courierguy wrote:

bumper wrote:

GumpAir wrote:For now, but as new NIMBY people move in...

Think Jeremiah Johnson had the right idea. Just keep movin' on.

Gump

NIMBY?? I left that stage in the dust years ago.

I'm a BANANA!

(Build Absolutely Nothing Anywhere Near Anthing)

I need to post a picture of my old strip, about 1 1/2 mile away from my current property of 6 yrs now. Nothing like this guys strip but compared to what it was like when I started there 28 yrs earlier, it had gotten crowded. The incentive for my move was when a newbie bought the 30 acre lot below my strip, AND THE NEXT DAY, put a 10' high steel pipe post up at our adjoining property lines, right on the centerline of my runway, with a big no tresspassing sign on top of it. Keep in mind I'd be 20 or 50' high when passing over, and could always divert a bit, so not a deal breaker, but his attitude was. I thought about pulling it out of the ground and beating him senseless with it, but am proud to say I never said a word or otherwise let on I was bothered at all by it.

Within 24 hrs I'd contacted a realtor, and talked with the local farm family who owned the 40 acres I'm now on. 10 days later the property (11 acres) sold and a week later I was outa there, living in a borrowed camper, hauling water, crapping in a different hole every few days (the 12" auger/post hole digger on the Kubota came in real handy, a cheap plastic lawn chair with a hole jigsawed out of the seat completed the setup ) and generally roughing it for the next several months, but happy I was not in prison for murder I started building immediately (I got cashed out and sold right before the real estate crash)and soon was back to as normal as I get. I have a few minutes longer drive to the ski area, but 1000% better relations with my (few) farm and ranch neighbors, who don't even live on the mountain. I am still friendly with the ex neighbor, not one word was ever said, (he was an (inactive) pilot BTW, go figure) hell I ride up the chairlift with him a few times a week, if I ever say anything to him it would be to thank him as the move has worked out so well! That will mess with his head, I think he's still sorry we didn't get to butt heads, like he has done with the other neighbors.

More ground and fewer neighbors seems to work about everytime, the pic of that guys strip is like something from a pilots nightmare, no caption needed, self explanatory!