"Won't you be my neighbor?"
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
