[rishikeshs]

I have 2 cats in the past, but I still think letting them out is the best way to have them!

[slfnflctd]

This is highly dependent on your location.

From what I've been told, in the UK, shelters won't let you adopt a cat unless you agree that it will be allowed outside.

In the US, many/most shelters won't let you adopt a cat unless you agree that it will NOT be allowed outside.

Part of this is likely due to more cars being driven at higher speeds by inattentive people in the States (that's the main reason I don't let my cats out, I have seen way too much roadkill in my life and it sucks every time, those deaths are not always quick). Some other reasons not to let them out would be increased chance of disease, unwanted interactions with neighbors and the needless decimation of local wildlife.

[idiotsecant]

Your neighbourhood didn't get a cat. You did. I don't enjoy your cat shitting in my bushes, scratching my car climbing up it, killing birds in my yard, or any of the other million annoying things cats do. You don't have an automatic right to make the entire neighborhood a playground for the pet you decided to have. If I find one in my yard I catch it and turn it into the humane society.

[hombre_fatal]

Your attitude reminds me of when I briefly used that Nextdoor social network until someone in my neighborhood started bitching at me for running past their house every morning, somehow ruining their day.

[poisonarena]

did you also key his car, shit in his yard, and kill all the birds and squirrels?

[exolymph]

Welcome to living in proximity to other people, lol. The past would have been much worse for you since everyone would have had livestock, not just companion animals.