Entitled next-door neighbour constantly pushes neighbours' generosity by using his lawn and properties, when confronted about it: ‘He laughed it off, said "we're neighbours, what's mine is yours" smiled and kept sitting there’'

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  A photo of a picket fence representing the one that divides the neighbors from this story

• AIO for telling my neighbor to stay off my property after he started treating my backyard like his personal extension?

  
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• We’ve all been there. A small act of solidarity oftentimes opens the door for the other person to start abusing your kindness. I’m not saying we should stop being kind, but we should definitely be mindful about who we are being kind to and be quick to resolve when we need to put an end to it.

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• The ‘neighbourly’ argument is just gaslighting; it’s obvious that being neighbourly is about sharing and peacefully cohabitating, and not about letting someone come into your house without permission and using your stuff.

  There is a short story by Julio Cortázar that describes a situation just like this: two brothers live in a big old house, and the house starts being invaded by an undefined presence, at first they let it, leaving rooms behind for the presence to live in, and limiting themselves to one or two rooms for them, until the thing occupies so much space they have to completely abandon their house.

  Of course, this is a fictional story and has magical and ridiculous elements to it, but it works wonders as a cautionary tale about things like what happened to our friend.

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• I’m intrigued about how this story is going to go from now on, if the boundary is going to be firm, or if the neighbour is eventually going to start to push it, and our friend is going to let him. It seems the invading neighbour has a modus operandi, and that was probably there before our friend moved in.

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  An illustrative representation of the cap we should all be wearing to spread the message of peace and love in regards to our neighbours

• It’s funny how people can’t understand some very basic cohabitation rules, and it doesn’t matter if you explain them in detail. I guess that is also a peaceful cohabitation rule, to abstain from trying to explain things the other person will probably not understand, and limit ourselves to establishing firm, uncrossable boundaries. I wish we could all profoundly understand each other and live in magical and placid communities, but well…

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