Neighbours
Apr 24th 2012 | 10:06 pm
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Re: Neighbours
Humans are humans you get rude ignorant neighbours anywhere.
But the outdoors lifestyle magnifies it, doors and windows open, pools, decks you are going to hear them big time
One thing I have learnt, is they dont like you having a polite word. All of our neighbours do this dob each other in with the council, but are really really nice to each others faces
Apr 25th 2012 | 12:15 am
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Re: Neighbours
I think a lot do with it is that Oz houses are made of matchsticks and cling film. UK houses are built to cope with winter and this makes them inherently more soundproof due to the amount of material. Our apartment is triple glazed, you could land an Airbus on the balcony and we wouldn't hear it.
Apr 25th 2012 | 12:23 am
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Re: Neighbours
Humans are humans you get rude ignorant neighbours anywhere.
But the outdoors lifestyle magnifies it, doors and windows open, pools, decks you are going to hear them big time
One thing I have learnt, is they dont like you having a polite word. All of our neighbours do this dob each other in with the council, but are really really nice to each others faces
But the outdoors lifestyle magnifies it, doors and windows open, pools, decks you are going to hear them big time
One thing I have learnt, is they dont like you having a polite word. All of our neighbours do this dob each other in with the council, but are really really nice to each others faces
I think my subsequent impersonations of his Homer Simpson wife this afternoon may have ended the polite facade from here on in.
Apr 25th 2012 | 12:28 am
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Re: Neighbours
I think a lot do with it is that Oz houses are made of matchsticks and cling film. UK houses are built to cope with winter and this makes them inherently more soundproof due to the amount of material. Our apartment is triple glazed, you could land an Airbus on the balcony and we wouldn't hear it.
matchsticks and cling film.
. Funny as ,but true as well.Went round to my mates house one day,her front door has that stained glass part that some doors have. I knocked on it, not at all hard,(didnt want to wake her daughter) and the whole thing almost caved in
. I never touched it again after that, always banged on the door
Apr 25th 2012 | 11:30 am
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Re: Neighbours
We have a wannabe Xfactor type next door. When she practices her "singing", which mercifully is not that often, we have to close all the windows and move to the other side of the house. We are not even attached properties.
Somebody in her family needs to sit her down and tell her that she cannot sing.
Somebody in her family needs to sit her down and tell her that she cannot sing.
Apr 25th 2012 | 10:27 pm
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Re: Neighbours
We have had 5 houses since we got here 4 years ago and I swear to god at every single one apart from this one (touch wood) there have been yapping effin dogs at either side of us or behind us! Sometimes I have just cried with frustration and exhaustion - never ever had that in the UK, probably because we don't keep our dogs outdoors!!! As I have said a million times, why on earth do these people get dogs just to shut them out day and night and never cast a glance at them, poor little buggers. I have been known to sit in the garden on a hot day in my bikini and ear defenders - not a pretty sight!
Apr 25th 2012 | 10:32 pm
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Re: Neighbours
We have had 5 houses since we got here 4 years ago and I swear to god at every single one apart from this one (touch wood) there have been yapping effin dogs at either side of us or behind us! Sometimes I have just cried with frustration and exhaustion - never ever had that in the UK, probably because we don't keep our dogs outdoors!!! As I have said a million times, why on earth do these people get dogs just to shut them out day and night and never cast a glance at them, poor little buggers. I have been known to sit in the garden on a hot day in my bikini and ear defenders - not a pretty sight!
The neighbours have been told, they have also been warned by the ranger but 'pierce the eardrums by harmonica' seemed to work a treat.
We barely hear him now.
Apr 26th 2012 | 12:51 am
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Re: Neighbours
I've been studying this issue with hanging over plants myself. Now everyone thinks it's their right to chuck over trimmings from plants that originate on one side of a fence... but guess what. Wrong.
You can do him for littering.....or Rubbish dumping. Check with your council, he is in the wrong to dump rubbish from your trees on your side of the fence on your land... believe it or not !!
Check with the council, you'll find I'm correct. It's going to be a huge shock to your neighbours system though.
You can do him for littering.....or Rubbish dumping. Check with your council, he is in the wrong to dump rubbish from your trees on your side of the fence on your land... believe it or not !!
