I think the fireworks would get thrown back  

  If only!
To be fair, 3 of the houses are lovely people - the little old lady next door has said that her quality of life went up when we moved in and she's set a chair so that she can watch the goat kid playing with the lambs through the fence. He makes her very happy. As does hearing our cockerel and children playing.
Some of the others are a little 'odd' and seem to take great delight in openly watching us chase loose lambs or escaped goats (on the rare occasions it happens) and you can see them laughing if we lose our footing  
 
 could be worse though, on the whole we are lucky.