Our next door neighbor did this to us building a mansion a few feet from our home. With our privacy and view of woods gone, we sold our house and moved away. A year later, Fed Ex added a transport hub at the local airport. It’s been 25 yrs and they’re still there in the path of dozens of low lying cargo planes, shaking their windows every day. Their selfish inconsideration, turned out to be a blessing for us.
In a small town near where I live, they had an ordinance blocking, putting a manufactured home anywhere inside the city limits. A guy bought a very narrow lot and applied for a variance to put a single wide manufactured home on it and was denied. So he got a building permit to build a two bedroom home, and his plans were approved. The house is almost identical to the manufactured home in appearance. The city tried to force him to remove it in court, but this they were denied. This was 30 years ago. The house is still there today.
Seattle native here: There's a different story behind the Seattle spite house -- a woman won the piece of land in a divorce from her husband (who lived in the house next door and who had to cede part of his property to her). She then built her house, beloved by generations of Seattleites and those beyond our borders.
@@verynearlyinteresting Your son obviously has excellent taste. Now -- and this goes to a long-standing feud based on Seattle-centric pride when I was a lass -- I hope his bride is an ACTUAL Seattleite and not from Bellevue😆. Either way, blessings to them both. Thanks for your reply!!!!
@@MarielW.I would’ve thought it’d be a lot more than that. Basic BC box houses, like ones built by my late grandfather in the late 60s on city lots, are $1+ million here, and we’re over an hour outside of Vancouver in the suburbs in the Fraser Valley. The spite house is unique and historic, and super cute.
This is the video that introduced me to your channel. I thoroughly enjoyed it and plan on viewing more of your content. I even sent it to a friend of mine. I’m sure this research took you a while to compile so I very much appreciate your efforts in making this in spite of all the time it took. 😉
I feel the same way. My neighbour is a jerk. She “took” a foot of land on one side. I simply asked for us to install a gate so we have access to OUR land and fence. Nope. All good, keep the 1 foot. I installed 10’ planters in front of each of her south facing windows, in Canada. Ya, it’s spiteful and removable, if she ever pulls her head out.
It’s amazing how people can encroach on your land even in the country with 25 acres. Setting illegal fires, their livestock wandering over into your garden, pond, pool, manicured lawns, decks, poaching AND more, I kid you not. Even surveys, good fences and signs sometimes don’t save us!!!
US is weird. In Europe there's distance requirement how you can build a house. In my case it's 5 meters from the walls to the end of the property. So it's 10 meters (around 33 ft) at the least between houses. Thus narrow plots of land are either useless or very cheap because you can't do much with it.
I grew up in a spite house. Story was that the builder had something against the sea captain across the street and built our rather awkward Greek Revival house to block his view of Penobscot Bay
I really enjoyed your video. In my 65 years, I certainly have heard of spite houses but never had I seen one, let alone all these! Very interesting indeed. And as the saying goes, you’re never too old to learn. 😉 Thank you!!
People who are spiteful are usually narcissistic, spite goes hand-in-hand with that mental-health illness. But I did have a good laugh at this video. It was well done. I love the plaque on the last house, literally named Spite House, as if that would be something to be proud about.! Lol
Thank you Jean, though I don’t normally think of myself as having wisdom - but I’ll take it though 😆. Thank you so much for watching and commenting. Tez
It was neat to see you included the spite house in Alameda, CA. My great grandmother lived in it for a while sometime in the late 50's or very early 60's I was just a little girl at the time so I can't remember exactly when she lived there. Thank you for showing it.😊
I watched this program in spite of myself🌻Thank you for the laughs. Sometimes pettiness is highly amusing. These quirky small buildings are actually very interesting.
Quite surprised that some of these buildings are still standing... they must be spiting the laws of nature too 😉... Thank you for once again improving my education!!! 😁
Better named "revenge" houses. Majority are built because the owners were wronged or about to be wronged. I know the feeling. I have a single story cottage on top of a hill. It has a fantastic view of downtown. All my neighbors live in single story, single family homes, Then the gentrification began. Developers started buying up empty lots. They bought the empty lot behind and I was at first excited to get a new neighbor, The first story went in...then the second story...then the third story. My view of downtown was now blocked, I had zero privacy as the house looked down on my lot and into my bedroom windows (have to keep blinds downs all the time for any privacy). My property value sank, I complained to the city but they told me the area was zoned for up to 50 feet high structures. I asked how that was possible in a single family home neighborhood. The city didn't care. They suggested I build a 3 story wall to get my privacy back. Yeah, my tax dollars were paying for that answer. I'm considering laying out a middle finger design in my back garden so anyone who lives in that house will see a middle finger pointed at them every time they look out their windows toward my house.
