Already had one enquiry about foot care. 
Yes.
And, out here: “Coyote sighting.”
That’s a helpful as having a post for “pigeon sighting” in New York.
Nextdoor is legit. And sending mailers is a big thing with them.
Apparently Nextdoor has become a big source of neighborhood feuds.
Out here, it’s “Cougar sighting.”
It’s helpful in my area, though, both for hunters with tags and those who are trying to keep their livestock safe.
Wow, my neighbors are relatively sane.
I’m not on any social media, but I do occasionally check nexdurp.com (jk). Almost everything is lost dog/cat and “I’m giving up on this treadmill, it’s free on my curb” posts. There’ve been a few instances of “Teenagers checking car doors at night. Lock your car!”
Our 'hood is pretty liberal, so if someone warned of “roving minority kids”, they’d face a dozen replies: “Why do you assume that?” and “We need more roving minority kids!” and “Well, your pansyass white politics is the reason they’re roving.”
Is there any way to see what the group’s like in your area, or even whether there is a group in your area, without signing up first?
Any attempt I make to see anything is met with a demand for my street address and email (and, for all I know, other info after that). I can’t even find out whether anyone’s using this around here. I don’t even seem to see the rules for the site. I’m really reluctant to give them all that information first, and then try to find out the rules after they’ve already got it.
Only if the neighborhood is full of bigots, and you can hardly blame the site for that. Mine is more like digs’s.
My wife is on our nextdoor and it is great for asking for recommendations for plumbers and the like, and also for the police explaining what that incident was about. It was used recently to push back on some changes to an intersection near my house.
It’s a perfectly legitimate cesspool of paranoids and control freaks.
As Bone said, it’s not great for back and forth. For one thing, only the last two replies to any post show up, you have to click to show previous posts, and lots of people are too dim to figure that out so they just repeat questions that have already been answered. Here in urban SF we also get coyote sightings, which are rapidly becoming old hat.
Some nice features are that you can mute any poster who is too irritating so you don’t even see their posts, and you can remove from your view any post/discussion that you don’t want to see. In my area politics rarely shows up on Nextdoor but when it does I just mark that discussion and I don’t have to see it any more.
One feature I don’t like is that you can delete your OP at any time and that deletes the entire discussion; also you can edit or delete your posts or replies at any time. Once a neighbor posted a video taken from his car that was supposed to show another driver misbehaving. What it actually showed was that he himself was speeding in a residential neighborhood and failed to stop at a stop sign. This was pointed out to him, and shortly thereafter the post and discussion were gone. Maybe that’s better for a “neighborly” sort of board – people are more apt to post openly if they can correct their mistakes later.
There’s also a PM function that alerts the recipient at their email address. Pretty useful for items for sale and so on.
They invite me all the time. My local real estate neighborhood firm set up a sub-set of Nextdoor to be a community of people on my street. How specific. How targeted. To be fair, we do have a very unique, SoCal neighborhood. I won’t talk to these people. I caucus with the coyotes.
I joined about 8 months ago. I think it’s the funniest stuff since Carol Burnett went off the air. Watching the URGENT ALERT CAR DROVE BY MY HOUSE TWICE! BE AWARE postings is hilarious.
My wife and I can’t wait to see what happened overnight. We’ve been joking that if we were criminals we’d do the following:
- Register fake account with an unused address in the subdivision.
- Put on hoodie and do something vaguely threatening in front of a Ring doorbell.
- Wait for the inevitable OMG! and the video to appear.
- Watch for the chest-thumping from local “Bubbas” claiming how the crooks wouldn’t dare mess with their house because of how well armed they are.
- Take note of which houses have lots of guns.
- Profit.
I read the EULA for nextdoor, and their screens may be copyrighted (no screenshots), so I’ll quote exactly what appeared in sequence on my home page a few days ago.
First poster:
“some keep breaking my gate they left open i put a lock on it and at the lock on it and they broke its reforge with two lock and they try again one put warning site on gate ok some body going to get shot and I’m going to jail RIP”
Second poster a few minutes later:
“Did someone just hear a sequence of loud bangs?”
This stuff is comedy gold.
I can beat your silly coyotes - this morning someone posted that 6 cows walked thru his/her yard!
STAMPEDE!!!
I’m so far out in the boonies that Nextdoor.com isn’t here yet (although they invited me to start a group; no thanks).
Second. My wife uses it all the time for the same reasons. Need something moved to the attic? She can find a couple students who need beer money to come do it in less than an hour. Want advice on killing ivy? Found a retired horticulturalist living two blocks over.
At our house, it’s a standing joke that I’m going to say, “Can’t you find somebody on that ‘Be-My-Neighbor’ website to do it for us?”
Didn’t read the whole thread.
It’s not a scam. I joined mine and friends in other cities have joined theirs. I live alone in an older, near-downtown neighborhood that is very friendly, very active, lots of walkers, lots of kids and retired people, too. Many neighborhood activities-- porch fest, National Night Out, Christmas party.
It’s useful for finding out what’s going on in the neighborhood–stuff I’d otherwise have no way of knowing. Lots of lost pets, garage sale announcements, sharing of repair people/yard people/handymen/house cleaners, etc. If someone is broken into or their car vandalized, they’ll post the info, so people can keep a lookout. More and more advertisements have worked their way in, but it’s easy to scroll past them. The city and county post some announcements. I think it’s a great idea.
Were you able to find that out without giving them your street address, email, and probably other information? If so, how?
Has anybody been able to find out the terms of service and privacy statement without first giving them street address, email, and probably other information? If so, how?
If not, how do I know they’re not going to turn around and immediately sell anything I give them? (I suppose I wouldn’t know it anyway as they might be lying; but every place else I’ve signed up I could see that info first.)
Here are the rules: Nextdoor Help
This site could have come in handy some years back. We had a pair of very chill Brahman bulls that kept showing up and nibbling the petunias. Took a while to track down the owners the first time.
(This was not here in DC)
On the road to the freeway, there’s a place that, when I moved here 15½ years ago, I thought was the local dump. I learned that it was actually the home of someone known as the Mole Man. He got his nickname because he makes money doing jobs under houses and other buildings. There are a bunch of broken-down RVs out front, and recently one was sticking out almost onto the road. I glimpsed a house on the property once, but the view is so obscured that I’ve only seen it the one time.
Someone who moved here last Summer posted on Nextdoor a couple of weeks ago, asking who this person is, and whether the County needs to be involved. From the replies, I found out Mole Man is Art the Mole Man. I also found out his last name, and the names of his wife and son. Most of the replies told the OP to mind her own business. Mole Man and his family have chosen their way of life, and the County has said people can live the way they want to. Since the OP violated the rules by making comments about an individual, the post has been reported and may go away.
I also learned that Mole Man is a beloved character who enjoys a laugh and is friendly with people. (I’ve only seen him up close once, years ago, in the corner market. ISTR he was chatting with the checker.) I learned that he’s been in a nursing home and then a rehab facility, and he’s supposed to be released soon. And someone said the house was condemned, and that they’re living in the motor homes, there is a porta-potty that gets serviced regularly.
On one hand, it’s pretty creepy that people can be talked about on a local network. On the other hand, it’s good to know that most people accept different lifestyles, and that they care about others.
Here it’s OMG A HISPANIC ON THE STREET!!