Yes, its a rant!

[CritterHill]

It's unfortunate that so many folks have neighbor issues. I guess it is just a fact of life. People live in hearing distance of each other and people have very different ideas of what is a nuisance and what is acceptable.

It is always going to be difficult to try to find the middle ground where everyone is happy, but here are some thoughts I had on this.

Be friends with them. Just because you can't stand them, doesn't mean you can't send some home baked cookies, or fresh eggs over on occasion. That sort of thing smooths a lot of ruffled feathers.

Find out just what it is that bothers them. Don't like the motorbike noise from 1-2 in the afternoon because the baby is sleeping? Maybe we can do it a different time of day.

Don't like the gunfire noise because it makes you nervous? What can I do to show you that I am safe when I am hunting and not a danger to anyone?

Don't like the ATV noise because you just think they are obnoxious? Why don't you come out riding with us one day and we can show you just how much fun they can be?

It's tough when people aren't neighbors, you can't build a relationship with them, because sometimes just knowing someone socially and knowing WHY they do the things they do makes them a lot more forgiving.

And sometimes, people are just jerks and you can't win them over at all. But I like to try and at least give people the benefit of the doubt. Sometimes it requires that you swallow your pride and just be nice when they have started the relationship out being incredibly rude, but sometimes that is what it takes and anyway, I get to feel all smug and morally superior in that situation

 

[cknmom]

There are many dirt bike/ atv trails in the mts. all around our valley. It is one reason we bought here as we ride also. Almost everyone that lives in our valley has some type of off road vehicle(s). I just don't like it when they haul a** on the road by houses, all the dust comes right in the house, if you are working outside, you get dusted out.

We have a few "camps" here for 'inner city folks'. They are the ones that drive me CRAZY!! They think "Oh cool! A dirt road! I can drive real fast just like on t.v. and movies. Isn't that what you're supposed to do on dirt roads?"

The city folk that bring their off-road vehicles into our mts. seem to have such a problem staying on the road/trails. They seem to think that since they are in the mts. they can go anywhere. They leave the road and go staight up the side of the mt. tearing up the saplings and other plants.

Last year a lawyer from san francisco moved here(part time, of course!) She was here 6 months before she brought a pettition and threatened a lawsuit if we didn't PAVE ALL ROADS!!!. Our main roads are paved but not many of the other roads are. If she didn't like dirt roads, then why the H**l did she buy here?? She had a few backers in the community, mainly part-timers like her. But mostly our whole community told her to take a leap!

Monica

 

[hiddenmagnolia]

We have ten acres down a gravel road the family at the end of the road owns the road. The people's sons across the street ride several different types of ATV and dirt bikes it can unpleasant when we are outside to have them speeding down the road doing donuts and kicking up all the dust that they can on purpose so that can make certain people mad. We also have an ATV but we only ride it on our property and only certain times of the day so that we don't bother our neighbor. Some other neighbor also ride on the gravel road but do so slowly so that only a little dust is kicked up. I have no problem with ATVs just some riders.

 

[rufus]

I don't particularlly like dirt bikes. They should be restricted to established dirt bike trails. People buy those things and then think the whole world is their park. If you don't own the land, don't ride on it.

About six months ago, a couple of little girls riding dirt bikes rode into an open mine shaft and fell about four hundred feet. One was killed and the other severly injured. What were their parents thinking when they let them ride those darn things.

And now the law suits have started.

There should be a special place in you know where for dirt bikers.

Rufus

 

[Cheekon]

This really hits a nerve with me.

When we moved into our current house (I was 7-8 at the time) there were acres and acres of woodland and old pasture. It was heaven for me i used to catch frogs in the pond, fallow the cows around (don't ask me why) and pick baries all the time. A few years after we moved in a developer got his hands on the land and turn most of it thing a big fancy neighborhood.

That was about 8 years ago and it still bugs me that they messed the place up , not to mention the people in this new neighborhood are snobby jerks!

They drive their dirt bikes on the pasture without permission ( i talked to the owner and he said I'm the only one to actually ask for permission to be on his land) leave their trash everywhere and try to start a fight with me every time they see me alone in the woods. un

Wheal our inner city's our rotting their moving out to the country and turning it into an exact replica of the place they left!

 

[Stormhorse23]

A friend of mine were riding my 4wheeler on OUR property the other day and she, being a city girl, says "you should sell this place to get more money." We have tons of fields and woods. The day this place is sold is the day I die.

 

[MRNpoultry]

I whoulden't never sell land for any amount of money. When ever I get enough money I am going to get land.

 

[Henrietta23]

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Yup, that's the boat I'm in. They ride on the public roads here though. They just don't care. And it's not just kids. The guy across the street from used to ride his every Sunday with his buddies. He's in his mid 30s. He messed up his back though and doesn't do it anymore. He's the one most likely to complain about the rooster after my nice neighbor next door. We'll have to see how it goes.
Where my in-laws live in Westchester Cty NY they built throught the woods at the end of what used to be their dead-end road. McMansions every where. And those people have the nerve to complain about the older homes bringing down their property values. Well, duh!

 

[speckledhen]

I whoulden't never sell land for any amount of money. When ever I get enough money I am going to get land

Excellent decision. People forgot the value of land and went to building giant houses on postage stamp lots rather than building more modest homes on larger tracts of land; then they go use everybody else's land that they dont pay taxes on and wonder why people get upset. Another issue altogether besides the one that started the thread, but a pet peeve of mine, too. Our forefathers knew what land meant and this society seems to have forgotten.​

 

[theOEGBman]

Well, they had the permission of the guy who owns the property, that is the thing. But the stinkin people caused so much trouble. Its just dumb. I dont like dirtbikes either, but if they have permission to ride on that land, I think you should shut your fat mouth and deal with it.