what is funny ( which I'll never be able to retell as well as this has played out) is there is one house that was owned by say "white trash" then abandoned and bought by black people then foreclosed and trashed and now bought again by more people of color (Paki or some race). It's like our street has a one house ghetto. Currently the new owners ripped half the siding off installing windows and unlikley to be re sided this year. They put on a new roof and the roof jacks are still up there and the roof has been finished for about 3 months. None of this matters though because we are all a bunch of pricks and no one talks to each other. We all seem to have some kind of unwritten agreement. We even have a church and a rectory and nobody waves to each other (even the priests don't wave to neighbors) and these are the people who attend church. For example, one neighbor bought an existing house and ripped it down so he wouldn't have a nieghbor. Another guy bought a house and leaves it empty.
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I'll tell my halloween story. No one trick or treats on our block. I have a long driveway and one enterprising fat kid walked down here looking for some treats. I wasn't expecting anyone so I gave the kid a gallon can of olive oil. You should have seen the look on that kids face. His bag was dragging on the ground walking back down the driveway.
Want friendly neighbors? They are the ones that borrow stuff and don't bring it back and if you need a favor its fluck u
To be fair I did stop and welcome them. They apologized for moving into the neighborhood but said they won the house in a raffle.