Neighbor problem/question

I recently purchased a beautiful protected view parcel on a hillside, and yesterday a man bought the parcel just below mine and built a house right at the top of his parcel with his home blocking the view at the bottom of my parcel. I'm not so upset about the view....I'm more upset about the fact his house is right at the chat range level to interfere with my main sitting area I built at the bottom of the hill. I have a square 1536 parcel and he bought a long 2048 parcel. Would it be rude of me to ask him to move his home down a bit....I don't want him to respond with a "move your sitting area up" remark. I can't really move mine up because of the way I terraformed and set everything up...which I worked very hard on! Am I just being selfish? I'm trying to tell myself "at least he's just building a home, could of been a skyscraper" to make myself feel better.....but he just has soooo much room downwards due to the length of his land.

Ask him nicly. It can't hurt. If he says no, he says no. explain what your concern is.

He Probably bought his land for the same reason you bought yours, he wanted the view. You Could approach him Politely (Please don't be ready for a verbal battle, you will never get anywhere that way) and ask if you can Discuss with him some mutually agreeable redesign On BOTH Your parts, that can give you both what you want without Impinging on the others ability to enjoy the land.

Ask for his cooperation, but BE PREPARED to Give Yours In Return.

Angel.

Most people want to be well thought of.
It's important to find a nice warm way of letting people know that you can think well of them.

"I will think well of you if you do as I wish" is not one of those ways.
Talk to the neighbour really politely. Most people are decent. Most people get a bit 'anti' if you get up their noses. It is very very easy to get up the noses of people who are a bit insecure. Quite a lot of people are insecure.

The worst person to annoy in SL is not a griefer. It is your neighbour. They can build whatever they want to on their own land.
"He annoyed me first" is NOT an excuse



However, it's been said before, and it will be said again (jn this thread, even) - If you want the view, buy it.

Slight diversion from the main topic... How is it that your view is protected, if there is another parcel between you and the view? Is this an estate with a covenant that prevents building beyond certain heights?

I was wondering that myself.

Some land sellers are labelling all parcels in a sim as "Protected"/"Protected View" if the sim has one or more 'protected' borders.

Even worse:
Some land sellers are describing a sim/border as 'Protected' because it does not *currently* have a sim on the other side of the border - even though it is clear that there soon will be.
Some land sellers are describing a sim/border as 'Protected' because there is a sim on the border which is labeled "Empty", despite the fact that this very likely means that it will be up for auction eventually.

People should never take the description by a land seller on trust.
There is not Trades Description Act in SL.

One thing to keep in mind is that he, too, might want the privacy of his house being outside chat range of your main sitting area, so it's possible that just bringing it to his attention might get the desired response. (Of course, if you've put your main sitting area close to the edge of your own parcel... this might be a "mutual learning opportunity." )

I am in a similar situation except that the shoe is on the other foot...I bought a small 512kb lot IMMEDIATELY below the summit of an awesome mountain (Called Overlook PG) and at the time, the only other residence was the one on the hilltop itself...I had a great view in 2 directions of the valley below and was waiting to see how it developed below me...I have a simple dwelling, but neat and spiffy, and I built it on stilts because the terraforming only helped so much and everything I tried looked wrong sticking out of the face of the hillside when I placed it ground level...The stilts weren't that high either...Now, the area is rapidly filling up and the property owner immediately below mine put up a thick row of trees, DIRECTLY in front of my windows and view, so, I raised my house slightly, just enough to be above the tree line and have the view I had before...Another new dwelling is immeiately next door now and has the RED visiborders (?) enabled to keep me contained...That neighbor said something like "Hello, Im your new neighbor" today, so, I would like to think they see why I did it. It's not about nosey or dont care or an attempt to be inconsiderate...

Maybe ask them why it has to be like that and explain how it interferes with your "World" politely, Im sure there's a compromising win-win in there somewhere...

Quik

Work together

It is protected on one side...to the west. This individual purchased the parcel right below mine on the hill. So thats why I'm not really concerned about the view from below. Mainly how close he built his house. I left a good amount of space between my dwelling and property line, he has built his right smack dab to the property line....which I know is his right. I'm going to wait it out and see first if it's a problem. It just happened, so for all I know he could be in a different time zone and not even on at the same time as me most the time. If it does become an issue, I'll approach him in a nice way about it. Thanks for everyone's help and reminding me I can't always have it my way.