I Feel Sorry For My Neighbors

Oh they are doing this out and spite no dought. If I wanted to do out of spite I could get Hogs and Goats but I'm not this way.

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Why do city people have to come to the country and bring the city with them? If you want big tall privacy fences and floodlights, put them in at your city place and leave the view and the rest of us in the dark-Please!

BRP - As I understand it your neighbours are only there on weekends, is that correct?

Do they leave the lights on all week long even when they are not there, or do they only have them turned on when they are there for the weekend?

With a time-switch, then a photocell. Don't like the siren, don't turn on the lights. Do turn on the lights, they turn on the siren as well.

I really like this idea. I would be to timid to do it, but if you can then more power to you.

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I hate a light that can't be turned off with a switch. I understand the idea of not wanting to tell other people how to live their life and what to do on their own property, but I liken poorly placed lights or lights that shine too brightly on my property to be their own sort of vandalism.

They are on timer.

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Then I guess you can probably safely assume that they have security cameras set up around their property.

Hey! I might resemble that remark.....

Bur really, I am simply trying to enjoy the last few years of "relative" world peace

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Remember, they are from the city..... it's the only way they know.

Could be some other local people have "appropriated" some of their items. Could be they are paranoid. Some people have a lot more guns and ammo than they need for hunting or sport...this could be their way of feeling secure. It is not necessarily an indictment towards you. Maybe neighbors are using their trash cans.......

Sorry about the light pollution..... guess you used to have a buffer at your old place.

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Nobody goes to all that personal expenditure and effort to ensure security and privacy just to spite a neighbour. No neighbour would be important enough nor worth it, especially not brand new neighbours who are strangers and relative nobodies to them.

So there has to be a lot more sensible and more important reasons to it for why they've created a walled up haven of safety and privacy for themselves. Since you're just the neighbour next door and you are a stranger you'll probably never know what their reasons are for wanting their privacy. But I don't think you should feel sorry for them nor should you think they are being spiteful to you because that doesn't make any sense. They are doing what they want to do and it's their personal business and nobody else's business and if it makes them happy then that's all that counts. It's not hurting you.

The fence does you no harm and it ensures that they don't have to look at you and that you can't see them. It probably also helps muffle sounds a bit so they won't hear neighbours talking and doing things in their yards. And you and other neighbours won't hear them so clearly either. That's privacy. It's all good.

That privacy fence is one thing I can really relate to because I know I sure hate having to look at neighbours and the things that they do on and to their properties.

I guess if the security lights on the other side of the privacy fence really bothers you then you can plant tall growing trees close together along the fence so they will grow much, much taller than the fence. That will block the light, and it will provide even more privacy and sound muffling for everyone.

Don't feel sorry or spiteful about your neighbours. Just live and let live.

I think you miss his point Paumon...

He feels sorry because they moved to a Beautiful Place and well ruined the Ambiance of it.

Its something most of us who have moved to the sticks to escape these things,can't grasp, there are plenty of HOA's and Suburban Cookie Cutter neighborhoods they could of moved to and not stuck out one bit.

Just as there are zoning laws to limit stuff in the yard and building codes there should be country styled laws to preserve the Nature of the Country.

Ah yes even more governmental rules and regs. Hmmmm

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It's an unfortunate state, but if you intend to live around other people, there needs to be a certain amount of consideration. Just like you wouldn't like a neighbors dog to be barking and howling all night, bright lights are as much an interruption to some people as the dog would be.

Yep I feel sorry for your neighbors too

Ya can't get away from them, I rather have something tailored to me then to someone from the City.

I can tell you enough of the Right neighbors and well your getting city regulation.

I'm talking of things like Subdivisions or that little facility across the road, We got no reimbursement for what we lost. Eventually its going to end up low Income. No one really wants to be this far out from the Hospitals.

None of us signed up for that program.

Here we have the Right to Farm Law.

I'm talking about that sort of Legislation, not spreading cookie cutter crap all over the country side.

I think I get his point. He can't see his neighbours now and the light is bugging him, but the problem with the light can be easily resolved.

From the neighbour's perspective maybe it's not about ruining country ambience so much as it is about the neighbours preserving their own beautiful ambiance and shutting out other people's ambiance that is intruding on them.

I kind of feel sorry for the neighbours too and I think it's sad that they've felt compelled to put up a big privacy fence and security systems and lights around their home in the country. There's always 2 sides to every story and I'm curious about why they found it necessary to do those things in a country setting but that's something we'll never know the truth about on here.

Maybe the neighbours are nudists who want a place where they can go on the weekend to do nude sun-bathing in the privacy of their own yard without people in tall houses looking down into their yard.

Maybe they want to stop other people's free ranging country dogs from coming onto the property and pooping on their garden. Or attacking their own dog or visitors or children. Maybe they just want to be able to let their own dog run free on their own property. Maybe they want their own little children or grandchildren to be able to safely run around free within the confinement of a safely fenced and private yard that is well lit in the dark.

Maybe they want a place where they can peacefully entertain other family and friends from the city outside in the yard free from prying eyes and ears of other neighbours who are doing their own thing outside in their yards.

Maybe they want to grow a garden that they don't want anybody else to see. Maybe they plan to grow a tall privacy hedge around the property and then will take the fence down later.

There are all kinds of maybes but one thing is for certain. The neighbours want their privacy and safety in the country so much they have gone to a lot of expense to ensure it.

I think these neighbours made a mistake. They forgot to do what homesteaders here always advise other people to do when they're thinking of buying a home. Whenever people on this forum say they are thinking of buying a certain piece of property there are always lots of people who respond and say "check out the neighbours .... meet the neighbours first ..... make sure you like and will be able to get along with your neighbours before you buy the house."

These people didn't do that and now it sounds like the new neighbours are afraid of their other neighbours (I wonder why?) and all the neighbours don't like each other. It's a sad situation for everyone.

Yes Cameras in place.

big rockpile

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