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[Jeffrey Lebowski]

No Nextdoor out here, but somebody did create a Facebook page for "the neighborhood"... and some transplant asked one time if anyone heard the "machine gun fire" (this was not too long after Vegas)
I just ignored it, but there were so may other ways that could have been trolled...

I want to troll it myself, but no way after the bears drama. I was talking to a coworker who lives in my neighborhood, and he agreed - my house would probably be burned down around me as I slept.

[Ronin13]

Sometimes those nextdoor apps and FB groups do work out well... we just had an instance recently that benefited greatly because of those. Some storage company was planning on putting in a storage facility near our neighborhood, it would be the 4th or 5th within a few mile radius, and the plan was to have a 3-story building on a 300+ acre lot. Talk about an eyesore. Word about a planning meeting got spread around through both Nextdoor and a Facebook group, and pretty much everyone was against this, so due to word spreading a group managed to go to the meeting, voice their displeasure, and got the idea shot down. Granted, sometimes these things can be for the wrong idea, but this time it worked out for the good of the neighborhood.

[Zundfolge]

Sometimes those nextdoor apps and FB groups do work out well...

Nextdoor sucks because it tends to group neighborhoods with the neighboring neighborhoods so we get comments and issues posted from other neighborhoods which is at best annoying at worst creates "you don't live here so STFU" based conflicts.

Our neighborhood FB page is pretty good because we're pretty strict about not allowing people from outside the neighborhood to join.

What works best is the ancient neighborhood list-serv

[Ronin13]

Nextdoor sucks because it tends to group neighborhoods with the neighboring neighborhoods so we get comments and issues posted from other neighborhoods which is at best annoying at worst creates "you don't live here so STFU" based conflicts.

Our neighborhood FB page is pretty good because we're pretty strict about not allowing people from outside the neighborhood to join.

What works best is the ancient neighborhood list-serv

I agree. The "neighborhood" they lumped us in on that app includes 5 Parks, which is almost 2.5 miles from where I live. What happens with them may not apply to us. And I've seen some of that "you don't live here" stuff. Again, my emphasis is on sometimes. It's rare, though.