Neighbourhood jealousy

MaxA · 23 Mar 2018

911tom said:
MaxA said:

911tom said:

MaxA said:

I'm not jealous of my neighbour (who has three black cars), except for the fact he seems only to work about 6 hours a day (when I'm working from home, I've noticed that he leaves at 0730 and gets home at 1515).

I wish I had those kind of hours.

Actually I don't, I'm not a man of routine. Except for annual servicing.

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Haha shoe on the other foot time. He goes off to work everyday does 6 intense hours onsite then comes home from work and has a further 5 hours paperwork to get through. Mean while that lazy sod next door just stays at home all day. Probably looking out his window at his silly car.

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I know what he does for a living. He doesn't work sites, and wouldn't know PPE if it bit him in the leg. He doesn't even work in his own garden. I suppose he might think it odd that sometimes I disappear early in the morning and come back a week later in the middle of the night.

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He probably just assumes you have a lot of holidays :?:

Edit just to say I'm not trying to make any point here. I can be very dry and sometimes it can be interpreted the wrong way especially in text form. The thread kicked off with a funny theme so I am only playing along, hopefully that is clear. :thumbs:

No worries, none of us should be taken too seriously. I have been feeling somewhat bantacious [is that even a word?] today (it must the spring sun!).

My other neighbour is very cool but he's not a petrolhead (either) sadly. So I just have to creep away with the PSE valves shut. In my old neighbourhood, they'd always give me a thumbs up and tell me "we can always hear it when you're coming home". :driving:

jonttt · 23 Mar 2018

FZP said:
jonttt said:

I'm surrounded by premiership footballers, can you imagine what I have to put up with :roll:

...... and the hours they "work" :frustrated:

ps I've seen carra around more lately :grin:

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Interestingly, yesterday I went to have a look at 2 houses owned by ex Man U players. One of which is still furnished. Jesus H. Is all I can say. Fair pads. Although I can see why the trend now is for them to tent rather than buy. If you're on 300k a week and rent is £5k a week, it's a no brainer as when they move on to their next club in 18 months they're not burdened with the buy/sell issue.

I know the interior designer who is doing Sanchez place, budget was £400K, it's overspent.....and still less than 1 weeks wages :floor:

askgeez · 23 Mar 2018

OP - do what I do , be friendly :floor:

My neighbour of the last ten years is a petrolhead . Has a fair collection of tasty cars...

I'm fortunate that he is a technophobe, so I fix his Wi-fi, broadband, mobiles , iPads etc etc

In return ...

He gives me the keys for the afternoon to 2 Ferrari's , AMG GTS , 993tt (damn he's selling that one) ... only this evening , took the 997 GT2 our for a pipe clearing session :bandit:

911TEL · 24 Mar 2018

b9boy said:
It's still there this morning......gggggggrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

:floor:

I'm sure you have a neighbour looking at your drive doing the same .....ðŸ˜‚ðŸ˜‚ðŸ˜‚

madalaa · 24 Mar 2018

alex yates said:
My neighbour's got 2, and a 997 Speedster, 997 GT2 RS in RHD, Ferrari 458, Aston Martin V8 Vantage, Bentley and one of those boxy off road Mercs and he's only in his 30s!! :nooo:

Alex ...... I didn't know you were a neighbour to Jontt ........ :floor:

jonttt · 24 Mar 2018

One of my neighbors has just bought his 17 year old daughter one of those 'boxey off road Mercedes" in bright blue as her first car, c£160k

What 'life lessons" does that tell her :dont know:

To be fair she is going out with a mates son and is supposed to be a really nice girl ..... but still.

I have another wealthy mate who has just bought his eldest lad his first car, a 7 year old polo in bright green he bought off the cleaner, he loves telling the story of his lads expression when it was 'unveiled" :grin:........ his neighbours think the cleaner has moved in :thumb:

To balance things out one of the 'biggest" houses in the area the owner drives a 53 plate 320d ......... it does have a £150k private plate on it though which he apparently inherited. I'm often tempted to drop in an offer of £10k cash for it :?:

Alex · 24 Mar 2018

madalaa said:
alex yates said:

My neighbour's got 2, and a 997 Speedster, 997 GT2 RS in RHD, Ferrari 458, Aston Martin V8 Vantage, Bentley and one of those boxy off road Mercs and he's only in his 30s!! :nooo:

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Alex ...... I didn't know you were a neighbour to Jontt ........ :floor:

:floor:

pzero · 24 Mar 2018

jonttt said:
FZP said:

jonttt said:

I'm surrounded by premiership footballers, can you imagine what I have to put up with :roll:

...... and the hours they "work" :frustrated:

ps I've seen carra around more lately :grin:

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Interestingly, yesterday I went to have a look at 2 houses owned by ex Man U players. One of which is still furnished. Jesus H. Is all I can say. Fair pads. Although I can see why the trend now is for them to tent rather than buy. If you're on 300k a week and rent is £5k a week, it's a no brainer as when they move on to their next club in 18 months they're not burdened with the buy/sell issue.

