Quiet neighbours now making noise.

This.

You're lucky they aren't complaining to the council. Op is very very selfish allowing her child to do this multiple hours a day.

Also bringing child up to be entitled.

Go to the park, pay for child to go to training properly.

You will also be upsetting other neighbours. When kids play out front with theirs it reverberates through about 6 other houses.

I’m team neighbour.
I had a neighbour like you who didn’t care much about the impact of their noise, so we also took the ‘can’t beat them, join them’ attitude.
Being the neighbour in your situation I know how irritating it is to hear repetitive loud sounds that you can’t cope with, as the neighbour you start to resent being courteous to them. Our neighbour told us to ‘live and let live’, so we do! We live like we don’t have a neighbour too. It actually helps with the stress of it, we often drown the noise out with music that we enjoy.
Funnily enough they don’t like us doing that either. We were meant to stay in our box and be the quiet neighbour for them, because I think they think only their feelings matter.

wtf with the siblings sitting in silence remark?! I don’t t get what you’re getting at there.

how is asking if he has siblings a nasty thought? Please write down whatever your projections are

You're being so obtuse it's funny. If a bit of radio is so awful whilst you work, how do you work whilst your son is thudding constantly with his ball? I can't believe that a radio is more disturbing than a basketball.

Good try op 😂

In the real world the solution would be to get off your butt and take your child to a park where he can play basketball

Just seen your update about the only concreted area being by their house - you seriously need to find another space for it then. What about driveway? Add a paved an area at the bottom of the garden with rubber type surface then he can bounce all day!

trouble with asking what is reasonable, is very subjective and you can’t expect your neighbour to answer that unless they want a row (which given how quiet and tolerant they’ve been to date, they clearly don’t). Personally, after 10/15 minutes of constant bounce bounce bounce I’d start to get really pissed off if I was in my garden or sitting indoors with the windows open.

Haven't RTFT. You sound entitled, and your neighbour now making noise is karma. YABU, suck it up. I'd rather listen to music then the thudding of Bball any day!

4 times a day at 30 min each is 2 hours over the day. I would def take the music over the basketball. I can totally understand your neighbours being frustrated if your son used to play basket ball for 4 hours a day.

Can't he play basketball at the park?

I did move house for this exact reason! It was unbearable.

This is a joke right?!!!

Ha ha, good for them, I'd do the same, but with the music on full blast. Watch out that they don't move out and you actually get genuine neighbours from hell in their place, karma's a bitch 🤣

This is a wind-up, or the OP is so entitled that her precious son annoying the neighbours is absolutely fine.

Total lack of consideration for your neighbours. But you're SURPRISED when they start to show the same to you!!!

The net is right next to their house but there is nowhere else to put it.

Oh OP you pushed it too far to be believable with this, apparently despite having a detached house 😂

You had me going until that though!

Get him to go fo the park. The kids play with basketballs on the front and if is really noisy. Even the bouncing. Be considerate. Go to the park.

The basketball is only about half an hour at a time, a few times a day. Their music yesterday was for two hours. We've got our son down to no more than three or four times a day now, so it's not excessive. It used to be twice that. So we've done something about it.

Half an hour x 3 / 4 times a day = 90 mins to 2 hours a day.

Their music = 2 hours.

Baffled as to how you see this as you being treated unfairly by them.

Especially when he used to be doing basketball for more than 4 hours a day!

That must have been very bloody annoying for them, especially as they'd been overly considerate before by listening to music with headphones in in their own home.

Music outside so loud your neighbours can hear is selfish. Basketball noise is horrendous. You're both as bad as each other though repetetive noise is awful. I hate the selfish pricks who think everyone else wants to hear their music blasting out on a hot day. To the pp waxing lyrical about listening to people 'having fun', if having fun involves making life miserable for others then yes, silence is preferable.

Something tells me OP's office is on the other side of the house to the hoop, about as far away as it could get!

They’re playing the music to drown out the god awful basketball noise.

YABVU and very selfish.

Take the kid to the park to play - problem solved.

OP’s taking the mick here. Joke thread. Destined for Daily Fail or Bored Panda?

Basketball noise is horrendous. YABVVVU

He is now doing it for a 2 hours a day and before it was double that!? I wouldn't have lasted a week before losing my shit and blasting your garden out with my music.

One half hour session a day, he can go out to the local park/basketball court for the rest. It's summer holidays, why does he HAVE to spend 2 hours a day doing this in your garden?