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Imagine when he tries to sell the place...

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  • lilac_lady
    lilac_lady Posts: 4,469 Forumite
    He probably will never sell the place. He seems very happy to be living there. It's the other residents who are unhappy.
    " The greatest wealth is to live content with little."

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  • spadoosh
    spadoosh Posts: 8,732 Forumite
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    If i was his neighbour id wait ten years until the roots have screwed the foundations, then sue him for damages and negligence!
  • foreverindebted
    foreverindebted Posts: 134 Forumite
    mynameisdave wrote: »
    Is that a swimming pool over the back and 5 (10 if semi's) or so houses down?

    Seems mad to have one in your back garden in such an urban area!

    Lol! In some countries everyone has a pool in their back yard, urban area or not!

    Guy might be a hermit. Maybe he should be rehoused to the country somewhere.
  • sequence
    sequence Posts: 1,877 Forumite
    Nothing wrong with it. Those trees look a hell of a lot nicer than the rest of those dump houses!

    Sad, sad residents complaining. I'd be happy to live near those trees.

    Why can't people mind their own business ?
  • poppysarah
    poppysarah Posts: 11,522 Forumite
    sequence wrote: »
    Nothing wrong with it. Those trees look a hell of a lot nicer than the rest of those dump houses!

    Sad, sad residents complaining. I'd be happy to live near those trees.

    Why can't people mind their own business ?


    You'd be happy until the tree roots pushed your house over.
  • googler
    googler Posts: 16,103 Forumite
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    sequence wrote: »
    Sad, sad residents complaining. I'd be happy to live near those trees.

    Why can't people mind their own business ?

    Well, the neighbour in the other half of the semi can't grow a lawn at the front, because it doesn't get any light. I would imagine their front rooms don't get much light either. They won't be able to see along their own street to their left hand side, only straight ahead and right.

    Add to that having to clear their gutters of needles and other debris shed by the neighbour's trees, having to clear the debris from their garden, and the possibility of the roots damaging the foundations of the houses, garden wall, etc......
  • LilacPixie
    LilacPixie Posts: 8,052 Forumite
    the houses must be so dark inside. Could something not just accidently kill the things
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  • shegirl
    shegirl Posts: 10,107 Forumite
    LOL that's not very far from me and it looks awful!!!Thankfully it's far enough for me not to have to see it often:D
    If women are birds and freedom is flight are trapped women Dodos?
  • shegirl
    shegirl Posts: 10,107 Forumite
    mynameisdave wrote: »
    Is that a swimming pool over the back and 5 (10 if semi's) or so houses down?

    Seems mad to have one in your back garden in such an urban area!

    Why is it mad to have a pool in your garden in 'such an urban area'?
    If women are birds and freedom is flight are trapped women Dodos?
  • chris_m
    chris_m Posts: 8,250 Forumite
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    LilacPixie wrote: »
    the houses must be so dark inside. Could something not just accidently kill the things

    A handful of copper nails "accidentally" mislaid would work wonders.
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