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"Hound Dog" wrote:

"Ann" wrote in message
...
"Doug Kanter" expounded:

Would it bother you if your neighbor across the street parked an old car
on
his lawn, left it there to rust for 5 years, and for whatever reason,
there
was absolutely no way you could block the view using plants, fence, etc?

When I bought my house the next door neighbors basically had a
junkyard in their backyard. Dead washers, dryers, three rusting tin
sheds, a couple junk trucks, all kinds of tires, etc. Oh well. I
loved my house. They've moved on, new people live there now, they've
cleaned it up, life goes on. It's amazing what you can live with when
it really doesn't affect your basic life functions, like eating,
drinking, etc. Of course I'd rather not look at junk, but I'm not
paying their taxes or their mortgage. It's basically none of my
business.
--
Ann, gardening in Zone 6a
South of Boston, Massachusetts
e-mail address is not checked
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You are so right!

My neighbor across the back fence has at least half a dozen rusted out old
cars in his back yard. They were there when I move in and the neighbor nor
his junk cars has caused me any problems in the last three years.

The man I bought this property from said he had checked with the local
government and as long as the vehicles are hidden by a front fence, they can
do nothing about it.

Except for the junk cars, he keeps his home and yard in nice condition.

As I mentioned in a previous post, many things could be much worst.

Another way of looking at is the Garden concept of borrowed scenery.
Some time you can include mount Fuji in your garden view. I'd hazard a
guess not many of us can. So we plant according.
No rusting junk about here just many bored barking dogs.

Bill

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Garden Shade Zone 5 in a Japanese Jungle manner.
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