A similar thing happened where I live, but the worst of it was the multi story view blocker was built by the local building inspector. Not so much a spite house as an I don’t give a rat’s house.
Love these stories!! 😂 Lena Avenue is definitely very, very nearly interesting.. the Sam Key building, the Kavanagh.. the narrow structures.. well, *all these crazy builds are fascinating!* But my absolute favourite has to be the Alameda house.. it just looks so very nearly _ridiculous!!_ 🤣 Thanks for a fab episode, Tez.. had me laughing out loud.. 👌👍
Hi @pimpozza - I’m glad you enjoyed it … yes some of the stories are crazy aren’t they. I had a laugh out loud moment when I saw your comment about my teeth 🤣🤣. Thank you. Tez
About your intro background: it was really clever of you to present spite houses against a backdrop of toxic weeds. Tansy Ragwort is bad enough that it's illegal in my home state. Very clever of you!
Thank you! I enjoyed the vid, in spite of the venomous spite! 😂 My faves were the Cavanagh building (Ms Cavanagh had big balls!), the Beirut Grudge building and the Tyler B&B. Cheers, in spite of it all! 🥂 👍
Immediately liked and subscribed! Look forward to watching your other videos. It’s a fascinating subject and your production is top notch. You’re really entertaining ❤
Tez this was Very , Very Nearly Interesting! I just love your sense of humor! My gosh I’d say quite a bit of spite going on in those family disputes! But even better blocking that bitches view of the church! Good for her. But building a house to block a road? Geez not these days. It would be a sure case of Imminent Domain! And at their price not yours. Great and very funny video I’m glad you touched on the good ole USA also! Thanks Tez! Now you can go to the Pub! This was great!
I was so glad to see the Alameda Spite House! I clicked on this video as soon as I saw the name, because I wanted to know if it would be in it. I've lived in Alameda since I was 3, and it's one of my favorite odd little things about my town. It's right on one of the main roads, too, so it's easy to peek at as you drive along it.
I just found this channel today, or maybe I should say it found me. It is hysterical and intriguing, and just so well done. I have absolutely subscribed. I’m laughing as I watch this and realize we Americans are a bit more spiteful than others lol and Massachusetts being in there more than once, well 😂😂 Great channel and can’t wait to binge.
@@melissacoelho8413 Hi Melissa! Thank you so much for all of your lovely comments and I really do hope you enjoyed your VNI binge!! It’s so good of you to take the time to comment and to let me know what you thought of the videos. Thanks for subscribing as well, it really means a lot. Speak soon! Tez
When I was a young child my family used to drive by the “Montlake Spite House” quite regularly! I always wondered about its strange shape. The house was up for sale a few years ago and television crew did a story about how it ended up that way. Thank you for sharing the house’s story with the rest of the world!
My car was a spite car for 6 months. Stayed at mom's house during knee replacement part of that tim. She used it to mark her property line by her shed. Soooo glad it was snowing and i have rust now 😅😅
I had a spite car during the 90s. My birthday was coming up and my parents forced me to buy a car they’d like. So, I bought home and dumped it on the driveway. I had to pay it off in three years. I hated the bloody thing! My parents expected me to be happy. Relatives noticed I was pretty peed off. I took it to work and I would let my workmates do burnouts in the car park. It was battered and bruised pretty badly, but I didn’t care. After about a year, it was towed to the local scrapyard due to engine failure.
O how strange I should see this. In Standish in Lancashire there’s a church a beautiful small hr. Right in front of the church ,now behind a wall,is a very small piece of lawn. On this very small piece was built 3 small houses ( over a hundred years ago now) that were built there by a wealthy Roman Catholic to Hide the sight of the Church of England church from the sight of people going pass on the main road. It was called by all who knew it has SPITE ROW. My mother was born in one of them. Has each house became empty the church bought it and pulled them all down. The empty ground is still there. To her dying day my mum called it SPITE ROW.
Thanks for this interesting information; i lived in Standish for a short time when i was a child and didn’t know about this. Many years later, when I lived in Cheshire there was a small country church for sale by auction. The church sold for a fair price, and as soon as the deal was done, the owner of the narrow strip (I believe 2-3 metres) of land forming the boundary of the church announced himself to the new owner to let him know his terms for accessing the property.
