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To be fair, I'm a middle-aged white engineer raised in San Jose, CA relocated to ATX in Dec 2020. I live at the corner of I-35 east-side frontage and 5th in a
by airhead969 6y ago
To be fair, I'm a middle-aged white engineer raised in San Jose, CA relocated to ATX in Dec 2020.
I live at the corner of I-35 east-side frontage and 5th in a mega apartment complex. I've tried meeting many of my neighbors and most are asocial/antisocial. There are 2 women roommates and an African-American kid who are legit cool that I've met so far. Also, I don't even know the people across the hall. My conclusion from many interactions is my neighbors are mostly phony, little life experience, selfish, corporate clones who steal shopping carts and leave them blocking the hallways, let their dogs pee everywhere in the hallways and don't clean it up, throw garbage on the floor, don't wear masks, don't talk to one another, sit by the pool on their phones, and act phony cool like they're still in high-school. Heck, my upstairs neighbor complained about my music on the weekend during the day without introducing themselves and not diplomatically. Point being: gentrifiers tend to be mostly uncool and don't care about anything other than forcing their own bubbles on everyone else.
More power to Austin car clubs. Let the gentrifiers pound salt.
Edit: I would like to move somewhere near cooler people, but I'm probably going to have to grow a social circle to find that. Also, I wonder if more upscale or cheaper housing tends to attract or repel cool peeps.
- jiveturkey 6y agosounds like you are legit cool
- datavirtue 6y agoWorking class neighborhoods. I live in one and the people are very real for the most part. Neighbors gather together frequently and are social but will leave you alone. We don't suffer any bullshit though. One of the main reasons I haven't moved is because the neighborhood is real and fairly devoid of weird Karens like the one quoted in the article.
- Aloha 6y agoVery much agree!! I live in a working class neighborhood in the DFW area, it's much more friendly than the wealthy complex I was in, in WA
- failwhaleshark 6y agoDamn, that could be my problem too. Maybe I should move. Frighted/anxious, people-avoiding, phone addict, "let's do lunch" and exchange phone numbers but never call yuppies are such wastes of space. They should be called "nopeies." The metroplex has an awesome music scene too!
- Aloha 6y agoI'm in a complex right by the centreport train station, it's across the street from it and a little east. It's a great but older complex, well maintained with a decent office staff. There is a nice community here.
- dionidium 6y ago> Heck, my upstairs neighbor complained about my music on the weekend during the day without introducing themselves and not diplomatically. Tangential (and probably just a perennial old guy complaint), but it seems like people have forgotten how to do this. If you have an issue with something your neighbor is doing, then go talk to them. Don't leave an aggressive note. Don't let it boil over until you're so upset you can't talk to them rationally. Living next to other human beings is a negotiation. You can't make a set of rules that cover every possible scenario and then ask police to enforce them. Just go talk to people!
- donatj 6y agoHonestly I think the loss of humans just talking to others is the primary cause of most of our modern problems.
- LanceH 6y agoProbably from too much experience that they need to expect to be in a fight, so they adopt an aggressive posture from the start.
- burntoutfire 6y agoThat's me. If I know that neighbor is doing something unreasonable, like leaving his garbage bags in the common hallway or listening music too loudly, I suspect he's just an antisocial asshole and the conversation will be rough at best.
- dionidium 6y agoWhenever I think that I remember that I've been the recipient of snarky notes about this or that and while it's possible I'm an irredeemable reprobate, I'd prefer rather to think that like most people I'm sometimes not as considerate as I might be and open to polite feedback.
- buffet_overflow 6y ago
- nogbit 6y agoIt’s a big planet, no need for a social circle. Start traveling.
- burntoutfire 6y agoYou complain about urine pollution and yet you're doing the noise pollution yourself...
- cactus2093 6y agoAt the risk of being cast into your uncool categorization... it sounds like maybe you just have your own personal preferences like everyone else in the world? I'm not really seeing much of a pattern in the things you like and don't like here - sitting on your phone not socializing is uncool, and so is throwing trash on the ground and stealing shopping carts. But playing loud music that disturbs the neighbors and doing dangerous car stunts on public streets is cool. Hey, I hope you find the like-minded community that you're looking for. But maybe consider that you could still be yourself without totally writing off everyone who isn't just like you as irredeemably uncool and telling them to pound salt?
- res0nat0r 6y agoI live on East 6th st too and the neighbors here in my complex seem the same. I did meet some folks during the power outage since everyone came together to make sure we would all survive the week and helped some neighbors apartment which was flooding, but everyone is younger and in their 20s and aren't overly friendly. I've really met random nicer people when I go out and drink on 6th st who happen to be coming thru town, or random more friendly folks who happen to chat with strangers out when eating/drinking, or when going to shows (before COVID wrecked that) around town by myself.