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Just Venting
I'm really pissed off at my own lack of foresight.
I should have seen this coming. Mrs WD and I love our house and got along great with most of the neighbors. We planned to stay here until they hauled us out feet first. So we remodeled the house - $50k room addition, $12k concrete deck, $30k kitchen, greenhouse, landscaping etc.
Then this summer the neighborhood changed. Three houses within 1/4 mile of here changed hands and all three of the new owners live large and love to run their power tools.
We should have anticipated this. The nature of this area encourages a lot of outdoor landscape care and there is no reason to think the relative tranquility of the past would last. It was barely tolerable then and we never considered that it could get worse - much worse.
So Sunday morning our neighbor was out with his big backpack leaf blower from sometime before 8 until 11:30 AM. Mrs WD finally had it. "We're moving!" I had to agree. We are going to spend our retirement years enjoying our lives, and with all this noise we can't do that here - in the house we love.
I guess I should look at this as an opportunity to start fresh, maybe I'll come around to that, but right now I'm damn depressed about this.
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