Check with the council, you'll find I'm correct. It's going to be a huge shock to your neighbours system though.
Apr 26th 2012 | 2:02 pm
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Re: Neighbours
I've been studying this issue with hanging over plants myself. Now everyone thinks it's their right to chuck over trimmings from plants that originate on one side of a fence... but guess what. Wrong.
You can do him for littering.....or Rubbish dumping. Check with your council, he is in the wrong to dump rubbish from your trees on your side of the fence on your land... believe it or not !!
Check with the council, you'll find I'm correct. It's going to be a huge shock to your neighbours system though.
You can do him for littering.....or Rubbish dumping. Check with your council, he is in the wrong to dump rubbish from your trees on your side of the fence on your land... believe it or not !!
Check with the council, you'll find I'm correct. It's going to be a huge shock to your neighbours system though.
http://www.justice.qld.gov.au/__data...utes-trees.pdf
Apr 26th 2012 | 6:11 pm
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Re: Neighbours
Apr 28th 2012 | 1:15 pm
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Re: Neighbours
I love the outdoors lifestyle, NOT!!! it means the freaking neighbours are in yer face 24/7.
These will cheer you up
Nurse neighbour, 3 maltese shitzu dogs, locked out on deck for her 10 hour work shifts, and ALL YEAR Christmas lights, you know the solar ones that dont even switch off, most go all night.
Speaking of going all night, when we first arrived we rented and next door was some bird who like to shag all night, screaming pump me pump me over and over. The guy in the townhouse on the other side finally had enough and threatened to thump her and the latest fella at 3am After that she moved the bed, must have been on his side, so she moved it so we could feel the wall banging along with her. OMG
The tennis players, acerage, 5am in winter all tennis court floodlights on
Your neighbour laughing homer style all day probably has nothing on nurse nutters daughter, a 16 stone hulk, with a voice like a foghorn, and language that would make trucker blush, 20 metres away and you could hear every word she said, worse she used to make all mobile calls outside, day and night.
BBQ's, stinky sausage smoke lovely in the rancid summer fug, blowing into your house.
I like cold climates, neighbours safely tucked inside with doors and windows shut.
These will cheer you up
Nurse neighbour, 3 maltese shitzu dogs, locked out on deck for her 10 hour work shifts, and ALL YEAR Christmas lights, you know the solar ones that dont even switch off, most go all night.
Speaking of going all night, when we first arrived we rented and next door was some bird who like to shag all night, screaming pump me pump me over and over. The guy in the townhouse on the other side finally had enough and threatened to thump her and the latest fella at 3am
After that she moved the bed, must have been on his side, so she moved it so we could feel the wall banging along with her. OMGThe tennis players, acerage, 5am in winter all tennis court floodlights on
Your neighbour laughing homer style all day probably has nothing on nurse nutters daughter
, a 16 stone hulk, with a voice like a foghorn, and language that would make trucker blush, 20 metres away and you could hear every word she said, worse she used to make all mobile calls outside, day and night.BBQ's, stinky sausage smoke lovely in the rancid summer fug, blowing into your house.
I like cold climates, neighbours safely tucked inside with doors and windows shut.
We live semi-rural and we rarely hear the neigbours - just one noisy party every quarter which have now finished these last few years.
And the background noise of a chainsaw in the distance.
Never smelt anyone's BBQ.
Apr 28th 2012 | 1:18 pm
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Re: Neighbours
I've been studying this issue with hanging over plants myself. Now everyone thinks it's their right to chuck over trimmings from plants that originate on one side of a fence... but guess what. Wrong.
You can do him for littering.....or Rubbish dumping. Check with your council, he is in the wrong to dump rubbish from your trees on your side of the fence on your land... believe it or not !!
Check with the council, you'll find I'm correct. It's going to be a huge shock to your neighbours system though.
You can do him for littering.....or Rubbish dumping. Check with your council, he is in the wrong to dump rubbish from your trees on your side of the fence on your land... believe it or not !!
Check with the council, you'll find I'm correct. It's going to be a huge shock to your neighbours system though.
I scratch his back, he scratches mine. We often take it in terms to mow the natures strips out the front of our houses.
