I was burning the seeds on some weeds with a gas flame thrower and this neighbour came over to the fence and really abused me and calling me names because the smoke was going to get on her washing.  I was only using a gas burner to heat up the seeds to kill them and there was no fire just a little burning odor.  She's a nutter this one and always complains when I mow the lawn also - there's always a reason to have a go at me.  A real nutter this one.

What are your neighbours like?

Mine are pretty good.  I have loads of them because I live in a unit.  I think my TV gets a little loud at times is all.  Acrross the way is more units as well.  The only thing that worries me about my neighbors is that I just recently got a barbeque for the balcony and I'm sure that although I don't know what law I'm breaking, that there is at least one law being broken when I use it.  Other people have them, but my fear is that someone from accross the way will call it in and a cop will be close by to drive through the alleyway and see me.  I live really close to a sizeable police station.  I suppose if I get a fine then I get a fine but I'm not likely to.  I think the worst I'll get over it is someone in a bad mood.  Of course I've got the guy that takes care of the gardens living right above me... not too sure about him.  I WANT BARBEQUE!!!

I don't really know my neighbors.  I know their name and I see them in town occasionally and we say hello but that's it.

Can you call your in-laws neighbors because they are always here overstaying their welcome bragging about their high pay and large 4X4's and always ready to give advice on how I should live my life.  If they're so well paid why then don’t they just rent a unit on the coast and leave me alone.

I respect successful people, I just don't like braggarts!

BTW Dean, Police just love BBQs, especially whats in the esky!

We have good neighbours, except the ferals at number 11 that is!  Some people should not be allowed to have children!

I've never heard of any BBQs being illegal, MD, except on fire ban day. You would be safe at this time of the year.

I rarely speak to my neighbours. The friendly ones were oldies and have all died. Their houses now have renters in them. Most renters don't give a fig about noise or mess. I don't have to worry about my jungle lawn anymore because it blends right in. My old neighbours would politely knock on the door and give me advice on weed killers and edgers and blade heights and fertilizers ..... and then probably went home muttering about youngsters.

Next door is a rental and he has two housemates. They all have very loud cars and all of their friends have very loud cars. The music always has the bass cranked up to the max and my windows rattle. You cant hear a tune all you can hear is doof, doof, rattle. The vibrations through the house make me feel a little bit queasy.
I wondered why the boys would rev the engines to a whining peak everytime they pulled into the driveway. I asked ... they do it instead of pressing the doorbell. Of course.

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We have good neighbours, except the ferals at number 11 that is!  Some people should not be allowed to have children!

One of my favorite sayings is 'some people shouldn't breed'!
I live in a very high density area which is unit block after unit block. Mostly townhouses. My neighbours are virtually all renters like myself. Some are great, some are good and some are downright dreadful. There is one mother who screams at her kid (12 yrs) for up to one hour and every second word is 'f' but to look at you would never guess that she is like this. Her son has learned to behave like her and now fights back. Then there is the young couple who up until a week ago were making our lives hell. A temperamental 21 yr old new father who is obviously unhappy with his lot in life would take it out on all the neighbours by screaming off in his souped up V8 at 6am every morning. The morning it was 20 to 6 I went to his girlfriend and mother of his baby and asked for their Real Estate's name and she pleaded with me not to report him. I didn't... this time... and he has been angelic ever since. The moment he regresses I am onto it. Give some people an inch and they will take a mile. I am a very friendly and compassionate person (typical Libran) and get along with all my neighbours but am not averse to ringing the Police if things get out of hand. I have raised my 2 adult offspring to be respectful of others and be aware of their own behaviour but always lived by the adage 'give them enough rope to hang themselves on' which I found helped them to learn their life lessons even more thoroughly.

I suppose I am lucky living in a cul-de-sac...........except for a few noisy kids playing cricket we have it pretty quiet.......Every time they get a bit noisy I remind myself I was a kid once........

We had a lovely neighbour on one side but he moved out and now the people in the three newly built units won't even return the occasional 'good morning'.  The people on the other side are alcoholics but the worst they've ever done is leave their radio on very loud overnight.  In the main they're good people, and even the dog knew the difference between them staggering around in their backyard and potential burglars.  The people over the lane used to be very good neighbours but we had a falling out over the unit development (where the snobby neighbours live).  The neighbours over the lane ignored us for nearly two years but as we didn't notice I can't say they achieved anything.  

Overall, our block has pretty good people. No ferals, party animals or other sorts of trouble.  

I have no idea who my neighbours are, or what they look like. Its as if I don't have neighbours, they are so good!

I have a terrific neighbour on one side and the neighbour from hell on the other. They're so bad their children have all fled the state. I still don't understand why you would flick all dog droppings from your side across to mine. I don't know why you would go ring barking neighbours trees because leaves are falling on your verge. I'm thankful we no longer talk.

