Dear LFTP: the copycat neighbors

• Are we wrong to find it crass and disrespectful that our neighbors copy our home design?

A listener writes that the couple who bought the house across the street — longtime friends — began copying their interior and exterior design down to the identical garage door installed three months after theirs, with the wife declaring 'everything's a competition.' The first reactions are blunt — stop being childish, prideful, arrogant — and the counsel starts: watch the Grinch movie's Christmas-lights duel and see how ridiculous you feel, plus the recurring 'be unoffendable' charge.