There goes the neighborhood

[Saltwater60]

I think local relationships > national politics.

Not sure how long they've lived there, how many times wife got stuck, how old they are; but I think setting a good example is a valuable tool.

If it's an ongoing thing, I wouldn't assume he had great guidance growing up. Have a casual chat, see where things go. If you determine he just needs some guidance, go there. If he's ultimately a lazy sponge, move to civil but strange.

I’d say they have lived there for 10 years. Can’t remember exactly. I lived a cross the street and moved next to them 5 years ago. They haven’t shoveled or moved their lawn consistently since I’ve lived next to them. The lawn never gets long enough it’s an issue so I don’t care about that. Also the driveway plowing thing is just something I do if I have time. She has gotten stuck a few times but then 3-4 years ago I got a new snow blower and have been doing ever since so she hasn’t gotten stuck since then.
I just think it doesn’t matter to them and they aren’t real go getters. They will work in their garden and what would take me an hour or two would take them all day. Him and the wife do more arguing about how to do it than work. I don’t think the conversation would go well. I’m fairly sure they know I’m conservative and I hunt and they like neither of those things. I have stopped shooting squirrels in my yard because of them. I think they would assume I’m being rude and at least for now were are nice to each other so In the interest of that I don’t think I’ll say anything to them.

 

[Calculon]

Politics aside they are ungrateful neighbors and don’t reciprocate in any way. Would be different if they did you the occasional favor. I say let them figure it out on their own.

 

[seezur]

I think most people have an asshole neighbor at least in close proximity. I became a homeowner a few years back and at first this 50 something lady across the street seemed very social and welcoming and stopped by to talk frequently.

Well in about two months’ time I was asked by her to 1. turn off my outside lights 2. not put in a lamppost 3. not to park on the street.

She has some weird control issues for sure and really wants to go inside my house. But like they say, you can’t pick your neighbors.

 

[Criticalt]

I think most people have an asshole neighbor at least in close proximity. I became a homeowner a few years back and at first this 50 something lady across the street seemed very social and welcoming and stopped by to talk frequently.

Well in about two months’ time I was asked by her to 1. turn off my outside lights 2. not put in a lamppost 3. not to park on the street.

She has some weird control issues for sure and really wants to go inside my house. But like they say, you can’t pick your neighbors.

But you can pick to not have any neighbors.
Im happy I made that choice 20 years ago.

 

[kev74]

But you can pick to not have any neighbors.
Im happy I made that choice 20 years ago.

That gets pretty expensive down here.

 

[seezur]

But you can pick to not have any neighbors.
Im happy I made that choice 20 years ago.

You’re not wrong. I miss the country but sadly I had to move up here. All my hobbies (shooting, motorcycles, dirt bikes, fishing) are harder to do but I do get to experience all the cultural diversity of the city of Rochester, so there’s that.

 

[Saltwater60]

I think most people have an asshole neighbor at least in close proximity. I became a homeowner a few years back and at first this 50 something lady across the street seemed very social and welcoming and stopped by to talk frequently.
Well in about two months’ time I was asked by her to 1. turn off my outside lights 2. not put in a lamppost 3. not to park on the street.

She has some weird control issues for sure and really wants to go inside my house. But like they say, you can’t pick your neighbors.

I have one of those too. She lives directly a cross the street from me. Her knickname,and she knows it and likes it, is the bitch. You’ll do something nice and she will walk over and say I wouldn’t have done that all snotty like. Her husband was a great guy and did all the yard work. He ended up getting cancer. She started doing the hard work so one day I went over and asked if she needed help. Her response if you have time why not work on tour own yard it’s a mess. Now my landscaping is outstanding best in the neighborhood. People walking by compliment me all the time. What she didn’t like is I have weeds in my lawn. I feed my rabbits and my tortoise out of my lawn. I have a pond with fish, frogs, and toads I refuse to use chemicals on my lawn. One day over the summer I walk out my back door and she’s standing in my backyard looking at my pond at 9-9:30 at night. She says oh I don’t know you had a pond. I said you were just standing here the other day talking to me how could you have missed it? She told her husband not to talk to me.
He’s dead now and she never leaves the house. I told him I’d snow blow his sidewalks while he was dying so I’ll do that instead of the less than 30 crowd on either side of me that never does there’s. Again neither one says thanks.

 

[VietnamEraVet]

Many years ago, I had a real asshole for a neighbor. I eventually moved because I couldn’t get a good nights sleep with them and their drunken friends who partied all night-every night.

Eventually, karma caught up with them though. They cheapened out when their sewer line needed to be replaced, and they hired a buddy with a backhoe to do it, and he put it in at the wrong slope. As a result, their shit wouldn’t flow. Rather than dig up the line and put in a correct one, he installed a manual plunging port just off the side of his house near my driveway.

I can’t tell you how many times I heard him out there busting his hump jamming that plunger up and down for 20 or 30 minutes to unplug the line,....wuka, wuka, wuka, followed by cursing profusely, and then more wuka, wuka, wuka’s, and then repeating many more times. Year in, year out, winter spring or fall,- he was out there plunging away.

I eventually decided to have a little fun with it. In good weather, I would take a comfy lounge chair and a six pack outside and set up in my driveway and watch him plunging away. Used to piss him off something fierce,- especially when I would compliment him on his work ethic as I laid back just “supervising” him.