That's horrible.  I couldn't sleep at night if I had neighbors like that.  I'de be awake angry and researching explosives or something.  Probably wouldn't make any but it would certainly have me up at night if I had to clean someone elses dog poo on a regular basis.  I think you have everyone beat for worst neighbors for the moment.
I almost didn't add 'for the moment' to that but then I remembered some friends of mine that had rabbits and one day came home and found only rabit heads in their yard.  Hopefully the person who did it at least ate the cute bunnys.

That reminds me. When living in Tamworth 15 odd years ago our neighbours had a beautiful new home built and yet they were ferals. They had 2 'Dobermans', male and female. They said they were pure bred but the male had a head similar to a Rotty and I think he was Doberman/Rottweiler cross. They bred puppies and even though they were 'purebred' the owners almost starved the puppies to death. It was a large litter and they didn't supplement feed for the Mother. They kept one little female and were starving her and we made a gap in the fence for her and fed her. She spent more time with us than with her owners. Then one day before we left Tamworth to come to Qld another neighbour was searching for her cat which was a grey persian which had cost her over $3000.00 to get fixed after it was hit by a car and it's whole face had to be reconstructed (and most of the rest of it). It had never gone missing before. I was talking to the neighbours who had the dogs one day soon after and the chick told me she had found a cat's head in the yard, her dogs had attacked it and eaten all but the head! OMG! I told them to get rid of the evidence which they did and they got rid of the male doberman as well. No-one ever told the lady about her cat's demise. We left Tamworth very soon after that and I don't know the outcome of the never to be found cat or the doberman females.
Up here on the Sunny Coast we have had neighbours who were drug dealers and other's who were hookers. All very colourful.

I wish the people in the flat next door would move away or get some new cd’s.  They don’t play anything except rap music and when my friends come over they turn the music up loud.  I live on the end flat so there is no one on the other side to annoy me.

Guys, all this read like something out of an episode of Jenny Jones which I half-watched one Sunday ago on one of those pay channels.

Is that a good thing or a bad thing, Frankie? I don't know who Jenny Jones is and don't have pay tv.

What do you call those cartoon characters you use in your avatar frankie?

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lol! You're probably not the only one. Jenny Jones is the host of a talk show. The show has been cancelled in America for more than two years. Arena is currently re-running the program.

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Neither!   Except perhaps, life imitating art or vice versa? Just thinking out loud.

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Gosh! I'm not sure myself. lol! Got it from an email.

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...except the ferals at number 11 that is!  Some people should not be allowed to have children!

Yay!  It seems they are moving.  A big removalist's truck was there yesterday morning and last night there was much coming and going of cars acarrying bed linen and baskets with clothes in them.  *hopes*

I hope it's not a case of "better the devil you know ...."

so do I , but I can't imagine anyone being as feral as they are!  *fingers crossed*

I suppose I could get worse neighbours if the rappers moved out.  Maybe someone who plays Celine Dion all day.

lol inky

Maybe you should drop a CD that you like in their letterbox as a christmas present.

I live in the first unit of a line of 6 townhouses therefore I have only one common wall. I have a lovely large grassed courtyard with full sized clothes line and garden. The neighbours next door are moving in the first week of December. I hope against hope that the new tenants are decent and reasonable with their noise. The problem is these days that to afford a place like this which will cost you $230-$250 per week you either have to be on very good wages OR share house which then comes with it's own problems. A group of young people living together can get out of hand. First time out of home, coming and going at all times of the day and night ( because I find young people are restless) and loud music. You have to clamp down on them immediately  from the get go, I have found. Recently I mentioned the neighbours who have noisy cars and the way the 21 yr old young father drives like a hoon in this forum. Well, he has lost his licence and his partner is driving him to work and picking him up 5 days a week. Her car is noisy but she drives with a bit more decorum than he does. New people moved into Unit 6 last weekend and they had to be sorted out with their parking arrangements by their next door neighbours. Everyone understands the rules right now but all that can and usually does with new tenants. I often wonder why when people move into a beautiful block of units like this they have 2 cars but don't use the garage for either car. The new tenants are an example of that. They can't have much furniture because a truck didn't even come and their garage has an electronic roller door (bliss), I don't get it.

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Maybe you should drop a CD that you like in their letterbox as a christmas present.

Making good neighbours out of bad neighboure.  Now that's a good idea.

okay update on my feral neighbours at number 11, seems the better half got it wrong, it was those at number 10 that moved out *sigh

Maybe your neighbours at #11 will invite their friends to move into #10.

Oh the joys of Hallo*&^%$#ween!

