Sun is out, neighbours are out. Who else has annoying neighbours..

[GoldenPineapples]

Yes everyone is allowed to enjoy their garden and yes especially when it's sunny.

Unfortunately I live next door to the cast of Shameless.

First real hint of sun, out comes the Stella, the shouting, the kids screaming, the bbq.. it sounds like I live next to a loud pub garden..

I tried sitting outside with a nice cider about half 5 but had to come in because of the loud noise that is coming from next door. Sadly they are the type of neighbours where it could shut up about 9pm or it could go on until the early hours..

They've had police called on them (from other neighbours) for shouting, swearing and fighting in the street, they don't care for the law or anything else and talking to them have proved pointless in previous years.

Not a lot I can do, just feel like a whinge in here and not looking forward to another summer of them.. it's not forever because one day I will be able to afford to move.

Until then..

I’ve got one set of neighbours who’s teenage kids congregate with their mates from over the road in their front garden, spilling in to ours, with music from the car stereo and sometimes a bbq. Them being in our garden sets our dog off.

Neighbours the other side have 3 younger kids, who at the slightest hint of nice weather are out playing in the garden, fair enough, but they play football for hours on end, using the diving fence as a goal, so with the screeches and yelling, alongside periodic thumping of the ball against the fence does not make for a peaceful time. I now don’t bother throwing the balls back when the inevitability end up over the fence (I have collected 5 today, they are staying hidden behind my shed, I will give them back if they knock and ask, but won’t throw them back voluntarily..)

They are all nice enough kids, just so loud! And it’s front and back so whatever window is open in the house I can hear them...

I'm, communal gardens that come with flats need to be ornamental only, no people allowed, otherwise it just doesn't work, I live in a flat with communal gardens and I'm so thankful they're quite strict about keeping to those rules!
For me it's always been the neighbours with the trampolines the that are the noisy ones

Noise pollution definitely gets worse as soon as the weather warms up, especially when it's a bank holiday. Around 2am some drunk people arrived home and spent about 15 minutes having a shouty conversation with the person who'd dropped them home. There was a lot of drunken shouting and shrieks of laughter, which must have woken up everyone within a 5 mile radius, but just in case it hadn't, the driver helpfully blasted his horn several times as he drove off - selfish moron!

From Easter till the autumn our neighbours have drinking sessions in their garden most weekends. They are good natured when drunk, but they are also very loud. On the other side the neighbours sometimes argue loudly in their native language, which is their choice, but it's one of those languages that sounds quite abrasive and gutteral, and the fact that it's loud enough to be intrusive is even more annoying when you can't understand a word they're saying. Another garden has weeds several feet high because the people who live there can't be bothered to keep the garden tidy (two adults live there, both abled bodied, just bone idle). It's a real eyesore.

Luckily I only work part time and the noisy neighbours work full time, so I am able to have some peaceful time in the garden while they're at work. I understand that people need to let off steam a bit when they work full time, but it does irk me a bit that it's so relentless, every sunny weekend and bank holiday. Maybe I need to get some noise cancelling headphones - do they work and would they keep falling off if worn when gardening?

I have got three barking dogs, had a barny about this afternoon. Why can’t people control their dogs. Got a mouthful of abuse which of course was returned. I have helped this person out many times previously but i won’t be helping them again.

Well the heat hasn't let up in Melbourne this autumn, 30 today, and soon-to-be neighbour is Karchering stuff off his newly-built house site into the gutter. So noisy, and made me think of the concreteberg in London.

The same phenomenon obtains here. The first mild weekend after winter signals the firing up of heavy machinery. The very loud pissed-up neighbours is less of an issue, though time will tell.

I'm starting to think I'd fit until the neighbourhood better if I let DDog bark outside rather than fetching him in whenever he starts up I hear more of the neighbours dog than I do of my own.

I remember once on a campsite in the South of France we had a neighbour who played a CD of Celine Dion on a loop.

Got so fed up I turned our radio up a good notch, they got a good blast of the World Service. No more Celine Dion!

We had music-gate yesterday afternoon. My neighbours have the huge corner plot, but choose to have their table and chairs right next to my fence. Their speaker is fastened to the right of my back door. They smoke, so we have to breathe in their chain-smoking. Yesterday we had been out most of the day, but the kids wanted to play out in the garden when we got back. Neighbours were playing 70s music, so I popped on the charts on Spotify and turned on our speaker, which is located in the shed to the far left of our small garden. Up went their speaker, so I had to turn ours up and so on until eventually they went inside. Our walls were then jumping until gone midnight as their sound bar is right next to our open staircase 😡

As tempting as it is it's never a good idea to get into an arms race with the neighbours

YANBU.

They sound like feral pond life

The sound of a million jet washers.

Hardly surprising though surely? The weather is good and it's a long weekend for anyone not working so the perfect time.

We tend to take it turns with garden music. There's an unspoken but well adhered to rule. Not too loud and if you were on yesterday you have to give one of the others a chance to get revenge today. Works well. We occasionally here a neighbor shout tune!

But we're so packed in with tiny gardens you can can hear every conversation, so we're all pretty close.

Last night turned in to screaming arguments (neighbours not us). We have been out for the afternoon and just come home to Celine at top volume on the karaoke, so I imagine that's been going all afternoon.... Sunday I will be up early and will let the DC be very loud while Egg hunting . On to the HA Tuesday...

