It'd be the basement tenant that would have been the deal breaker for me. Winter's a fact of life above the 401 snow belt and they're pretty good at keeping the roads clear up in the Newmarket and north area.
I think the attraction is having the space to the nearest neighbours, although in that case, the landlord living in the garage would be pretty close by. I don't mind having my small house in a wartime suburb of a town down the road from Toronto in and of itself but one of the neighbours turned into a problem a few years ago and I wouldn't mind a bit more distance from her place to mine which is why the appreciation for houses in open spaces. I feel sorry for her husband because she's singlehandedly destroyed their relationships with all of the neighbours on the street.
Sounds like a typical "Angry Karen". Typical middle-aged short dyed blond haired overweight white woman who can't control her emotions and butts into everyone's business. Am I close? 
Close. She's definitely an "Angry Karen" for sure but after that she starts to diverge from the pattern. She's average weight, in her low sixties which puts her closer to miserable old bat territory given her age and temperament than middle age and she tries to hide it by dying her hair black. It might cover up the grey that's crept in over the years but not the nastiness.
Butting into everyone's business is an on again/off again thing with her. She absolutely refuses to have anything to do with me which is fine but she's taken it to the point that if I come home and park in the driveway and she's on her front porch smoking, she immediately crushes out her cigarette and stomps inside. I've cost her a fortune in wasted cigarettes over the years. Every time I come home from work. Every time I come home from the store. The sight of me unloading groceries from the car is so offensive. The sight of me putting the garbage bins out is so offensive. And worse - the test equipment - the stuff that looks like it came out of a science fiction movie - she's probably terrified of what I might be doing in here.
Anyways, her husband and the guy next door to me were good friends for a while. She and her husband would always be over next door, swimming in the neighbours' pool, the two guys would go on fishing trips up north etc. all the time and that ended and they refuse to talk to her and her husband now. Apparently while they were guests at the neighbours next door, this nasty piece of work opened her mouth and made several real choice comments about how the other neighbour doesn't spoil her husband enough in the bedroom. Talk about inciting the start of World War III. That ended that friendship right there and there's been no more weekend fishing trips and no more invitations to swim in the pool after that. As for me, whenever I have friends over here, I always see them off when they leave and we always chat before they jump back in their car and head home purposefully ruining cigarettes on her front porch.
Lucky for her it's been so rainy recently. I've got a pair of KLH model 6 speakers that were given to me. The person that owned them decided they're not worth restoring and apparently one of them has a blown tweeter. I was talking about this with one of my friends from college and said that since they're throwaways, it'll be interesting to sweep them and see how they measure up on the SPL meter between the good speaker and the one with the bad tweeter and see what's going on with them, then test them to the point of destruction just to see how much abuse they can take before they give up. The friend laughed and said they need to be pointing at her house when I do this. I said of course. So when the two of us get our days off to line up with good weather, the speakers, a power amp, and some test gear are going to go in the back yard. I haven't signed the Geneva Conventions and that means I don't have to be nice.
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