So we live in a new build estate. It is great here, very quiet. Houses for sale are sold within weeks. (I follow the estate agent listings)
.. Quiet, apart from my little row. We are mid-terrace. The guy on one side is rarely there. But the woman on the other side of us. Oh boy.
She lives with her teenage daughter and a dog which she is proud to have "never walked".
She doesn't work, is an alcoholic and former drug abuser. (she had told us) That would be her business BUT she is REALLY loud, and abusive when she drinks, which is nightly.
She has filled her house with Sonos speakers (neighbours to her other side said they helped her install them). So most nights she is screaming Taylor Swift songs and the music is like a nightclub. Deep, booming and bassy.
I WFH and when I'm on a call and she wakes up (so this is around 2pm daily) whoever I am talking to will say "woah, what was that?" as her music goes on as soon as she wakes.
The loudness is the worst thing but there's other stuff. When she is drunk she tends to text my partner absolute shit. She slags me off (no idea why, I'm always pleasant to her) and makes fun of us.
She is also spiteful and enjoys annoying people. She has it in her head that we "hate" her so she tries to "get to" us. She has literally told us this. "you two are so easy to wind up!" when we show zero reaction.
This morning, 7am, she and her daughter started screaming. Yep, just quite literally, screamed. Followed by wild laughing. Then more screaming. Then their dog started barking. I am SO glad I was already up.
It's been 5 years of this and I don't want to report it because, rightly or wrongly, we'd need to declare it and no one would ever buy this house.
As I type, I sit here with the windows all shut because of the constant noise, making summers here fun. Yes she is one of those "sits out on the decking, music blaring" unapologetic types.
The constant noise is bad enough, but the paranoia she displays is relatively new. Thinking we hate her so she's going to "get revenge". It's a little scary.
Would this be enough to make other people move house?