Index for tropes relating to apartments, neighborhoods, and the dwellers and drama therein. Not to be confused with the Cohabitation Tropes for roommates within the same dwelling, not adjacent dwellings.
- Ceiling Banger: Apartment dwellers reacting to noise with more noise.
- Close-Knit Community: A setting where people look out for each other.
- Cranky Landlord: Worse than the cranky neighbor, because he holds your housing fate in his hands...
- Cranky Neighbor: An antagonistic and grumpy neighbor, hard to avoid due to proximity.
- Cut-and-Paste Suburb: Every house in a suburban neighborhood is always the same.
- Dreamville: An imaginary setting that resembles a picturesque neighborhood.
- Drop-In Character: A friend of The Hero who frequently pays visits to their house to hang out.
- Drop-In Landlord: When the landlord isn't always antagonistic, but still keeps a close eye on his tenants
- Gayborhood: A neighborhood with a significant LGBT+ population.
- Hidden Elf Village: A small, secret location inhabited by isolationists with something in common.
- Literally Loving Thy Neighbor: Romance between neighbors.
- May I Borrow a Cup of Sugar?: A neighbor tries to borrow something from another neighbor, thus stumbling into the plot.
- Neighbourhood-Friendly Gangsters: They may be criminals, but they protect their neighbors from other bad guys.
- New Neighbours as the Plot Demands: The characters' neighbors are suddenly introduced to the cast, and are often treated as if they've been there the whole time.
- Nosy Neighbor: Living so close makes it all too easy to snoop on you.
- One-Neighbor Neighborhood: Neighborhoods in fiction are underpopulated.
- Right Through the Wall: When neighbors are too loud in the bedroom.
- Stepford Suburbia: A neighborhood where everyone pretends to be happy.
- Suburban Gothic: Creepy suburbs.
- Tyrannical Homeowners' Association: Your friendly neighborhood tyrants