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Chicago has the same tradition, here it's called "dibs". You can call 311 to report it and a truck will come by to pick up the trash in the street, except this past winter when the snow buildup was too intense to maintain that program.
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Fluffy Bunnies posted:Since we got the sheep and my little LGD pup was frolicking among them in 2016, we've had people slow down to gawk at my tiny farm. The llama has seriously upped that. People stop and take pictures on at least a weekly basis. There's dozens of neighbors who come walk by or bring their golf cart down to stop and watch the llama and the sheep, or the ponies, or the dogs. I'm not huge on it, but we're something of a fascination locally and, pre-covid, I'd intended to start offering pony cart rides up and down the road for the kids. Covid kinda killed that. Hello I am the Something Awful Tax Collector and I'm writing to inform you that you are delinquent on your payments. Please supply photos of your cute animals to this thread ASAP.
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A Fancy Hat posted:My neighborhood bulletin board had a post Saturday morning that just said "Heard loud sound (gunshots?) near Sardis Rd, what's up?" and the first reply was "That's the firing range" lol. Mine has people complaining about the noise from the demolition derby which has been there for twenty years. There are five houses next to it then nothing for miles around. It's not possible to buy one of those houses without seeing the giant demolition derby course right loving next to them. Once a month all hell will break loose strictly between 9 and 5, what is so hard to understand? "Oh no I didn't understand that in buying a house next to a loving racecourse with literal walls made of crushed cars and advertising 'WATCH CARS GET loving OBLITERATED' all over the loving place would involve some manner of internal combustion racket once in a while!!!!" Welp better complain that I NEVER loving EXPECTED CARS RUNNING INTO EACH OTHER AT HIGH SPEED WHAT IS DEMOLITION ANYWAY I THOUGHT IT WAS SOME FANCY DESSERT.
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cynic posted:Mine has people complaining about the noise from the demolition derby which has been there for twenty years. There are five houses next to it then nothing for miles around. It's not possible to buy one of those houses without seeing the giant demolition derby course right loving next to them. Once a month all hell will break loose strictly between 9 and 5, what is so hard to understand? That's like people who buy houses next to an airport complaining about loud planes. 
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We bought a house near a skeet range without knowing, took us a little while to figure out what the pops were. Not a big deal and less alarming than the nighttime gunshots and other shenanigans that occurred by our city apartment.
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May 1, 2021 03:06
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Catastrophe posted:Philly. And people would leave threatening notes on your car if you dared to move their street chairs in order to park in "their" spots. Except I didn't own a car there and their chairs all went into trash bins. this is pro-tier, right here. right on.
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May 1, 2021 04:46
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Am I crazy or is this clearly taken at regular human eye level?
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May 1, 2021 06:15
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Dr_Amazing posted:Am I crazy or is this clearly taken at regular human eye level? No, you're right. The bug that posted the picture was flying at about that height when it took it.
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May 1, 2021 06:48
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In this episode of Don't Let Your Pets Outside!: How the gently caress do so many people keep losing turtles?
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I had a turtle as a child once. Left it out in the back yard for a minute for some reason. Came back outside to see an alley cat running off with it. Safe to assume it died shortly after as it was never found. I couldn't have been more then 8 or so as I believe my grandfather was still alive at the time. Hard to remember that far back
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May 1, 2021 08:07
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nunsexmonkrock posted:I had a turtle as a child once. Left it out in the back yard for a minute for some reason. Came back outside to see an alley cat running off with it. Safe to assume it died shortly after as it was never found. I couldn't have been more then 8 or so as I believe my grandfather was still alive at the time. Hard to remember that far back https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sNSoURiew8
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Time_pants posted:The good news is that your turtle survived. The bad news is that he could be anywhere from the Technodrome to prehistoric times. That was one of the best games.
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May 1, 2021 13:49
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Pennywise the Frown posted:That was one of the best games. I concur.
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May 1, 2021 21:37
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Dr_Amazing posted:Am I crazy or is this clearly taken at regular human eye level? I presume one or both of the other two photos is taken from below but I may be being too hopeful.
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May 1, 2021 23:36
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There are less than 200,000 people in the county I live in, my unincorporated "city" accounts for about 25,000. The big fuss on NextDoor right now is that high schoolers are congregating in the Whataburger parking lot on Friday and Saturday nights, some of them are vaping! Some are even cussing! There are even some girls that aren't dressed modestly! The best comment I saw was "Well hell I wonder what the time machine to the 50s thinks about teenagers hanging out at burger joints"
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Chief McHeath posted:There are less than 200,000 people in the county I live in, my unincorporated "city" accounts for about 25,000. The big fuss on NextDoor right now is that high schoolers are congregating in the Whataburger parking lot on Friday and Saturday nights, some of them are vaping! Some are even cussing! There are even some girls that aren't dressed modestly! Gonna go with north florida, panhandle in particular. I'll take my prize in the form of a big check because I think that would be cool to take to the bank
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they're still talking about ding dong ditchers it's reasonable to shoot them because they could be the clockwork orange droogs trying to get into your house to rape you 
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Ding dong droogers.
