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Ice cream?My 'hood is mostly old people (perhaps myself included lol), so it's dead silent most nights (probably bad phrasing there but oh well lol); however, in recent years things have been changing.
Now that I've set the stage of how quiet and inactive this 'hood is... One night, at midnight or so, I was outside doing some night photography/light painting. I hear some screams from a neighbor's house... a younger woman. At first I thought I was just hearing things, but then it happened again.
I realized I need to go investigate in case this girl needs help... as I walk closer to the neighbor's house, the screams get louder. I pause for a moment to assess the situation, and then I hear different type of scream... one of "considerable pleasure".
Turns out my neighbor's son was staying for the weekend (I found out after chatting with the neighbors a while later, without mention of my "investigation"). He must have brought a girl home. I assumed at first she needed some help, but now I can say for certain that she was getting alllllllll the help she needed.
-Robert
....better stay away from copperhead road!I moved, several times. Before I moved to the boonies (which did the trick - very very quiet out here - really really good neighbors) I leased a nice house in Hillsboro west of Tanasborne, east of Cornelius Pass road, south of Cornell road - that area. Nice neighborhood, no real problems with neighbors, but being in the city it still wasn't quiet enough for me - mostly normal city noise, but I did hear the occasional gunshots - seemed to come from over towards Cornelius Pass road - never could quite figure that out.
The only noise I get up here is airplanes; I live on the mountain between Scholls and Newberg, and I get aircraft traffic to/from Hillsboro, but mostly from Stark's airport. Not a big deal, mostly just the occasional small private fixed wing flying over, sometimes commuter jets/turboprops.
Today though, there was a helo orbiting about half a mile from me and that got me paranoid - last time I heard that was when we had the fire in September. So I came in and checked - no reported fires - we had some precip that last couple of days so not much danger anyway, but still, worrisome. Don't know why the helo was orbiting - no crime up here, and it isn't XMas tree season (they use helos to haul the trees to the trucks).
Up in everett, wa, I lived in a cheap duplex among a number of other identical duplexes - had noisy neighbors playing mexican polka band music, stealing stuff from my carport, kids playing in my yard, people walking thru my yard, several drive by shootings, occasional arguments, etc.
I was glad to move out when I finally got a job here.
This is one of the unplanned consequences of the trend to squeeze housing into smaller footprints. They let people build too close to the property line in order to have a yard on one side. The City is really telling people that single-family dwellings are henceforth going to be "row houses," and common walls are in the future.I have a neighbor who is a patronizing self-righteous card-carrying commie a*hole who works for the ACLU. When he moved in he let me know where he stood right away. I never said a word to him about my politics. We don't have signs on our house or stickers on our cars. So for him to take this approach, was presumptuous and offensive. This SOB has a framed hammer and sickle in his living room ("art") which I can see from my patio, because he built his house as close to ours as legally possible... I mean I could literally spit through his window, that's how close he built his house... He did this to maximize his yard space on the other side, with no regard for his new neighbors. Now both of our houses look ridiculous. And every time they hire someone to work on their property (because neither of them knows how to work a screwdriver) our patio and our windows get covered in filth. And he and his wife become angry when we point this out to them. Most recently their drip irrigation line broke, spewing water all over the easement behind our houses. These idiots just let the water run out for weeks. Probably too stupid to understand how to turn off a sprinkle system.
Thankfully my other neighbors are fantastic.