I introduce myself to my neighbors once I’ve established that they are the ones who will live in the house and they’re not flippers or planning to rent the place for pAssIVe iNcOmE.
It’s true that people don’t say hi anymore but honestly it sucks.
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I pass like 1000 people a day how many of them do you want me to interact with?
It’s early in the morning and I honestly can’t tell if you are joking.
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Yeah because every bad experience I’ve ever had in my entire life has involved other people.
So I’ll just stay inside and ignore all of you thanks
What confirmation bias does to a mfer
Just because it’s just me doesn’t mean it’s not my experience ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Not just you buddy, these guys all suck. Rule 1. Shut up. Rule 2. Leave me alone.
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We had some new neighbors come over and give us a slice of pie when they introduced themselves. That was really neat. They are in their late 20’s, so I guess millennials. They introduced themselves to the neighbors on both sides of us too, and gave them pie as well. As a result, they immediately got invites to parties, which took my wife and I over a year to start getting invitations to. That was a really cool neighborhood. Both neighbors on either side of us were around our age and liked to throw parties. For the 4th of July I hauled my BBQ into the front yard, and set up tables and chairs. Both neighbors came over and brought friends. We probably had 40 people going back and forth between 3 houses. Then we all set our fireworks off together in front of my house. Unfortunately one of the neighbors was kicked out by their landlord because the landlord wanted to sell the house. Then we moved out recently too. We’re hoping to make as good of friends here in our new neighborhood.
Makes the conversations quicker
door knock
“Hi, I’m”
“molester informing us? Ok stay away from my kids bye”
door slam
I always go introduce myself after I move in, but only if they have property abutting mine. It helps to avoid conflict if you have a phone number or something. “Hey, my moving truck is arriving this Thursday with my stuff and will block access to your driveway in the afternoon. With apologies. If this will cause you problems, please let me know and we can work something out.” Or whatever.
There’s a phrase that goes “good fences make good neighbours” and I hate the phrase.
When I was younger I went and told all my neighbors that I was throwing a party. My thought was that if we got too loud they could call me to quiet down instead of the cops. This was a poorly thought out idea, since they all thought I was inviting them to the party, and were disappointed when they realized I was just warning them. I probably should have started with something like “I want to warn you that I might be loud tonight”, not with “I’m having a party tonight”.
There is definitely an art to setting expectations haha 😂
There’s a phrase that goes “good fences make good neighbours” and I hate the phrase.
I agree. Also, it’s trivia time! That phrase came into common usage from Mending Wall by Robert Frost. A character in the poem keeps repeating it while repairing his stone fence. The narrator clearly disagrees, and wonders why people are driven to create fences that are unnecessary or counterproductive. People who use “good fences make good neighbors” as a truism need to read the poem.
Nice poem! Do you think Robert Frost coined the phrase in the poem, or was it something he heard somewhere that he figured he’d skewer with the poem?
Frost had a history of subverting the literal lines in his poems. For example, there are several lines in The Road Not Taken that directly contradict the conclusion of “And that has made all the difference”, yet no one really reads the entire poem these days.
I don’t know. I assume he heard it among the farmers in New Hampshire where he lived, but that’s a total guess on my part.
It sounds like frost didn’t come up with the phrase - that It already existed at the time of the poem. I wonder how long it was in use for.
I’d be pissed regardless. Why is your truck blocking my property? Must be some really weird entrances to the property if that’s the case but using my own area as my mental example, I’d have tow trucks on standby. Nice tow trucks though.
