Do You Ever Wish That You Could Buy Your Neighbor's House?

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Right now, I've adapted my lifestyle to a neighbor living three houses south of me (back border of their yard on our property line) who has gotten in the mood (as he's done on more than one occasion) to go out into his backyard and fire some kind of loud, booming gun (12 gauge shotgun, I think) over and over again. Since I don't have my glasses (which I use to drive) in the house with me, I couldn't tell whether he was standing at the property line and aiming back onto his own property or whether he was aiming out over our property (which would have really been nervy). Either way, his noise is very much over our property and can be heard loudly clear back here in my computer room which is somewhat away from it. If my TV were working and I was in my living room, the racket would downright ruin my viewing experience. And my bedroom happens to be the closest room to his property. What if I wanted to take a nap--or what if I were married and had other things I might want to do in the bedroom at this time besides take a nap. This neighbor and his family aren't ones we neighbor with, but they're probably pretty decent people. Still, I wouldn't be too unhappy if his house went up for sale and a quieter family moved in. My original plans were to enjoy a quiet meal while listening to my favorite country music station. Thanks to this guy's choice of recreation, the only way I could end up enjoying a quiet meal was to wear earplugs. Although earplugs can prove to be a good thing to have when I want to really concentrate on something and give my environment a sense of timelessness (like when I have a lot of catching up to do on things), I don't want to be forced to choose them in order to eat in peace. I have a friend in town who had some neighbors who made too much noise to suit him in a variety of ways--plus, they also pull some other good ones, too. He had some money saved back, so he said his dream was to buy up the property around him as it came up on sale and either use it for family members, rent it out (to where he laid down the rules that would be followed or else renters would be evicted), sell the houses to be moved elsewhere, or, if they didn't amount to that much, simply tear them down. As of this time, I think that the only place he bought (which his son now lives in) was just to the east of him--but it had been a rental, and the owner was the one who had rented it to the noisiest neighbors and rift-raft. Do you ever have problems with the noise-level in your neighborhood? If not the noise, what are some of the other problems with which you have to deal? Finally, have you ever become frustrated enough that, like my friend in town, you would like to buy up neighboring properties so that you would have more control over them?