You guessed it, the ferals at number 11 were Trick or Treating this evening.  I was relaxing before my Monday night exercise class when six of them came a-calling.  It was like a scene out of a daytime soapy.

A thunderous roar emerges from the driveway of Paula's leafy, and normally peaceful, suburban home.  This, followed by a raucous knocking on the screen door, frightened the usually implacable silver grey tabby cat.  Getting up from her reclining position on the sofa, dressed in a Givoni gown, Paula ventures to answer the door.

Paula: (smiling pleasantly) Hello!

Feral Trick or Treaters: (screaming like banshees) TRICK OR TREAT!

Paula:  Sorry, but I don't have any lollies.  (smiles pleasantly some more)

Feral Trick or Treaters: (with screaming harridan type volume) Why?!

Paula: Because we don't keep lollies in this house.  (it's true, we don't, honestly!)

Feral Trick or Treaters: Why?!

Paula: Because we don't eat them.

Feral Trick or Treaters: Why?!

(By this stage Paula is beginning to get just a tad "annoyed".)

Paula (through gritted teeth): Because we don't celebrate halloween!

Feral Trick or Treaters: Why?!

Paula:  Because this is Australia not America... (they cut her off with the usual "cry")

Feral Trick or Treaters: Whyyyyyyyyyyyyyy?

Paula:  Look, we have none so please go away...

The Feral Trick or Treaters finally leave.  Paula hears the familiar whooshing sound of a spray can and ventures out to investigate.  She is just in time to catch the ferals spraying horrid pink stuff all over her driveway (and that of the neighbours either side, even though one of them gave willingly of lollies).

Paula:  And you can come right back here and clean this up!

The ferals gaze glassily at Paula, who raises her voice slightly.

Paula:  Are you deaf?  Come and clean it up right now before I call the police!

The gaze becomes even glassier.

Feral pack leader:  What?

Paula:  I said come and clean this mess up.  You have no right to leave your litter all over someone else's property.  (Paula takes a bit of a gamble with her next comment).  I suppose you're from #$$%^ high school.  Don't make me call the principal!

One of the ferals decides she doesn't want to be involved with either the police or the principal and cleans up the pink fine streamer type stuff all over the driveways and runs off cackling like a witch, hurling threats (albeit mild ones) in Paula's direction.  

           

ANYONE WANNA BUY NUMBER 11?  Huh? Huh? PLEASE!

Sorry. . I'm still recovering from my Qld sandfly bites. . don't want to 'catch' anything else.  

It is all over until nexyt year . .

Why is it that no matter where you live, there is always some drongo who thinks it is their "god given right" to "share" their second hand music with the neighbourhood?

Also it is usually only one, never 2 or more? do they have a secret network where they share info, like "dont live near me, I already annoy this neighbourhood, but that area over there needs annoying!"

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Why is it that no matter where you live, there is always some drongo who thinks it is their "god given right" to "share" their second hand music with the neighbourhood?

Also it is usually only one, never 2 or more? do they have a secret network where they share info, like "dont live near me, I already annoy this neighbourhood, but that area over there needs annoying!"

You will note that they never listen to music we appreciate either. . just 'thump-thump-jungle music' . . or screeching voices singing (use that term loosely) songs with no style.

A young unemployed woman of 19 has just moved into a share situation with a friend of mine, a trendy old bloke in his 70's who looks like he's in his 50's, in the units over the back. Whenever he goes out to work as a landscaper she puts her Rap music on. Now it's not good Rap (if there is such a thing) it is very very bad rap. Her bedroom faces my unit block and the music blasts out of there. I think she is testing the boundaries and soon, very soon she is going to find just where those boundaries are.

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 . . . Whenever he goes out to work as a landscaper she puts her Rap music on. Now it's not good Rap (if there is such a thing) it is very very bad rap. . . .

Whatever became of the old classics of 'Guitarzan . .My Boomerang Won't Come Back . .Sadie The Cleaning Lady??  . . why do our neighbours stubbornly refuse to listen to good music!.

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A young unemployed woman of 19 has just moved into a share situation with a friend of mine, a trendy old bloke in his 70's who looks like he's in his 50's, in the units over the back. Whenever he goes out to work as a landscaper she puts her Rap music on. Now it's not good Rap (if there is such a thing) it is very very bad rap. Her bedroom faces my unit block and the music blasts out of there. I think she is testing the boundaries and soon, very soon she is going to find just where those boundaries are.

If you can access the flat through your friend, a 1/2 watt 220ohm resistor across the terminals of the speakers should fix that problem for you, if still too loud step down in increments of 50 till the max volume is acceptable!

I can just see Suzi racing down to Tandy now to get that. . (whatever it is).  

( I named a different store but the board edited it).  

