The concept of being a “good neighbor” does seem to have taken a few good hits over the years.
There’s good and bad to this of course. At one time, you could count on folks around to “keep an eye” on your house and your kids for you.
Of course, you could also count on many of them to always “have their nose in your business”, and to spread it all over town.
The writer did not specify, but I’m going to guess that the “anonymous” complaints from his neighbors often relate (as they usually do) to the state of his lawn, yard, siding, snow on the sidewalk, or the cars parked in his driveway.
I blame some of this on a creeping sense of “entitlement” – that what’s mine is mine, and what’s yours is mine too. That includes anything of yours that I can see, that spoils my view.
An increasing number of people today have a real problem with the whole idea of “private property”.
Or perhaps its the envy of miserable people, who seek to assuage their misery, by making trouble for other people who seem to be better off than they are.
Here’s to “good neighbors”.
http://forums.wausaudailyherald.com/viewtopic.php?p=7947&highlight=#7947
