'Your neighbor sucks': Universally hated neighbor rants about holiday decorations, so now everyone decorates their houses for every single holiday

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Ben Weiss • Writer and Editor
Mar 14, 2023 8:00 AM EDT

This neighbor fully made his own bed. I mean, it's like he was begging everyone else to enact some petty revenge on him. After a previous debacle involving plastic flamingos (we included the original post below for your reference, along with the new post), the universally hated neighbor decided to throw a tantrum about this past year's Christmas decorations and how they were destroying the property value of his home. 

 

Well, what did the other neighbors do? They banded together and decided to make sure every house in town put up decorations for every single holiday, with town approval of course. As some people in the comments pointed out, wouldn't this actually make their neighborhood more attractive to an outsider, since the town will seem homier? Basically, this neighbor just seems to be difficult and ridiculous. Some people do just like to start fights and hear themselves argue. 

 

For more drama like this, here's a fun AirBnb debacle!

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    Property - "Let's decorate for every holiday ever. Town revenge against a neighbor." 12 AV
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    Font - Flamingos are so last year let's decorate for every holiday ever. Town revenge against a neighbor. So if you read my post about flamingos you might remember that I have a neighbor that everyone dislikes. So this past Christmas he decided to write a very nasty letter directed at everyone that put up Christmas decorations. He was upset that the decorations would ruin his property value (i really don't see how). So here is our new plan.
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    Font - The flamingos community are out and enter a chat. We created a community chat that he didn't join and our plan is to decorate our entire neighborhood for every holiday. We have the mayor and town board in agreement. We just flooded the neighborhood with Valentine's Day decorations now it's St Patrick's day and so on. I never knew how many holidays there were in the US till we started this. The best part is he has threatened to sue the entire town. Let's see how well that works. Sometimes
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    For context: here's the original post explaining the whole flamingo situation...

    Font - AITJ for the flock of flamingos scattered in my neighborhood? Petty revenge. AITJ for the flock of flamingos now scattered in my neighborhood. Ok so this past summer I went to Disney for 2 weeks and forgot to give my landscaper a code to open my front gate. This house and property is incredibly old and has a stone wall around it with a huge wrought iron gate at the entrance. We had the gate upgraded to be mechanically opened and closed,. And that's where the problem lies.
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    Font - The new mechanism locks the gate closed and you need a code if you don't have a opener. We usually leave the gate open during the day and close it at night. Well when we left for our vacation we set the gate to remain closed during the day. Our landscapers called us and we didn't get the message. When we got back I had a notice from the town that my lawn was out of code as they are very strict about the "no more than 5 inches" rule. I just paid the fine and had the landscapers mow the yar
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    Font - Well one of my neighbors had an issue with the noise. The landscapers needed some pretty heavy equipment to get the tree out. They called code enforcement and when they showed up the landscapers had a brief chat with them and they left. No fines no nothing. I was told this by the landscapers when I saw them the next day. I then decided I wanted to do a hedgerow in such a way that no one could see my house from the road.
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    Font - I got approval from the town and once again more heavy equipment brought in with some big trucks. The neighbor called again. My wife wanted a raised flower bed at the entrance. More loud equipment and another call. Well I got tired of hearing code enforcement was coming because of noise complaints. So I ordered a truck load of pink plastic flamingos and we had fun placing them around the property. I forgot the exact total but it was over 200. This caused the neighbor to call code enforcem
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    Font - Now at one point we started to notice some of the flamingos were disappearing. We thought he stole them to throw them out. Nope. Our neighbors stole some and put them on their properties. There are way more flamingos in the neighborhood than we originally bought and someone even place a dozen on the neighbors property. So AITJ for the invasion of flamingos in my neighborhood?
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    Font - Edit: just wanted to add so you all know what I mean by scattered in the neighborhood. The police station, schools, courthouse, town hall and almost every house has flamingos now. And according to my daughter and her friends there are now over 500 of them.
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    And now for some comments!

    Font - KelsierIV 19 hr. ago . You and all your neighbors should each write him a letter for every holiday that he doesn't decorate. By being the only non- festive house he's ruining everyone's property value! 2.1k Reply Share
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    Font - Jaderian OP 19 hr. ago Omg I love it. Thank you. I will suggest that in the chat. You just made my day. That sounds amazing. 1.0k Reply Share
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    Font - StaceyLuvsChad - 18 hr. ago Bro who GAF about property value unless you're actually planning to sell? Do these people flex their Zillow page at family gatherings or something? 227 Reply Share
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    Rectangle - SnooWords4839 - 18 hr. ago get outfits for the flamingos to wear for the holidays! 181 Reply Share
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    Font - DueBike582 16 hr. ago Honestly, if I were house hunting, those decorations would probably make me WANT to buy in your neighborhood! I'd love to be someplace that looked like the neighbors socialized and had fun together! 117 Reply Share
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    Gesture - Jaderian OP. 14 hr. ago I know right? Doesn't this make it more fun?
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    Font - Gloomy-Flamingo-1733. 16 hr. ago Honestly if I was looking to buy a house and saw something available on a street that consistently decorated for every single holiday... I would be more interested in living on that street. That sounds awesome. Your neighbour sucks.
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    Human body - RJack151 19 hr. ago Don't forget all the National (Food) Days. lol
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    Rectangle - Jaderian OP 18 hr. ago That might be a bit much. But I like your thinking.
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    Font - firebugguy 16 hr. ago . They have ornamental ducks that you can order any attire to wear for any holiday. You can even dress it up as a turkey for Thanksgiving.
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