Do you have shitty "Seattle Freeze" neighbors?

[TwizDD]

I've only got one neighbor, he just came down the other night for my help swapping a stock on his AR. Great guy, great family. He has a neighbor who seems to constantly bitch to everyone but me about all the shooting we do down on my property. Yet, when one gun goes off around here, it's like a chain reaction, shots can be heard all over the valley. And he has never bothered to stop and talk to me or my wife even though we pass each other at the top of my driveway daily and have a mutual friend also. Other than that, people are pretty friendly out this way, especially up in town. I'm kinda of the opinion that if you don't wanna be friendly when I say hi or wave, you can fuck off, no loss to me. If by chance you wanna bitch to our mutual friends or other neighbors about the amount of shooting I do on my own property, with a more than adequate backstop, and in a safe direction...You can go buy some fucking ear plugs, close your fucking windows and kiss my ass! On the same note, if he were to come down and talk to me like a grown man, I'd tell him to give me a call if he had family over or a big party or something and asked me not to do any shooting during that time. I can respect that. He's gonna really be pissed when my/his neighbor gets his range done!

[golddigger14s]

The sound of guns, is just like the military helicopters going over my house. That's the sound of FREEDOM

[Jonathan Brown]

My neighbor to the west is a cheating little whore. The neighbor on the east is a total cocksucking douchebag, who I flip off whenever he looks at me. He's lucky I don't kick the shit out of him instead.

[CQBgopher]

My neighbor to the west is a cheating little whore.

pics n contact info?

[STED9R]

Damn,
Live on a cudelsack, 21 years now,13 houses, and we all know each other except for the only rental there and nobody gives much attention to whomever may live there from one year to the next as most present themselves as questionable characters. Empty now and hoping it's going to be a decent family for a change.
I've got a junk drawer with I believe 6 sets of keys to other neighbors homes and think I may have 3 or 5 sets of mine to various neighbors. We watch each other's place when ones away, can call one up to have them set temp down on pellet stove that I may forget when I left, let my Bassett hounds out if I'm working late or turning lights on/off and moving curtains to show someone's around when on vacation. If one of us is laid up or on vacation, yard work, meals, pets or garbage cans are taken care of by one of us. I have taken a neighbor for a doc appt due to her being to sick to drive. Wife has gone grocery shopping for another after a surgery. I was fed overly heavy when my wife was in the hospital for 3 weeks, not unable to cook, just that the other wives took it upon themselves to be neighborly.
After school day care when mine where young, over about 9, never needed it and neither did anybody else on the street as someone was always around and keeping tabs. Mine are long gone now and even the youngest on the street now is 16 or 17.
Couldn't imagine living anywhere that you have to look over your shoulder and, having the backing of your neighbors is almost as good as family.
He'll, we even got together and had a bid done a few years ago to get a price discount on having 6 septic tanks pumped out, paid $190 each and believe it was $300 single.
No freeze where I'm at!

[Tombrewster421]

Damn,
Live on a cudelsack, 21 years now,13 houses, and we all know each other except for the only rental there and nobody gives much attention to whomever may live there from one year to the next as most present themselves as questionable characters. Empty now and hoping it's going to be a decent family for a change.
I've got a junk drawer with I believe 6 sets of keys to other neighbors homes and think I may have 3 or 5 sets of mine to various neighbors. We watch each other's place when ones away, can call one up to have them set temp down on pellet stove that I may forget when I left, let my Bassett hounds out if I'm working late or turning lights on/off and moving curtains to show someone's around when on vacation. If one of us is laid up or on vacation, yard work, meals, pets or garbage cans are taken care of by one of us. I have taken a neighbor for a doc appt due to her being to sick to drive. Wife has gone grocery shopping for another after a surgery. I was fed overly heavy when my wife was in the hospital for 3 weeks, not unable to cook, just that the other wives took it upon themselves to be neighborly.
After school day care when mine where young, over about 9, never needed it and neither did anybody else on the street as someone was always around and keeping tabs. Mine are long gone now and even the youngest on the street now is 16 or 17.
Couldn't imagine living anywhere that you have to look over your shoulder and, having the backing of your neighbors is almost as good as family.
He'll, we even got together and had a bid done a few years ago to get a price discount on having 6 septic tanks pumped out, paid $190 each and believe it was $300 single.
No freeze where I'm at!

That's what I'm hoping to find in Oakville. I just bought a house down there. Small town of about 700.

