"Vox Humana" expounded:
Meth labs. Inconsiderate slobs. Nice. You are another one who resorts to insults when you're losing your argument. I hope you learn to be more tolerant of those who have different views than you do. But I'm pretty sure you're incapable of it.
Hypotheticals are so delicious....since one can easily craft one on demand to prove or disprove any particular point pro or con..... Case in point would said car still bother you quite as much if the neighbor after your 5 years of suffering silently thanked you profusely for being such a mellow non complaining neighbor and handed you a million dollars?
Obviously some people wish to have absolute control over each and everything of everybody else and I suppose even want someone controlling them...whereas others think life is meant to be a little messy... sometimes good and occasionally not to our liking but with no desire for rules and laws attempting to regiment a "perfect life".... Rod
I've had the same thing (more than once).....luckily they come and go and I built a fence.....Incidentally 5 years ago when I became very ill, life got just a little sidetracked as I nearly died with a very long recuperation.... I had no neighbors complaining about "my mess"......Rod
"Rod & Betty Jo" expounded:
Rod, I'd rather have people living near me like you than like VH. And I'm sure your neighbors appreciate your being alive and well rather than sitting in judgement on you. I hope you stay healthy and well, we need more gentle folks like you in our world :o)
Well....sounds like it's all a matter of individual opinion, then.
People are always okay and tolerant till it effects them, or their hot button issue is raised. I live in a 31 home development. Homes in here go from 250 to
450. Out of respect for one another, we maintain the front of our homes. Mine, of course, is the most wild, but its got order in the chaos. However, when I learned one of our neighbors down the cul-de-sac was selling their home, I went out and trimmed out all the dead flowers from the Gaura lindheimerii, pulled out all the dead larkspur stalks, etc. I put down mulch to neaten things up. Rather civil.I assure you that if a huge mess was happening in our little neighborhood it would piss me off. My one neighbor has two trailers in his driveway, which is a four car driveway. One has a barrel BBQ pit thing, the other is for hauling stuff. His truck sticks out onto the sidewalk. People reported it and those things are now gone and we can walk down the street again. Yay.
So, rest assured, people "say" it doesn't bother them, or it's none of their business, but when it effects them they squeal as loud as everyone else.
Whoa, where do you get that she's a "hideous" neighbor"? "Even slobs and drug dealers have to live somewhere" -- WTF? Everything she's written here suggests exactly the opposite -- live and let live without getting in someone else's business. No offense, but from my perspective as someone just reading this thread, you have degenerated into histrionic flaming for no reason.
inconsiderate
That's rich coming from YOU.
When my neighbors were unable to care for their lawn, I did it for them without any discussion. That was a win-win situation.
I agree. If you notice that Ann, who claims that nothing is any of her business, started by lamenting the mess in her neighbor's yard. There is a difference between "it's none of my business" and having an opinion about something.
I think you also hit on the essence of this problem. Maintaining the exterior of your home at approximately the same level as your neighbors is a simple courtesy. I don't expect people to recreate Longwood Gardens, but it doesn't cost anything to pick up your trash and to pull a few weeds. I think that people who park across the sidewalk, for example, are at best selfish, and at worst just giving everyone the finger.
Stick around and you will understand. Sister Theresa, she ain't.
And in your view this is equivalent to him chopping down his own tree?
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Mind you, nobody likes this man. I am ambivalent after living next door to him for five years; I let go of the whole thing. He is very disliked in the neighborhood and actually I am the only neighbor who talks to him.
One other person talks to him, and this bad neighbor calls him "the a-rab." Typical Texan who gives all of Texas a really bad name. The man he refers to is from Lebanon, lovely people. Ten cats all outside. Not any more. We have laws in our town preventing loose animals. I suggested they build a kitty run and they did and the cats are safe from the foxes living in my backyard, and the occasional coyote which comes up from the creek to our yards, and bobcats which I've also seen.
Eh. One day this will all be sold and we'll have our Safari motor home and we'll be nomads. This is our goal and dream in life. No neighbors. If we don't like where we're parked, we move!
Victoria
What an odd question.
Let's put it this way: Some people think outside of themselves, and consider the consequences their actions may have on other people. Some people do not.
Found a very interesting webpage regarding various "Green Laws" enacted around the US...
worse than junk in my opinion... you can look away/go inside to get away from junk... barking will penetrate the walls. (ok.. so you can use earplugs... but that's more excessive i think)
sigh..
Don't you have an animal control resource, and local ordnances which address barking dogs?
I imagine that there are... but i'd want to take the step of talking to the neighbor first--- and for me, that would mean keeping an infraction diary so i can point out specific instances so i can answer questions of "when?!" --- which comes down to too much work at this level of annoyance. I was mostly commiserating with Mr Wagner.
All in all, I think It bothers my wife more than it does me... but even I was upset over the the various 3-6 am extended (> 10 minutes) barking sessions. (the neighbor works odd hours). Usually by morning I have better things to do than track the neighbor down.
It hasn't been quite as bad lately (perhaps because it's been winter, and all the windows were shut making it less noticeable.) She also lost a dog within the last year or so, and though that dog didn't start the barking usually, the dogs fed off each other's barking and the sessions would last longer.
For some reason, sound pollution seems to me to be more egregious an offense than clutter and/or weeds...
I *have* suggested to her that 7:30am might be a little early for yardwork involving power lawn tools, though.... mostly because i was leaving for work, and I knew my wife was still sleeping.
I try to do most of my gardening with hand tools. Anyone have good push mower tune up tips? (partially rhetorical question, the mower is in reasonable shape now... and i havn't done my part by googling first.... just trying to bring the topic back to gardens. ;)
There is just something soothing about the reel mower whirr. I've considered starting a company to do "quiet" gardening using hand or silent electric tools. wondering if it would go over, or be prohibitively expensive.
What type of trucks?
May have been private contractors there to make a bid on removing the tree trunk.
"Vox Humana" expounded:
I guess reading comprehension isn't your forte. I wasn't lamenting a thing, I stated facts, and also told you I still bought the house. But do continue misconstruing, it's getting pretty amusing.
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