Dipshit and Banshee made me LOL. Our old neighbour had, I swear, a child named Shutthefuckup.

Our current one doesn't seem to work and stays home to smoke weed and blast music all day. The music is so loud is actually shakes our flat back and forth. I genuinely don't know how that's enjoyable for him!

This morning from 7.30,
last night bottles going in the bin that everyone can hear crash crash bang lid!

9am, in the garden
They can’t speak low, everything as to be said loud. You don’t need to try and listen!
10am. Grandkids and mum turn up, daughter replica of mum big gob
We can hear everything, even when the little one needs his nappy changing and how it’s sticks ffs
11am
The music gets turned up, re living youth them singing soul/Motown music.
I can’t even sit out it’s that loud

Mum & kids go out, YES peace & quiet
No he turns it up a notch, I’m ready for snapping my anxiety is high today

It’s now 6.30, kids gone home
Him & Her (60’s) have got the f... music going again
Calm me down, I’m gonna snap
Every time it’s nice we get this. Oh if they have friends round it’s gone 1am

Plus to cap it off, they’ve got literally hundreds of fairy lights in the garden Flashing that we can see through hedge.

I just glad I’m not joined house to them
Dp is going to have to hold me back or shut me up.
Wish I could tape the noise for you all
Well stressed high anxiety and pissed off

So glad our neighbours are students or pensioners
The students have all gone home for the holidays
And the pensioners are no bother or are away with family
Peace and tranquility reigns

I like both sets of my neighbours but the mum one side doesn’t use her ‘indoor voice’ she has a really strong nails on board, alright duck loud voice. Her whole mouth moves to the right. It’s a little much, I’m sure people give miles away can hear her. I wouldn’t say anything though because she’s actually really nice.

My neighbours on one side are lovely - mum, dad and 3 kids. Most polite, well behaved kids, who manage to play and have fun in their garden for hours on end without shrieking their heads off and disturbing half the street.
The other ones are a different story. They’ve got an aggressive dog which my youngest DC is terrified of, which meant we had to pay to have a fence put up earlier this week. The dad is an arsehole who likes to make absolutely foul remarks about disabled people and thinks he’s hilarious. The mum kicks her kids (including a toddler) out of the house as early as possible in the mornings and then isn’t seen again for the rest of the day unless she’s chain smoking out the front, waiting for the aggressive dog to finish shitting on the green that everyone’s kids play on. When the DCs are in the garden, they are the shouty-screamy breed of DCs, and it always manages to be my DCs nap time when they decide to commence the riot

This is why we live in the middle of nowhere. Road noise it no abandonnes 16 year old partying every bloody weekend without parental supervision.
Awful. I feel for you all.

Whilst I sympathise with you for your dreadful neighbours, as the mother of 4 boys, neighbours must feel a little anxious when we move into a new house (fortunately, we haven't moved very often!) with a preconceived dread as to the certainty that noise and other annoyances are sure to increase. Apart from one hideous childless couple, our sons have enjoyed very good friendships with our neighbours as they have never been allowed to run wild to such an extent that it becomes annoying for everyone. The only problem we have had with neighbours was with one childless couple who seemed to take an instant dislike to my boys and complained about everything. They objected to a little slide because when one of the boys was on the top step (it only had 3 steps), they could see over the fence. If we had lunch outside, apparently it attracted birds that then left bird droppings on their washing! On and on and on. Finally, I told them if they ever spoke to me or my sons again, I was going to make their lives a misery. They soon shut their traps!

Over the back family currently playing Livin the Vida Loca while I’m trying to get my 2yo and 4yo to sleep.

5am this morning, I could hear their music with the windows shut! I'm not sure who it is as our house backs onto numerous gardens, but if I find them, I will kill them semi joking

granadagirl

I think you have moved into my old house. That sounds exactly like my old selfish fucker neighbours!

We’re pretty lucky, all our neighbours seem okay and although everyone on the street have people round from time to time I don’t remember there ever being anything excessive. If we have guests late we come inside when it gets dark and it sounds like everyone else does the same.

However, years ago when the neighbours moved in, their sons were tearaways. Parents yelled at them loudly, boys jumping off their garden shed roof into the other peoples gardens, balls being kicked against adjoining fences, one day one of the boys used the garden hose to squirt into his brothers open bedroom window and so on.
They had a slide which they shoved right up against our fence and would just sit at the top and stare at us. We used to say hi and make small talk with them but they honestly just used to stare at us - quite annoying when you’ve got people round.
They poked the little knots of wood out of the fence and looked through there too. Just weird.
Their wobbly fence blew down one winter and after 6 months and our then toddler wandering into their garden near there pool and lots of broken glass, we asked if they were planning on putting a new one up. They said they couldn’t afford it so we offered to pay for one - never have I been so happy to pay for something that wasn’t mine, we installed a 7 foot fence with cemented in concrete posts!!
They have calmed down now but it was annoying for a while.

It's another glorious day here so neighbours are back out again with their 70s music. I didn't feel the need to put any on, and the kids have played happily in the garden until around 6pm (I've passive smoked around 60 fags) when at that point, neighbours must have invited the rest of the shameless cast around. The language was appalling, and they're discussing how amazing it is to be drinking Mad Dog 20/20. Who even knew that was still a thing 🤷‍♀️

Wow! so many selfish people not thinking that everyone wants to be able to enjoy their garden.....