That is so funny. Lol. Plus the fact they wouldn't let you write Richard Smith in a shortened form. Tandy and the other store are owned by Woolworths so really they are all one store! I have a fantastic sound system but would never subject my neighbours to such torture.  

Update on the ferals at no. 11:

They have one of those small trail/dirt bikes.  The other day they were riding it up and down the access road immediately outside our loungeroom window, no helmet, bare foot.  My husband suggested they should move to private property to ride it and wear a helmet for their safety.  Their response?  A mouthful of abuse and several middle finger salutes.  Oblivious to all this commotion, I arrive home from shopping to be greeted by threats of "we know where you live!".    

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Update on the ferals at no. 11:

They have one of those small trail/dirt bikes.  The other day they were riding it up and down the access road immediately outside our loungeroom window, no helmet, bare foot.  My husband suggested they should move to private property to ride it and wear a helmet for their safety.  Their response?  A mouthful of abuse and several middle finger salutes.  Oblivious to all this commotion, I arrive home from shopping to be greeted by threats of "we know where you live!".    

Just remember . . .they are just 'doing their thing'. .  don't let this turn you into a busybody!!. .

http://www.ebroadcast.com.au/eblah/b-sportgeneral/m-latest/

Nah, I won't.  After all I have no need to follow them or take photos, and besides they're not sportspeople or even famous.  

Since last posting on this thread some things have changed. just to recap...
There is one mother who screams at her kid (12 yrs) for up to one hour and every second word is 'f' but to look at you would never guess that she is like this. Her son has learned to behave like her and now fights back.
She has moved to Townsville with her son. I don't even hear the 2 young women who moved in 2 weeks ago. They work hard and are quiet when they come home. I don't even hear them doing the dishes in the sink, through the wall. Something I always heard with pots and pans being thrown and things being smashed. I like it!

Then there is the young couple who up until a week ago were making our lives hell. A temperamental 21 yr old new father who is obviously unhappy with his lot in life would take it out on all the neighbours by screaming off in his souped up V8 at 6am every morning. The morning it was 20 to 6 I went to his girlfriend and mother of his baby and asked for their Real Estate's name and she pleaded with me not to report him.

In November there was an alcohol fuelled get together with another young couple. At 10pm they were loud and happy, at 12 they were still pretty happy but getting niggly with each other at 2am it had turned into a screaming match where the chick from no.2 unit screamed at the other couple to get the 'F' out, repeatedly. They eventually did and retired to the unit they share with an old bloke in no.4. Then the chick (19yr old mother) screamed at her partner and father of the baby and this turned physical with her attacking him. He kept saying 'Stop it, get off me' and when he was able to physically remove her off him (I could hear the punches) he screamed over and over 'F*** OFF'. At 3 am I heard the baby crying and could not sleep for the rest of the night. I could hear every single word through my bedroom window. I went to the old bloke the next morning, who had been my friend for 2 years and asked him for the Body Corporate's name he asked why and when I explained what had happened to him and how worried for the baby I was/am. He told me not to be a busy body, to live and let live, and that I was a bl**dy Nutter. That was it... I turned and began to walk out his gate, he yelled at me to come back (he wanted to abuse me some more) I refused and walked away with as much dignity I could muster and collapsed when I had gotten into my unit and shut the door. Then the fallout began. The young mother, babe in arms and with her 'on again off again' best girlfriend arrived at my door and screamed abuse at my son leaving an abusive letter behind. They were blaming me when they had broken Body Corporate Law, breached the Peace, you name it. I was in the wrong in their books for complaining. My son and I went to the Police Station the next day with a detailed written statement from me and was virtually treated like a child by the condescending prick. We stood and waited while he told me that I should have rung the police (to which I replied they wouldn't have been able to attend straight away, to which he said they always do). I could not be bothered to tell him that several years ago a nieghbour was bashing his partner, she was screaming like a banshee, the policewoman on the phone could hear it all, and yet it took 3 hours to respond to my call. By then both parties had left. He could of killed her, buried her in the garden and left the country by the time the damned police had arrived.
Anyway... getting back to what I was saying.... we left the police station with the advice to 'wait and see what happens'. The young woman and her friend had threatened me with violence as well. Their payback was delivered a couple of weeks ago. They had collected a decent sized plastic bag of doggy-doo (their unit fronts onto a park) and hidden it in some bushes out the front of the units I live in, about 20 feet from my front door.. The stench was so bad we all heaved when we went outside. I searched and decided it was the humidty and the garbage bins. One bin in particular, my good friend's, was especially stinky. My bin is locked in my courtyard away from the other bins so was untouched. After garbage pick up another friend (from no.4 here) and I cleaned and disinfected all the bins and the bin enclosure and washed everything out. Maggots kept reappearing through the brick work of the bin enclosure. They just kept coming and coming.... the next day I searched in the bushes nearby and there was the culprit. I had to bury the bag of doggy-doo-doo as there was nothing else I could do. It had the biggest maggots in it I have ever seen. It was hidden so well so as not to be found easily. I know it was them and I think they also threw some in my friends bin. The smell had permeated my unit and I aired it well with pretty smelly things in every room to overcome the stench. I just wish I had caught them in the act.
One of their complaints about me was 'TV too loud and laughing too loud'. Sorry, I'm upstairs showering and getting ready for bed by 9pm every night... laughing too loud... you've got to be kidding. Kids playing 'grown ups', silly little amateurs.

