theLiquorUgh. So our new neighbors invited us to their church….
We moved neighborhood 6 months ago. I don’t love the new house or neighborhood but wife does. Our last neighbors were a couple years younger, we both had often had friends over so there was always kinda a distance between us we werent too friendly for first few years since we were busy enough with our own lives. So when we did become friends, it felt way more organic. Now these new neighbors—parents of kids. We have kids—they have kids—so naturally we have to hang out (ugh). So i hate how it feels so forced but they’re nice enough.
but now that they invited us to both their good friday and easter sunday service, i feel we have to move ASAP. Why’d they have to make it awkward so fast. I expressed interest with my old neighbor going to her church, but that was then i’m way more atheist now
I feel that, growing up my neighbors were:
- old lesbian couple
- Vietnam veteran turned master gardener and his wife
- some asshole named Earnie
cue new hippy couple that moves in on the block, immediately becomes a pain in the ass and talks down on everyone around them. They hate Earnie especially because he would work on small engine stuff in his driveway and cuss a ton, no one in the neighborhood had issues with this before (mind you they don’t even have kids). They would also constantly complain that Earnie didn’t “make his house look nice”, despite the fact that we lived in a very mixed class neighborhood and Earnie was an elderly man living alone, so again people just rolled their eyes.
then a couple years later these assholes cut down one of the biggest and oldest trees in the neighborhood (which spilled into other peoples property) so that the solar panels on their roof would get more light. They would have me and other kids mow their lawn and then short us or forget to pay constantly.
So we’re all fed up, especially Earnie. And before he moved away Earnie began to mow his lawn super short in the fall (to look more presentable of course). But since the hippies house was down hill from his all of his leaves would fall and blow into their yard because of the short grass. This became a huge hassle and caused some major issues with their “natural lawn” which was just them never mowing. They finally got the message and stopped being a huge bother to everyone.
nowadays they’re still pretty much ostracized from the neighborhood, new people move in and older residents tell them to avoid the hippies, they pretty much just keep to themselves and no one really says hi to them ever.
Idek where I was going with this but I feel you, even the “nicest” neighbors can be a huge pain in the ass, even when they don’t intend to be. I’d just distance yourself from them and not force anything, if it’s meant to be it’ll be- but see what the rest of the neighborhood thinks of em first.
