Neighbor Demands Farmer Not Clear His Driveway At 5 AM, Gets His Wish

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Eric Lund
Oct 28, 2021 2:00 PM EDT

By all means, if you don't want the snow off your driveway, go ahead and say so. This little tale reminded other people of times newcomers needed to curb their fantastic expectations about where they found themselves living. Sometimes the ways of rural living need to be explained to people through their own failures, like the time this internet company refused to cancel service to a rural customer.

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    Font - Posted by u/Doriantalus 16 hours ago 2 2 e7 34 2 Short and Sweet: City folk come at the farmer oc s I grew up on a dairy struggling every day 365 to help my family live. About 10 years in the farmers land next to us has a single house built onto a small plot near the irrigation riser and a younger family from the city moves in for a quiet life in the country. Over the next year the cops are at our place a dozen times about smell complaints, noise complaints (work started at 5am, tractors
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    Font - In the winter, my dad would drive our tractor around to all the neighbors houses on our mile and dig the snow out of their driveways so they could drive to work, a costly and time consuming endeavor, but one of the main things a farmer can do to gain praise and feel good every day. Well, about three weeks into winter this guy from the new house shows up at our door asking us to not do his driveway so early in the morning because it was waking him up. My dad explained he had to do it at 5a
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    Font - ncgrits01 · 15h Reminds me of a friend who had a new neighbor move in. This guy had never lived out in the country before, and in a few days came over to complain that my friend's birds were in his yard and she needed to come and get them. These were wild birds, not escaped chickens or anything like that, and their houses were about a quarter mile apart.
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    Font - WinginVegas · 15h Sounds like the idiots in my old area. Although in LA City, fairly rural edge with horse property all over. Some of the houses sold to "new" people who then started to complain about the horses. Who were there first. They tried to get one stable shut down that had been there for about 40 years and found out that not only was the zoning permanent but that two council members boarded their horses there, so that went nowhere. I never understand why people knowingly move to
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    Font - ACP68 · 9h Reminds me of the local racetrack here in Northwest Indiana. Was there for years, urban sprawl surrounded it, and the inevitable complaints rolled in. One day the owner had a forum there, the public & local news there to cover them trying to reach a solution. At one point, an upset woman stood up at her turn and said "I don't understand why you people always build stuff like this in our neighborhood". The owner stood up, pointed over to a large aerial photo hanging on the wall
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    Font - Key-Priority1547 · 12h A city story: Raleigh NC became a growing spot for the building of high rise apartment buildings and condos. The joke was when those people found out that the trains run through Raleigh at all hours of the day and night, and are required by law to blow the horn at all intersections. And it is loud.
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    Human body - hymie0 - 10h There is at least one county in Maryland that now has a "smells like farms" disclaimer that you have to sign when you buy a house.
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    Human body - Hobokum · 11h We had the neighbors that complained about flies and got upset when the state health department laughed at them.
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    Font - pauliewotsit - 14h Where I live someone bought a house next to the town church, which rings its bells on the quarter between 6am and 10pm. He tried to get the council to make the church stop it, claiming he never knew about the bell ringing. Council asked him just exactly how long he viewed the house before buying it...his attempt to silence the town fell flat on its face
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