I like how, literally every time, someone sets off a bottle rocket the forum explodes with gunshot reports. Cracks me up.
But yes, it’s a mess. I was interested in it for a little while but it seems to have gotten worse over time.
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I like how, literally every time, someone sets off a bottle rocket the forum explodes with gunshot reports. Cracks me up.
But yes, it’s a mess. I was interested in it for a little while but it seems to have gotten worse over time.
I find the Nextdoor app fairly useful at times. If I’m buying or selling stuff, it keeps me one step removed from the wider audience of Craigslist. I also like hearing who’s done a good job as a contractor in the neighborhood and who to avoid.
People also do a pretty good job “outing” themselves as ultra liberal California transplant soccer moms so I’ll know who to avoid. I have also observed that my neighborhood has a large population of people who wouldn’t know which end of a screwdriver to use. “A bulb burned out in my dining room light fixture. Which electrician do you all use to change light bulbs?”
I’ve blocked a few people and that helps with the signal to noise ratio. I’ve also turned off all the email and text alerts. I just check the app every day or two to see if there’s anything interesting going on.
I'm in process of moving and have used it to sell some stuff. Pretty easy for that. I don't spend any time looking through it though.
I'm in Windsor as well. It's funny to see the difference when I step out of my very specific neighborhood (Peakview) as opposed to the town as a whole. All my neighbors seem to want is for someone to buy their trash. And complain about the mailman putting the wrong mail in boxes. I do love the ones that say "can someone help me reach something off the top of my shelf?".Quote:
Originally Posted by NFATrustGuy
It’s funny that you mention the mail service thing. That’s been a huge topic of discussion in my neighborhood, too. I can’t count on the mail service AT ALL. If I’ve got outgoing mail, I just take it directly to the post office. Our mailman looks like he should be smoking pot in Boulder. The first time I saw him getting into the mail truck, I thought he was stealing it.Quote:
Originally Posted by JohnnyEgo
I’m sure each neighborhood has its own personality. Mine is full of over indulged new money California immigrants. They come to town having sold their 2 bedroom condo in Berkeley for $1.3 million and think they’re wizards of industry and commerce when they buy their $800k McMansion for cash. They then proceed to attempt to turn the neighborhood into their rural Colorado version of Berkeley.
Nextdoor reminds me that I’m the outlier in the neighborhood. Hell, washing my own car in the driveway makes me a peasant. I thought someone was going to have me arrested for performing Manual Labor when I painted one side of my house **by myself—with a brush** last summer.
You must be in Water Valley or Highlands Park. I'm on the 'blue collar' side, where homes top out at around $450K. You got all the Californians who bought out all the Kodak people who got killed in the recession. I got all the upper-middle class who are buying out the oil field workers after having been priced out of Fort Collins. We still have a few F250s with Miller Electric rigs on the back, but they are disappearing quickly, and being replaced by the 5 year old Audis, Infinities, and GMC Yukons of the wanna-be pretentious.
We probably have the same mail carrier though, and he sucks. On two occasions, he's forgotten to lock the main panel of our box system, and the neighborhood has been free to rifle through eachother's mail. When I've called the Windsor Post Office, they didn't seem too concerned about it, though. Me and my actual neighbors swap mail once or twice a week, so at least he's bringing the community together in his own way.
Before I got kicked off of Nextdoor I used to enjoy the absolute uproar created by one just every time she posted about the growing number of cats she has cured of Luekemia with massage, essential oils, and just the right healthy diet.
I now have something new to aspire to.[Coffee]Quote:
Originally Posted by Irving
All you have to do is use your first name for both first and last name and then encounter some punk bitch out of Commerce City who will complain about not using your real name. I thought about getting an internet lawyer to threaten Nextdoor into letting me knowingly violate their rules, but instead I simply replied to the poster that I like my real name so much that I've used it twice and that they were in no place to be pointing out use violations since I assumed it was some woman using her husband's account (it was male name).
The website sent me an email saying I was suspended until I changed my name. Naturally, my first thought was to comply so I could get back on the site, find that user, track down their address using their conveniently provided real name and neighborhood, and then look them up on the county assessor website to see if he was up to date on his property taxes. If not, I'd start paying the taxes myself. If he was, then I'd drive by the house and document any and every code violation I could find in hopes to tie his money and time up fighting with the government while I move in on the taxes in the background. Maybe start a handy man business, do some work, not get paid the full amount and file a Mechanics lien on the house. Then when the property was legally mine, take a bunch of pictures of all his belongings in the front yard after the eviction and start a thread on Nextdoor offering everything for free just to get it off my lawn. Followed by a story of how I came to acquire this shit hole property and all the useless garbage inside it. See where following the user agreement and running your mouth got you mother fucker? HOMELESS THAT'S WHERE! MAKE SURE YOU USE YOUR FULL NAME ON YOUR SECTION 8 APPLICATION FORMS!
But ultimately I just never logged in again and found a new YouTube channel to occupy my time.
8/10 [Cheer]