A number of years ago in British Columbia there was a Equestrian facility next to a new subdivision, the homeowners in the subdivision went to court and won a suit to get the Riding School shut down on the grounds it was running a business on land zoned agricultural. I suspect the developers wanted to buy up the land cheaply for more development, but the land owner removed the riding school and went into pig farming big time. My next favourite was the fellow who put up a six foot privacy fence and was forced to take it down when his neighbours complained that there was a by law limiting fences to four feet. There was however no bylaw regulating colour or decoration of the four foot fence. The new four foot fence was bright red, at least what you could see of it between the row of old tires, rusty garden implements and empty soup cans.
What you neglected to mention or maybe you just figured that we’d know this, is how pig farms have such a rotten stench. 🙊Those people should’ve just left that riding school alone. 💩🐷
Mrs Richards: "I paid for a room with a view !" Basil: (pointing to the lovely view) "That is Torquay, Madam ." Mrs Richards: "It's not good enough!" Basil: "May I ask what you were expecting to see out of a Torquay hotel bedroom window ? Sydney Opera House, perhaps? the Hanging Gardens of Babylon? Herds of wildebeest sweeping majestically across the plains?..." Mrs Richards: "Don't be silly! I expect to be able to see the sea!" Basil: "You can see the sea, it's over there between the land and the sky." Mrs Richards: "I'm not satisfied. But I shall stay. But I expect a reduction." Basil: "Why?! Because Krakatoa's not erupting at the moment ?"
@@stephaniec3619one of these days I’ll get email set up Stephanie … and yes ok if I have any Canada plans I’ll def make sure you’re the first to know! 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦
I grew up one block away from the Freeport spite house. As a new driver my first accident occurred right there, at the intersection of Lena, Wilson, and N. Long Beach. Someone ran the stop sign and hit my 1960-something Chrysler New Yorker. As it was my first car and my parents were paying my insurance, I had to buy something used, big, and American made. They were right. I was fine and my maroon tank barely had a scratch on it. Thanks for the story. I had completely forgotten!
I grew up in Freeport, NY in the 1960s and 1970s a few blocks from the spite house there. Never knew it was a spite house. Just used to ride by it on my bicycle as a kid. Cool seeing my old house and neighborhood on the map in your video.
It was nice discovering something you didn't know about places where you've lived. The name of your channel alone made it a must-see! Very nearly enjoyable! 😉
Thank you Fernando that’s so kind of you. That’s really made my day. And the spelling of Buenos Aires 🙈🙈🙈🙈 sadly I’ve already been informed of that. I was so sure it had got two ‘i’s in it I didn’t both looking it up 🙄. Thank you again for your comment, Tez
Two things about these buildings don't surprise me in the least. 1) Most are in the United States. We are definitely that kind of folks. 2) The biggest one was built by an angry Irish woman. Nuf sed on that. I would love to own a one of them.
My father is a Project Manager for a construction company. I cant be for sure, but I think as long as it meets the Community Covenants and Restrictions then you should be able to build it as long as it also includes its structural integrity and it is actually safe to live in. Again, I can't be certain on that fact so just take my word in with a grain of salt and just do some research on your own time. Its actually helpful to know it for a fact and I don't really have all the factual evidence to neither confirm or deny it.
Brilliant show - I know of a spite house in Orokolini, Cyprus. I’m not sure of the full story but apparently many years ago a large house was built for a daughter of a wealthy family but she didn’t like it so never moved in. A small plot of the garden was won in a poker game and a house was built just an arms length from the big luxurious house. I’m not sure if the big house was ever finished but according to Google Earth it’s still there. 😊
Our next door neighbor did this to us building a mansion a few feet from our home.
With our privacy and view of woods gone, we sold our house and moved away.
A year later, Fed Ex added a transport hub at the local airport.
It’s been 25 yrs and they’re still there in the path of dozens of low lying cargo planes, shaking their windows every day.
Their selfish inconsideration, turned out to be a blessing for us.
Karma works in mysterious ways!
Excellent. What goes around comes around. Hope you live somewhere lovely now.
I love airplanes. So that would be awesome
that doesn't seem like spite, just selfishness. they didn't build it to piss you off, the built it because they wanted a house there
@@bojcio You’re exactly right… selfishness.
Tez, I'm taking a drink every time you say "spite". The hangover tomorrow is your fault.
🤣🤣🤣
Cheers 😂
@@omgzombmc Same to you too
I'd need reSPITE care after such a session.
@@DeltaMikeTorreviejathats great, man.
