I've stopped talking to two neighbors due to politics

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31 May 2023, 11:34 pm

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In Australia nobody talks to each other in the cities. My neighbours are boring snobs

Vancouver has a reputation for people being cold and unneighbourly. I think it’s mostly due to so many long time residents leaving and newcomers coming - so people don’t know each other and get their guard up and avoid getting to know each other kind of thing.

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31 May 2023, 11:46 pm

good fences make for tolerable neighbors.

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01 Jun 2023, 1:51 am

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Yea but it's 2023, who talks to their neighbors?

I do. They are nice people. Not about politics though.

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01 Jun 2023, 2:19 am

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This makes sense. Especially when the newcomers are not "true blue" Canadians or Aussies

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01 Jun 2023, 2:20 am

ASPartOfMe wrote:

cyberdad wrote:

Yea but it's 2023, who talks to their neighbors?

I do. They are nice people. Not about politics though.

Your neighbour's name isn't Kramer, George or Elaine is it?

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01 Jun 2023, 4:32 am

cyberdad wrote:

ASPartOfMe wrote:

cyberdad wrote:

Yea but it's 2023, who talks to their neighbors?

I do. They are nice people. Not about politics though.

Your neighbour's name isn't Kramer, George or Elaine is it?

Wilson. But he's never seen his full face.

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01 Jun 2023, 4:36 am

funeralxempire wrote:

cyberdad wrote:

ASPartOfMe wrote:

cyberdad wrote:

Yea but it's 2023, who talks to their neighbors?

I do. They are nice people. Not about politics though.

Your neighbour's name isn't Kramer, George or Elaine is it?

Wilson. But he's never seen his full face.

At least it's not Newman

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01 Jun 2023, 5:04 am

funeralxempire wrote:

cyberdad wrote:

ASPartOfMe wrote:

cyberdad wrote:

Yea but it's 2023, who talks to their neighbors?

I do. They are nice people. Not about politics though.

Your neighbour's name isn't Kramer, George or Elaine is it?

Wilson. But he's never seen his full face.

All my fences are Wilson height. Not too high to look like a prison camp, but high enough to deter conversation.

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01 Jun 2023, 5:09 am

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goldfish21 wrote:

This makes sense. Especially when the newcomers are not "true blue" Canadians or Aussies

Or they don’t speak much or any English. There’s also a high rate of single person households in the city. Solo foreign student condo dwellers that just go up to their suite and keep to themselves.

I can’t remember who or what country they were from, but I remember some immigrant talking about how they’d borrow sugar or eggs from someone in their village back home and commented that it’s not like that here.. lol yes it is - people here have done that for generations. You just don’t know your neighbours here that well yet.

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01 Jun 2023, 6:07 am

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I can’t remember who or what country they were from, but I remember some immigrant talking about how they’d borrow sugar or eggs from someone in their village back home and commented that it’s not like that here.. .

This is a very English Village thing to do. Pop in next door to greet the new neighbors and offer the neighbors sugar, eggs and milk to help them settle in. The neighbors are also the first folk to invite you to the local pub where you get to meet the rest of the village folk over a pint and sampling the local "grub".

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01 Jun 2023, 7:13 am

I still need to know if the owner died or the dog.

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01 Jun 2023, 8:48 am

cyberdad wrote:

ASPartOfMe wrote:

cyberdad wrote:

Yea but it's 2023, who talks to their neighbors?

I do. They are nice people. Not about politics though.

Your neighbour's name isn't Kramer, George or Elaine is it?

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01 Jun 2023, 8:57 am

Quantum duck wrote:

I still need to know if the owner died or the dog.

Owner, dog is still alive.

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01 Jun 2023, 10:31 am

In A Neighborhood of Around 50 Homes of Middle Class
Retired and Working Folks, THere is Nary A Home With

Human Beings, i Haven't Personally Made

Warm Acquaintance With FACE-TO-FACE

As i Do A Slow Dance Walk Every Morning

And actually Talk to them on their Front Porches...

Considering, i Dance in Public, IT Should be Fairly Easy to See

i am Not too Conservative Yet What i Find is If You Exude Complete

Fearless Confidence in Non-Verbal Behavior As Well As Kindness in Verbal

Behavior, There is Not Much Reason

Really For the topic to Move

to Religion Or Politics as That's

Always Been Common Etiquette in Face-to-Face Interaction...

The Thing Is When You Are On Facebook You Are Not Standing

Close Enough to potentially Get Hurt IF You ruffle any feathers hehe...

And OF Course That is Where The Confidence And Walking Tall With NO Fear comes in...

Anyway,

With

Warmth
and Respect,
Ya Can't Beat it...

(This LoVE iN Peace FOR REAL)

i Just make a Point of Not Sharing

Any of My Social Media Links With them...

And They Are Nearly All 'Trump Voters' And Or

'Fundamentalist Christians' Yet It's True Religion is
A Special Interest of Mine, Cross Culturally As Well...

Occasionally,

A 'Good Old Boy'
Tries to Give me a Hard
Time When i Public Dance in the General

Metro Area Yet i Understand the Magic 'J' Password

And Scriptures Related Verbatim By Verse Number

Where Reliably They Melt in my Hands After i Give 'em

A Sermon on the Verses They Never get to Hear About in Churches;

Namely, Where i am Now, Per Luke 17:21; And Namely What i Do, Per John 14:12 FOR REAL Too;

And If They Really, REALLY, Want the Evidence i Just Whip Out my 6 Inch Screen And Show 'em

the
FActs,
Figures,

And Art; Of Course,

(They Get to Escape me
With A 'Fredache,' A Term
my Wife Created For What
i Am Capable of BRinging Free)

They Don't Know Where i Live;

And i Don't Ever use my Sir Name

on the Internet, Relying only on Pen Names Here...

True, i Realize All My Neighbors May Not Leg Press

1540 Pounds, 12 Reps, Just Warming Up at the Military Gym

And Practice Free Style Martial Arts in Flow for A Decade or So Too

Almost Continually Night And Day in Effortless Moving Ease That Way

Yet SO True; Yes, They Are 'Armed' to the Max With Weapons of Mass

Killing In the Home And Potentially Concealed too Soon Enough Freely

in 'Florida
Man Space' By
Gift of DeSaTaNiS;

It's Just A Matter

Of Navigating the

Social Environment With
Reliable Success; And No, no
Fancy Degrees Required, Just Basic

Human Common Sense And Basic Decency for Others too...

'Trump Voters' And/Or 'Evangelistic Christians' Aren't Nearly

As Scary Face-to-Face as Folks Portray them (And They Portray Themselves) In Online
Social Media; Yet of Course, Vehicles and Vessels AND Mileage Per Nature AND Nurture

Associated With Each
Human Do Vary in

How Interactions

Are Successful or Not...

There Are No Guarantees Really;

Yet After 100 Percent Success For
Years, Ya tend to Be Confident Enough on What Actually Works...

Indeed That Comes With Wisdom of Experience; There are No Fancy Degrees For that;

Typically, i Don't Get Butt Hurt Over Ignorance; It's Just Part of the Nature of 'The Beast'....

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01 Jun 2023, 10:34 am

Thanks.

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01 Jun 2023, 4:29 pm

General rule of thumb with strangers, neighbors and workmates
1. Don't talk race
2. Dont talk religion
3. Don't get personal
4. Don't talk about your boss

Hence long chats about the weather or price of bananas :lol:

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