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Heads up - Garbage Thiefs on the Prowl Saturday night, we put out 2 chairs and a table for the garbage man to take away (garbage comes Monday morning). Late that night (around 8 pm) a guy comes up to our door and knocks. My husband answers and says "what do you want" and he says "are the chairs for free?". Husband tells him to get OUT these are garbage and the man says "I'll haul them away for free they look good." Husband flashes his pistol and that scared him off really quickly lol!!! Everybody be aware of this Guy, he's looking through your garbage and stealing stuff. Make sure to shred documents, paperwork, etc!!!!!
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May 3, 2021 12:55
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May 3, 2021 15:26
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At least around here there seems an unspoken agreement that anything left out on the side of the road is free game for anyone to take away, with waste collection optionally involved. Though the small metal chair left by a bus stop seems to be more used for actual sitting, at least by me. There's a delightful in rebellion in making the streets more comfortable for wanderers.
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May 3, 2021 15:39
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Chief McHeath posted:There are less than 200,000 people in the county I live in, my unincorporated "city" accounts for about 25,000. The big fuss on NextDoor right now is that high schoolers are congregating in the Whataburger parking lot on Friday and Saturday nights, some of them are vaping! Some are even cussing! There are even some girls that aren't dressed modestly! Boomers complain no matter what young people do. Any other day of the week, the complaint would be that kids are playing video games in mom's basement instead of going outside and socializing like they did when they were young.
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May 3, 2021 15:57
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Meredith Baxter-Burnout posted:Boomers complain no matter what young people do. Any other day of the week, the complaint would be that kids are playing video games in mom's basement instead of going outside and socializing like they did when they were young. Yeah to Boomers anyone aged 6-45 is a "millennial" and everything they do is wrong, threatening to Boomers, and contributing to the downfall of society
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May 3, 2021 16:36
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Chief McHeath posted:There are less than 200,000 people in the county I live in, my unincorporated "city" accounts for about 25,000. The big fuss on NextDoor right now is that high schoolers are congregating in the Whataburger parking lot on Friday and Saturday nights, some of them are vaping! Some are even cussing! There are even some girls that aren't dressed modestly! JUGHEAD!! 
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A Fancy Hat posted:Heads up - Garbage Thiefs on the Prowl Gang conflict in neighborhood , almost shooting Sunday early morning hours I saw two rival gangs fight over what I assume are "drug chairs and table". Very loud arguing and then one gang member pulled out a gun and the other ran away. We are still in shock and have contact the police gang crime unit and they will get back to us. Please watch out for your kids and pets in the mean time.
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May 3, 2021 17:38
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 Used chairs for sale one has a broken leg and all are slightly stained NO LOWBALLERS OR RESELLERS I NO WHAT I HAVE!!!!!1!!!
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Details for Barb's Funeral Some of you may have noticed a "Lot" of activity by my house last week. My wife of 37 years, Barb, died after a week long battle w/ the China Flu. Our Hitler Governor Tom Wolf refuses to let us have the big funeral we want, so instead we will be having a big wake at our house. Come by the house, we will have lots of food and drink. NO MASKS, Barb would not want them. Also before anyone asks, I already had the China Flu back on Thanksgiving so you're "totally safe" to come by. RIP BARB!!!!
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May 3, 2021 18:17
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A Fancy Hat posted:Details for Barb's Funeral So Pennsylvania it hurts!
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Pennywise the Frown posted:That was one of the best games. There's a new one with the same basic style (beat em up) coming soon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHMYwrC7oAo Anyways quote:Deep rumbling vibration noise. Mostly after we have gone to bed at night, we start to hear a deep vibrating bass type sound. It is not some crackpot with loud bass type music. This is more mechanical or industrial sounding. I asked our neighbor across the street and he hears it as well. It does have a start, stop, start pattern. I tried Google & found nothing. We are near [REDACTED] & [REDACTED] in Henderson. Anyone have a clue? Proposed answers include a nearby titanium factory spooling up, jets taking off from an air force base, Elon Musk tunneling under the neighborhood for his "hyperloops", and local road construction
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Play posted:There's a new one with the same basic style (beat em up) coming soon: 
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Now if we can get Fox onboard with a Simpsons Arcade sequel...
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We are moving to a house in a suburban area outside Chicago in a few weeks. I plan on signing up for Nextdoor there for laughs, but is it bad that at 37 I have no interest in knowing, talking to, or acknowledging any of the new neighbors? I don't need new friends and nowadays I don't need some goof rear end anti vax trump people being in my business.