In a small town near where I live, they had an ordinance blocking, putting a manufactured home anywhere inside the city limits. A guy bought a very narrow lot and applied for a variance to put a single wide manufactured home on it and was denied. So he got a building permit to build a two bedroom home, and his plans were approved. The house is almost identical to the manufactured home in appearance. The city tried to force him to remove it in court, but this they were denied. This was 30 years ago. The house is still there today.
I love that story!
Seattle native here: There's a different story behind the Seattle spite house -- a woman won the piece of land in a divorce from her husband (who lived in the house next door and who had to cede part of his property to her). She then built her house, beloved by generations of Seattleites and those beyond our borders.
Hello Seattle native!!! Thank you for that update! My son has just married a Seattle native would you believe …
That was the story I heard about it too. 😊
@@verynearlyinteresting Your son obviously has excellent taste. Now -- and this goes to a long-standing feud based on Seattle-centric pride when I was a lass -- I hope his bride is an ACTUAL Seattleite and not from Bellevue😆. Either way, blessings to them both. Thanks for your reply!!!!
I recently saw an update about this spite house. It’s on RUclips. The owner gave a tour of the house which is now valued at a million dollars!
@@MarielW.I would’ve thought it’d be a lot more than that. Basic BC box houses, like ones built by my late grandfather in the late 60s on city lots, are $1+ million here, and we’re over an hour outside of Vancouver in the suburbs in the Fraser Valley. The spite house is unique and historic, and super cute.
Love the one guy who stuck it to the developer. Now that's a win for the little guy! 👏
This is the video that introduced me to your channel. I thoroughly enjoyed it and plan on viewing more of your content. I even sent it to a friend of mine. I’m sure this research took you a while to compile so I very much appreciate your efforts in making this in spite of all the time it took. 😉
That’s so kind of you to say that and I hope you find some other things on the channel enjoyable too. Thank you, Tez
This is the best thing I’ve seen on RUclips! 😂 I sent it to everyone I know… all three of them!
@@michelinafreed5455 😆Thank you so much Michaelina, that’s so nice of you. Tez
This is why I do not want to live too near to other people and without owning a garden around my house.
That’s a good way of thinking. 🙌
I feel the same way. My neighbour is a jerk. She “took” a foot of land on one side. I simply asked for us to install a gate so we have access to OUR land and fence. Nope. All good, keep the 1 foot. I installed 10’ planters in front of each of her south facing windows, in Canada. Ya, it’s spiteful and removable, if she ever pulls her head out.
It’s amazing how people can encroach on your land even in the country with 25 acres. Setting illegal fires, their livestock wandering over into your garden, pond, pool, manicured lawns, decks, poaching AND more, I kid you not. Even surveys, good fences and signs sometimes don’t save us!!!
Love your videos and look forward to seeing many more of them.
US is weird. In Europe there's distance requirement how you can build a house. In my case it's 5 meters from the walls to the end of the property. So it's 10 meters (around 33 ft) at the least between houses. Thus narrow plots of land are either useless or very cheap because you can't do much with it.
I really enjoyed this, not your typical “home remodel” program, but history…
Subscribed and looking forward to more.
Thanks so much Hugh. Tez
@@verynearlyinterestingsame! Interestingly, my maiden name was Wolfe
I grew up in a spite house. Story was that the builder had something against the sea captain across the street and built our rather awkward Greek Revival house to block his view of Penobscot Bay
Hi! Interested story! Thanks! 🤗🥰
I really enjoyed your video. In my 65 years, I certainly have heard of spite houses but never had I seen one, let alone all these! Very interesting indeed. And as the saying goes, you’re never too old to learn. 😉 Thank you!!
Thank you very much, what a nice comment. Tez 😊
Now this is the kind of content that makes RUclips great👍🏻🇺🇸
What a great thing to say, thanks so much. Tez
Fascinating! Spite used in very creative ways!
Love how most of these are in america makes me proud to be an American 🇺🇸
@Mrmidknight-yx9pg ... 😂
I've never been angry enough to spend money getting even with someone. 😆 🤣 😂 I guess I'm cheaper than vengeful.
I'm cheap, too, but if I had money to burn, I'd spite build even if I was just didn't like someone.
In spite of it all, that was very nearly interesting! Thanks Tez, you always come up with some great stories.
Hi Randy! How nice to see you again. Thanks very much, Tez
We DO NOT live in less spiteful times! The law has shut up one avenue only to have 10 others spring up in there place.
People who are spiteful are usually narcissistic, spite goes hand-in-hand with that mental-health illness. But I did have a good laugh at this video. It was well done. I love the plaque on the last house, literally named Spite House, as if that would be something to be proud about.! Lol
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I am glad you included the Tyler Spite house in Frederick, Maryland- built in 1814, a great local landmark. It’s a great building!
