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Post by LavenderLayoutLady on Sept 1, 2024 19:18:02 GMT
I would say my next door neighbor is very, very nosy.
Not a terrible guy (has really mellowed in the last thirty years!), but all up in everyone's business.
He climbs a ladder to stand on his garage roof to look down into my back yard (you know, the yard that I have 6 ft privacy fence around) to "check it out." I'm more inclined to think he's inspecting.
The two other neighbors closest to my home are less nosy.
One a true A-hole. That's the Round-Up sprayer.
The next door neighbors are nice and keep to themselves.
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Post by katlady on Sept 1, 2024 19:31:15 GMT
Not really. No one is peeping over fences, everyone keeps to themselves. I like my neighbors and we are lucky. We did have one immediate neighbor who was a busy-body and we didn't like her (husband was ok), but they moved quite a while ago.
The neighbor across the street from me does seem to know a lot about what is going on in the neighborhood. She'll also comment about when she sees emergency vehicles on the street. Even when the vehicles don't have their sirens on, she seems to know they are there. Maybe she listens to a scanner.
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Post by peabay on Sept 1, 2024 19:32:14 GMT
Our across the street neighbors know everything about everybody. If my dh wants to know what's going on in the neighborhood, he meets the husband at the mailbox and hears everything about everyone. It comes in handy!
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Post by chaosisapony on Sept 1, 2024 19:33:04 GMT
I am a nosy neighbor. The house across the street always has a ton of drama and sometimes it's very entertaining to watch from my living room windows. I have whole text threads with my other neighbor about what we see and suspect across the street. The neighbor that lives behind me is super nice but also nosy. When I got my roof replaced the roofer sent me photos when he finished since I was at work. In the background of the photos is my neighbor looking up and checking out the roofer.  |
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Post by deekaye on Sept 1, 2024 19:34:47 GMT
We have two next door neighbors. One is a single lady in her 60's. Very nice and we do favors for each other (taking garbage and mail in/out when on vacation, etc.).
The other neighbor is married to a very nice guy but she is sooooo snoopy. Thankfully we aren't geographically close (a lot with our shop in between us) but we do have to drive past her house to get to ours. She will flag us down and ask nosy questions ("What happened to your husband, I noticed he was limping?", "I saw you had company last weekend. Your kids?"). Because we really do like the husband, we tolerate the wife, and answer her with short, un-juicy comments.
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Post by librarylady on Sept 1, 2024 19:36:53 GMT
When DH smoked, he always did it outside. Consequently he knew who was doing what etc.
It paid off one night when we were able to call the police because thieves were carrying items out of the house across the street.
...getting on the ladder to peer over the fence is over the top nosey. I would not be fond of that neighbor.
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Post by lesley on Sept 1, 2024 19:37:35 GMT
My neighbour, and oldest friend, is privy to all the gossip in the street and regularly WhatsApps me with updates. 😄 He isn’t nosy, people just tell him things.
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Post by cadoodlebug on Sept 1, 2024 19:38:06 GMT
Nope, not at all. We're very lucky to have great neighbors next to us, across the street from us and behind us.
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Post by librarylady on Sept 1, 2024 19:40:41 GMT
In the 1980s we had a pool put in our backyard. One day one of the men said something about, "Your dad who comes each day."
I had NO idea what/who etc. We learned that a man from 4 houses down came and sat on our patio to watch the men build the pool. When we actually met him etc., we learned that he was from DH's home town and knew his step mother. However that was not why he was here. He was visiting his adult child and they were at work, so he came down to see what was going on at our house.
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Post by ntsf on Sept 1, 2024 19:44:27 GMT
we had two nosy neighbors.. one nice, one horrible. the nice lady who lived next door was always in her garden out front and everyone talked to her. she knew what was going on. she died this year at 97. the guy across the street was the type to check if you got a building permit for work on your house. he was loud with music, said nasty things to people and we all cheered in some respect when he died at 61. now after about 8 or 9 yrs of being empty, that house (across the street from us) is finally being sold.
most our neighbors are nice, helpful in a quiet way.. and keep to themselves.
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Post by Spongemom Scrappants on Sept 1, 2024 19:47:54 GMT
We've been in this neighborhood for 4-1/2 years now having moved in right before Covid so we lost some time when no one was "getting to know" one another. Since then I've been elected to the HOA and serve as the treasurer so I'm pretty in-the-know about everything and everybody in the neighborhood of 87 homes. Maybe I'm the nosy one?!?
Our lot is 4.5 acres and our house sits sideways to the road so neighbors ability to spy on us is limited. We do have a lot of company coming and going all the time with family and friends so I do get comments on that.
