AIBU to ask neighbours not to walk across my driveway?

DH bought a ring doorbell installed the app on my phone. It's very annoying I put it on snooze when he's in the front garden.

She probably doesn't realise that it sets off yours so tell her that a loud alarm goes off on your phone. She's cheeky anyway.

Agreed!

Trip wires or landmines.
seriously though, it’s not on; it’s like marking “their territory”.

I'd be the same as you. I put up with my neighbours annoyances because I'm sure we do things that annoy them too.

When my teenage ds plays his guitar a bit too loudly they tell him he is really good next time they see him. When their grandkids throw their toys in my garden and scream the place down, I hand the toys back and sympathise with them about what hard work little kids can be. Life is long if we are lucky, I'm not about to make it harder for myself by beefing with my neighbours over little things, thankfully they are the same.

They’re obviously not considerate reasonable people or they wouldn’t be doing it… so there’s no point politely asking.

As others have suggested get a hedge / fence / big planters. Pretend you’re suddenly very into gardening. Don't leave gaps between the planters that they can squeeze through 🤣 consider prickly plants.

Fences make better neighbours relationships

Wouldn't bother me tbh but, i have lovely neighbours who i get on with so nothing like this would ever worry me.

Hiya. I am trying to get ideas for my driveway. Why do you say berberis? I know nothing about plants but having looked this one up it looks nice.
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I would get a fence / planters.

Can you do a diagram? We can advise accordingly

Diagrams just make things a bit sexier is all OP.
This would piss me off! So do whatever you need to.. planters, fence etc

Couldn’t possibly respond without seeing a diagram

But then she'll miss the notifications that she wants. She quite rightly wants to see people on her private property.

I personally would consider switching off the notifications at certain times in this adjustment period, but certainly not simply to accommodate the trespassers.

Yep we had to for same reasons

Can't you change your ring doorbell settings re the sensitivity notifications?

Planting is definitely the way forward - make it impossible to cross your garden. Lovely big flower beds with shrubs and roses. As an added bonus your house will look lovely, I love seeing pretty front gardens.

Agree with you 100%.

Some people have no respect for other peoples property and are of the “ give them inch, they take a mile” mindset.

I would be getting a fence up pronto. Perhaps the posters who think you are being petty would like to pay for the scratches ( that will inevitably happen) on your car?

I get on just fine with my neighbours, but I would absolutely not be ok with what is CFuckery of the finest example!

The Entitlement of some people…

You’ve just made yourself sound ridiculous and petty.

You shouldn’t have been walking on their property to start with and certainly shouldn’t have taken revenge when they asked you not to.

So where you live you are THAT neighbour

Well done you!

I've lived abroad and visited friends in various countries and their houses have had hedges or fencing and in some cases security gates, so nobody can park or walk over their property in the way that OP's neighbours do. Presumably therefore objecting to it isn't so very British at all.

I would absolutely hate it, OP.

Ignore. This is a reply from a bitter person who doesnt own their own space. It is rude to walk across someone's driveway when it isnt yours. My old neighbour done this lots of times. Sometimes id park my car further back but she would squeeze past it than actually walk the additonal feet. Mind you she was walking past my window to get access to my back garden so they could access theirs. Instead of going through their front door. I ignored until I was selling up and had viewings to only find her partner walking along my drive with her shopping to go via back. I did make a point and i did highlight the deeds and that if they needed access they had to ask (title deeds wording, it was my land and they only had access for services not cause they fancied it). They were CF. Tried to claim they had different wording on theirs and that the solicitor scammed them when I highlighted its public document and I have paid to download it. She was really fat too so I was most uncomfortable when she would squeeze past my car and house. Like just fuck off and walk around it. Lazy git. But yes OP. Rude behaviour.

Oh my neighbour on the left does this. If it were just him it'd be OK as his driveway is right outside his house so he doesn't need to pass our door. But he has a girlfriend who parks further down (when she's not nicking one of our spaces) and she brings her 2 kids, and allll day long they're back and forth to her car, walking over our private driveway, and the kids use every inch of outdoor space - ours as well as theirs - to boot footballs and run around.

You can try and talk to them but if they're cheeky enough to do it in the first place, they're probably not going to care what you say. That's generally what I've found with neighbours. If they were going to care about doing something wrong, they wouldn't do it in the first place. Rarely do people say "oh I'm sorry, I didn't realise!" Trust me, they know and they don't care.

When I get out of the car, I have to step a little bit on his driveway, and despite his repeated bad behaviour, I always try not to step on his private space. It's just ingrained into me to never disrespect people's property.

It would annoy me and drive my dog nuts if he saw someone walking towards the house.
perhaps they just don’t realise. I’d nicely point out about the doorbell and ask that they don’t do it.