What's your neighbourhood like

[Nerexor]

I live next to a graveyard, so the neighbours are always dead quiet.

Ba-dum CHING!

I live near the downtown core of Ottawa in a small apartment building. It's not the greatest neighborhood and it's right next to a public school, so it's noisy as all get out in the mornings, and basketball players colonize it for the rest of the day and night. A couple of homeless people are always hanging out asking for handouts (which I no longer hand out after I saw them passing a bottle of whiskey back and forth). That said, it's not too bad aside from that and the occasional bit of noise. I'm just glad my neighbor stopped having karaoke parties. *shudder*

 

[DANEgerous]

Absurdly quite an boring but about 15 minutes from places far less boring. I am likely the youngest or close to it in my neighborhood at 25. I like my home quite where I can be away from everything.

I just planed it like this, find the area I want to spend a lot of time 10 - 20 minutes out. You get a better house and way less noise.

 

[BlackStar42]

At home, it's a relatively nice, dull suburb of an otherwise quite crap town. Pretty much sweet f.a ever happens. The neighbours have the most irritating dog in the entire world though, it's a terrier of some sort that NEVER stops barking. I've timed it, the record is from 8 in the morning to 7 at night, with not a single pause.

The place I'm living while at uni I like a lot better. I'm 10 minutes away from campus, 35 mins away from the town centre (on foot) and there's a really good chippy just up the road. What's not to love?

 

[IndomitableSam]

Just moved into a townhouse complex at kinda the edge of my city. We're technically in a business park, so there are trucks rumbling by every so often, but our back yard/porch (not fenced in - yet) faces south out across fields (with a road intersecting). It's very peaceful.

It's all townhouses arrayed in a square with more rows in the middle so it's very claustrophobic out our front door. However, there are a lot of kids running around so it has a nice atmosphere. And since we're in a business park there's no need to worry about crime unless it comes from your next door neighbour. Which we hardly ever hear as it is. Parking is an issue though as driveways are too short to fit a car and get another out of the garage so we're always fighting for the spot right outside our front door for the second car.

Don't mind it so far, but we plan on buying outside a city when the market crashes.

 

[x EvilErmine x]

It's quite quiet round here, except for when there is an even on at the race course that's about 2 minutes down the road.

Spoiler: My road

 

[Phasmal]

Not quite sure yet, only lived here a month.
It's mostly quiet, but we do get the occasional drunk outside at 2am.
(During our first week we had someone falling about in the street, it was a bit weird until they yelled `Oh, no. I've PIIIISSSED myseeeelf!`. Then it became funny)

I do like living here, though. Next door has a very friendly cat that runs up to say hi whenever it's about. It wants to come live with us. Boyfriend wont let me steal it though.

 

[Leadfinger]

It's nice. I live in central Tokyo not far from Shinjuku, but I live next to a tree farm, so it's quiet.

 

[Secret world leader (shhh)]

Quiet suburbs. Though if you're awake at midnight on a saturday, you'll hear at least one group of drunks merrily sauntering (i love that word) down the road after closing time at the pub behind my house. I live 2-3 houses away from the beginning of the fancy new suburbs and a few blocks away from the shithole area.

 

[Skuggen]

I recently moved to Bergen, one of the biggest cities in Norway. Busses and cars drive past my apartment all day and night... Apart from that it's okay I guess as I live in the more quiet part of the city... But I do miss the open fields back home where I lived though...

 

[bobmus]

I grew up in an exceptionally middle-class town in the South-East of England. The town centre had around 15 cafés, and was filled with 'ladies who lunch'. Conservative stronghold and all-round safe place.

Now I go to Uni in London, which is somehow more expensive as a place to buy things.
My current neighbourhood is much dodgier - the park I live opposite is nicknamed 'Butt-rape Park' and a guy got stabbed in the head with a screwdriver earlier this year.

 

[Shoggoth2588]

Low-income suburb. The court across from my house was raided by DEA and/or SWAT at one point because of gang activity. At the moment, it's hot and sticky out because this area of MD/DC was a swamp at one point, wasn't it? It's freaking miserable. Yes, we're getting a Kohl's but the K-Mart we have turned to shit in weeks. I dislike Montgomery County...if you can avoid it then do.

In GA though, my GF lives on a farm in the middle of nowhere. I strongly prefer that and will be there before the summer is over and done with.

 

[Chemical Alia]

There is no neighborhood. Right now I live in a relatively new apartment complex that was just slapped up in the middle of nowhere. There's lots of concrete and a train station, surrounded by chain retail on one side and a gas station connected to a halal grocery store, Pakistani restaurant and other assorted businesses that spilled over from the middle eastern part of town.

I'm moving to an apartment in downtown Plano and it's sad that I'm actually looking forward to it. I kinda hate it down here, to be honest.

 

[JayElleBee]

Small rural Irish village. Kids play football in the street, people leave the keys in the doors, unemployed drunks stagger up the street on all fours in the wee hours of the morning, and there is a sheep market directly behind my house.
Sounds pretty idyllic, but it's actually a bit of a hole.

This, except I live at the top of a hill on an estate and the drunks can't crawl this far up, and instead of a sheep market we have a cattle market.

 

[Vern5]

Its a boring upper-middle class suburb filled with white families who flinch at the sight of "ethnics". Technically, these people aren't racists; they just fear things they don't normally see.

Now, the neighborhood I lived in while I had an apartment in Richmond... oh man, what a place. The population is predominantly black and that population is split up into normal black people, stereotypical black people (gold in their teeth, blasting rap from their old-ass cars, pants around their thighs, trying to look dangerous) and old black people. I put the old black people into their own category because they are such a strange and diverse group. Some old black people in Richmond are homeless and/or crazy (funny stories and random singing crazy not stab-stab crazy). Then there are the college students like me running around. The lower classmen are usually the ones getting slit up and mugged. The upper classmen use the lower classmen as unwitting decoys so we can go on with our days unharmed.

I honestly could not come up with two more opposite areas to call home.

 

[Powereaver]

We call it hysteria lane because theres always smth going on..... i swear sometimes to get a day of silence around here is bliss.. since we live near an emergency HQ... criminals... druggies.. smokers.... party people... tis crazy.. when i move im moving to a much more silent place i swear!

 

[renegade7]

Upper-middle class, very, very white.

 

[hideomgskojima]

It's quite quiet round here, except for when there is an even on at the race course that's about 2 minutes down the road.

Spoiler: My road

This is 10 minutes from my House, Bootle L20 area off Bailey Drive. Bridle Road and the Vale are bastards to get then every day at 8AM, 3PM and 5PM as well as on race days.

 

[Ignatz_Zwakh]

Mine sits at that borderline between "Ghetto-tastic" and "Petty bourgeoisie artiste culture". I come from NDG, within Montreal. Tis the most anglo-centric place in the whole gosh-darned city. I've lived here all my life, and I love it to death.

 

[Brutal Peanut]

We spent months looking for a nice street and nice houses when we wanted to move out of the god-awful apartment. We finally found a nice, quiet middle-class-ish street with nice non-cookie-cutter housing and quiet neighbors. Honestly, we don't really want to stay in this small, poor town very long (actually we don't even really want to be in California anymore). I could really rant and give some hate for this town, but I wont unless asked. I'll just say it really sucks the soul and hope out of people. Hopefully, the husband will get a much wanted transfer out-of-state when they become more available to him.

 

[Ryuo]

Extremely quiet area with a lightly wooded area to the south of the neighborhood. There are almost never any disturbances. Mostly older/elderly families live here so in addition to the quiet, every house in the area has an immaculate yard. Nice place to live.