Interestingly enough, I'm off to the "Care Committee" meeting for the neighborhood this afternoon. That group of about ten of us each have specific neighbors we are responsible for keeping in touch with. That helps us be responsive when people are sick, have a new baby, or someone has died. We also help with small things like changing light bulbs or moving a piece of furniture for elderly neighbors. We've even helped clean debris from two yards for neighbors who were unable. We just started this Care Committee this year and its been really well received. We all like feeling more like a community that really cares for one another.
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Post by teacherlisa on Sept 1, 2024 20:04:24 GMT
My next door neighbor is nosy, and terrible. If he doesn't like what he sees he is obvious about taking his phone out, and filming you. He will yell at you, call the police, animal control, livestock, anyone who will listen to his nonsense. His wife was worse, but she passed away a couple years ago. He mellowed out for a bit but is now back to his special self. We have large lots and live in a rural (aka mind your own) area. I do my best to ignore him.
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Post by Linda on Sept 1, 2024 20:08:07 GMT
This is the first house where we've really had neighbours. We moved in early 2021 so that limited the getting to know the neighbours a bit.
Our across the street neighbour is very nice. He mostly keeps to himself but we talk every now and then. We're the only two houses on our cul-de-sac (we have a double lot and the lot next to him is vacant and wooded)
The neighbour around the corner whose side yard adjoins our backyard is ok also - he does tend to talk alot when we run into him but he's friendly enough. I don't care for his politics - based on his yard signs - but I've noticed there's no Trump sign this year which is a plus.
I've never met the people on the other side - they are also on a cul-de-sac and the fence between them and us is the property line between their subdivision and ours.
The others in the subdivision that I've met while walking around seem nice and friendly. The ones I've met at zoning board meetings though - they are definitely more NIMBY than I am.
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Post by Linda on Sept 1, 2024 20:09:22 GMT
Interestingly enough, I'm off to the "Care Committee" meeting for the neighborhood this afternoon. That group of about ten of us each have specific neighbors we are responsible for keeping in touch with. That helps us be responsive when people are sick, have a new baby, or someone has died. We also help with small things like changing light bulbs or moving a piece of furniture for elderly neighbors. We've even helped clean debris from two yards for neighbors who were unable. We just started this Care Committee this year and its been really well received. We all like feeling more like a community that really cares for one another. I love this idea. I don't think my subdivision is organised/connected enough for something like that but I would join if it was. (we're unusual in this area and don't have an HOA) |
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Post by leannec on Sept 1, 2024 20:20:50 GMT
I'm in a condo and I've only been here about two years ... I have met the neighbours but I rarely see the ones on either side of me ... One is a single guy - super nice but plays his music loud - luckily I only hear it in the hallway! On the other side is a woman and her young adult daughter ... never see or hear them but sometimes hear their small dog in the hallway ... the only reason I know who even lives there is that I borrowed two eggs from them one time ... I tried to pay them but they wouldn't take my money! The unit across from me is another story ... they are not nosy at all but they have a three year old that is LOUD! Drives me insane! She screams for hours! I don't know what her deal is but I plan to start complaining because I am fed up ... All this to say that I don't have nosy neighbours!  |
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Post by gar on Sept 1, 2024 20:21:01 GMT
My neighbour and I are equally nosy - but not to the degree of spying on other people’s gardens or anything like that! But we do tell each other when a house goes up for sale or when we figure out who owns the dog we hear barking etc etc.
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Post by Basket1lady on Sept 1, 2024 20:22:39 GMT
We've been in this neighborhood for 4-1/2 years now having moved in right before Covid so we lost some time when no one was "getting to know" one another. Since then I've been elected to the HOA and serve as the treasurer so I'm pretty in-the-know about everything and everybody in the neighborhood of 87 homes. Maybe I'm the nosy one?!? Our lot is 4.5 acres and our house sits sideways to the road so neighbors ability to spy on us is limited. We do have a lot of company coming and going all the time with family and friends so I do get comments on that. Interestingly enough, I'm off to the " Care Committee" meeting for the neighborhood this afternoon. That group of about ten of us each have specific neighbors we are responsible for keeping in touch with. That helps us be responsive when people are sick, have a new baby, or someone has died. We also help with small things like changing light bulbs or moving a piece of furniture for elderly neighbors. We've even helped clean debris from two yards for neighbors who were unable. We just started this Care Committee this year and it’s been really well received. We all like feeling more like a community that really cares for one another. What a fantastic idea! We have great neighbors. But there is one house where the guy is really in everyone’s business. Because our side yard is essentially his back yard and the area sits in a bowl shaped depression, sound really carries when it’s calm. DH and I will be having a conversation and he will answer us. That makes me crazy! |
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Post by padresfan619 on Sept 1, 2024 20:37:02 GMT
They are nosy in a good way. They don’t peer into our backyard or bother us too much but if there’s anything out of the ordinary going on they are sure to let us know. Earlier this year my husband had to take one of his company work vans to a weekend trade show. Imagine one of those giant Amazon delivery vans parked in front of a house for three days. Well on day three our next door neighbor emailed my husband’s company, unaware that’s where my husband worked, demanding that the van be moved. That it was poor advertising form and against residential regulations. My husband got the email from the marketing director and had to go calm our neighbor down.
