You can never escape from Dirty Hippies…

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We moved from Urban Berlin (concrete, grafitti, & artsy fartsy dirty hippie bullshit) to Suburban Berlin (greenery, river, parks) in the hopes of finding a nice area to raise our (at that time) unborn child. We thought we’d found a lovely place. Yes, it’s on a main road but there are 3 huge parks, a forest & a river all within easy walking distance – not to mention the shopping center & train station nearby! We moved in just before Christmas, the area all festive & snowy & clean, even the crappy building next door looked as if it only needed a paint job… how wrong we were…it is now summer and this is how our building’s back area looks:

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and this is next door:

We know the names of ALL of the many children that inhabit the building next door and yet parents (or any adult presence) remain mysterious flashes of  harem pants, piercings & dreadlocks. With the mingling smells of  cigarettes, armpit & pot drifting through our windows we are party to screeching concerts of “Noah…Komma hier…Zoe…nein! Wo ist Noah? Verdammt nochmal kinder!” with choruses of “Waaaaah…Owwweeeiii!” thrown in just for fun. Let’s take a closer look at that accident waiting to happen yard again, and yes the kids actually use that freaking pool…

Berlin is awesome! It is a melting pot of cultures & lifestyles. I just hope we’ll eventually be able to escape the curse of the dirty hippies…

Update: August 9, exactly one month later…

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Update: September 9, another month later…

Seriously? This is unbelievable…but a close-up of the still-in-use-kiddie-pool is even worse:

…just freaking ew…

Update: October 10, welcome to autumn…

Yay! The kiddie pool has FINALLY been tipped over & emptied, unfortunately it’s been left to blow all around the yard…a lurvly scraping sound to wake up to in the middle of the night. Thanks to the new addition of overflowing garbage bins we get to play Name that smell whenever we open our windows! Such fun living next door to dirty hippies!

Update: November 9, the weather’s getting chilly…

As the weather has been getting colder, actual dirty hippy sightings have become few & far between. Perhaps they’ve gone into hibernation preparation for the winter ahead or it’s time for them to migrate to warmer climates…whatever the reason…the kiddie pool has mercifully disappeared. New additions to the rubbish dump yard include: boxes of broken dishes, toys & sharp tools living side by side and an ominous mist rising from grates at the side of the building…spooky…

Update: December 9, the most wonderful time of the year…

We were really hoping for a White Christmas…it would hide the horror show next door… Now that all of the leaves have left the trees we have a clear view of the mouldering sofa and carpet (O.K…I get it, you put an old sofa out in the yard for Groovy-Summertime-Hippie-Entertaining – is a carpet really neccessary as well? -and when the weather changes to rainy, cold autumn shouldn’t you remove said sofa (& carpet) from the elements? – what about winter? -oh…I get it…you’re leaving it there to use next summer…brilliant idea…I guess it’s the same with the watery gunge filled tent too?)

So that was yesterday…this morning we heard a bit of a commotion outside, peeked out of our window & saw these dudes:

Hooray! We cried…someone finally woke-up got a brain complained discovered the horror & hired these guys with their power tools, van, trailer & wood chipper to clean up the dump yard next door.

Leider nicht (unfortunately not)…Someone complained for sure…but it was just about the overgrown tree reaching into the neighbouring properties…so THAT got cut & cleaned up….

*on a positive note, I get to continue pissing & moaning blogging about the continuing saga of the dirty hippies next door…. see ya in another month!

Update: January 9, Happy New Year…

Obviously no resolution(s) to clean-up the yard then…

Update: February 9, Happy Valentine’s…

Hurrah! We’ve finally gotten enough snow to hide (some of) the ooginess next door – although the leakingoiloverthesewer car will require a blizzard to cover it… Hey Dirty Hippies! Why not show some love to your yard this Valentine’s Day?

Update: March 2012, Spring has sprung…