So when you refer to these people 'term used loosely' . .you use the vernaculer. . 'Little S****'. . and speak the truth!. .    

After reading that, maybe I might stake out the house and take photos.    

Someone called the police on them last night.  There was a terrible fight going on.  The people 200 metres over the road heard and came out to see what was happening.  At least the police were there in under 5 minutes.

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Maybe I might stake out the house and take photos.    

Someone called the police on them last night.  There was a terrible fight going on.  The people 200 metres over the road heard and came out to see what was happening.

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I ran into one of them at the local shops today.  He looked right at me and ran away!

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I ran into one of them at the local shops today.  He looked right at me and ran away!

We tell you to wipe your avacado face mask off and remove the hair curlers before you go out shopping!!. . *you just won't listen *. .      

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I ran into one of them at the local shops today.  He looked right at me and ran away!

Well you obviously were not going fast enough / only struck them a galancing blow - better luck next time!  

PS - did you use the door?

Don't put ideas into my head, BB!

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We tell you to wipe your avacado face mask off and remove the hair curlers before you go out shopping!!. . *you just won't listen *. .      

ROFL!  

Since my last post....
The morons over the back planted something else in another hedge right up against the side of my unit next to my entryway.... took a few days to find it and that was after I dug up my little garden at my front door and cut back a beautiful fern that was going great guns.... a bag (the size you put fruit and Veg in at the supermarket) full of prawn heads and prawn shells. I was heaving when I bagged it into 2 grocery bags and disposed of it. OMG. That was this time last week.

i use to spy on my neighbour

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Since my last post....
The morons over the back planted something else in another hedge right up against the side of my unit next to my entryway.... took a few days to find it and that was after I dug up my little garden at my front door and cut back a beautiful fern that was going great guns.... a bag (the size you put fruit and Veg in at the supermarket) full of prawn heads and prawn shells. I was heaving when I bagged it into 2 grocery bags and disposed of it. OMG. That was this time last week.

I had to read it a few times to get it, I read morons as mormons! I'm thinking 'huh? Don't they usually leave tracts and literature?!' Anyway! Did you do anything about it? I guess these kids just want you to go nuts at them or something, or retaliate.

My neighbors sometimes leave poo on the lawn. But then again, they can't help it, they're ducks (I have a big pond across from my place). Heh heh!

Simpson Quote: I had to read it a few times to get it, I read morons as mormons! I'm thinking 'huh? Don't they usually leave tracts and literature?!' Anyway! Did you do anything about it? I guess these kids just want you to go nuts at them or something, or retaliate.  

Heheheh... you crack me up Simpson.

Well the brats over the back are going to be sorely disappointed... I don't intend to go nuts, went there this time last year and didn't particularly like it!
There is no way I would ever retaliate, I believe in Karma and my daughter who is a huge advocate of Karma would be very disappointed and cross with me and I would not like that. If I don't RE-act then that will drive THEM mad (I am hoping).  

Rumour has it that my "favourite" neighbours have a case of Scarlet Fever in the house, and are semi-quarantined.  I wondered why it was quiet, apart from the fact that their mini dirt bike's been confiscated, after having tormented one too many residents at 2 am.  

Karma... I am a great believer in Karma. Scarlet Fever hey?

Yep, no longer a killer but still nasty.

Ooh, ooh, ooh news update. One of the young people from over the back has gone. She shared the unit with the old bloke and was the young mother's best friend and worst influence. Now, this week we had our back fence (which fronts onto their long driveway) pulled down (it was bent and rotting) and a brand new timber fence built that even my 6'1" son cannot see over. It is beeeuuutifull. I am now building a new garden and making it look all lovely again. Best thing, no-one can see over into my yard, no-one can peep through the lattice or the palings and there is a marked noise reduction. Yippee!!

Whats the saying about good fences making good neighbours?

My current neighbour is a silly old frenchman who divides his time between drinking dozens of bottles of beer and annoying myself and any other neighbour he can. He almost got evicted late last year but he got out of it

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Ooh, ooh, ooh news update. One of the young people from over the back has gone. She shared the unit with the old bloke and was the young mother's best friend and worst influence. Now, this week we had our back fence (which fronts onto their long driveway) pulled down (it was bent and rotting) and a brand new timber fence built that even my 6'1" son cannot see over. It is beeeuuutifull. I am now building a new garden and making it look all lovely again. Best thing, no-one can see over into my yard, no-one can peep through the lattice or the palings and there is a marked noise reduction. Yippee!!

