I wonder what the neighbors think in return. 🙂 Do the neighbors see us as the “crazy prepper, spouse/child abuser, drug addict, or just plain certified 100% US-made jacka$$, who does not play well with others”?
Some of my best friends, when they first met me, though I was a jacka$$, wanting nothing to do with me. They did like my wife though, she is nice, so they had no choice with me. I chose to make the effort to get to know them. 😉
Don’t judge a book by it’s cover, read the first few ‘chapters’. Get past the facades people present to the unknown and you are good to go, or you know for a fact you better run.
There is no ‘picking a choosing’ neighbors, but there is knowing who is who, more importantly, getting to know where the problem children are, a crucial part of prepping your environmental factors, like what @daisy experienced with her wife-beating-neighbor, then the gloves come off.