10ft tall all down the driveway, so the potential new neighbors can't sit there and creep on me on their porch while i'm watering my plants in the drive, and as a bonus it'll keep their tree's stupid leaves in their yard where they belong
you can't even say i'm becoming a suburbanite, the town i live in is rural 
If you already have leaf psychosis that's a bad sign.
You might wanna check local regulations for that, a lot of places won't let you build fences over 6 ft without a retaining wall or bullshit like a lattice along the top or I assume it would be a lot more common for people to build fences where they can imagine the world stops at the wooden border around their house.
Good fences make good neighbors
depends on your city/county about permitting and height restrictions (and setback/right of way from the road), but definitely get the property line demarcated first.
ive had cool neighbors that i didn't mind having a permeable border with and had complete weirdos who get drunk and stare without waving back, try to take and claim ownership of things, and let aggressive dogs run amok. or just invite a constant stream of new sus people over to be sus with. i don't have nice things, but ive had my place broken into by a neighbor's associate before and they seem to have gotten pretty frustrated that i didn't have nice things and took that out on the things i did have.
a nice privacy fence isn't going to stop you from being friends with a cool neighbor.
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