Anyone else out there on Next Door?

I signed up a couple of years ago, and within a month, I got off. It was awful! We have a local city FB page that is GREAT. I use that.

Mine is a lot of coyote sightings and "don't put your dog crap in my bin" posts.
The one the I'm really tired of is the constantly complaining about the new bike lanes. Like sorry you can't barrel down the road in your F350 anymore.

I don't go on there for exactly that reason!

My community FB page is bad enough with the "suspicious vehicle" posts.

I haven't been on it for at least a year.. I kinda forgot about it. This is the one that drives me insane:

They are building something.. What is it?
Another tire store?
Another parts store?
Another Mexican restaurant?
Another health clinic?
Another this that and the other.

Why don't they build a Sprouts here?
Why don't we ever get anything like Trader Joes?
Why don't we get healthier options in restaurants?
Why don't we get this that and the other?

I live in a small'ish town that is growing.. but certain places like Sprouts or Trader Joes are not coming to our town anytime soon, just the population is not big enough for places like that. You would never see those type places in my size town. But yet, every single time a building is started here goes the posts.

That said looks like we are getting a Raising Cains and In and Out... The In and Out is a SHOCKER. So maybe there is hope for these people for a Sprouts or Whole Foods.. hahaha. We only have two grocery stores to pick from.

I had to step away from ND because it was making me crazy. So many posts like this one:
"My ring camera caught this kid walking through my front yard last night! Parents these days just do not care what their kids are doing!"
Followed by 187 replies mostly like this:
"OMG! Call the police!"

I can't take it. My ND seemed to be nothing more than a bunch of busy bodies with way too much time on their hands.

I joined but rarely check it out anymore. Ours has turned into mostly found pets (usually dumped) and animal rescue for all the homeless pets around. Houston does have a severe animal overpopulation problem, but taking over the Next Door pages isn't going to solve it. The posts that aren't about dogs & cats are usually people wanting things for free.

There was a fun one a few years ago. Someone's pot bellied pig got loose in the neighborhood and it caused an uproar. Seems it got loose from the yard of the person pet sitting it for the weekend. The animal rights zealots were all up in arms that 1) had a pig in the city, 2) that they were obviously unfit owners because said pig was loose, 3) the owners should be turned into the police and never allowed to own any pet again. It got really fun when my busy body neighbor got involved. That Monday the owner posted, apologized and thanked those who helped corral the pig. THEN he lit into my neighbor who had been the most vicious towards him on the board! Fun times!

Another reason that I mostly quit ND is that they changed up the views.  Originally I could set which neighborhoods I wanted to see (mainly mine and the one next to us) and now I get neighborhoods from all over Houston.  Those do me absolutely no good!

I tried it, but my immediate next door neighbor was on there, I just don't need daily reassurance she is crazy and racist... I'd rather just not know.

mine is like this too.

My town is a lot of “looking for dog sitter” or a vacation rental in Tahoe. The city over is all car jackings and robberies….

I call ours the internet version of "get off my lawn". The amount of people losing their minds over kids occasionly playing ding, dong, ditch is insane. I get that it can be annoying, but to rant and rant and threaten to call the police is crazy in my opinion.

And they post their ring cam videos of the offenders. I can't get on board with posting minors on a website to shame them for something that has been done for generations.

When I moved here a few years ago I signed up. And then quickly deleted my account. I live pretty rural and it just wasn't at all interesting or helpful to me at all. In fact, a lot of crazy.

Right now we have this lady on ours who is starting a gofund me for this "church in Nigeria" She insists is not a scam. She's not the most mentally well and I worry about her. At the same time, she is extremely annoying because she uses NextDoor as her preaching platform.

We have the "bring your pets in because there are coyotes out tonight as well as "if you park in front of my house I'll have your car towed.

And then there are the posts telling everyone about theft from of high value items from their car parked on the driveway and it was unlocked. Of course many of the replies are of the "so sad, too bad" becuase you left a laptop in an unlocked car.

Those are the posts that slay me. I bite my tongue but want to post what a fool they are for leaving their valuables in an unlocked car and that they deserve to have it stolen. 

I read my neighborhood every so often. Unfortunately Nextdoor has become yet another outlet for crazy people to hide behind their computers and post crap.