New neighbours recently moved in across the road. They’re a young couple with a dog, and she was very pregnant. I didn’t see them much over the summer, other than when we had to knock on their door to complain about various issues.
The first was garbage, which they put out in bags instead of bins. Not surprisingly, the raccoons got in and made a mess. We thought they would clean it up, but by the end of the day we had to ask them to do so.
This happened about three times before they finally got bins. The second was a noise and mess issue from landscaping and construction. Their workers would start at 7 a.
m. every day of the week, which isn’t allowed where we live, and work well past 7 p.m.
Plus, they would leave their mess, blocking the sidewalk, taking up limited street parking and generally creating an unpleasant environment for the surrounding neighbours. Now I see her walking down the street, chatting loudly on the phone while a nanny trails behind her pushing a stroller and holding the dog’s leash. Are these people just extremely entitled millennials? In a word, maybe.
But those two words don’t have to go together as a label. These people are, by age definition, millennials. And, from your description, they also sound entitled.
But not all millennials are entitled, and not all those who are entitled are millennials. You get what I’m saying? If you’re so inclined, you could pop over with a small baby gift, welcoming them officially to the neighbourhood. Mayb.