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I know the interior designer who is doing Sanchez place, budget was £400K, it's overspent.....and still less than 1 weeks wages :floor:

I bet the wallpaper isn't half as good as Sally Metcalfe's.

jonttt · 24 Mar 2018

pzero said:
jonttt said:

FZP said:

jonttt said:

I'm surrounded by premiership footballers, can you imagine what I have to put up with :roll:

...... and the hours they "work" :frustrated:

ps I've seen carra around more lately :grin:

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Interestingly, yesterday I went to have a look at 2 houses owned by ex Man U players. One of which is still furnished. Jesus H. Is all I can say. Fair pads. Although I can see why the trend now is for them to tent rather than buy. If you're on 300k a week and rent is £5k a week, it's a no brainer as when they move on to their next club in 18 months they're not burdened with the buy/sell issue.

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I know the interior designer who is doing Sanchez place, budget was £400K, it's overspent.....and still less than 1 weeks wages :floor:

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I bet the wallpaper isn't half as good as Sally Metcalfe's.

She was telling me about another football 'client" who's girlfriend was complaining to her that he had only allowed £100k for 'window dressings" :hand:

b9boy · 28 Mar 2018

Update: I'm pleased to report I havent seen the car again and they are back o the normal 2 x Mercedes on the drive. Easter weekend coming though so I'll be keeping my eye out....

:cop: :judge:

jpsh120 · 28 Mar 2018

Funny to see/hear the reaction of neighbours to cars.

I never had my neighbour down as a petrolhead (him and his wife drive a qashquai) and yet when I first took my 997 home, he was round in a flash.

"Ooo is the the 3.8 etc etc"

He even used to comment on how good it sounded! He doesn't speak to me so much now I've sold it :dont know:

mikeluke · 28 Mar 2018

jonttt said:
FZP said:

jonttt said:

I'm surrounded by premiership footballers, can you imagine what I have to put up with :roll:

...... and the hours they "work" :frustrated:

ps I've seen carra around more lately :grin:

Click to expand...

Interestingly, yesterday I went to have a look at 2 houses owned by ex Man U players. One of which is still furnished. Jesus H. Is all I can say. Fair pads. Although I can see why the trend now is for them to tent rather than buy. If you're on 300k a week and rent is £5k a week, it's a no brainer as when they move on to their next club in 18 months they're not burdened with the buy/sell issue.

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I know the interior designer who is doing Sanchez place, budget was £400K, it's overspent.....and still less than 1 weeks wages :floor:

That is a fair bit of wallpaper....

911tom · 28 Mar 2018

b9boy said:
Update: I'm pleased to report I havent seen the car again and they are back o the normal 2 x Mercedes on the drive. Easter weekend coming though so I'll be keeping my eye out....

:cop: :judge:

Thank you for the update. I should sleep a lot better now!

FZP · 28 Mar 2018

mikeluke said:
jonttt said:

FZP said:

jonttt said:

I'm surrounded by premiership footballers, can you imagine what I have to put up with :roll:

...... and the hours they "work" :frustrated:

ps I've seen carra around more lately :grin:

Click to expand...

Interestingly, yesterday I went to have a look at 2 houses owned by ex Man U players. One of which is still furnished. Jesus H. Is all I can say. Fair pads. Although I can see why the trend now is for them to tent rather than buy. If you're on 300k a week and rent is £5k a week, it's a no brainer as when they move on to their next club in 18 months they're not burdened with the buy/sell issue.

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I know the interior designer who is doing Sanchez place, budget was £400K, it's overspent.....and still less than 1 weeks wages :floor:

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That is a fair bit of wallpaper....

As I'm in the final bits of a rather decent reno, I can assure you 100k does nothing in a half decent house. A decent sized kitchen with appliances is £30k min, more like £50k. Each bathroom reno is £5k. Built ins wardrobes are 1.5k for basic, 5k for porn star built in. I could go on.
But if you're a little bit sneaky you can double your bang for buck. When people come here to quote for things I alway joke with them to break the ice that being a non Englishman, I'm exempt from the Cheshire tax. Before I finished the garage I used to park the car a couple of houses down otherwise the price would be stupid.
My tip to anyone renovating would be never call anyone for a quote who advertises on tv.

Robertb · 28 Mar 2018

jonttt said:
One of my neighbors has just bought his 17 year old daughter one of those 'boxey off road Mercedes" in bright blue as her first car, c£160k

What 'life lessons" does that tell her :dont know:

To marry a premership footballer? :dont know:

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