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[trout]

Get the hell out of there and go Bush Mate.:good:
Since I came to Australia in 1968 I have never lived for any length of time in a major city but I have lived in a few small towns where everyone has a quarter acre block with a house on it so we had neighbours.
I hated it, lawnmowers, barking dogs, traffic and the odd late night drunken punch up not to mention that everything had to be locked up tight to make sure that the light fingered mob didn't make off with your property.
My nearest neighbour now is about 4 miles away and if I stand on top of my roof I can just see the trees around their place, if I squint real hard.
We have no need to lock anything up and on a still day with no wind you cannot hear a sound.
I have noticed over the last 20 years that the housing blocks are getting smaller and the houses are getting bigger in town, So now people are living even closer to each other.
I could never understand why people pay a fortune for a tiny scrap of land so that they can live in such close proximity to people that they don't really know and in many cases don't like anyway.
Get out of the "Burbs" RG , even if it is only on a 5-10 acre block out of town a bit :ok:

[robbiegal]

yeah very tempted trout

although I will say that I have lived óut of towns'many times in my life and other issues come to mind
crazy/mad neighbours (had serious issues twice with that)
fire management
water & road access issues
poisons being sprayed

so it has its ups and downs

my main issue is this one next door - gee months becoming years of weekend power sawing is just too much - adding the wood fibre smell and in the air to the mix

i always feel like i just want to snot him when i see him - i am really starting to hate him

and the hubby is sick of my whinging so i try not to whinge too much

anyways he might stop bout 9 pm tonight and by then the other idiots will get going with their  party and screeching cookatoo  - there is something to be said about body corporate in the unit living arrangements! at least they have more strick rules - the neighbors call the cops on the party guys - they go quiet for about half hour then start up again

our neighborhood used to quiet but we have these yuppies/well to do public servants that seem to have endless money for endless renovations  on these 40 year old houses

[trout]

my main issue is this one next door - gee months becoming years of weekend power sawing is just too much - adding the wood fibre smell and in the air to the mix

I think that I would have punched this bloke in the nose by now :angel:

[Triggersmob]

I have just had a new fence fitted. Contractor did a bodgie job first, so we held the final payment until he came back to fix it. Took a while, but all good now.

.. and on a still day with no wind ...

Gee, that would be a rare day in Gero.

[trout]

Gee, that would be a rare day in Gero

HeHe
You've got that right Mate

[robbiegal]

my main issue is this one next door - gee months becoming years of weekend power sawing is just too much - adding the wood fibre smell and in the air to the mix

I think that I would have punched this bloke in the nose by now :angel:

yes I have come close
he is a F** moron in many ways

I have just had a new fence fitted. Contractor did a bodgie job first, so we held the final payment until he came back to fix it. Took a while, but all good now.

.. and on a still day with no wind ...

Gee, that would be a rare day in Gero.

I like the metal base - out fence has wood which i suspect will rot

[robbiegal]

he is still going as usual (powersaw etc etc)

all right for him - he gets around with the huge ear muffs on
might hit them up to buy me  pair!!
li e the other wacko across the road who has about 6 bee hives smack in the front yard on the footpath boundary - when he raids the hive he has ALL the protective gear on - screams at his teenage kids to stay inside - meanwhile the laneway and the street fills with disorientated bees
i get heaps at my front door & i have an allergy to them

yep  i reckon it just might be time to sell .. i really can't stand it anymore but my fear is that we move into another neighborhood that has it's own issues as well, we have been here 17 years & it hasn't been too bad - just the last 3 years - with people dying, selling and so on

[robbiegal]

still going

can kiss the week-end goodbye

sad face

[trout]

Get a big long bamboo pole with a plastic hook on it and yank his pole fuse out :diablo:

[robbiegal]

ha ha great idea

[r9453]

I did some concreting the other day and took a few pics of the boys in action:

[robbiegal]

good grief
big job!

we finally got the side fence replaced
which i thought was a big job! until now!!

[duggee27]

looks to be a decent slab with that beam footing !!

good idea to get the boys in with the pump ,, saves wheelbarrowing to the backyard

[robbiegal]

I have got my ear plugs I'm as the mongrel neighbor had started up again with the high pitched saw. I swear I will end up in jail before Christmas . Spose I will get Internet from jail?

[trout]

Hose him down with the garden hose and give him the FFS speech, If that doesn't work  just kick him in the Nuts.
Either way you will get his undivided attention :diablo: