good on ya nixy, i now how you feel as my neighbours are the exact same, and i mean neighbours plural, they all have a chip on there shoulder about me and the wife owning the house we do and about our age, yes we got the house for a great price but at the end of the day still have to pay a morgage, but these feckers are in there wee cleek and talk about us behind our backs
put in for outline planning permission for a house round our back door as we live on the corner house with a massive back door, well that got the bloddy backs up didnt it long story short i had to sit in a coucil meeting with all the neighbours (20 of them)....(yes 20 !!!) heckeling me and the wife for the back..saying were only doing it for the money.....well doh in the end we didnt get it so i now have planning permission granted for a 2 story garage....yeah man
oh and i had the council officers at my door the other day asking to look at my new timber decking that i am nearly finished as they have had a complaint about it from a neighbour...are you having a friggin laugh ????? i promise you if i am that bad in 40 years time then i will do the world a favour and jump in front of a train
sorry for hijacking your rant with my own