View Full Version : It's my backyard
Pessimistic
2 Jul 2002, 17:44
The tragic backard archery incident had me thinking. Aussies like their backyards but often there is no consideration for neighbours.
eg
The archery target is always 'away' from the house, towards the neighbours fence.
The barking dog is shut up as close to the neighbours as possible.
The compost heap is usually nearer your neightbours house than yours. (I am guilty of this)
The basketball hoop is always closer to the neighbours house than yours.
The wrecked kingswood is always nearer the neighbours house than yours.
Do you think we need a public education campaign ?
Blue'n'Gold
4 Jul 2002, 15:54
problem is most people see the fence as the point/boundary where their property ends.... not where someone elses starts
Its not that we are trying to inflict our smelly compost heaps on them, or contaminate our neighbours view with a rusting out bucket of bolts.... its just that until the smell from THEIR rotting vegies wafts over the back fence, we tend to forget they are there
Bloodstained Angel
5 Jul 2002, 17:42
do what I do ...
Live in an Apartment
Paradoxically, you don't have to be particulary neighbourly or considerate when you live all on top of each other.
The Body Corporate and Strata Titles laws keeps everything clean and tidy and stops residents from being a$$holes
The only way to live :)
cheers
Grendel
10 Jul 2002, 03:13
Better still though BsA is to have the neighbours convinced your a total physcotic nutcase that they strive at all costs to avoid. :)
Well it works for me.
Though I do admit 300 hectares of solitude would be a preferable option if I could afford it. :(
Bloodstained Angel
12 Jul 2002, 20:21
yeah :cool:
I'll take my 300 on Macquarie Island thanks
just to be on the safe side:)
Don't know if anyone else heard on the news about a Coroners Inquiry into an elderly man who died of a heart attack after a long dispute with his neighbour.
Evidently the man who died was always complaining about his neighbours dogs barking, so in retaliation the dogs owner used to put on the song "who let the dogs out" playing it really loudly to annoy the neighbour more, the elderly guy had a heart attack
while arguing with the neighbour & waving a piece of wood around.
This dispute had been going on for ages & both parties refused to go to mediation.
topjars
19 Jul 2002, 19:47
Originally posted by Blue'n'Gold
problem is most people see the fence as the point/boundary where their property ends.... not where someone elses starts
Its not that we are trying to inflict our smelly compost heaps on them, or contaminate our neighbours view with a rusting out bucket of bolts.... its just that until the smell from THEIR rotting vegies wafts over the back fence, we tend to forget they are there
I wish the "B I TCH" WOULD CUT HER BLOODY HEDGE HANGIN OVER MY F$%^&N FENCE:mad:
Originally posted by topjars
I wish the "B I TCH" WOULD CUT HER BLOODY HEDGE HANGIN OVER MY F$%^&N FENCE:mad:
Why don't you just cut what ever part of it that is hanging over your fence, you are legally allowed to do that. :confused:
kittenswan1
19 Jul 2002, 20:54
see what I mean ?
(Its BsA here on the wifes signon)
You just avoid all of this crap in an apartment
Life is wayy too short to waste in stupid disputes with ya neighbours.
cheers
No BSA I tried living in a strata title unit, I nearly turned into a homocidal maniac, I need to be able to do what I want in my house, grow native plants, build pergolas, paint my unit a different colour to everyone elses, play my music loud & have my friends turn up at all hours, a house on a big block of land is the only way I can live, I love my freedom to be able to do what I want, when I want. :D
kittenswan1
19 Jul 2002, 21:54
Well I admit a pergola is a problem and so are your preferred pets but I have been able to do all of the other stuff and more in my little flat.
and its a real Sydney job too - 7 floors, 10 flats to a floor.
And yet I can and do what I damn well like in this place and nobody bats an eyelid.
maybe I just got lucky, maybe this apartment is particulary soundproof, I dunno - but for me its the only way to live.
cheers
Docker_Brat
19 Jul 2002, 22:26
Apartments are great.. usually.
Had some problems with the bloke upstairs for a while, thumping around after midnight and worst of all he had a squeaky bed .. and a new girlfiend. Everyone on this floor could hear them going at it, not a nice sound to be dragged out of a dream at 4am for. I swear this bloke has no idea that other people live around him. On the bright side, he wasn't very good at it cos it was over in a matter of minutes. ;) A couple of complaints to the body corporate fixed it all up.
My oldest son has a flat in Joondalup and wishes he'd never leased it. He gets noise from both sides, above and below. He reckons he averages about 4 hours a nights sleep. Also, neighbours are always giving each other heaps about noise and I reckon there will soon be punchups.
I lived in a flat many years ago........never again. Detatched walls at least3 metres from a neighbour is the way to go.