I don’t care about my neighbors or really don’t care what they do. If it has nothing to do about my property line I don’t care what they do. Please no smart ass psyco answers about human nature,:eek:
Bad neighbors can make your life miserable so it is a good idea to have moderately good relations with neighbors.
Just a friendly wave each morning helps to make a better day?
The answer seems so obvious that it hardly deserves to be in SD.
Well, humans are social animals. We need each other and form ourselves into all kinds of groups- family, tribe (school, sports), neighborhood, religion, etc. One usually wants ot be “in” the group and not “out” of the group.
Also, neighbors can be good or bad (in or out). What your neighbor does can affect you (and you them). They could mow your lawn while you are out of town or protect you house while you are away if you are “in.” That’s handy.
We invited one set of neighbours over for a barbecue when they moved in. They drank our drink, ate our meat, and took our salt.
In return? Zip. They have plenty of parties and barbecues but not for us. However we are usually asked to look after their house when they go away.
They are South African which probably explains a lot. Their parties and barbecues are for other South Africans. It’s pretty standard procedure for South Africans in my Australian City.
So should I care for my neighbours? No. Not really. Not these ones at least.
So if they start burning tires or raising skunks you would be OK with that?
One of my neighbors has barky dogs which pester me (the neighbors are actually good in reigning them in) - fairly friendly with my other neighbor.
It is good have good neighbors to have someone to look after your place if you are gone. Plus being nice to people in general is good (1)
Brian
(1) no cite, but could be conceded axiomatic
Since there are multiple factual answers as well as opinions here, let’s move this from General Questions to IMHO.
samclem, moderator
I was all set to come in here and agree with you but it looks like you have a gripe with one specific neighbor. I don’t make friends with my neighbors either. It’s a weird thing to me - these people know where you live. I don’t really want or need them to know excessive details about my life. But I do wave hi to them and make a point to stay on good terms.
The dog thing drives me crazy though. Barky dogs - how can people stand that? Across the street used to live a dog that would bark like mad everytime I came home to MY house. That pisses me off - I’m not even on your goddamn property. People don’t train the mangy little mutts. See? This stuff is making me not like dogs as much.
“The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people.” -G. K. Chesterton
I was going to respond, but realized i had only smart ass psyco answers related to human nature.
He said no smart ass psyco answers related to human nature.
I don’t know what kind of answers he expects though.
It’s simple human nature to neighbor with your neighbor.
Half the tools in my garage wouldn’t be there if it weren’t for my neighbors.
I’d have twice as many tools in my garage if it weren’t for my neighbors.
Let me guess; you guys are neighbors?
If they just could devise a way to make noise stay on their own side of the property line, I’d agree with the OP. Not to mention stink.
Oh, and a police cruiser parked in front of our house while the cop deals with the latest drama at their house - that’s pushing it a bit too, when it happens a dozen times over the past couple of months.
Most of our neighbors are at minimum, decent. We have several that we are quite friendly with. We care about them because they keep an eye on our house and tell us if they see anything suspicious and we do the same for them. It’s quite pleasant on weekends when we’re all out working in the yard or garage or whatever to smile or wave or have a friendly conversation.
One would think. But the OP has pre-emptively rejected that obvious answer.
Then you have come to the wrong place, 'cause smart ass psycho answers are our specialty.