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So I just moved, am I...

  • Introduce Myself

    Votes: 8 14.5%

  • Eat Bacon and wait for them to introduce themselves

    Votes: 47 85.5%
  • Total voters
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YotaAtieToo said:
Seriously though, stop and say hi if they're out, going door to door seems a little odd to me.
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That^.
If you're not itching to meet everyone, let it happen at a natural pace.
Smile & wave if it suits you, and stop & talk when opportunities arise.
Could hold a low-key gathering (BBQ for real folks, wilted kale for vegans).

Anyone who says you need to intro. yourself to everyone can fawk right off.
Hell, if you don't like people, don't even wave (free country, you do you).
If you wanna' fuck w/ people, go door-to-door with "I'm required by law to introduce myself . . ." :laughing:
 
I live in a small town when I moved into my house I already knew some of the neighbors. I don't go out of my way to introduce myself when I was moving in I dropped my gunsafe in the road the guy across the street helped my brother and I get it in the garage that was the first neighbor that I met. It didn't take long for the single lady next door to introduce herself, my wife wasn't to amused.
 
Introductions should be made within the first month at the earliest convenient time. Don't go knocking on doors, but as you see people outside make sure you take the time to at least make eye contact, wave, and ideally do introductions. You never know when you're going to need a hand from someone on short notice and it's also better to find out who the c*nts are before the police knock on the door.

I know everyone 3-4 houses in each direction down and across the street from me and they all know me. I talk to them all fairly regularly and a bunch of us have a text group chat going for when somethings going on and the few immediate neighbours we have BBQ's and whatnot with a few times a year (except this year with covid). I'm lucky enough to have all great neighbours though, no c*nts and most appreciate that I'm the local fix it/tool guy.
 
Been here 22 years, met 2 neighbor's had 3 but one moved, one did shoot himself so maybe 4 but he dead now ( took 2 years for me to find out) and one of the 2 bought his house.
 
MONSTERMUDDER said:
Appreciate the advice and witty banter as always :flipoff2:

Its a mostly rural dead end street so I guess I'll just keep to myself and meet em when it happens and not force it. That was my plan all along but someone said I should introduce myself and I thought that would be awkward, just wanted to confirm that and it seems I have :laughing:
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We moved in to our house, (rural dead end as well), 7 days ahead of our next door neighbor so we were the newbs in the hood, so we put on a chili potluck. Everyone brought a bowl of chili and something else and BYOB. Got to meet everyone, and nobody is up in our shit. We have more contact with the other newb family than just about anyone, but we're all friendly. Dude at the end of the street, Big Mike, is the neighborhood social butterfly and also the one that keeps our gravel road graded. All in all it's a good bunch of folks.

The house on the other side of us just changed hands so once they move in, we'll go introduce ourselves with a jar of prickly pear vodka. Hopefully they're cool. They did see me unloading a bunch of gun stuff while standing out in front with the Realtor and still bought the house, so hopefully they not all snowflakey.
 
MONSTERMUDDER said:
Supposed to introduce myself to the neighbors on my street or are they supposed to introduce themselves to me? I'm not a people person and dunno what to do.

I know my nextdoor neighbor but haven't met anyone else on my street besides a friendly wave when coming/going.

With the covid and everything going on am I supposed to knock on doors and introduce myself?Do I shake hands? Fucking 2020 I swear...
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Go out on your porch every evening naked, with a whiskey bottle in onehand, casually fapping with the other. You will know where your neighbors stand quickly :flipoff2:
 
We know most our neighbors and hang out a lot. But the house to the east of me was just built and I don't know them. They seem kinda odd. Dudes out doing yardwork at 11PM with a headlamp on (joke that he is burying a body), they had a BBQ with all their friends when they moved in which is cool. But they put a Weber grill near the fenceline and just filled it with charcoal and lit it...and then kept putting more charcoal on it. Never saw anyone actually cook anything... just wanted the aroma I guess. They bought the smallest ZT mower I have ever seen... the dad just drives around with the baby on his lap while his yard looks like shit. I'm like fucker, mow your grass, pull some weeds... put some weed and feed on that shit. Fuck em, don't care to know em.
 
Been living in this house for 5 years now, and out of the 12 houses in the whole neighborhood I may be able to pick 3 people out of a line up, and there are a few houses where I don't think I have met anyone that lives there.
 
https://www.amazon.com/Bowling-Alone.../dp/0743203046

Americans are isolated, scared little people who hide in their homes now. This has been studied extensively.

My personal belief, after reading the studies done in the US, Denmark, Canada, and other credible scientific nations, is that Multiculturalism is one of the main culprits. Multiculturalism discourages civic engagement. This has been confirmed again and again.

The ultimate expression of this is the Cancel Culture that now dominates American society. You can call me crazy all that you want, I predicted this and so did many, many others.

Be careful what you say, don't look like a dork, don't be 'weird', don't be a creep....

Those are all the result of a society that has been bred on a steady diet of scary information regarding:
  • Multiculturalism
  • Political Correctness
  • The War on the American Male
  • Child Molesting Panics (a social panic which has been studied extensively)
  • A repressive Corporate culture
This is not a controversy. Americans are isolated because we allowed ourselves to be isolated. The benefactors of this have been:
  • Extremist Leftists
  • Corporations
  • Government Institutions
The loss of Community is a serious, serious loss, and everyone should be angry about this. But you're not. Why you do, everyone in this thread, is Rationalize it by saying you don't want a Community.

I am probably the most 'loner' type here. The rest of you are not. You gather with like-minded individuals far out in the boonies, and even those activities were tapering off long before COVID.

Wake up. This has been a war on American Society that's been going on for decades. It is not a central conspiracy, many of the factors have been accidental, like the proliferation of all Media.

But 'dark forces', Commies, Lefties, and other America-haters, have definitely taken advantage of and pushed the already-occurring destruction of American Society.

 
Watch them through a rifle scope. If you have a silencer, shoot over their heads so leaves fall on them and they go "WTF?"
 
I have a small business next to me... I know them pretty well and freelance some electrical work on occasion, cool peeps~

The one neighbor in the place next lot over, wave at here and there, they are cool and pretty much keep to themselves. I don't go out of my way to meet the neighbors in the hood behind me really... though it's a small town and I know some of them.
 
I know my two most immediate neighbors' first names, and the guy at the end of the street, don't know anyone else beyond that and we don't talk unless we need to. There's a business directly behind me that does some kind of manufacturing/machine work. My experience with neighbors is that once they see you can fix cars or have a decent selection of tools/power equipment they either want cheap/free labor or to borrow your shit for nothing in return. I guess I've just always had dirtbag neighbors.
 
Glad I know my neighbors & vice-versa. Met 'em naturally.
A tight community makes a location into a neighborhood.
It's also handy if you run afoul of someone's sensibilities.

Buddy stops by this morning to show me a pro-tour '69 Camaro he bought.
Quiet neighborhood on quiet morning --> meet LS 427 w/ choppy cam & dual 3" exhaust :eek:
Semi-moonbat neighbor lady steps out itching to say something, I come out smiling in a sleeveless "Team Jesus" T-shirt, and she stays right outta' our business :beer:
I don't care if she likes or dislikes me for any wrong reasons, but it's comforting that she has enough respect to stay out of something I obviously have handled :grinpimp:


EDIT: here's the Camaro, this thing is a blast :bounce2: :

 
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I'm on a county road with only around 6-7 houses in the area...somehow the postal worker on this route still manages to get our mail wrong at least once a week. I met almost everyone fairly quickly by having to go redeliver mail to the right house or having mine brought to me :laughing:
 
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