I keep dreaming about buying a house and land to get away from some of the annoying habits of my close quarters neighbors (like talking on a cell phone in the stairwell from 9pm to 11pm because it echoes into my living room), but then I read stories like this (another was one in a really wealthy exurb of Washington DC where people were ready to kill each other because of small dogs barking...million dollar homes with people acting like trailer folk) and I wonder if I would just be trading in my problems for a more expensive version of the same.

A cave is starting to sound good...been reading up on hermits and ascetics.

That dead guy really should have armed himself.

@2

It's Minnesota. What makes you think the dead guy wasn't armed?

It's not like Chicago or Connecticut where criminals don't have guns because they're illegal.

Well, the story says he was running away at the time of being shot... Doesn't sound like an armed stand off to me, if he was a good guy with a gun maybe he could have stopped the bad guy with a gun who shot him. This story clearly shows that we all need more guns...

@1:

Meh, instead of being shot, you'd just get a Clovis-point spear to the gut thrown by your idiot neighbor because your fire was too bright or something.

Please read the actual story you guys.

Neighbors said both houses were "fully armed" and they expected an armed confrontation to happen.

Charles' headline (and Huffington Post's) is sensationalist. The neighbors had been fighting for years, apparently, and feeding the deer was only part of it.

The only advantage I see to renting over owning is the fact that you can end up stuck with some horrible neighbors when you both own.

#5

Then the Washington State Department of Firebricks would come in if I had built an "illegal kiln".

I wonder what the last words were of the hundreds of youths killed by other youths in South Seattle in the last decade.

@9:

I guess it would depend on whether your cave was zoned for "commercial ore-smelting & fabrication", or "multi-generational tribal-affiliated residential".

@10 Racist much?

@12, comprehension fail.