that barks all of the time and mows his lawn twice a week. On the other side they own at least four cars, every Friday he has to wash his primary car while listening to accordion, tuba, and keyboard radio, they put there trash out early on Sunday for some reason so if it's windy it blows over here in the yard, doesn't take care of the yard, but at least they fixed the broken garage door after two years, but have a barking dog
The best neighbor beats out khaki pants man, all three of the lawnmower men but one moved was replaced by the only decent new neighbor and the soon to be moving lawnmower man 2, camaro man, "Asianed out" car man, and vette man, Winnebago man who parks it in the driveway so that he has to have three cars in the street, the globetrotters who play basketball 23 hours a day, and a couple of others that I don't like
That brings us the lawn ornament man. It's bad enough that the motorcycle that he uses every warm day from April 1st to October 1st has a cold engine that has to be revved every morning before work with the loud pipes saving lives thing, but he only has room for his big tire truck and jet ski in his driveway. So his daughter and wife have to park in the street clogging that bend in the road with living on the corner. Then he leaves his damn deflated christmas decorations in the yard until a few weeks ago. I haven't checked, but I think that even though they're off the lights are still up
It's like an apartment complex over here now. I don't think that it'd be that different to move a few blocks over into the townhouses with all of the Latin American Americans. That felt good, end rant
Wish I had a dog that mowed my yard. It could bark any time it wanted. :-) [Reply]
Originally Posted by Rain Man:
I hope you at least have a scorchingly hot college girl next door, banecat. That would help a lot, I think.
Nah. I wish. The people selling their house have two hot daughters, but they both moved out, but they do visit. Plus their milf still shows enough of where it all came from [Reply]
bane-my sympathies. I get it. Mine-has a storage trailer parked in the back yard in plain view of everyone else. Breaking city code. One in the driveway. owns a street legal drag racing camaro, moped, four wheeler. Claims he is doing nothing wrong. Wants to build a big white fence and shed, blocking my view of water. But thinks I am the bad one because I complained to the city. (also complained that I did not buy a house to look at Arkansas)
Maybe I should move next to Rain Man. RM-I promise I will never put up a fence, have a pet and walk outside with my shirt off. I will mow your yard if you need help and will stand on the road with my radar and slow down traffic. [Reply]
Originally Posted by displacedinMN:
bane-my sympathies. I get it. Mine-has a storage trailer parked in the back yard in plain view of everyone else. Breaking city code. One in the driveway. owns a street legal drag racing camaro, moped, four wheeler. Claims he is doing nothing wrong. Wants to build a big white fence and shed, blocking my view of water. But thinks I am the bad one because I complained to the city. (also complained that I did not buy a house to look at Arkansas)
Maybe I should move next to Rain Man. RM-I promise I will never put up a fence, have a pet and walk outside with my shirt off. I will mow your yard if you need help and will stand on the road with my radar and slow down traffic.
Thanks. Sounds like my ex in laws. My friends and I called their house the Arkansas Ranch. The minute ya stepped inside you were in razorback heaven [Reply]
Originally Posted by displacedinMN:
bane-my sympathies. I get it. Mine-has a storage trailer parked in the back yard in plain view of everyone else. Breaking city code. One in the driveway. owns a street legal drag racing camaro, moped, four wheeler. Claims he is doing nothing wrong. Wants to build a big white fence and shed, blocking my view of water. But thinks I am the bad one because I complained to the city. (also complained that I did not buy a house to look at Arkansas)
Maybe I should move next to Rain Man. RM-I promise I will never put up a fence, have a pet and walk outside with my shirt off. I will mow your yard if you need help and will stand on the road with my radar and slow down traffic.
I would approve you on the sale.
There seems to be a neighborhood-specific bias to having motorized toys. My next door neighbor (other side, not the one that's moving) has a pickup with a big RV-type camper bed that's parked in a low-key manner in his driveway, but he's the only one who has a motorized toy at all. There are no four wheelers, hot rods, boats, trailers, or anything else in my neighborhood. I suspect that it's due in part to the fact that parking is very tight in my neighborhood, but I think there's also an attitudinal bias. People who like those types of toys tend to be attracted to the neighborhoods that have bigger lots out in the 'burbs. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Chief Roundup:
What is wrong with keeping your yard mowed?
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He does it at least three times every two weeks. Now I gotta pay a guy to come out every week instead of twice a month. If he dislikse his wife and kids enough to have to try to avoid them, then he should find a better hobby. Instead of parking his cars in the garage or use it for storage like everyone else does, convert it into an area that he can use for hobbies and leave me alone [Reply]
Originally Posted by raybec 4:
I say we do a CP fundraiser and buy the house next to Rain Man. We would have to agree to never mow, and hoard feral cats.