We have a Spite house here in lil ole Annapolis Royal, pop. 500. It was built at an angle so his gossipy neighbour couldnt see up the street. 😂
Oh wow 😆
Thank you for your wisdom 😊
Thank you Jean, though I don’t normally think of myself as having wisdom - but I’ll take it though 😆. Thank you so much for watching and commenting. Tez
I really love hearing stories of people doing things out of spite it warms my heart.
It was neat to see you included the spite house in Alameda, CA. My great grandmother lived in it for a while sometime in the late 50's or very early 60's I was just a little girl at the time so I can't remember exactly when she lived there.
Thank you for showing it.😊
Wow what a small world!! Thanks so much for commenting Cathleen, Tez
It seems like these spite houses, the majority of them were build justly to negate unjust plans, such as roads.
😎👎 When there's roads
- AnCap
I watched this program in spite of myself🌻Thank you for the laughs. Sometimes pettiness is highly amusing. These quirky small buildings are actually very interesting.
Quite surprised that some of these buildings are still standing... they must be spiting the laws of nature too 😉... Thank you for once again improving my education!!! 😁
My pleasure!! And it’s lovely to see you again! Tez
That Was Pretty Enjoyable So, You Get The Good Finger. 👍Thank You.
Loved this and love your accent and humor! I subscribed. Looking forward to more verily nearly interesting! You’re so cute! Thx!
I rarely get called cute so I’m going to print this out and frame it. Thanks Crystal, Tez.
Just when you think you've seen it all, We get another great video. I enjoyed this, thanks.
Ahh thanks Spaceman that’s so kind of you … and nice to see you again as always. Tez
What a great concept. "Constructive pettiness".
Better named "revenge" houses. Majority are built because the owners were wronged or about to be wronged. I know the feeling. I have a single story cottage on top of a hill. It has a fantastic view of downtown. All my neighbors live in single story, single family homes, Then the gentrification began. Developers started buying up empty lots. They bought the empty lot behind and I was at first excited to get a new neighbor, The first story went in...then the second story...then the third story. My view of downtown was now blocked, I had zero privacy as the house looked down on my lot and into my bedroom windows (have to keep blinds downs all the time for any privacy). My property value sank, I complained to the city but they told me the area was zoned for up to 50 feet high structures. I asked how that was possible in a single family home neighborhood. The city didn't care. They suggested I build a 3 story wall to get my privacy back. Yeah, my tax dollars were paying for that answer. I'm considering laying out a middle finger design in my back garden so anyone who lives in that house will see a middle finger pointed at them every time they look out their windows toward my house.
A similar thing happened where I live, but the worst of it was the multi story view blocker was built by the local building inspector. Not so much a spite house as an I don’t give a rat’s house.
Nobody owns a view over other property unless they bought air rights.
@@raybod1775 Agree. No one owns a view so why did they build a house which blocks the view from other people if they don't own the view either?
@benjalucian1515 brilliant thoughts put to writing 🙄
@@eldiablo7862 Agree. He couldn't answer.
19th century and older spite was another level!
This is such an INTERESTING channel! 👍
That’s so kind of you to say, thank you! Tez
Love these stories!! 😂 Lena Avenue is definitely very, very nearly interesting.. the Sam Key building, the Kavanagh.. the narrow structures.. well, *all these crazy builds are fascinating!* But my absolute favourite has to be the Alameda house.. it just looks so very nearly _ridiculous!!_ 🤣
Thanks for a fab episode, Tez.. had me laughing out loud.. 👌👍
Hi @pimpozza - I’m glad you enjoyed it … yes some of the stories are crazy aren’t they. I had a laugh out loud moment when I saw your comment about my teeth 🤣🤣. Thank you. Tez
@@verynearlyinteresting 🤣🤣 I'm not very good at tolerating unnecessary rudeness, Tez..
We love are Spite house here in Alameda!!! ❤. The cantilever makes it the best one😂.
@@pimpozza Ah, I found you, Fi! Thanks for the recommendation hun, really enjoying a bit of binge watching :) 😘
Thank you. I enjoyed this vlog!
I’m pleased you enjoyed it Alida. Tez
Love this. Its amazing the thing people will do.
About your intro background: it was really clever of you to present spite houses against a backdrop of toxic weeds. Tansy Ragwort is bad enough that it's illegal in my home state. Very clever of you!
You give me WAY too much credit!! I had no idea about the weeds 😬
Love it, i just wish i had enough money to build a spite house. Wait, I dont have a grudge with anybody.