Our across the street neighbor always comes out on her porch and watches the service workers (gas & electric, water, etc) when they are around doing work in the neighborhood. She also loves to remind people who have lots of guests over to not park in front of the fire hydrant.
For the most part we all keep to ourselves but I feel like we also all look out for each other.
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Post by Lexica on Sept 1, 2024 22:19:56 GMT
I have one nosy neighbor behind me. All of the neighbors that I have met on my actual street are all very nice and drama free. Well, they may have a bit of drama, but I don’t ask about it and no one tells me. A few spoke about the one neighbor at the end of our street, right next door to me. But as I have mentioned here before, I have found him to be very nice.
When I first moved in, the day my pods were delivered and the moving guys put some of the empty boxes in my back yard by the fence, that set off the crazy man that lives behind me. He actually came into my back yard and moved all of the empty boxes, throwing them at my house. He told me the fence was HIS and not to touch it. He used the F word quite liberally and I thought he was going to have a stroke on the spot.
The only way he knew there were empty boxes in my back yard was if he went right up to the fence and stood on his toes to peep over. I told him the fence was not his, that I knew my laws, and if he came onto my property again, I would call the police.
I had hoped that was the end of it, but a few months later, he had pulled a wooden trellis from my yard, broke it, and threw it onto my side yard. He also cut a number of blackberry vines that had encroached over through the fence toward his yard. He has the right to do that and I cannot see or reach those encroaching vines. Unfortunately, he threw them into my yard rather than just putting them in his trash can.
When I asked my next door neighbor about him, he said that they are the worst neighbors on that side of the block and told me that the neighbors next to him moved because of him. He also told me that the man that lived in my house is the one that actually built the fence all along the back of my yard, not the angry man. I have no idea why he claimed it was his fence when he neither built it or paid toward it. It is not on his property either. The previous owner of my house, the one who built the fence, was quite a woodworker and he had built several birdhouses and put them on the posts of that fence. They were gone when I moved in and I assume his wife took them with her. I hope she did and that he didn’t rip them down. They were cute and I had no problem leaving them up if they were still there.
Because that neighbor is so obviously and easily unhinged, I made sure to point two of my outdoor security cameras along my fence line just in case he climbs over or throws something again. One camera notifies me whenever he is in his back yard since it is totally within my camera’s viewpoint. I have tried to turn it to just monitor my own back yard, but it has a wide angle, it catches all of his back yard too. And I have told my immediate neighbors about his tirade, which is how I learned that he was the troublemaker on that side of the block.
Now, every single time that I go outside to work or take my trash out, I put the key fob that has a panic alarm on it onto my wrist. A single push will notify the alarm company to summon the police. I don’t want to be caught outside with that man harassing me and will just quietly push the button on the key fob if he starts anything.
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Post by pepperwood on Sept 1, 2024 23:18:57 GMT
OMG, yes. I moved into a brand new planned 30 unit community. A few of the neighbors already knew each other because they were empty nesters that lived in the same town. I was the 10th unit to close. I learned that the residents that closed before me would visit the houses that were under construction. One of them, who is a coworker of my sister-in-law, told her about the upgrades that I chose. I worry that she will report to the SIL when my boyfriend stays over night. The community is arranged in a circle so there are lot of people that do laps around the driveway. The woman across from me, who is really nice, always calls to remind me if I leave my garage door open.
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Post by librarylady on Sept 1, 2024 23:45:23 GMT
pepperwoodIf the SIL brings up an overnight guest, reply, "I am an adult and make my choices." If she persists, ask why it is a concern of hers..