And there's the exrta benefit of, when no one is home, being able to walk directly from the shower to the back yard without ever grabbing a towel.  It may not sound useful but "because you can" lol.

Problem is.... my bathroom and bedrooms are upstairs and the fence is high but not that high, lol. I shower by candlelight in the evening, and the bedroom is almost in darkness (it's a two-way bathroom so has an entry into my bedroom) and I stand in front of the fan taking my time as I am pretty damn sure no-one can see unless they're purposely peeking!  Oops... too much information?  
BTW I love my new fence!

We have really nice neighbours, in fact our street is a bit like Ramsay Street, everyone is around the same age, and get along really well, which for me is a nice change as growing up I moved around a lot and never really got to know my neighbours.

My experience is the exact opposite to yours, Jules. When I was growing up it was in the same house in the same street. My parents lived in that home for 40 plus years. The neighbours were like extended family. We had a park (very neglected) opposite my house and tennis courts (clay) where I remember all the adults playing on certain evenings and us kids playing in the tennis shed and surrounds. We had a ball. Since becoming an adult and living in rental homes/apartments it is not the same. There are six townhouses where I live and only two owner occupiers in those six. Tenants come and go so frequently. I have been in this unit for 5 plus years now and the next tenant  here for any length of time is my good friend, her sister and her little girl and that is for 3 and a half years. Everyone else has stayed only 6 to 12 months at a stretch.

Well, good news from number 11; the mother tells us that she has to make sure the kids behave otherwise she'll be looking for a new home.  Seems so many have complained that the landlord (her brother hehe) has threatened her with eviction!

At 12.30 channel 7 news/TT are coming to our street to do a story on the feral neighbours!

Ahhahahahahahahahahahahah!
ROFLMTO.... wonder if they will want to interview disgruntled neighbours like......... Rob and Paula.... heheheheh?!

OMG serious :O hehehehe
tell us when its on tv i will so watch that

I think we are on the 6 pm news tonight.  Neither Rob nor I will be on camera though.  I didn't really want the students I teach knowing my address.

darn I missed it
were you on? did u watch it?

The street was on it, even our house, but neither of us were "visible".  Our comments were used though.

I hate our nabours, They all have dogs and one of them throughs their dogs pretzals over the fence in to our yard,
The others are some teenage punks that ride their snowmachine up and down the road in the night.
The other buldozed their yard and put in a lame leaking ice rink, so each year the thing leakes down the hill into our garage and no one elses. We might have to Sue them if it's not taken care of.

Alaska hey! G'day mate. Welcome to our friendly forums XXX. I think you are by far the most far flung of our members. Where I live in Australia it's like 'snow... what's that?' Your neighbours sound very selfish.

I have to move out of my rented townhouse that has been my home for 6 years. The owner wants it for himself (how dare he)
I have found a place in a lovely complex about 20 minutes south of here on the Sunshine Coast. The real estste are yet to have an inspection so I have only checked it on the net. Now don't laugh BUT it is in an over 50's complex (retirement village) and since I turned 51 last October, I qualify!
You can view this place by going to...
http://www.realestate.com.au/c.....amp;fmt=&header=
It even has a swimming pool in the village. New neighbours that aren't teenagers sound pretty good to me! (Sorry to all the teens on this forum, who really aren't like any teens I have ever met so do not come under the regular umbrella of 'teens')

Omg alaska! snow mobile !
*dies*
Lucky!!
and even though its annoying, an ice rink in your garden, how cool
and hi!

Hi from me too, XXX and that sounds like bad planning on the part of your local government/council.  In fact, was there planning with regards to the rink?

The villa looks awesome, Suzi.  Hope it all turns out.

I have become very impatient and used to doing things at my own pace and on my own. Is that as bad as it sounds? God, I don't want to be 'old' but listening to 6 young adults over the back in the neighbouring units playing pingpong on a table in their carport area on weekends, day and night, drives me nuts. I refuse to close my windows in the heat. They have to yell and scream the entire time they play! It gets to the point where I cannot even concentrate to read in bed. I will enjoy living in a quieter environment. I am determined to get the villa in the retirement village

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They have to yell and scream the entire time they play! It gets to the point where I cannot even concentrate to read in bed. I will enjoy living in a quieter environment. I am determined to get the villa in the retirement village

be careful SuzieH those oldies can go off   you should here the bitching ofter bingo !

lol...suzi, im having visions of del boca vista...watch out for the cadillacs and astronaut pens!



but it looks alright and you gotta be happy wherever you live  

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be careful SuzieH those oldies can go off   you should here the bitching ofter bingo !