🤣Hi Patty cake
Thank you! I enjoyed the vid, in spite of the venomous spite! 😂 My faves were the Cavanagh building (Ms Cavanagh had big balls!), the Beirut Grudge building and the Tyler B&B. Cheers, in spite of it all! 🥂 👍
Immediately liked and subscribed! Look forward to watching your other videos. It’s a fascinating subject and your production is top notch. You’re really entertaining ❤
That’s so nice of you to say, thank you very much!!! Very appreciated, Tez 😊
Fun stuff spite can be
Tez this was Very , Very Nearly Interesting! I just love your sense of humor! My gosh I’d say quite a bit of spite going on in those family disputes! But even better blocking that bitches view of the church! Good for her. But building a house to block a road? Geez not these days. It would be a sure case of Imminent Domain! And at their price not yours. Great and very funny video I’m glad you touched on the good ole USA also! Thanks Tez! Now you can go to the Pub! This was great!
I’ve loved reading this comment Karen 😆. Brilliant, thanks as always, Tez
Fascinating, thank you.
@@egyphon you’re welcome thanks so much. Tez
Another excellent video. Enjoyed it a lot. Cheers Tez!
Thanks John!! 😊
Another great episode to provoke thought.
I know its just a few examples but almost all are US based....
Looking forward to your next one 😀
Thanks Paul! As always your support is always very much appreciated 😊. Tez
I was so glad to see the Alameda Spite House! I clicked on this video as soon as I saw the name, because I wanted to know if it would be in it. I've lived in Alameda since I was 3, and it's one of my favorite odd little things about my town.
It's right on one of the main roads, too, so it's easy to peek at as you drive along it.
Hi Adrienne. Thanks so much for commenting from Alameda, what an amazing place to live! Tez 😊
You know what’s spiteful? Sticking a Bluetooth lav mic on the end of a boom pole, and walking around talking into it like a Steven Tyler.
Brilliant 😂😂😂😂😂
Showing your face with horrible teeth as well
RIP steven tylers vocal cords
I thought he was going to eat a tiny porcupine.
@@reverett0508 😆
OMG, I don't know why I enjoyed this video so much!
I’m glad you enjoyed it Esther 😊. Tez
I love spite house stories!
Me too 😊. Hi Cassie, Tez
What a pleasant man you are! Good wishes for you!😊🌷
What a lovely thing to say, thank you Angela. Tez (best wishes to you too)
Excellent! Had this been a BBC production, however, you'd have personally visited each one!! 😂
If the BBC were paying I’d be off!!😆
@@verynearlyinteresting Not on my licence fee money you won't! Unless you happen to need a personal assistant...in which case, count me in! 😂
@@Sestra_Prior of course I’d need a personal assistant!!
I see that I am not the only one who was introduced to your channel by this video, I'm now subscribed and enjoying it! 🥰
That’s great to hear, thank you. Tez 😊
I dont know. Theres still HOAs to worry about
You know that’s only an American think right
I really enjoyed this video, so I subscribed. Thanks for putting this together.
Thank you very much Anne, Tez
Absolutely loved this video, you made me smile all the way through!
Well that’s the best compliment I could get! Thanks Helen, Tez
From Mexico loved your presentation. Gracias
I just found this channel today, or maybe I should say it found me. It is hysterical and intriguing, and just so well done. I have absolutely subscribed.
I’m laughing as I watch this and realize we Americans are a bit more spiteful than others lol and Massachusetts being in there more than once, well 😂😂
Great channel and can’t wait to binge.
@@melissacoelho8413 Hi Melissa! Thank you so much for all of your lovely comments and I really do hope you enjoyed your VNI binge!! It’s so good of you to take the time to comment and to let me know what you thought of the videos. Thanks for subscribing as well, it really means a lot. Speak soon! Tez
When I was a young child my family used to drive by the “Montlake Spite House” quite regularly! I always wondered about its strange shape. The house was up for sale a few years ago and television crew did a story about how it ended up that way. Thank you for sharing the house’s story with the rest of the world!
Thank you … and that’s my pleasure. I really appreciate your comment. Tez
My car was a spite car for 6 months. Stayed at mom's house during knee replacement part of that tim. She used it to mark her property line by her shed. Soooo glad it was snowing and i have rust now 😅😅
Hi Kathleen! And wow … never heard of a spite car 🤣
@verynearlyinteresting didn't think of it that way until I saw the video lol.
I had a spite car during the 90s. My birthday was coming up and my parents forced me to buy a car they’d like. So, I bought home and dumped it on the driveway. I had to pay it off in three years.