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Post by peasapie on Sept 1, 2024 23:46:48 GMT
I would say my next door neighbor is very, very nosy. Not a terrible guy (has really mellowed in the last thirty years!), but all up in everyone's business. He climbs a ladder to stand on his garage roof to look down into my back yard (you know, the yard that I have 6 ft privacy fence around) to "check it out." I'm more inclined to think he's inspecting. The two other neighbors closest to my home are less nosy. One a true A-hole. That's the Round-Up sprayer. The next door neighbors are nice and keep to themselves. WOW. And this has been going on for 30 years?? Do you say anything when he’s peering into your yard? |
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Post by cmpeter on Sept 1, 2024 23:52:08 GMT
No, not at all. Once we left for a week long vacation and accidentally left our garage door opened. No one said boo to us about it. Luckily no one also came in and took anything either.
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Post by Zee on Sept 1, 2024 23:55:50 GMT
One knows everything about everyone, but I wouldn't say she's nosy. I think people just tell her things.
The other side is an asshole. I don't ever talk to anyone else, just nod and wave.
Back in PA we had the nosiest neighbor EVER. Old Dave was always watching... Always.
If you were up late, Dave knew. If you slipped out for a walk at 3AM, Dave knew. If my kid was out on the rooftop, Dave knew. If I smoked, or sat outside having a beer, or we had a party, or we ordered a pizza... Dave would mention it later.
He had a pool and another neighbor told me he used to be out there skinny dipping in it all the time, she remembered from her childhood.
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I almost fell over dead at that revelation, that that was her childhood memory of Dave. It gave his spying on everyone a whole different feel.
At least I never had to witness that as the pool is now just for the grand kids and he never gets in it since his heart attack and open heart surgery. (Volunteered by the missus)
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Post by whipea on Sept 2, 2024 0:14:12 GMT
Thankfully no nosy neighbors. Everyone keeps to themselves. Was the same in my previous neighborhood.
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Post by jemali on Sept 2, 2024 1:38:04 GMT
At home not so much. But we have a park model trailer on a lake in a campground we go to on the summer weekends. There is one couple that knows everything about everyone.
“Margaret and Jerry won’t be here next weekend because he has a doctor appointment”
“Brad and Susie have to leave early because their daughter has a soccer tournament”
“Who is driving that blue truck? I don’t recognize it”
I think they have a GPS tracker in everyone so they know where they are.
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Post by bc2ca on Sept 2, 2024 1:55:39 GMT
Interestingly enough, I'm off to the "Care Committee" meeting for the neighborhood this afternoon. That group of about ten of us each have specific neighbors we are responsible for keeping in touch with. That helps us be responsive when people are sick, have a new baby, or someone has died. We also help with small things like changing light bulbs or moving a piece of furniture for elderly neighbors. We've even helped clean debris from two yards for neighbors who were unable. We just started this Care Committee this year and its been really well received. We all like feeling more like a community that really cares for one another. I like this idea.  DH and I joke that we are the unofficial Care Committee with a widow and 2 widowers on the street that we keep an eye on. One of the widowers is our nosiest neighbor, but not in a bad way. He is just super connected in the neighborhood and likes to share. He doesn't hesitate to text when DH has left the garage door open and will comment about what time people in our household are coming and going. He is retired and often away for extended periods so will text asking us to grab items being delivered. For a while he was ordering food deliveries to his home instead of where he was and would gift us whatever. DS was happy as it was always some sort of fast food. |
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Post by 950nancy on Sept 2, 2024 2:05:07 GMT
Lots of half acre lots with hundreds of trees on them, so if people are being nosy, I wouldn't know.
My neighbor across the street was getting two rescue newfoundlands. I have been watching to see when they'd arrive. That's about as nosy as I get. If a dog is involved, I'll ask questions.
My street is very quiet. Lots of old people on the street. Not much to be nosy about, I guess.
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Post by KikiPea on Sept 2, 2024 2:17:27 GMT
No, none of them are. That would be super annoying. I’m sorry you have to deal with that.
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Post by grammadee on Sept 2, 2024 2:29:13 GMT
No one close enough to us here on the farm and our house is behind a bunch of trees so a drive by on the road would not get much info. There is one octogerian whom our nephew calls "Inspector Gadget" cuz he is always commenting on how often he should be feeding his cows, and when he should cut the grass.
When we lived in town, our next door neighbour's kitchen window over looked the driveway that led to the back of our house. We all used the back door, so of course she could see all the comings and goings. We would see her curtain twitch sometimes when getting out of our vehicle. Once she called our home phone to speak to our friend who had not even taken her boots off yet at the back door! But she invited our youngest in for milk and cookies when she came home instead of going to after school care one day, and we always knew if anyone caused any trouble, she would have the full report! |
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