Best Neighbor Stories Post

The Neighbor Stories cases readers rated highest and believed most — the jury's all-time picks.

1. The Fence War That Exposed the Whole HOA

   Nobody moves to a place like Bellhaven Court for excitement. You move there for the beige. You move there because the lawns are the same hei…

   168 Upvote · 67% of readers believe this story

2. The Book Club Next Door Never Read a Single Book

   For two years I envied the book club next door. Every third Thursday, six or seven couples would arrive at the Bergstroms' house around eigh…

   161 Upvote · 65% of readers believe this story

3. The Quiet Couple Next Door Never Had a Single Visitor. Then a Van Came at Dawn.

   The Hales were the best neighbors I ever had, which should have been the first clue. In my experience good neighbors have some friction to t…

   156 Upvote · 67% of readers believe this story

4. My Neighbor's Teenager Started a Band. In the Garage. Under My Bedroom.

   You can tell a lot about a person by how they react to bad garage-band drumming at 8 p.m. on a Tuesday. Me, I reacted like a coward. I turne…

   145 Upvote · 69% of readers believe this story

5. The Leaf Blower Man Declared War on My Mornings

   The war between me and Frank Delucci did not start with the leaf blower. That is important. The leaf blower was an escalation, a nuclear opt…

   141 Upvote · 67% of readers believe this story

6. The Party House Next Door Had a Landlord Who Never Answered -- Until the Pool Video

   The house next to ours was a rental, and for one long calendar year it was rented to eight men in their mid-twenties who treated the backyar…

   138 Upvote · 66% of readers believe this story

7. The Man Who Mowed His Lawn at 2 A.M.

   The first time it happened I assumed I was dreaming. It was August, it was 2 a.m., and somewhere below my open window a lawnmower coughed to…

   132 Upvote · 68% of readers believe this story

8. The Wind Chime Lady Was Running a Con, and the Chimes Gave Her Away

   There is a specific madness that comes from wind chimes you did not choose. One set, fine, charming even. But my neighbor Eleanor had, at la…

   129 Upvote · 66% of readers believe this story

9. The Rooster, the Cul-de-Sac, and the Secret Everyone Was Keeping

   A rooster is not supposed to happen to you in the suburbs. Dogs, yes. The occasional escaped ferret. But one Tuesday in April a rooster bega…

   121 Upvote · 68% of readers believe this story

10. The Bagpiper of Route 9

    In a town of nine hundred people, everyone knows everything, which is why it was so strange that for two years no one could tell me who the …

    114 Upvote · 69% of readers believe this story

11. Every Night at Eleven, the Basketball Started

    I have thought a great deal about how to describe the sound of a basketball being dribbled on a concrete driveway at eleven at night, and th…

    108 Upvote · 69% of readers believe this story

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