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>start living there, all of a sudden that generosity is not so obvious, families are at each other's throats for that bushel of corn one guys grandfather stole
by throwaway0a5e 5y ago
>start living there, all of a sudden that generosity is not so obvious, families are at each other's throats for that bushel of corn one guys grandfather stole from the other fifty years ago, random shit gets stolen, the garden is trampled, trash is thrown over your yard because the neighbor wants to "save" on trash collection fees, people cut ahead of you around in the queues,
So basically all the same petty BS that you get in the urbanized inner suburbs HN raves about without the bickering being laundered through lawyers and local officials to give it a veneer of acceptability?
Humans gonna human.
- whimsicalism 5y agoYeah, my Berkeley neighbor has been on my case for that bushel of corn for the last two decades
- throwaway0a5e 5y agoI'm sure if you borrowed some power tool and half broke it he'd be more than happy to call the city on you every time you violate one of the million rules for the next few decades. Of course nobody is fighting over corn but there is no shortage of fairly obvious parallels.
- philistine 5y agoI come from a rural environment. Sometimes it was literally about corn. But yeah, most often it was about mechanical stuff.
- unethical_ban 5y agoYou could reframe your point without it being an attack on "HN" as a unit, and without making yourself sound above it.