What does your street look like?

[SKR8PN]

My "street" is 30 miles long.............
But in my neck of the woods.....Neighbor to the North(Dixie) is retired and has medical issues. Her husband died back in 1995(I sure do miss Red Man(Richard)
The Wife and I help take care of her and keep and eye out for any trouble.....
Neighbors DIRECTLY across the street(Clemens) both work, and we are very good friends with them. They also work with and know a few other folks that we are friends with, one of which lives one street to the west( I hunt his farm).
House beside them(Hoffman) is an elderly fellow(Dwayne) that I have helped out from time to time in the 25 years I have lived here. His wife died two years ago,and his son is living with him(David) that I get along with OK....Dwayne's youngest daughter married Dixie's(my neighbor to the North)oldest son(Rich) so it is kinda sorta a family affair around here!
I know a few of the other neighbors that live around us, and get along great with everyone I have met/associated with. Our volunteer fire dept. puts on an Ice Cream Social/ Fund raiser every year so we get to meet a lot of the folks that live in this township. I know a lot by name and what they do, but other than that, nothing tooo personal....

 

[farmerlor]

I don't really know WHAT'S going on with the house catty-corner from us. It was purchased by some people from California who wanted it for a summer house and we saw them a few times but now it's been about a year since they were here. No for sale sign but the house has been empty all this time. A testament to our neighborhood is that no one has bothered the house or broken into it in all this time.
The other house (also catty-corner but the other way) was just purchased by someone who's scooping up foreclosures for nothing and doing a quick, down and dirty clean up/remodel and then reselling. It sold for much less than the original foreclosure I'm sure.
The people next to us also bought low but the house was really in poor condition and they've fixed it up nicely.
The last house on our street was also foreclosed on and stood empty for some time but finally sold.

 

[big brown horse]

Am I the only one with a sketchy neighbor? :/ Noobie's bee house doesn't count.

 

[Henrietta23]

It some fancy area my street would be called a cul-de-sac but truth be told it's a plain ol' deadend! My house is only 4 in so I don't know the exact count and I don't know most of my neighbors. On one side there is a family with one high school senior and one off in college. On the other side of them is a couple our age, no kids. On our other side is a young couple with two kids and one on the way. He grew up in the house. Beyond them is the mystery family. Man and a toddler girl. We never see the wife. Everyone beyond them and on the other side is retired couples or widowers. Most people have lived here many years. Oh I forgot one woman just moved and a young couple moved in. We haven't met them yet.

 

[DrakeMaiden]

I have a really sketchy neighbor, but not on my street. One day I made the mistake of trying to deliver some mail that came in my mailbox to this neighbor. I have yet to SEE this neighbor, but when I walked up the driveway (the house is hidden from sight on the road) it looked like a bomb had gone off. Stuff everywhere! Oh my! I kinda got the creeps and left.

Uh . . . after a little research I found out I live in the second priciest area in our town. We definitely are bucking the trend with our little farmstead.

 

[big brown horse]

I have a really sketchy neighbor, but not on my street. One day I made the mistake of trying to deliver some mail that came in my mailbox to this neighbor. I have yet to SEE this neighbor, but when I walked up the driveway (the house is hidden from sight on the road) it looked like a bomb had gone off. Stuff everywhere! Oh my! I kinda got the creeps and left.

Uh . . . after a little research I found out I live in the second priciest area in our town. We definitely are bucking the trend with our little farmstead.

That sounds like you have yourself a Boo Radley. Now my sketchy neighbor is always up doing stuff at a "high" rate of speed. His yard is neat, but his house looks run down, kid's sheets and tinfoil cover literally every window.