Oh yes, I am wary of the backstabbing and cliques that these communities can and do have. I'd be the baby of them all I would say and don't want the attentions of some older men who already have a sweetheart who may just be a crazy jealous old lady! heheheh. I love men who are at least 5 years younger than myself preferably closer to 10 years younger so I would be giving men older than myself NO encouragement at all. Could be interesting.  

^ but SuzieH you might find yourself a rich sugar daddy ! you would be set for life (yours not theirs) you could be the next Anna Nicole, only living longer ofcourse.

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^ but SuzieH you might find yourself a rich sugar daddy ! you would be set for life (yours not theirs) you could be the next Anna Nicole, only living longer ofcourse.

I think SuziH would be rather offended that you'd compare her to a golddigging stripper.

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I think SuziH would be rather offended that you'd compare her to a golddigging stripper.

No tis all ment in jest

Our feral neighbours are finally moving - evicted!   w00t!  

Maybe you could rent it yourself and then sub-let it to someone more to your liking

My neighbours are lovely, on one side, a couple who would be thinking about retirement soon but at the moment run a news agent, so one gets up at 2am.. the other 6am.. they used to wake me up not anymore!! The other side a lovely couple with their 6 year old daughter who I usually everyday talk to and play ispy or something, and in sumemr she comes over for swims in my pool.... I can say lovely things about all my neighbours but I dont think they could say nice things about us..... me and my brother used to fight a lot in the pool.. we dont nearly as much, but usually he sprays me or something and bugs me and I scream......a lot!!

Haha Erin, I hear ya.  Brothers can be a nuisance.  

Our other neighbours are nice, like yours.  

on one side I hardly ever see them just a passing wave in the drive way, on the other side the same, but  we do talk if we are outside at the same time, and we do get each others mail when the other person in on holidays, so that nice

yes its nice when you go away and your neighbours get your mail... both my neighbours fight with each other who gets to mind our cats and dogs.... they take turns now!!

Not all love their neighbours: survey
Thursday Apr 19 15:11 AEST

Almost one in four Australians don't want homosexuals as neighbours, an international survey has found.

Australians are less bigoted on the subject than people in Northern Ireland, said John Mangan, professor of economics at the University of Queensland.

Prof Mangan is co-author of a paper interpreting statistics from the Human Beliefs and Values Survey, conducted in 24 Western countries between 1999 and 2002.

He said the results showed anti-gay prejudice was by no means confined to Australia.

"The conclusion is the most prevalent form of bigotry is homophobia," he said.

"It's everybody except Scandinavians, so it's not a particularly Australian thing."

Of the 2,048 people sampled by phone in Australia, 24.7 per cent said they did not want homosexuals living next door.

But the figure was exceeded by survey respondents in Austria (26.7 per cent), Greece (26., the Republic of Ireland (27.5) Italy (28.7) and Portugal (25.6).

And Northern Ireland came out on top, with 36 per cent saying they did not want gay neighbours.

The least prejudiced nationality in the survey was Sweden, where only six per cent said they would object.

Australia fared relatively well in other categories, with only 4.6 per cent of people saying they would not like people of a different race as neighbours and 4.5 per cent objecting to immigrants or foreign workers next door.

Italians, on 15.6 per cent, topped the list of those who didn't want a different race next door.

The Northern Irish held the strongest views on immigrants and foreign workers, with 19 per cent saying they were not desirable neighbours.

Prof Mangan said the reasons why the various national attitudes evolved would be the subject of further research.

Factors influencing bigotry included income levels, whether people were employed or not, education levels and political leanings.

"Tolerance seems to rise with education more than anything else," Prof Mangan said.

"But you can have quite wealthy people who are older and probably have less formal education who tend to have more fixed beliefs."

His research has been published recently in the international economics journal, Kyklos.

The paper, entitled Love Thy Neighbour: How Much Bigotry is there in Western Countries, was co-authored by Professor Vani Borooah of the University of Ulster.

©AAP 2007

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=262040

We're still a nation of NIMBYs on gays
Erik Jensen
April 20, 2007
NIMBY is short for: Not In My BackYard

A QUARTER of Australians do not like the idea of living next door to homosexuals, a University of Queensland study has found, but less than 5 per cent do not want to live next door to foreigners.

The study, to be published in the economic journal Kyklos, was based on data from 31,625 people in 26 countries. It found that 24.7 per cent of Australians surveyed would not want gay neighbours, suggesting Australia is more homophobic than Britain (24.1 per cent) and the US (22.9 per cent).