[sreyemj]

Those type of people are not anti-social, they have friends. I also don't think they are unique to Seattle. They are the hash-tagging facebook loving prius driving types who live in a fake reality they create for themselves with media and social media.

You can create a great persona online with cool pictures and status updates but that won't work with neighbors, thus little interest in being friends with neighbors.

[cityslicker]

Those type of people are not anti-social, they have friends. I also don't think they are unique to Seattle. They are the hash-tagging facebook loving prius driving types who live in a fake reality they create for themselves with media and social media.

You can create a great persona online with cool pictures and status updates but that won't work with neighbors, thus little interest in being friends with neighbors.

[Reflective_Skys]

[quote="mancat"
I travel all over the country for work, and nowhere do I run into more unfriendly and private people than in the PNW. Seriously, fuck Puget Sound people, they are the most unfriendly people and the worst neighbors that you could ever have. My wife and I can't wait to move to eastern WA or OR, where a lot of our family lives, and where we never encounter this type of treatment.[/quote]

I am so sorry to hear that you have personally experienced this! I am born and raised here (other than 2 years not by choice in Southern Cali) I have lived here my whole life. I have had wonderful neighbors most everywhere except a few places. I think that people who move here from other places think to come here to move away from so many people and do not want to be bothered. People who are native here also have hated watching people move here for Microsoft and take away the calm peacefulness we once had without traffic and (yuppies) crazies! Most people from here are good and laid back but are Wary of people that aren't from here.

I am very sorry to hear you aren't happy! This is my absolute favorite place in the world! I have traveled all over the world but nothing makes me smile like coming home here and seeing this state!

[Edwin]

This isn't just a Seattle thing. It had this all my life in Miami.

[mcyclonegt]

This isn't just a Seattle thing. It had this all my life in Miami.

Same thing in Texas, people would be nice to your face then talk shit about you behind your back. If you moved into a small town like we did, and you did not have the right last name, you had a slim chance in hell of playing sports or being accepted. Folks did not have much do do with you unless you grew up there and were a part of a certain social class. The point to all these stories are I think ManCat got a raw deal. There are shitty people everywhere. I personally would be moving if my neighbors sucked.

[golddigger14s]

You want to know your neighbors name, or at least who owns the property? Download this app:
huntinggpsmaps I brought up my house, and sure enough there was my name to include middle initial. For cell phone, and tablets BTW. Designed for identifying land owners for permission to hunt.

[jim_dandy]

[mancat]

Damn,
Live on a cudelsack, 21 years now,13 houses, and we all know each other except for the only rental there and nobody gives much attention to whomever may live there from one year to the next as most present themselves as questionable characters. Empty now and hoping it's going to be a decent family for a change.
I've got a junk drawer with I believe 6 sets of keys to other neighbors homes and think I may have 3 or 5 sets of mine to various neighbors. We watch each other's place when ones away, can call one up to have them set temp down on pellet stove that I may forget when I left, let my Bassett hounds out if I'm working late or turning lights on/off and moving curtains to show someone's around when on vacation. If one of us is laid up or on vacation, yard work, meals, pets or garbage cans are taken care of by one of us. I have taken a neighbor for a doc appt due to her being to sick to drive. Wife has gone grocery shopping for another after a surgery. I was fed overly heavy when my wife was in the hospital for 3 weeks, not unable to cook, just that the other wives took it upon themselves to be neighborly.
After school day care when mine where young, over about 9, never needed it and neither did anybody else on the street as someone was always around and keeping tabs. Mine are long gone now and even the youngest on the street now is 16 or 17.
Couldn't imagine living anywhere that you have to look over your shoulder and, having the backing of your neighbors is almost as good as family.
He'll, we even got together and had a bid done a few years ago to get a price discount on having 6 septic tanks pumped out, paid $190 each and believe it was $300 single.
No freeze where I'm at!

When I grew up in Bremerton, this is what it was like.. Knew all the neighbors and often just stayed for dinner at friends' houses, no big deal. There were a couple old ladies on the street that handed out candy and we would take out their trash for them, etc. in return. My parents still live across the street from my good childhood friends' parents, they do have each other's keys.

Gradually all of those people we knew moved away, and most of the current neighbors in the old neighborhood just don't talk.

Sort of an extension of another thing I've pointed out before, that kids don't play outside any more. Just inside playing video games and doing social media. I think the guy above that mentioned this as a factor is onto something.

A few people seem to be suggesting that I'm the problem.. Fair enough, you have probably not met me, I have only met one Wagunner in person, in my feedback.

[jim_dandy]

That wasn't a reference to you. Just a joke. ;)