I Hate My Neighborhood.

[Leviathan]

This happened about a few minutes ago.

Some lady came up to my mom when I came back from picking up my little brother from school. This lady comes up in her car &asks my mom to come up to her. So my mom walks over to her car. The lady in the car says to my mom:

Lady: So, when are you going to something with the landscaping of your house?

Levi's Mom: That's none of your business.

Lady: Why did you come to live here if you don't even want to fix up your landscape. I'm your neighbor &I care.

Levi's Mom: Keep driving.

Lady: <Yelling this time around.> Do something with your house!

Levi's Mom: Keep driving, keep driving, you don't matter at all.

The lady lives several houses away from us. She's no where near us.

Not only that but she did that whole thing in front of her kid.

This isn't the first time something like this has happened. This has been going on for years.

We receive several complaint throughout the years I've lived here &they always seem to make up rules whenever it seems convienient.

Ex. They're needs to be rails on the outside of the house.

The two that lives across from us doesn't have rails on their house anywhere.

Ex. They're needs to be flowers on your yard.

The house next to me doesn't have flowers. A house a few streets away doesn't have flowers. I have flowers in the front &back yard.

<Takes a deep breath.>

I'm done. =]

[Katrina]

Rails and flowers seem awful picky. My sister and brother in law live in an upscale suburban neighborhood in Toledo, they have similar off the wall rules, but most people mind their own business and concern themselves with their own property.

'Legitimate' concerns such as junked out cars rusting in the front yard, 4 month overgrown uncut grass, whatever, are forwarded to the housing committee (aka: "yuppie rules & regulations social & gossip club").

Unless there's something there lowering the property values in the neighborhood, flowers and railing seems a bit picky. Sounds like a nit picky neighbor who has some OCD issues.

[McLaughlin]

I had a lady on my street harassing me about my dog, so two weeks before I moved I started "saving" all his crap. The day after I moved on my way to school I left it all on her front porch and set it on fire.

It was epic.

[ABDUR101]

Stop caring about what uppity douchebags have to say; giving them attention only feeds them.

Also, "Keep driving" was the wrong answer, a loud middle finger was what we were looking for.

[Kylie]

Ugh. I know what you mean. My neighbors now aren't so bad, but I had the worst in the neighborhood I grew up in in most of my teen years. -_-; They were the most stuck up, nosey people I've ever met. My entire family is private, so it made for interesting times...

[KodiaX987]

Reminds me of mom. She's genuinely afraid that the fact the neighbor didn't do any landscaping or paving of her driveway will decrease the value of her own home.

So far, she's been completely deaf to my offhand suggestions to just drop the subject.

(as usual...)

[Gunslinger-08]

I've not had any experience with those specifics, but my old neighbors next door called codes and forced my folks to get rid of a Volkswagen Beetle that we had been planning to fix up. (It was going to be MINE!) Yeah, neighbors can be the most awesome people ever, or they can just be a PITA that you want to strangle.

[Nitro Vordex]

On 2008-04-14 14:59, Leviatha wrote:
*post*

Oh wow, you didn't type in small.

Anyway, that person= Jealous.

True story.

Also, the middle finger suggestion is a good one.

[Powder Keg]

A lot of neighborhoods have requirements to keep the place not looking like a ghetto. Painting your fences, etc. But I've never heard of another resident getting into it. It's the borough's responsibility, not a resident's.

[SabZero]

Hm, if someone bugged me about my yard, I'd find a way to put up a giant hot-ink phallic statue. Yes, out of spite, haha.