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#2610966 26-Nov-2020 10:03

kiwifidget:
Ge0rge: On one side we've got the original builders of our house - awesome neighbours.

On the other side there are literally hundreds of people living there - they're just dying to move in! Very quite neighbours though.

Apart from all the crying at the house-warming parties I imagine.

I legitimately enjoy when they play the bagpipes on those events, it's very neat. Although my wife has grown tired of the "we've got new neighbours" joke...

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#2610969 26-Nov-2020 10:13

There is a vineyard in Martinborough that is next door to the graveyard. We used to wonder what the groundwater the vines are drinking is like...!

Also we used to make up names for the wine if we owned it:

Lychgate Pinot

Old Bones

Grim Reaper

Gravely Good Pinot

Pushing Up Daisies

Coffin Dodger

Embalmer's Delight

That kind of thing...

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#2611196 26-Nov-2020 14:47

I grew up in Karori, Wellington. This was a newly expanded suburb built up from the Karori flat areas into the hills in the late 40's to early 50's . These new houses, built using heart of Rimu and painted in creosote, were lottery chosen houses for returned serviceman. My point is everybody new everybody within a two to three house circular distance and may have been from the same regiment, battalion, or company. They all helped each other out - helped build: pathways, garages, driveways and even helped painting of the dreadful creosote houses and the obligatory home brewed beer. They all drank at the same RSA mainly on Friday nights and cured their PTSD their own way (Karori was and still is a dry suburb) and the majority of us kids attended the same schools and got into trouble together.

Moved to Sydney and Melbourne then Sydney again. Apart from our property in Melbourne we never really knew our neighbours in all the 30 years.

When we moved back to NZ and bought in Tauranga it was a typical Kiwi ¼ acre subdivided into two. We are the back lot. We are surrounded by six neighbours. Front one (original post WWII house) lovely early sixties lady. Moving clockwise - Chinese couple with very poor English but always happy to chat (Nǐ hǎo) and have a great veggie garden and chooks. Next the two back sections are old state houses now separately owned and rented out (regularly). One used to be rented by Pacifica who were part of a choir - lovely. Moving to the right side finial two are owner occupiers, young families with kindergarten and grade 1 age kids. Always up for a chat - great.

Apart from the front house who is retired and a very active JW member who keeps the other JW's away from us, I would not say it is a neighbourhood watch group as everyone else is out working, but we are all up for an over the fence chat out of work hours.

Whilst the difficult we can do immediately, the impossible takes a bit longer. However, miracles you will have to wait for.

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#2611201 26-Nov-2020 15:01

nathan:

Tenant liked the trees. My neighbor chopped down the trees, not my tenant.

We were tenants at a property and our neighbour did that to us as well. It was a huge bountiful grapefruit tree, and in season we all had grapefruit from it every morning. One day a bunch of thugs + chainsaws came around and chopped it to the ground, told us to take it up with the neighbours There was no way I was going to be able to do anything to stop those guys at the time, absolute toughs. As it wasn't our property I wasn't overly concerned at the loss of some trees, as a tenant I never invested much interest in the properties we rented, but I was definitely disappointed to lose that unexpected free side perk that tree provided.

The neighbours were unrepentant, basically explanined it wasn't our property so not our fight. They were right I guess.

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#2611488 26-Nov-2020 23:54

My last neighbour was nothing short of a complete jerk, I was glad when he got evicted. Don't really talk to the ones I have now, but when I do see them they're reasonably polite, although I do get sick of them (or their many, many visitors) parking in my parking space.

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#2611536 27-Nov-2020 08:49

I don't have any neighbors. Nearest house is about 2km away and I can't see any other houses from my place. It's 1km down a track to the gravel road that runs past my place.

I wouldn't have bought it if it had any neighbors.

I always fancied the place way down on the South Island West Coast where a family live 4 hours drive in a 4x4 from the nearest settlement. Wife wouldn't like it though.

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#2611579 27-Nov-2020 09:55

FineWine:
I grew up in Karori, Wellington. This was a newly expanded suburb built up from the Karori flat areas into the hills in the late 40's to early 50's . These new houses, built using heart of Rimu and painted in creosote, were lottery chosen houses for returned serviceman. My point is everybody new everybody within a two to three house circular distance and may have been from the same regiment, battalion, or company. They all helped each other out - helped build: pathways, garages, driveways and even helped painting of the dreadful creosote houses and the obligatory home brewed beer. They all drank at the same RSA mainly on Friday nights and cured their PTSD their own way (Karori was and still is a dry suburb) and the majority of us kids attended the same schools and got into trouble together.

Tawa was the last dry Wellington suburb. It went wet in 1999.

During the baby boom the Plunkett Nurses were proactive in introducing young families within walking distance.

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#2611581 27-Nov-2020 09:56

duckDecoy:

nathan:

Tenant liked the trees. My neighbor chopped down the trees, not my tenant.

We were tenants at a property and our neighbour did that to us as well. It was a huge bountiful grapefruit tree, and in season we all had grapefruit from it every morning. One day a bunch of thugs + chainsaws came around and chopped it to the ground, told us to take it up with the neighbours There was no way I was going to be able to do anything to stop those guys at the time, absolute toughs. As it wasn't our property I wasn't overly concerned at the loss of some trees, as a tenant I never invested much interest in the properties we rented, but I was definitely disappointed to lose that unexpected free side perk that tree provided.

The neighbours were unrepentant, basically explanined it wasn't our property so not our fight. They were right I guess.

This reminds me...I need to text my neighbour (who has rented her house out) and ask about going halves in chopping down a nuisance tree on our shared boundary.

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#2611744 27-Nov-2020 12:47

Handsomedan:
Never see the other ones - they keep to themselves.

They do seem to get an awful lot of random visitors during the week... must be staying the night because you never see them leave. And they put out a large number of black polythene rubbish bags on collection day. But as I said, they keep mostly to themselves.

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