Pettiness over red house

[Lilith7]

This really is pathetic; their house, their colour choice. Its a beautiful shade of red, & in a world which needs more colour to escape the dreary grey & boring beige I think they've done really well.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/homed...flash-stre

"A newly-painted bach in a multi-million dollar street in Mount Maunganui has sparked controversy with a neighbour comparing the scheme to “mob colours” or a “brothel”, and complaining it could bring down the value of houses in one of the Mount’s most desirable streets.

A neighbour, who did not wish to be named posted on Mount Maunganui’s community message board “Can one object to your neighbour painting their house bright red? Mob red with black gates.”

She said that she had seen the colour swatches beforehand and asked for it not to be painted that colour as it would “devalue our street.”
“I am concerned

the colours are associating to gangs and also the devaluation of other houses in the street,” she said.

She

 told Stuff that she had complained to council but they “didn’t care”.

The owner of the little red house, Hamilton woman Lyn Buckley, couldn’t understand why her happy holiday spot and its jovial shade had upset people.
“It’s been so stressful listening to talk of it being like gangs – it’s silly that someone would go to that extent just because they don’t like a colour.”
Buckley said one neighbour had contacted her asking her to chanasking her to change it.

“We are not going to change it. I tried to talk to them and am just gutted that it has come to this.”