Does anyone have an idiot neighbour?

We actually moved once to get away from neighbours. They weren't the sole factor but they definitely contributed.

They'd whine about me coming home from the dragstrip at 11.30pm with my blown Charger (Aussie Charger with a B&M blown 360) maybe six times a year, yet apparently it was okay to be up at 2am having screaming matches every week or two. The house blocks were pretty small and you could smell pot wafting over sometimes, and I caught him standing suspiciously on his side of the fence a few times while my wife was in the shower. Never caught him directly and the fence was 21 feet or so from the window but I stuck my head over the fence one day and saw a length of timber nailed across the rails and the only reason I could think of it being there was to get a higher vantage point (he was fairly short) for a better look at my wife. With no proof I just told my wife to keep the window mostly closed.

These people had absolutely no class or manners though. No kids, fat wife and little skinny guy, and if he wasn't stoned, he was drunk.

They also called the local council on me with claims I was running a car restoration business from home. Admittedly I did have 5 or 6 cars in my backyard (none out the front, I couldn't leave a car out there unregistered without it being ticketed within a day or two; something I also attribute to them) but they were all mine and I walked the council guy through my plans for each. He was fine with it and told me I could work longer hours if I liked. :)

But the real evidence of how screwed up these people were became evident when we put the house on the market. If any non-whites (indian, arab, asian, etc - we don't have many africans down under) came and looked at the house they would stand out the front and hurl racial abuse. Naturally this hurt our sale and it took over six months to sell.

The place where we are now is great. Our block is over half an acre and the only neighbour we have directly on our fenceline is on the other side of my big-*** shed. Although I might have to have a word with them because one of their friends or relatives has taken to parking on our lawn. It's not a major deal because it's on the edge of the block well away from our sight, and it doesn't happen all the time, but the lack of respect is annoying. The boundaries are pretty clear, and it's not like there's anything stopping them from parking on the street (small country town).