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Fenarisk posted:We are moving to a house in a suburban area outside Chicago in a few weeks. I plan on signing up for Nextdoor there for laughs, but is it bad that at 37 I have no interest in knowing, talking to, or acknowledging any of the new neighbors? I don't need new friends and nowadays I don't need some goof rear end anti vax trump people being in my business. Who the gently caress would want to know their neighbors?
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Fenarisk posted:We are moving to a house in a suburban area outside Chicago in a few weeks. I plan on signing up for Nextdoor there for laughs, but is it bad that at 37 I have no interest in knowing, talking to, or acknowledging any of the new neighbors? I don't need new friends and nowadays I don't need some goof rear end anti vax trump people being in my business. I'm 34 years old and my most memorable neighbors are: An insane woman and her husband who installed a flag pole in their tiny yard and walk around with guns all the time My super-religious neighbor who asks me to go to church with him every time he catches me mowing the lawn An old guy who yelled at me for leaving grass clippings on the road one time A guy with a Bigfoot statue who I thought was cool until that Bigfoot statue started waving a Trump flag
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Fenarisk posted:We are moving to a house in a suburban area outside Chicago in a few weeks. I plan on signing up for Nextdoor there for laughs, but is it bad that at 37 I have no interest in knowing, talking to, or acknowledging any of the new neighbors? I don't need new friends and nowadays I don't need some goof rear end anti vax trump people being in my business. I'm super goony with my neighbors. Smiling and saying hello is the most I'm willing to do and that's only if it would be more awkward to not do so. I wouldn't say I have so many friends that I couldn't have a few more, but for me neighbors are more in the fellow-employee category, people near you through no choice of your own and who thus should be handled with care by not getting too involved.
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Play posted:I'm super goony with my neighbors. Smiling and saying hello is the most I'm willing to do and that's only if it would be more awkward to not do so. I wouldn't say I have so many friends that I couldn't have a few more, but for me neighbors are more in the fellow-employee category, people near you through no choice of your own and who thus should be handled with care by not getting too involved. That sounds similar to my approach, although in my current my neighborhood most of my neighbors are at least 10 years older than me, and most more than that. I'm friendly with my neighbors, and could tell you some of their names, but that's about the extent of it.
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Like Facebook, I think the world would be a better, safer place if Nextdoor didn't exist. I wonder how many people rile themselves up on this site to the point where they shoot a delivery person or trick or treaters? It's not zero.
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"It is not fashionable to say much nowadays of the advantages of the small community. We are told that we must go in for large empires and large ideas. There is one advantage, however, in the small state, the city, or the village, which only the wilfully blind can overlook. The man who lives in a small community lives in a much larger world. He knows much more of the fierce varieties and uncompromising divergences of men. The reason is obvious. In a large community we can choose our companions. In a small community our companions are chosen for us. Thus in all extensive and highly civilized societies groups come into existence founded upon what is called sympathy, and shut out the real world more sharply than the gates of a monastery. There is nothing really narrow about the clan; the thing which is really narrow is the clique. The men of the clan live together because they all wear the same tartan or are all descended from the same sacred cow; but in their souls, by the divine luck of things, there will always be more colours than in any tartan. But the men of the clique live together because they have the same kind of soul, and their narrowness is a narrowness of spiritual coherence and contentment, like that which exists in hell. A big society exists in order to form cliques. A big society is a society for the promotion of narrowness. It is a machinery for the purpose of guarding the solitary and sensitive individual from all experience of the bitter and bracing human compromises. It is, in the most literal sense of the words, a society for the prevention of Christian knowledge." Excerpt from here: https://ccel.org/ccel/chesterton/heretics/heretics.xiv.html GK Chesterton wrote some interesting stuff about why neighborhoods are good and it's basically exactly because you don't really pick them that neighbors can teach you things and why very specifically the Bible says to love your neighbor.
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I don't know many of my neighbors but the ones I do know are cool. This 70 something year old guy will snowblow my driveway and others if he's out there. He brings my garbage cans back in sometimes if I'm not home or forget about them. He's the nicest guy. 
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Small communities irrevocably lead to people being all up in each other's business and that is something I simply cannot abide. Also, I think he got that a bit wrong because in general the communities in lightly populated areas are much more homogenous and confirm each other's biases and opinions than those in large communities. Generally there is a "right and proper" way to do things in small towns, and if you do them wrong people will know and you may even be shunned or treated poorly. In large communities there is no such dogma. Meeting and befriending people who are different from you in some way is totally different and does not require living in a small community or forming "cliques". And in fact in larger communities it's much easier to find people who can genuinely teach you things due to having a much different life experience.
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