[Homestead] We could have told them that

Rob Walton waltonrp at gmail.com
Thu Jan 5 17:56:54 EST 2006


> Now living on a busy boulevard in Philadelphia, moved here under some
> duress, and it messes with my head.  No yard.  No grass whatsoever.  Right
> now the next door neighbor has his very bad band practicing on the other
> side of my living room wall, and it sounds terrible.  Less than 25 feet
> from
> my left ear, Harley Davidsons are flaunting their overly loud exhaust
> pipes
> and ambulances are in a terrible rush to get to the hospital that is a
> couple of miles up the road from me, with their sirens screaming.  People
> staggering home from the pubs at night stop at my front stoop, vomit in my
> flowerpots or right on the steps, leave their trash behind from the Dunkin
> Donuts across the street, and sometimes carry on so loudly that they wake
> the kids up.  Speaking of the flowerpots, I've given up on that; everytime
> I
> get something worthwhile growing in them, someone just picks them up and
> walks away.  I had some great tomato plants going that walked away like
> this.
>
> The first week I lived here, there was a naked man standing in front of my
> home chasing people around while he was... ermmm... "self stimulating".
> Never a dull moment.  It didn't even make the papers or the news here.
>

OK, I'm in the DC 'burbs. I don't have it half bad after reading that! :>)


Rob - 36 acres waiting in southside, Virginia. (what is this 36 acre thing?)




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