Vito and Larry,
This was so funny to read because you described most of my neighbors to a
tee!! I moved to NC from NH two years ago because I love boating and hated
to see the boat laid up on the hard for 6 months and
snow,,,,,,,well,,,,,snow just sucks!
I bought into a "boating community" and I am the only one that ever uses my
boat! All that my neighbors do are bitch about rules and regulations and sit
their fat asses on their lawnmowers circling their "half acre" for four
days!
I really did screw up moving into a development and think about it every
time I walk out the front door and hear the guy yell from accross the street
telling me what time my shades went up in my house. I can't fart without
breaking a rule!
Screw it. In three weeks we will be off for a month or two on the boat. Just
us and the cat......I can't wait.

Phil

"Vito" wrote in message
...
Parallax wrote:

... Unfortunately, my piece of paradise is being ruint by rich yankees
....

T'aint just yankees, it's addle-brained (sub)urbanites in general. They
move to get away from a culture they hate, then bust ass to impose it on
us. Too much crime? Find a place where there isn't any then whine for
city type gun laws. Tired of gummymint interference? Move to the country
and lobby for zoning laws. No privacy? Build a nice secluded home but
call the sheriff every time they hear a gunshot 'cuz it might be a
neighbor killing (sob) Bambi. Buy a "ranch" (anything over a half acre),
fence it and post "No Trespassing" signs, then wonder why the natives
shun them. Finally, fear of being 'alone in the woods' drives them into
"neighborhoods" exactly like the ones they just fled; there to demand
laws to 'protect the children' from learning where meat comes from and
privacy fences around farms to keep them from seeing animals having sex!
Might turn them into perverts y'know. ....

My theory is that (sub)urban folks breath so much carbon monoxide as
kids that it ruins their brains. Why else would *anyone* think that
living cheek to jowl in a tenement, condo or neighborhood is *better*
than a doublewide on 100 acres? But the real problem is they think gotta
"save" sane happy people like us from having to live like we do!! That's
why so many of them voted for Al Gore. )c:|