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We have some new neighbors that have an extremely aggressive dog. LO thinks this dog is his best friend and doesn't understand yet that this dog wants to maul him, not play with his toys. (This is not just barking....it's angry snarling, jumping, and all around scary behavior...I love dogs and have never met one this mean.) Fortunately there are two fences between us and about a 1.5 foot gap....the dog can almost jump over their fence, but it would be impossible for it to clear both and make it into our yard. It's really annoying when we are outside though.

@Raindrop: LOL.

This is probably minor compared to some, but the neighbours across the street from us decided to build their own fence and landscape their own yard. Except.... neither one of them seems to have an ounce of style as far as their yard goes. Their fence is not level and is falling over already (it's been a year I think!) and the front yard "landscaping" is absolutely hideous. I hate looking at it and usually want to tear it up. Such a mess.

we like our neighbors, but they are trying to grow some kind of orchard. and somehow growing orchards starts with huge piles of dirt that sit for months and grow tree-like weeds, and piles of gravel.

3 doors up we have straight-up hoarders. Our next door neighbor is really nice and keeps up with his yard (and TBH, ran his mower over our yard all fall to pick up the leaves - DH was slacking BIG TIME) but the siding and brick half wall have been off of his house for a little over a year now and it looks hideous.

Our next door neighbors is a carpenter by trade and he takes his home work with him or he works out of his home, I'm not really sure which. We immediately added privacy - enhancing palm trees to block the junk/ scrap metal and wood that is permanently kept on the side of the house.

@Raindrop: ha ha, we are "had a baby them every one got sick and forgot to now their lawn since the end of September then it got cold so we couldn't people"

To our right is a family with parents my parents age. Their kids are college aged and they still party like no ones business. I wouldn't care if we didn't have kids that needed to sleep or if they didn't set off fireworks that didn't go off into my backyard.

We are always doing some kind of construction to our house or major landscaping project. We cut down 16 trees two summers ago & one tree this fall. We are probably the neighborhood assholes.

eta: wait, one of our tree chopping guys looked like Jordan Catalano. Maybe I was the neighborhood awesome girl.

We were the annoying neighbors with the overgrown yard (poison ivy!!), until we hired a pro to completely overhaul it this summer. I didn't realize how much everyone noticed the bad yard until EVERY neighbor stopped to tell us how great it looks now. Whoops!

That being said, our next door neighbor regularly comes onto our property (the woodsy area between our two houses, so it's still fairly woodsy even after the gut-landscaping is done) and rakes our leaves. In the woods! We had our property surveyed before we started the landscaping and so there are all these little orange flags along the property line. She rakes around them and maybe 15 feet into our property. It drives me BANANAS but DH doesn't care because it's the freaking woods, who rakes the woods? (maybe I'm an idiot and you're supposed to rake the woods?) When we were having tree work done, we had to tie an orange ribbon on every tree we wanted cut down. This neighbor actually took one of the ribbons off one of the already cut down trees, and tied it to another of our trees. WTF? Luckily the tree guy was like, 'Lady, what are you doing? This isn't your tree, and we don't work for you.'

I can't really complain though, if those are my biggest issues, haha.

across the hall we have a lovely family, the husband was upset about my BIL having a fit and breaking things in the hallway (which i paid them for and mr. bird apologized for), so he cut my tires. he also took a baseball bat to his wife's headlights when she tried to leave. recently at their daughter's birthday party, the music was so loud we couldn't hear the TV, they had the door from their apt open to the hallway and were letting the kids run & scream in the halls, so we waited til 10pm, then mr bird went over and said, 'hey, i don't mean to bother you guys, but if you wouldn't mind keeping it down a little, we're trying to watch a movie and can't hear the TV over the noise' and they freaked out and started screaming about how they never have parties... yes, that makes sense since we're complaining about your party when we went out the next morning, they had put doughnuts all over my things on my shelves in the carport.

below us there is this guy that likes to blast his stereo & make my floor shake. he has a toddler so i'm not sure how that works. their new baby should be here soon, so i'm sure the music will be replaced with crying, although i often hear him turn it up to drown out the toddler crying so maybe not.

across the street the two homes are empty because they burnt when someone left a cigarette on the porch. they were always sitting there on the porch, i swear they never went anywhere!

next door the children were terrors, they used to steal shopping carts and put them on the roof of my carport, they also had races down our driveway (they don't have off street parking). the people who had the window across from my br, their baby used to wake me up all the time during the night over the summer. it was so sad, no one ever went to him, they would just scream at the baby to shut up.

i like the people on the first floor. well, one lady is nice, we don't talk since she doesn't speak english, but she always smiles and never gets mad when i bang on the door to tell them their cat want to come in (they leave it out in terrible weather, so it waits for me to let it in the building and walk it to their apt). her husband is a dick, but she's nice. the other people on the first floor are nice, they just yell a lot.

The only thing we have to deal with is a toy poodle in the next yard that barks CONSTANTLY. It's so yippy and will bark for an hour in the middle of the night. Super irritating.

This makes me SO thankful to be on 2 acres surrounded by trees. I can just barely see the the neighbors house through the tree/brush in the winter. My mom thought it was too far from people and that our future kids wouldn't be able to play with the neighbors, but no close neighbors beats bad neighbors.

@honeybear: @MrsHansen82: There's actually a guy who walks his dog down our street and brings him up onto our front lawn to go to the bathroom every. single. day. Sometimes he doesn't clean it up if he thinks it's close enough to the brush or that no one sees him. I don't think he realized he was in our direct line of vision through our front window, so now I've taken to standing in the window and staring whenever I hear him walk up. We also now have a dog that barks when he does it and startles him. I wouldn't really care if he cleaned up every time because I know some dogs just won't poop on the sidewalk and need to go on the grass, but our dog will eat other dogs poop so it's super annoying.

Well our semi-detatched home is attached to FIL's rental property, which often has some not so great people living in it, but nothing too bad. My biggest complaint is them smoking in their house and the smoke seeps in to our home. Our neighbors on the other side are actually great people. The people across the street and behind us have never been a problem/even talked to us.

Eh, I think I'm the naked neighbor. More like usually in a bathrobe or underwear.

My neighbors on either side smoke pot, like a lot of it. I
I can see the house on one side hotboxed, whatever. But on the other side they smoke multiple times a day outside, especially during the summer. Good thing it's going to be legal next year here for them I guess. I just don't like to be breathing it in while hanging in my backyard.

@PurplePumps: we live on 20 acres and are debating moving to a subdivision, and this post scares me!

We have fine/normal neighbors now, but at our old house we had Captain Emo Underpants - at least 30 years old, hung out all the time in his underpants and sung Emo songs on his guitar on their porch that looked directly into our dining room. He especially liked to do this when we had people over for dinner.