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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Our wonderful neighbors built an addition a few years ago.  We all get along great but, really, that construction project really strained our relationship for awhile.  After all, as their immediate neighbors, we had to put up with a lot of the headaches with none of the benefits.  For instance, trucks backing down our shared driveway (beeping away) at 7 am, a porta-john on the line between our front yards, strange workers / trucks coming down the driveway ALL THE TIME (no way I could leave DC out there for even a few seconds to ride his bike), noise, noise, and more noise (even on the weekends - neighbor tried to keep all the work to the work week but, when the contractors ran short on time, they were hammering away on Sunday mornings too)!  Their yard, which borders ours, was ripped up so all water flowed to our grass, leaving huge puddles.  All the additional traffic on the shared drive resulted in cracks and divots.  Thus, we all had to go in and reasphalt the drive when the work was completed.  In the end, it was very, very difficult for us.  They had a beautiful new addition and we had built-up resentment that we needed to sock away for the sake of peaceful living.  All this to say, your neighbors should talk to you - yes.  BUT you really need to consider their feelings and peace of mind.  Just because your Architectural Review Board says it's okay, doesn't mean that the neighbors are particularly happy with your choices.  It just means that they know that there is little they can do to stop it.  Our neighbors did their best to go out of their way to make it easier on us (even if there was little they COULD do most of the time -- after all, they couldn't live in their house so they weren't even onsite most of the time!)) but it was still very difficult.[/quote]

This is the typical bitter attitude of the bethesda bungalow dwellers. They will get all pissy if you decide to build a normal sized house (they call it a mcmansion) on your own property. It's not our fault you want a midget house or can't afford a bigger one.[/quote]

You're funny.  Wikipedia has a nice definition of McMansion 
a type of large, new luxury house which is judged to be pretentious, tasteless, or — especially — incongruous for its neighborhood. Alternately, a McMansion can be a large, new house in a sub-division of similarly large houses, which all seem mass produced and lacking distinguishing characteristics, as well as at variance with the traditional local architecture.

The type of McMansions giong up in East Bethesda are of the first variety. They also seem to be poorly constructed for the prices they command. [/quote]

Your opinion is not correct because if they are being sold for the price commanded or for more than the original houses  you are wrong.[/quote]

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