Man Calls Out Millennial Neighbors for Being ‘Super Antisocial’ and Goes Viral For It
A man is calling out his neighbors for not being very neighborly — and blaming their generation for the behavior.
He and his wife moved into “a mixed [age] group neighborhood” a year ago, he wrote in a post on the Reddit forum board “r/Millennials,” that has received over 7,600 comments in less than 24 hours. Since then, they’ve made friends with most of their neighbors, who are mainly an older crowd — baby boomers and Generation X.
However, more recently the faces of the neighborhood have begun to change as the older neighbors have moved out and been replaced by a younger crowd.
“I’ve noticed that these millennials are all super antisocial,” the Reddit user, who is also a millennial himself, writes.
He describes his neighbors’ habits of coming home and parking their cars in the garage until the next time they leave. He adds that they “never come out other than leaving the house to go somewhere or maybe mowing their lawn.”
The man tells the forum that it reminds him of living in an off-campus duplex during his college years because, similar to this situation, no one knew who their neighbors were “or even cared to know.”
The comments section blew up with Reddit users explaining why they don’t speak with their neighbors, including several surprising horror stories about their neighbors’ behavior.
One person defended his reasoning for avoiding his neighbors, saying that a “kooky old guy” named Jimmy came over after he moved in and introduced himself. After hearing the homeowner’s last name, the neighbor asked if he was related to a man named Vinny with the same last name. Turns out it was the commenter’s grandfather, and the two hadn’t seen each other in 30 years.
“Mind you, my grandfather got out of prison about 30 years ago, and he was in for a while, so Jimmy’s story is already raising some red flags,” the commenter continues. The man called his grandfather after meeting his neighbor and his grandfather told him, “Don’t talk to Jimmy, don’t let him near your wife, and don’t let him near your kid.”
“So I avoid my neighbors now,” the man writes.
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Another commenter explained why they don’t socialize with their neighbors anymore saying, “They take it as their free pass to gossip about you as well.”
The person writes that they had a YouTube channel that explored haunted places. The commenter filmed at a local park that one of their neighbors was fond of. The “boomer” neighbor turned to Facebook Live to get their revenge for their park being portrayed as haunted.
The user read the FB comments to find people writing, “I know that person!”
Other commenters relayed experiences of their fellow neighbors becoming a little too comfortable and using them as a free babysitting service.
“I also intensely don’t like the idea of being friendly with someone who always knows when I’m home and has the ability to turn up unannounced,” another commenter concluded.
Not every neighborly interaction is negative however. Homeowners have also been sharing sweet interactions with their neighbors from other generations on social media.
Recently, a man documented seeing a neighbor who is a single mom was in need of a fence on Tiktok, so he built one for her.
Another Tiktoker, shared how her elderly neighbors react to her trendy outfits in a heartwarming series.
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