Why don't we live together?

[rosarugosa]

It’s better to rule in Hell than “build consensus among the relevant stakeholders” in Heaven.

Milton couldn't have said it any better!

[Teacher Terry]

IL, our dogs are the boss in our house also).

[pinkytoe]

I was thinking about this thread earlier and realized how it has come to be that even neighbors in separate houses can be irritating. The loud lawn machines, the stinky dryer sheets and pot smells, the political signs that are still up, the too many cars parked in the street...but we all mostly stay in our little boxes or recreate behind privacy fences these days. In the good old days, many of these homes had chain link fences with gates so that neighbors could go back and forth to visit. A lot has changed that way as DH and I both remember a time when "visiting" neighbors was something our parents routinely did.