I hated the bloody thing! My parents expected me to be happy. Relatives noticed I was pretty peed off.
I took it to work and I would let my workmates do burnouts in the car park. It was battered and bruised pretty badly, but I didn’t care.
After about a year, it was towed to the local scrapyard due to engine failure.
O how strange I should see this. In Standish in Lancashire there’s a church a beautiful small hr. Right in front of the church ,now behind a wall,is a very small piece of lawn. On this very small piece was built 3 small houses ( over a hundred years ago now) that were built there by a wealthy Roman Catholic to Hide the sight of the Church of England church from the sight of people going pass on the main road. It was called by all who knew it has SPITE ROW. My mother was born in one of them. Has each house became empty the church bought it and pulled them all down. The empty ground is still there. To her dying day my mum called it SPITE ROW.
Thanks for this interesting information; i lived in Standish for a short time when i was a child and didn’t know about this.
Many years later, when I lived in Cheshire there was a small country church for sale by auction. The church sold for a fair price, and as soon as the deal was done, the owner of the narrow strip (I believe 2-3 metres) of land forming the boundary of the church announced himself to the new owner to let him know his terms for accessing the property.
I'm from Vancouver and I used to go to Chinatown to buy brocades and silk. That's the building I shopped at.
@@agbobier2657 Oh wow!!!
Well, I found it so interesting. I subscribed.!🎉
@@hopesprings4967 Lovely!! Thank you so much. Tez
These "spite houses" have amazing back stories.
Well done kidda.
Well edited and good upload.
Enjoyed that.
Interesting.
Thank you very much!! (And I haven’t been called Kidda for some time - I loved that!). Tez
Really interesting. I would have liked to see inside the very narrow and oddly shaped houses just to see how the owners managed to live there.
I lived right near the Freeport spite home. It's really nice and yes people drive by just to look at it. I was surprised to see it made your list.
Oh wow! Thanks so much for commenting. Tez
Twas very interesting! 👍
Brilliant video….loved it
A number of years ago in British Columbia there was a Equestrian facility next to a new subdivision, the homeowners in the subdivision went to court and won a suit to get the Riding School shut down on the grounds it was running a business on land zoned agricultural. I suspect the developers wanted to buy up the land cheaply for more development, but the land owner removed the riding school and went into pig farming big time.
My next favourite was the fellow who put up a six foot privacy fence and was forced to take it down when his neighbours complained that there was a by law limiting fences to four feet. There was however no bylaw regulating colour or decoration of the four foot fence. The new four foot fence was bright red, at least what you could see of it between the row of old tires, rusty garden implements and empty soup cans.
What you neglected to mention or maybe you just figured that we’d know this, is how pig farms have such a rotten stench. 🙊Those people should’ve just left that riding school alone. 💩🐷
Whenever you show a pic of a house you just have it flash up for a second
Mrs Richards: "I paid for a room with a view !"
Basil: (pointing to the lovely view) "That is Torquay, Madam ."
Mrs Richards: "It's not good enough!"
Basil: "May I ask what you were expecting to see out of a Torquay hotel bedroom window ? Sydney Opera House, perhaps? the Hanging Gardens of Babylon? Herds of wildebeest sweeping majestically across the plains?..."
Mrs Richards: "Don't be silly! I expect to be able to see the sea!"
Basil: "You can see the sea, it's over there between the land and the sky."
Mrs Richards: "I'm not satisfied. But I shall stay. But I expect a reduction."
Basil: "Why?! Because Krakatoa's not erupting at the moment ?"
@@fredflintstoner596 Brilliant 😆😆😆😆😊
@@verynearlyinteresting YOU WANT ROOM 16 FOR HIM ?
Oh, I don’t know…… I think there’s more spite than ever .
Only if u can afford it
You had me at "spite" in the title. Loved the video and duly subscribed and liked.
@@Angora573 thank you so much! Tez 😊
Love your style TY for a nearly interesting video
In spite of RUclips limitations!
Oh thank you! Tez
I sure did enjoy this video. I love it! Now when I see skinny buildings/houses I'm going to wonder if it's a spite house. 😁🤣
This was fascinating! As per usual your videos are oh so interesting! Thanks for sharing!
Hi Stephanie! Thank you as always 😊 Tez
@@verynearlyinteresting I wish you had a way of getting messages! I’m dying to know when you’ll be in Canada!
@@stephaniec3619one of these days I’ll get email set up Stephanie … and yes ok if I have any Canada plans I’ll def make sure you’re the first to know! 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦
Just subscribed from Alabama. I like your style.
