what your neighbors think

Not that I care if they're lesbians (or Chelsea supporters for that matter) - honestly, I don't care if they fuck slugs for gods sake, but why can't they just do it QUIETLY?!?!?

gaah. in mitigation, we hardly ever do this kind of thing. and she is as deaf as a post. but still. we are shit.

no, me neither. damn!

I hate them.

That's the right idea (certainly for city life). Let's maintain the illusion of anonymity with neighbours, that we know absolutely nothing about each other.

I think the blonde girl has just moved out, and an Indian girl has replaced her.

That's the worrying approach...

'Ow, my head - must remember that am not immune to lockups!'
Two tiny gay men, one an IT worker, the other an IP lawyer, are yelling at Buffy DVD together.
The renters upstairs tut at the couriers outside.
The family at the top have a cute little kid and the dad can usually be found in the pool room of the pub. Jodyanne, his partner, speaks Cantonese and is lovely and we go for dim sum.

neighbours on right side probably thinking about what they can argue over when they're all home tonight. that, or anticipating taking rides in granny's stair lift.

neighbours above... hmm. probably thinking about breeding more anti-social children.

My neighbors on the left consist of a mom and her two teenage daughters. They all seem to be preoccupied with teenage boys (I swear there is something going on between the mom and one of the daughter's boyfriends).

I've got loud lesbian housemates. Do gay people have louder sex than straight people? A study needs to be done.

OK, so perhaps not the middle of the night, but when it continues well after 12.30 & you have to be up at 6.30 it's a pain in the arse. Especially if you were trying to have an early night owing to a headache. Ok this is not the neighbours fault but when they also live next door to children I think it's really out of order.

The only neighbors I've ever spoken to in my four years of living here: 1) a pair of Italian-American brothers (one named Anthony) who'd sometimes sit on the porch, smoking, 2) a young, cute lesbian couple who sold me some plastic cups when they moved out, and 3) a mild-mannered black dude who always tends to be leaving the building when I'm coming in, and vice versa, so we do the head nod thing. (He also works at a nearby bar and has invited me to come in for a drink sometime, but I haven't yet.)

Besides, I think 11.30pm IS late enough to expect people to shut up.

In my ideal world, I think there should be dead silence between 10pm and 10am. But I understand that the noise watershed in the UK is pretty much pub chucking out time - 11pm at the latest on a school night. Earlier if you live in a neighbourhood with lots of children.

i'm so glad it's quiet here. most of the residents are adults with real jobs, and at night they just come home and tinker with their computers.

I'm going to stop and do some work now, because otherwise I'm going to get wound up. Argh.

I live at no. 16. At no. 14 lives Sicilia, an 80 year old widow who I often hear laughing with her neighbour Dorothy, also a bereaved woman. Sometimes all I can hear is their high pitched joyful voices as they have a talk in the conservatory. Sicilia has lived there since 1961. At no. 18 live middle aged couple John and Christine, whose daughter Kim (30 and still dependant on her parents for some things) and her boyfriend are omnipresent. Christine's laugh is really high pitched and irritating, sometimes I think she is on ecstasy.

Which reminds me, many years ago I used to study by reading back text books to myself in the "Tom's Diner" style.... I wonder what my neighbours were thinking THAT day....

"when is that bastard going to get back from the beach"

"when oh when oh when is my four-wheeler going to get here, i have friends waiting to be impressed"

"where is stacy"

"where is linda"

"joey, where are you, you fucker"

"dad sucks but he's strong and makes me feel powerful"

"i should stop smoking but i'm not having any more kids, so fuck it"

"payments"

"payments"

"payments"

My neighbor has some old clunker, and every day he spends 15+ minutes trying to get the engine to turn. He does this sometimes at 7 a.m. or earlier, which wakes me up. Consequently, I get all pavloved-out pissed at *grriva-grriva-grrive-grriva-clunk* -pause- *grriva-grriva-grrive-grriva-clunk* even when it happens midday.

He's some retired alcoholic who's afraid of the African-American neigbors upstairs. Every time he has a problem with one of their behaviors, he talks to us like we did it. "Uh sorry no that wasn't us playing rap at 1 a.m." And then he'll go back to doing nothing about it.

Probably very sad because their son died of cancer last week.

One set apparently thinks that the earth is 6000 years old and that it is vitally important to tell everyone this via a crude booth that they set up at the farmer's market every saturday.

Another set seems to think that AMERICAN SOLDIERS ARE THE TRUE FREEDOM FIGHTERS, that we can achieve PEACE THROUGH SUPERIOR FIREPOWER, and are always wondering WHAT WOULD REAGAN DO?, at least based on their bumper stickers.

bumper stickers are really a way of outsourcing your thinking altogether, though? "ok, i've put that out there, now to conquer basic addition"

"I'm a hipster douche. I'm a hipster douche. My parents pay for my apartment. I'm a hipster douche. I'm a hipster douche. I make art. I'm a hipster douche. I'm a hipster douche."

"Being a bank means we don't have to mow the lawn." : (

"I'm not racist, but you couldn't pay me enough to live near a negro. But I'm old and I'll be dead soon, so maybe there's a better world a'comin'."

xp:
Wait, more accurately:

"Being a bank in California means we don't have to mow the lawn in Maryland."

Is this thread too ingrained in ILX history for me to fix the typo in the title?

Fuck it, why am I asking?

MOD BRUTALITY LET'S TEAR THIS MOTHERFUCKER DOWN.

or alternatively, no i think the title isn't intrinsic

no.

xposts! - because our opinions are important to you.

I moved a year ago to a suburban neighborhood that is very social - everyone has small kids and there have been tons of events and social things. I have one neighbor who keeps snubbing us, and I'm finding it a little hard. Like just today, my friend asked if we were coming to the "back to school" party in front of her house (she literally lives two houses up the block from us). If it had been an isolated thing, I'd just think maybe she was using an old list and leaving me off (tbf, she also left off our across the street neighbor who moved in right after us). However, it seems to be a repeat occurrence and I'm perplexed. I personally haven't even had that much interaction with them, but I've been social with them. My kids love their dog and get a little overexcited by dogs sometimes, but I have a hard time believing that's enough reason to leave our kids out of a party two houses away from us. Kind of just don't know what to do - these people are going to be our neighbors for years. We get along well with pretty much everyone else, and I just don't get it.

sorry, somehow left out that he asked if we were coming and then we realized we weren't on the email list.