My Ultimate Nightmare

Well, okay, I'll start with a 'positive...'

Went to visit some friends of ours this weekend to: a - see their new place (they sold their home for something like $320K and bought a new place further away for $170K --nice profit, eh?).  their place is beautiful and has a spectacular view of the valley. Tempting just because of the view.  Making it even more tempting was realizing we could still hear ourselves talk even with the kids going wild.  Why?  No traffic.  None.  I think 2 cars went by the entire time we were there --about 6 hours.  Beautiful.  At my house, 2 cars go by every second --and they're getting louder every year.  So much so that our dining room light now tinkles and vibrates when they drive by.  And we're over 30 feet back from the roadway.  Our street is so busy and it started when they widened a parallel street just west of our place a few years back.  They widened that one to 4-lanes because of the new housing development going in with 1,000+ homes.  So, with a choice of a 4-lane roadway or a 2-lane road --take the 2-lane road, ya morons!  And, yes, it's a lot steeper than the 4-lane road too, so everyone has to 'gun it' to get up the hill.  Take the other road and it doesn't burn out your car as much and if someone is having trouble getting up
the hill, then you can legally pass them in the inside lane.  Our street, nuh-uh.  You can't pass at all --legally.  some idiot tried every day though and every once in a while there is a patrol car there to hand over the ticket.  

So, yeah it's busy.  And here' this beautiful house worth about $50K less than ours with a spectacular view and no traffic.  Very, very tempting.

And then Drama Queen drops her news today.  She and her fiancée have bought a place not 5 blocks from my house.  Know what 5 blocks means?  It means she's in my backyard.  It means she can drop by unexpectedly because she's "in the neighbourhood."  It means she'll call me at home for even more inane reasons.  It means...

It means I need to move.

Soon.  And far away.