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Originally Posted by berettafan
notfarnow my neighbors have their house for sale here in Maryland; if you are thinking about moving i'll make sure you get the 'in' price. Would LOVE to have somebody like you as a neighbor!
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Thanks! But I have a great spot, my first house was my dream house and my last house. If I ever move, it'll be by tragedy.
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Originally Posted by berettafan
i guess since popular forms of entertainment these days don't make noise that neighbors can here (texting, video games, overextending your credit, shopping on the internet, feeding a porn addiction) we have become a bunch of wimps who think the sounds of life should be a few taps on a keyboard or cellphone.
said it before and i'll say it again, if i here somebody fire up an unmuffled race car getting ready to load it up on a trailer i'm grabbing a six pack (gotta share!) and running towards the noise like a woman at a shoe sale!
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Agreed! This spring, I heard a very familiar and unmistakable sound around the corner while walking the dogs. A new Porsche arrival to the neighborhood, a '91 964. I took the dogs home and was in his driveway 15 minutes later.
However, I should come clean and admit that I had ongoing problems with the neighbors behind me, and have called the cops on them for noise. They are mouth-breathing lagoon dweller throwbacks in the middle of a nice neighborhood, tearing cars apart with swing sets over the cars to hoist engines at 2 am on weeknights. Flood lamps pointed toward our house, air compressors kicking in, all of it behind our house where the bedrooms are. I spoke with them about it a few times, trying to be cordial and neighborly. No dice, they are just inconsiderate, ignorant
pr##ks. So after a few attempts, when they were making noise late into the night, I'd walk over and tell them the compressor and lights are off or I'd call the cops. If they didn't shut 'er down, I'd call the cops. After a while I'd stop warning them. After a year or so, they caught on. Just like training dogs, really.
I worked outside on gravel driveways enough to be sympathetic, but holy smokes, a guy's gotta have some peace.
Other highlights with them included paving their driveway at midnight on a wednesday, and a few weeks later chainsawing down two of my trees to "open up the view". Great, I can see and hear them SO much better. I shouldn't complain too much though, they've been quiet for the last year or so. Bet their power got cut off.