I think my new neighbor will be Ok!

   / I think my new neighbor will be Ok! #11  
OP...it was nice you're first encounter was a good one, but nothing has been tested yet. I'm advise is to go slow and easy. The true test will come when an issue arises. The best approach (IMO) is to keep enough distance so there's a very low chance of having dealing that would ever present an issue...just wave. You can't move your neighbors. Just my conservative recommendations from experience. I love some old saying that still ring true..."familiarity breeds contempt". Of course, this is just how I'd handle it...you do what you're comfortable with.
 
   / I think my new neighbor will be Ok! #12  
I have a neighbor about five miles away who drops off spilt firewood and helps hauling big brush away. I give him access to any dead trees he wants and let him hunt on my land [which is getting to be a real premium around here]. Some people don't think highly of him due to a chaotic family situation [like his wife ran off with his brother] but you can't expect perfection in anyone.

On three sides we have state game lands so I only have neighbors on one side. There are two cabins used by older folks who are friendly and responsible. Across the road is 40 acres that runs right along my border from the road up into the woods. I bought it last month just to prevent anyone else from building along side of me. It added a quarter mile of road frontage and expanded the area for selective timber sales. Nothing like space and a buffer to prevent conflict.
 
   / I think my new neighbor will be Ok! #13  
We only have one and he is an absolute aerosol, I have been levelling gravel for the horse arena and it threw up a bit of dust (4' grader on the BX) which drifted over to his place and he complained bitterly, when the wind blows our way which is more often we get dust over the cars that we could use a grader to take off from his trucks and buses that are in and out all day.
Some young blokes had a party behind his shed one night and I told him, he said it was OK and to mind my own business but he was banging on my door when someone stole a big tri axle trailer to see if I heard anything.
I just keep out of his way now.
He sells sand and has a quarry but chaarges way too much so we buy it elsewhere, he said his daughter might use our arena when it's finished but doesn't offer to help with his big road grader.
We have planted about 200 trees along our boundary so the dust isn't much of an issue any more.
Conversely we have friends with a farm about 1km away and we are always helping each other out with bits and pieces the other doesn't have, I have a lot of stationary woodworking gear and have repaired furniture for him, he welded up a frame for holding implements for me (I have a welder but I don't win any prizes for my welding skills) and so it goes on, we enjoy each others company over BBQ's and his bad taste in beer.

An Aussie that isn't a nice guy??? Unheard of. At least here on TBN anyway.

I've got time, I'll come down there and help you deal with him if you need to!!!! :)
 
   / I think my new neighbor will be Ok! #14  
LOL on this thread. Twenty some years ago after my divorce was through, I bought a house so I could move out of the apartment that I had rented. At the time, my focus was on being close to my work place and being in an area where I could easily sell. (The house sold in five days when I decided to move on)

The one thing I had not thought about or realized was that all of my neighbors were seniors. I got to be good friends with the gent next door whom informed me that all of the widows were excited about a single man moving into the neighborhood until they found out that I was only in my forties.
 
   / I think my new neighbor will be Ok! #15  
used to have 2 good neighbors. not there are none. they are seriously bad news. also the rural nice neighborhood is losing all of the trees and woods and now more houses and commercial bldgs are taking over. too old and crippled to start over and i also put way too much work and time and $ to develop this place. could not start again. you guys are lucky!
 
   / I think my new neighbor will be Ok! #16  
When my wife and I bought our first house, all of the neighbors were retired. I mean, like 35 of the 40 houses on our block were retired couples! They found out I could repair TVs. Old people. TVs. I've never seen so many Curtis Mathes TVs concentrated in one are in my life! :laughing: I worked for beer, so it was a good match. ;)
 
   / I think my new neighbor will be Ok! #17  
Neighbor to the right is a naked gardener like me and even has a JD bigger than mine and good for getting mine out of trouble. Neighbors to the left have been renters for 17 years. Now the owners seem to be back and so far are tolerant except we gave up hiking back through the lower part of their property at the end of our hike like we'd been doing for 17 years. Seems she likes to look down into the woods and didn't like our hiking across there.

Ralph
 
   / I think my new neighbor will be Ok! #18  
Of the many things I am thankful for, my location is in the top five.

It's funny how we are money driven in the beginning. We flock toward the money like moths to a flame. Then when we are old we value the simplest things like a favorite hiking trail.

Living in a rural area comes at a high price in those early years. But the patient reward is worth every penny of that lost "wealth". Now we truly understand what "wealth" is. :)
 
   / I think my new neighbor will be Ok! #19  
My values have changed over the years, I see a snake in the paddocks and I will stop and watch it but I won't kill it (unless they come too close to the house or inside), I am at present trying to educate SWMBO not to kill every spider that comes inside, yes, they are huge hairy legged huntsman spiders but are harmless and have a devastating effect on the indoor fly population, we get redbacks which are venomous but they stay in dark moist places and don't come out to attack you.
We like our little spread but it is not a thoroughfare not that anyone has tried but we do get protective, we have a creek at the back and about once a month a group of shooters come through and put a sizeable dent in the fox population, we do get the courtesy of a call before they come through and I do not have a problem with them as foxes do target wildlife, calves and lambs, if we hear them at night we let the german shepherds out for a run, they love it and usually manage to get one or two.
As for money, I tell people for me money is no object, an object is something to stumble over and fall and there are none here.
 
   / I think my new neighbor will be Ok! #20  
My values have changed over the years, I see a snake in the paddocks and I will stop and watch it but I won't kill it (unless they come too close to the house or inside), I am at present trying to educate SWMBO not to kill every spider that comes inside, yes, they are huge hairy legged huntsman spiders but are harmless and have a devastating effect on the indoor fly population, we get redbacks which are venomous but they stay in dark moist places and don't come out to attack you.
We like our little spread but it is not a thoroughfare not that anyone has tried but we do get protective, we have a creek at the back and about once a month a group of shooters come through and put a sizeable dent in the fox population, we do get the courtesy of a call before they come through and I do not have a problem with them as foxes do target wildlife, calves and lambs, if we hear them at night we let the german shepherds out for a run, they love it and usually manage to get one or two.
As for money, I tell people for me money is no object, an object is something to stumble over and fall and there are none here.

Very, very well stated and mirrors my view on the world. I'd consider you an asset as a neighbor. :)
 

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