"We did OK on everything except homosexuality," said the study's co-author, John Mangan. He said homophobia was the most prevalent bigotry in all geographical areas except Scandinavia, where "Islamophobia" was more dominant.

The data comes from the Human Beliefs and Values survey published by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development in 2004.

The survey gauged various forms of bigotry by asking people if they would want certain groups living next door.

Professor Mangan's study used economic formulas to convert this data into a "bigotry scale", taking into account variations within the socio-economic structures of different countries. It found countries where wealth is more evenly spread were less bigoted.

A spokesman for the NSW Gay and Lesbian Rights Lobby, Ghassan Kassisieh, said he was not surprised by the figure. "I'm comforted by the fact that 75 per cent of respondents did not have a problem living next door to a gay couple, which shows an increasing level of maturity and acceptance.

http://www.smh.com.au/news/nat.....9/1176697003221.html

I have had gay neighbours for the past 7 years. I now have a single gay neighbour who is fast becoming a very good friend. What the hell is wrong with some people. They would rather live next door to the secretive heterosexual guy who keeps to himself and leaves the house every night between midnight and 4am (to do god knows what) than an openly gay person who has a heart of gold.

As long as you don't keep me and others awake until 4 am with loud, drunken parties (every weekend), urinate in my garden, blow up my letterbox (5 times), bang on my door at 1 am and abuse me, throw rocks on my roof while standing on yours, defacate in the street I live in, grafitti my driveway, the road or the park across from my home, throw a party on NYE with 60 rampaging teenagers that spills into the house next door and terrifies the elderly people there, I don't care if you're gay.

^ live and let live, but do it on your side of the fence, thank god that those old neighbours have left Paula

omg i could not live with those neighbours paula.. poor you!!

Paula could host a show called 'The Neighbours from hell' where people like Paula and Rob can go on and talk to other people with similar experiences.
What a relief it must be now Paula!

haha that'd be a great show too watch....

Except the annoying neighbours would take revenge on you if you did!

^^ Haha we should do that, eh?  We were on TV about them back in January, though.

really?? woah...

^^ Yep on channel 7 news.  They got a great shot of our house, our cars and me trying to look insignificant.  

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^^ Yep on channel 7 news.  They got a great shot of our house, our cars and me trying to look insignificant.  

Were you the good neighbour or the bad neighbour

she was the good... lol

The house in which those awful people lived was in a right mess.  It's taken the poor landlord 3 days to get it back to a habitable state.  He's wary of renting it out again and says he might sell it.

without sounding like a snob, you do need to keep the price up to attract the right sort of people, however money does not equal class, you could still end up with bogans, but they might have a bit more money, at least they could affors to pay the damage they might cause.

I agree money doesn't = class.  These people had money, but none of the latter.

yes to me Class is speaking well, being well mannered, polite, etc those values that we seem to be losing, that is class not just money, see I have class and no money, just ask me and I will tell you .

As regular's on this forum know I moved into a 'new' unit 9 weeks ago. We have 4 little units all joined in a row. I am in Number 2. The woman in No.1 moves out this weekend
OMG most days living so close to her, have almost driven me mad. She minds the little boy, four going on five, who used to live in my unit with his mother and towards the end, his abusive drunk of a father. The reason she had to leave was because the Landlords who are also the Real Estate told her he (the drop kick father of the child) could not live here and evicted them! Anyhooo, Number One minds this child who is just that, a child, she yells at him from the moment she brings him inside to the moment he leaves, except when he is asleep. Not just yells but sometimes litterally screams. This can go from 6:30am to 6pm. She is a poor excuse for a mother herself having walked out on her marriage and her three children before they were 10 years of age. She smacks him, very hard and threatens him all day long. She tells him to 'sit down and shut-up' all day long. She tells him 'Don't touch that' all day long and then she'll give him an order (sit down, get inside, whatever...) and if he has not reacted before she draws breath she screams at him.
I just hope the new tenant, a middle aged woman like myself and the one moving out, doesn't mind kids or talks loudly like this one does.
God, I am OVER IT. The young man and woman sharing the two bedroom unit in the next door duplex have been given their marching orders. So in the next week or so I will have new neighbours surrounding me! They better behave.
The existing woman in number one is moving in to share with the woman, (who is the same age as her own adult children) the child she minds, and the drop kick waste of space father, who BTW doesn't want her living with them. This poor little boy will be in an even worse situation than he already is because his mother, his father and the woman who minds him all yell and scream at him the same way. They all punish him physically too. This child has no chance of leading a productive normal happy life.  

Quoted from Paula

The house in which those awful people lived was in a right mess.  It's taken the poor landlord 3 days to get it back to a habitable state.  He's wary of renting it out again and says he might sell it.

Well, we've had new neighbours for about 5 weeks now and the street is back to its normal quiet, respectable best.