Summarize this content to 2000 words in 6 paragraphs A Reddit user has shared the note left for his sister from one of her neighbors after she had been away for two days.In a post that went viral with more than 39,000 upvotes and thousands of comments, the Reddit poster, u/Oaksmum, shows the accusatory note left on their sister’s apartment door, complaining about the smell of food. The note reads: “Don’t vent your ‘curry’ cooking odor into other tenant’s apartments and common areas. That’s not allowed.””On my sister’s apartment door, she hasn’t been home in 2 days …” the Reddit user wrote as the title of the post.Hannu Ruonavaara, professor of sociology at the University of Turku’s Department of Social Research/Sociology in Finland, told Newsweek that being a neighbor is a social role and “have the capacity of causing nuisance to each other just by the way they are leading their lives.””Disputes between neighbors are not always primarily due to the parties’ roles as neighbors. There are other grounds than just the proximity of homes on which neighbor A may experience neighbor B’s behavior disturbing,” Ruonavaara said. “For example, A representing ethnic group X may find the social life of B representing ethnic group Y too noisy and disturbing.”Here the dispute may be caused by different cultures of neighboring thus being a genuine neighbor dispute—but it just as well may be caused by A’s generally negative attitude toward the ethnic group Y.”It was not unneighborly behavior that caused the complaint but some other antipathy,” Ruonavaara added.”How to best deal with this kind of situation? Research has distinguished between three simple strategies to deal with neighbor disputes: avoidance of the party whose behavior is experienced as unneighborly; confronting the neighbor face-to-face; and relying on a third party to sort out the issue, e.g. the landlord or even police.”The internet provides a further strategy: making complaints public, something that is both confrontation and avoidance, maybe also relying on the third party of the public,” Ruonavaara said.The Pew Research Center found in a 2018 survey that 57 percent of Americans say they know only some of their neighbors, while 26 percent say they know most of them.
A stock image of a note left by a neighbor wedged in a door. A viral Reddit post shows what one woman came home to after her neighbor was left unhappy.
A stock image of a note left by a neighbor wedged in a door. A viral Reddit post shows what one woman came home to after her neighbor was left unhappy.
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People shared their reactions to the neighbor’s note in the comments section of the post.”That person really should have thought about what they wanted to write before just jotting down the first garbage that popped into their head,” commented u/alwaysfatigued8787.Meanwhile, u/EpicSteak wrote: “I would really love to see the language in the lease that even comes close to what the person writing seems to think exists.””How is an apartment dweller supposed to control the venting of their kitchen?” posted u/Underwater_Karma.Has your home ever turned into a nightmare? Whether it’s a burst pipe, unexpected renovations gone wrong, or any other house disaster, we want to hear your story. Let us know via [email protected], and your experience could be featured on Newsweek.
