[drkshdw]

Has anyone else sold their house and moved simply because of their neighbors?

Let me start off by saying I love my house. I've remodeled it and made it what I wanted. It fits me perfectly, is in a good location, easy access to everything, yard is small enough to not take an entire weekend to maintain. I've made it what I wanted it to be. I love it here.

There's only one problem. My neighbors. We all get along fine (except for one house), we're all friendly enough, they all take care of their property (except the one), that's all great. Except they...all...smell. You can't even walk outside without being hit in the face with the aroma of...peoples habits.

We've been having gorgeous weather the past few weeks and I'm the type that likes to open my windows when it's nice outside. The problem is that I can't. Because of every one of these people's smells. This didn't used to be a problem. It just started last summer.

If it's not the vaping clouds from the glaring neighbors upwind (which is so bad it has coated the side of my house and windows with their juice because they're constantly on the hunt for the biggest cloud), it's the god awful smell of terrible laundry soap and dryer sheets being wafted into the air from peoples laundry.

It is so bad I have been looking at property outside the city to move to because I can't deal with these smells. Is this a new thing or has everyone dealt with the smells of neighbors forever? I'll admit I grew up in the country so the smell of pig and cow doesn't bother me but the smell of people...ugh. Maybe it's because I quit smoking that now I can smell everything but this terrible.

Sorry for the rant but what does a person do besides move? I hate keeping my house closed up and I work from home so there is no getting away from it. And before anyone says it, I use unscented everything so I can't possibly be any worse than them. But I digress. Am I the only one who has this problem?

Now you kids get off my lawn!!