 

[Henrietta23]

I forgot to write about our sketchy neighbor! There is one house down a sloped driveway. They have a locked gate and numerous no trespassing and no soliciting signs. There is a large pond down there and some weird birds. Pheasants maybe? They make odd noises. Now there seem to be two sheep or goats. I can't get a good look. We no longer know who owns it. It is frequently a rental. There was an owner living there for a few years. He came to a tag sale we had. Total nut but was friendly and bought some stuff. But we heard he died and now we're back to not knowing who lives there. Lots of different cars come and go. I also forgot the house with the man who mows his lawn all the time. We hear his wife yelling at him all the time. Never see her. For a while they had a woman and her two children living in the apartment over their garage. My husband used to work with her mother. She must have been in tough times. She'd frequently knock on our door asking if we had a gallon of gas she could "borrow". DH usually did. THe neighbor between us told me she'd actually ask her for money. She was arrested for prostitution and the owner kicked her out. Last we saw her she was pregnant and working at Burger King.

 

[big brown horse]

I forgot to write about our sketchy neighbor! There is one house down a sloped driveway. They have a locked gate and numerous no trespassing and no soliciting signs. There is a large pond down there and some weird birds. Pheasants maybe? They make odd noises. Now there seem to be two sheep or goats. I can't get a good look. We no longer know who owns it. It is frequently a rental. There was an owner living there for a few years. He came to a tag sale we had. Total nut but was friendly and bought some stuff. But we heard he died and now we're back to not knowing who lives there. Lots of different cars come and go. I also forgot the house with the man who mows his lawn all the time. We hear his wife yelling at him all the time. Never see her. For a while they had a woman and her two children living in the apartment over their garage. My husband used to work with her mother. She must have been in tough times. She'd frequently knock on our door asking if we had a gallon of gas she could "borrow". DH usually did. THe neighbor between us told me she'd actually ask her for money. She was arrested for prostitution and the owner kicked her out. Last we saw her she was pregnant and working at Burger King.

Ooooo, now that is some good sketch!!!

 

[Henrietta23]

I forgot to write about our sketchy neighbor! There is one house down a sloped driveway. They have a locked gate and numerous no trespassing and no soliciting signs. There is a large pond down there and some weird birds. Pheasants maybe? They make odd noises. Now there seem to be two sheep or goats. I can't get a good look. We no longer know who owns it. It is frequently a rental. There was an owner living there for a few years. He came to a tag sale we had. Total nut but was friendly and bought some stuff. But we heard he died and now we're back to not knowing who lives there. Lots of different cars come and go. I also forgot the house with the man who mows his lawn all the time. We hear his wife yelling at him all the time. Never see her. For a while they had a woman and her two children living in the apartment over their garage. My husband used to work with her mother. She must have been in tough times. She'd frequently knock on our door asking if we had a gallon of gas she could "borrow". DH usually did. THe neighbor between us told me she'd actually ask her for money. She was arrested for prostitution and the owner kicked her out. Last we saw her she was pregnant and working at Burger King.

LOL, definitely not cul-de-sac material!!
Ooooo, now that is some good sketch!!!

 

[hwillm1977]

We live on a provincial highway... but the only reason there is a 'highway' is that there is a logging operation at the end, and they have now drilled for natural gas in the clearcut.

We're halfway between town and the clearcut, about 15 miles from either.

In our little portion of the road we have one family (owns the liquor store in the town) who has a cow, a horse, and two children.

One nosy neighbour that likes to know everything that happens to everyone, he calls himself the unofficial mayor of Pollett River.

One family on welfare (we are buying their second house from them), who has the nicest house in the area... the government has given them a new roof, new well and new septic in the last year... while I struggle to pay them a mortgage and keep my house warm. That drives me crazy...

We have one hermit, who actually lives in a cabin WAY in the woods, but walks out of the woods and picks up his paper in a mailbox in the middle of a forested area of the road... he is 80 years old, and loves my dogs.

One sketchy party house, that every night all summer plays LOUD music, and screaming laughing people who are obviously very drunk... I have no idea which of these people actually own the house.

Our next door neighbour moved here from Ontario, the rumours were that she was going to make her house entirely self sufficient energy wise, but I haven't seen anything like that and it's been a year. She did replace the oil furnace with a wood one, but we never actually see her outside.

And one homesteader, they have one donkey, 6 goats, several chickens, ducks and turkeys... the donkey brays every morning at sunrise, much louder than any rooster