# Neighbors complain about wheelchair ramp in front of home.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/neighbors-complain-about-wheelchair-ramp-in-front-of-home/666682>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [August 20, 2013, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/neighbors-complain-about-wheelchair-ramp-in-front-of-home/666682 "2013-08-20T01:32:28Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![fluiddruid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c2a13f/32.png) [@fluiddruid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fluiddruid)\
**Post date:** [August 28, 2013, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/neighbors-complain-about-wheelchair-ramp-in-front-of-home/666682/301 "2013-08-28T14:50:55Z")

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Oh, and I should note, the only neighbor response I got to building a ramp was “We were concerned about you!”, not “What about my property values?”, because my neighbors are human fucking beings about it.

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**Author:** ![SmellMyWort](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SmellMyWort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmellMyWort)\
**Post date:** [August 28, 2013, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/neighbors-complain-about-wheelchair-ramp-in-front-of-home/666682/302 "2013-08-28T15:36:15Z")

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Wow, I can’t believe anyone would make a big deal about that ramp.

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**Author:** ![Magiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4491bb/32.png) [@Magiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magiver)\
**Post date:** [August 28, 2013, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/neighbors-complain-about-wheelchair-ramp-in-front-of-home/666682/303 "2013-08-28T19:54:19Z")

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> [@fluiddruid](#):
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> Christ, Magiver. Maybe these people evaluated their own needs and decided a ramp was the best bet?

Christ, Fluiddruid. Yah think?

> [@fluiddruid](#):
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> I just put in a wheelchair ramp in front of my house. I decided to go with cedar to match my red brick, and it looks pretty nice (my neighbors have actually stopped by to say it makes the house look better than the old drab concrete stairs).

So you’re saying concrete looks drab and you built something that looks nice. The people in question built something drab (which a neighbor apparently remarked upon) and then went on to landscape it to make it look nice. It was nev ever a story to begin with.

> [@fluiddruid](#):
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> A lift is far less practical for me for a lot of reasons:

Great, I hope you enjoy it. But the thread is not about your needs nor did I question the building of the ramp in question. I even stated I would build a ramp.

I made a simple statement that for the (extra) money of a concrete ramp they could have installed a lift that provided greater utility and was better looking than drab concrete. The operative word is “could” have and not “should” have.

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