Brian:

With some lateral thinking and forward planning the neighbourhood problem your uncle was subjected to, should have been attended to successfully and progressively without the need for personal upheaval and moving. The point missed in your article and all the posts above is this: Team work! The simple recipe of successful enterprise is team work. Without team work failure is assured.

Your Uncle failed to reply to the aggressor using a coordinated team work of friends and relations in a planned counter attack using a combined array of tactics ranging from surveillance of his movements, his network of contacts, his movements outside his home and locations he frequented aimed at mapping a complete profile of the aggressor in order to respond to harassment from the neighbour in a measure of equal force aimed to convince him of the undesirable consequences of his antisocial behaviour

@ Diver Dan.
That's Stalking....see what I mean, the system is set up to punish the innocent ,divide and conquer good people.

Good post antiseptic,
I live in a working class suburb, South Lake in WA and have never had my house broken into. The previous occupants had one burglary in 18 years here.That makes one serious incident of property crime in nearly thirty years. South Lake has a higher level of property crime than the surrounding suburbs. I rarely lock my doors and never lock the windows. My car has never been stolen. The worst I have encountered was when a respectable looking middle aged man attacked me in a supermarket car park due to his perception that I was driving too fast (I wasn't).
Like antiseptic I too have far more fear of the police than of young people, thugs or criminals. If I am attacked by some thug at least I can defend myself. If attacked by some overzealous policeman, I will likely be charged with assaulting an officer and possibly face imprisonment.

Jay of Melbourne:

That may be so JoM, but it is a swift alternative to no support offered by the authorities (in the case of Brians uncle). The trick though, (as in Antiseptics case of a confessed user of illegal drugs, also a crime) is do not get caught; the imperative in the game play

LOL Diver Dan I love your strategies and you're 100% spot on!

Diver Dan,

I fully doubt the author's claim regards the noise of the drummer. The police would have responded to the noise complaint, at least in QLD anyway.

They will investigate complaints of excess noise.

The author has rarely said one good word about any male in any article he has written, and appears to hate males and is a suspected feminist.

As far as gated communities, I have two relatives who live in retirement villages.

The residents in those villages are continuously complaing, about each other.

They complain about the sound of the TV set or radio, or complain about someone's garden, or complain if someone doesn't mow their lawn, or complain about the noise of the lawnmower, or gossip about each others relatives etc.

At the retirement villages, complaining about each other seems to be the main form of entertainment and interest for the residents.