r/SurreyBC • u/brownbear38297282 • 20h ago
Community Only What has happened to being decent neighbours nowadays?
I am situated in an area where the skytrain are being built along and I have been living in Surrey for almost 30 years. When I first moved here, all of the neighbours understood mutual respect for one another. For example, we had neighbours who use to send little notes to houses nearby if they were hosting wedding/celebration and ask for our cooperation and understanding for the increase of vehicles for x amount of days, foot traffic & noises. Nowadays the newer neighbours have 0 care of being decent neighbours and keeping any mutual respect in the neighborhood. For instance, I would let my neighbour’s 5-6 tenants slide for parking in front of my house for weeks because I don’t use street parking but the one time I ask for their understanding and cooperation if I could use the parking for friends visiting the week, they let me park one day and gives me attitude saying how long I parked in front of my house. I understand it is public parking and it is first come first serve but I would assume that politely discussing it with them previously, them agreeing and me not calling bylaws on them on all the other times they’ve violated parking regulations would not be too much to ask. Now, they even have random people they work together parking for the day around homes nearby to transit via bus…. At this rate, I feel like the parking situation and congestion is going to become like Vancouver where residential areas will now have more parking restrictions because of these people who no longer have that same of being “good/decent” neighbour mindset.