Have a vacant house up for rent right across the street from me, and it’s been that way for about six months now, and it has a white couple in somewhere in their 30s right next door that own their home. They’re super private, and overall pretty quiet. The wife comes off as rude, but I just thinks she’s super shy. She does everything she can to avoid eye contact when I’m out doing things in the yard or walking my dog in the neighborhood, but I always say hello and wave just to be polite. She’ll occasionally wave back, but whatever. The husband though will always make eye contact and wave, or at least nod his head. He seems like decent people, but I like to let people have their privacy unless they choose to open up more. Anyway, I know the wife works for one of the local animal shelters, and they’ll often times have at least one or two fosters along with their two family pets, which is cool, and never been an issue. They take very good care of them, and never let the, outside barking excessively, but their big GSD will always alert along with the other GSD on side of me and directly across from them along with my dogs if anyone who isn’t known in the area walks by, or stops in a car to get out. It’s actually really nice we have a crazy little alarm system between the three of our homes if anyone tries anything, and with our backyard guarding one corner, and the house across from the fosters also being the next corner with our backyards connecting, we have a huge chunk of the neighborhood under constant overwatch at almost all times. Both my dogs will run back and forth along the fence line to alert along with the GSD behind us, and the other GSD and mix breed by the fosters who share a fence with the rental alert like crazy.
Now to the good part, and why I’m going to have to start connecting with the fosters more. Lately the only lookie loos we’ve been seeing stop at the rental are niggers. Today was the same story. I happened to walk out of my back door, and heard all the dogs barking, and mine shot out to join in and patrol their fence. Sure enough, it was some niggers
(A couple) pulling up across the street from me. They hopped out and started trying to look through the window, and the male walked around the side to try to see in the backyard. Next thing I hear is someone yell “y’all like dogs”? I look through my fence and see the guy(Adam) from the foster couple house. The niggers respond why do you ask. Adam says “cause we some dog people around here”, and then he points towards my dog patrolling the fence, his, and the other GSD behind me. Then he says “yeah, we only like dog people around here” in a super deep aggressive voice. 🤣 On top of that the dude just happens to look like a skinhead. He’s super Irish white, and shaves his head even though he has a full head of hair. Anyway, it was beyond obvious what he was signaling, and the niggers seem to take the hint by saying “oh alright”, and then promptly left.
TL;DR
I realized to today we’re winning more than many want to admit, and my neighbor that I don’t speak to often is definitely BAF, which is awesome considering I know all the other neighbors within 6 houses of any direction also are. 💪🏻
I grew up semi-rural. In this gigantic American city only 50-60 years ago there were huge ranchos and country in what is now urban sprawl. I grew up in one of those rural places. I had chickens, horses, and the neighbors had rabbits, goats, etc., even though downtown was only 15 minutes away.
What I learned in my upbringing was community. This is the first time I've ever lived in an urban neighborhood, but I brought those values to at least the 100ft of street that I live on. I know everyone in my apartment building and am friendly with all of them.
It started simply with just greetings and salutations. Then it went to exchanging food. Now it's totally friendly. In an urban environment, it's strange to know that 30-40 people have your back like it's a mini-small town and I'm the mayor. We all look out for each other. And yes, I'm one of the last Anglos.
The point is you can create a community anywhere as long as you are willing to lead if nobody else will. I know my house won't be robbed. If I have to run off some vagrant walking on my street (which I have had to do) I know that my neighbors will tell the cops I did nothing wrong. I leave my door unlocked and open most of the time except when I have to leave for more than an hour, just like in the neighborhood I grew up in. This is literally 5 blocks from skyscrapers.
Neighborhood security and community start with you.