Thank you so much Ellen! Hi from me in Stafford, England. Tez
Fascinating! I just subscribed. Keep up the good work ❤
Thanks Heather! Tez
I enjoyed the topic, great job sir!
Thank you 😊. Tez
Wow great video, super entertaining, great production and sound track ! Congrats I subscribed- this is great entertainment- so rare these days
Ahh thank you very much Gracie, that’s so kind of you. Tez
I grew up one block away from the Freeport spite house. As a new driver my first accident occurred right there, at the intersection of Lena, Wilson, and N. Long Beach. Someone ran the stop sign and hit my 1960-something Chrysler New Yorker. As it was my first car and my parents were paying my insurance, I had to buy something used, big, and American made. They were right. I was fine and my maroon tank barely had a scratch on it. Thanks for the story. I had completely forgotten!
That’s a great story thank you so much for sharing! Tez
I grew up like 7 blocks away and never knew about this story.
Loving your channel - one of the best on youtube
Very true
Yes I agree!
That’s so nice of you to say, thank you very much. Tez
I grew up in Freeport, NY in the 1960s and 1970s a few blocks from the spite house there. Never knew it was a spite house. Just used to ride by it on my bicycle as a kid. Cool seeing my old house and neighborhood on the map in your video.
Oh wow!!! Well I’m glad I put it in then 😊. It’s a small world. Tez
I grew up a few blocks from it in the 70s and 80s and never knew about it either.
It was nice discovering something you didn't know about places where you've lived.
The name of your channel alone made it a must-see!
Very nearly enjoyable! 😉
Interesting! (And just a note: It's Buenos _Aires,_ not Buenos Airies.) 😻
🙈🙈🙈 Oh no 🥺
Another great video, thanks Tez
Thanks so much Philip 😊
Buenos AIRES
P.S. The video is very well done and super interesting, it was difficult to believe it is a brand new channel. Great voice. Keep it up.
Thank you Fernando that’s so kind of you. That’s really made my day. And the spelling of Buenos Aires 🙈🙈🙈🙈 sadly I’ve already been informed of that. I was so sure it had got two ‘i’s in it I didn’t both looking it up 🙄. Thank you again for your comment, Tez
Two things about these buildings don't surprise me in the least.
1) Most are in the United States. We are definitely that kind of folks.
2) The biggest one was built by an angry Irish woman. Nuf sed on that.
I would love to own a one of them.
My personal astonishing takeaway, …that apparently there’s a building in Beirut that isn’t full of bullet holes.
Spite spite spite 😂😂
@@lesjones5684 😆
Thank you
A 'brand new channel' with 75K subscribers? Damn. Well done.
Thank you very much 😊. I’ve been quite surprised myself!Tez
The "Freddie Mercury microphone" drew me in; however, the content made me want to stay. This was fun to watch.😊Subscribed!
🤣Thank you Debra. That’s a great comment. Tez
OMG...that's right! Freddie lives on. 😻
Some of these spite house designs are the grandparents of today's tiny homes.
❤ Love the program
I love spite, doing something in spite of something makes for good stories.
I read all the comments my was the most realistic one about neighbors. What makes good neighbors, fences, very high fences.....
Sooo, I guess those tiny houses wedged between huge buildings that I see in so many family movies (like Stewart Little) are spite houses. LOL!
Amazing that a home can be build out of spite. I can’t imagine that would meet code.
My father is a Project Manager for a construction company. I cant be for sure, but I think as long as it meets the Community Covenants and Restrictions then you should be able to build it as long as it also includes its structural integrity and it is actually safe to live in. Again, I can't be certain on that fact so just take my word in with a grain of salt and just do some research on your own time. Its actually helpful to know it for a fact and I don't really have all the factual evidence to neither confirm or deny it.
@@Zoomer_music I haven’t seen a materials data sheet for Spite, so I’m not sure they’d be able to approve it based on its’ unknown qualities.
@@LinkTGF They may not, but I could ask my father if needed. He may not know the actual answers either, but its worth a try.
I may be wrong, but I'm guessing that many of these structures were build long before "codes" had been implemented.
Let's hear it for spite!!!
😆
Huzzah!
Brilliant show - I know of a spite house in Orokolini, Cyprus. I’m not sure of the full story but apparently many years ago a large house was built for a daughter of a wealthy family but she didn’t like it so never moved in. A small plot of the garden was won in a poker game and a house was built just an arms length from the big luxurious house. I’m not sure if the big house was ever finished but according to Google Earth it’s still there. 😊