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Just think yourselves lucky. We dont get garbage pickup, I have to cart the rubbish to the tip every fortnight 45km round trip, then we get charged $20 every 1/2 cubic meter (around $520/year), and on top of that we get charged in our rates $85/year for tip maintainence. So just for getting rid of household rubbish im paying over $600 per year!!!
But at the end of the day its worth the lifestyle change, all my neighbours are wonderful people, and always willing to lend a hand. I dont miss the city at all, where i had neighbours who were drugo's, i had my bins stolen twice, $300 worth of garden lights stolen, and young ********s doing burnouts down my street @ 2am.. Which is one of the reasons I sold my house and moved 300km south, its a better lifestyle and upbringing for my 3 children.
Getting back to topic, Everyone is different and has a different point of view, I think the situation could have been handled differently, but some people are just plain nuts. I incident that is fresh in my mind was my 30th birthday party at my old house in canberra, it was minus 6 degrees in the middle of June, so i decided to get a 44gallon drum and make a fire to keep everyone outside near the BBQ warm, and to toast marshmellows for the kids. around 2 weeks after the party i received a letter from the EPA warning me that "Burning off rubbish" is illegal and this is a warning that if it happens again i will be fined, I could not believe my eyes!! I knew exactly who it was, it was an old grumpy couple who were peeking through the gaps in the fence all night, these people where so completely out of touch with reality that they would call the police for any reason they could, one night I had police knock on my door because of a noise complaint from the neighbour about my 4 year old son playing with his toy piano late one night, my son had been having nightmares and i let him play his toy piano to help him settle before putting him back down. It wasnt a loud piano, just a $10 golo 2 x AA battery type, i was very suprised that they could even hear it!
There are crazy people out there, some worse than others....
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