We moved to this home 15 years ago to get out of suburbia.
We were surrounded by neighbors that we got along with EXCEPT the guy right next door.
So, coming out of the great recession we found this 12 acre property with a house built in 1972. We moved here because we breed dogs. That one neighbor complained about them.
The nice thing is that my closest neighbor is 500 feet away.
I hunt in my backwoods. I am surrounded by generally large properties.
The biggest being my neighbor to the north who has 55 acres. The people on that property sold it a few years ago to a young couple with young kids. I went over to introduce myself when they were rebuilding the house. They were not home. They called the cops. He came over on his ATV. I told him I just wanted to introduce myself and ask his permission to hunt on his property adjacent to theirs. That I had been hunting on it for 13 years. At first he gave his permission. That was two years ago.
The following spring he put up POSTED signs all along his road frontage and down the 1100’ line separating our land. I have not spoken to him since. I did shoot a deer on MY property last November. My tree stand is literally 3’ from our property line. So, I legally can not shoot anything to my right side anymore. Two of the previous deer I had taken over the last five years were just over the line on what is now their property.
So, even living in the country you can still have Aholes move in next door. Even IF they live a 1/4 mile away.
Same here.. we bought 10.5 acres then another 2 in front of us for the easement and we’re surrounded by 87,000 acres of USFS. We have a few neighbors we can’t see or hear unless they need something then for some reason I’m the one they call. We’re all in our 70’s we get along because we seldom see one another unless it’s on the one lane road coming up the mountain...the rule is those exiting have right of way so someone has to backup!!