Places you wouldn't want to live next door to

It's a shame, that's actually a nice neighborhood, or was.


I think a crack house has to top the list for me, wouldn't wanna live next to one of those.

Gilroy, CA the garlic capital of the world. Been through there several times, the smell is gross.

I'm with ya on that. Used to go to Maine to do auditing and you always knew when you were in a town that was virtually owned by Scott Paper Co.

In the Seattle/Tacoma area, it's called The Aroma of Tacoma.

I like Gilroy. (Although - since I have been there, it is now a developed tractville.)
And I figure that is garlic planting land that has turned into housing.

On the other hand, I have an exceptionally poor sense of smell (for example, I don't smell gas.)
I photo'd and did a painting of the guy that ran the antique store and his humongous white cat.
Didn't buy any garlic or garlic aprons or garlic cookbooks. I already exude garlic (I think) but friends say not.
Perhaps they all lie.

Atlantic Gelatin in Woburn MA.

There are bad, bad emanations from that place every so often. I think
it has something to do with "rendering". It's right along I-93 and
sometimes as you drive by it, you are treated to a whiff of yuckiness.

Once, as we drove by, I said "Whew! The jello plant is doing it again!"

"Is that what that is?" she said. "I always thought it was you."

Lot of them in North Carolina, too . . . you can get wind of them from miles away . . .

There's a street a mile south of me, Virginia Ave, that's at the top ridge of a hill. It has some nice old Austin type homes on it. Go ahead and look it up on Google Maps. One home always reminds me of Tara. Circular drive, beautiful porch that encircles the house. The people who own it really keep it nice. They own the lot next door, and it's covered with warbler houses. They've made it a bird sanctuary. Next door to them is another great house surrounded by a low stone wall, that has a breathtaking view of downtown.

Literally yards from them, at the bottom of the hill, is a part of Barton Springs Rd that I call Restaurant Row.
A Coffe shop that has groups with names like Wild Bill and the Lost Knobs (blues) Erik Hokkanens Laboratory (from the little I just listened on YouTube they are actually pretty cool), restaurants that turn into drinking establishments after dinner with live music, etc.

Sure, that sound like a good place to go for fun, but the people who live above them (and other streets around there) are constantly doing battle about noise.

I'm sure it gets old after awhile.

In defense of Erik Hokkanen, here is a sample of his music....very nice....

I almost did end up living next to something like this, only much worse ...
When Mr Ex & I went our separate ways in the not too distant past, I would have given anything to have had the $$$$ to buy him out & stay in the lovely old house which we'd renovated from top to bottom.
I loved that house. I hated having to leave.
Then, a couple of years ago, the folk next door knocked down their beautiful old Victorian home & built a fence to fence double storey house like this, only with balconies, huge windows overlooking what used to be our very private back yard .... & god knows what else!
... which would have left me without any natural light for most of the day & absolutely no privacy at all.
The only house of such humongous dimensions in the whole street.
I was so glad that I was no longer their next door neighbour, but felt really sorry for the young couple who'd bought our old place.
Poor little house!

At the moment, Vancouver! See the pictures from the riot? What a bunch of thugs. I bet it's the same as last time, where thousands transited in from the burbs. How disgraceful.

Been through there too - would love to visit during the garlic festival (as I love garlic) - but agreed one of those wouldn't want to live there.

Another yeah, me neither.

I don't want to have to live next door to JPB . . .

ok, ok.... I'll go take a shower.

That won't help; it's not your smell, it's your personality.

Ha! Come over here. I'll give you some personality.

http://nbcsports.msnbc.com/id/43420732/ns/sports-nhl/

Jesus. And this is because they lost?!?! Imagine how much fun(?) they'd have had if they'd won.

Oh yes...we were almost-neighbors. Remember the pig farm that used to be near there in Woburn? This was around juncture of Rt 93 and 95/128. That would have been back in the late-'60s or early '70s. I used to have to hold my breath as I drove by. Heavens biking in near the Stoneham/Woburn area near the Jello plant was bad when there was fog or misty nights. Man, the smell of that rendering was vile. Maybe that smell wasn't the pig farm?

Oh yes, then there was the famous Sheep-fold...strolling down memory lane.

my uncle makes his own maple syrup and i've visited many sugar shacks, they mostly smell of wood smoke, the sap is boiled down to remove the water content, leaving syrup, so unless you burn the syrup there's not much smell, other than the wood smoke from the fires

inside the sugar shack it will smell like maple syrup