Anyone else's inconsiderate, arsehole neighbours gone to another level of arsehole since the lockdown? Come rant here

[LeaveTheBottle]

Hello,

Honestly, I feel like I'm going mad. I know we all do right now, but bloody hell, it really doesn't make the process any easier living next to selfish twats who think it's perfectly acceptable to have their TV on full until 2am, whilst laughing loudly, banging doors, shouting upstairs/downstairs to each other. They have teenage daughters who appear to be coming and going at will too 🙄 so clearly taking the whole lockdown/pandemic thing very seriously.

I can't tell you how close I came last night to banging on the walls to tell them to STFU! But had to keep reminding myself that we could very well be making the situation worse and I don't want to be getting the police involved with everything going on.

They've always been inconsiderate, but now we just don't get a break from them at all!

Anyone else feel my pain? How do you keep together?!

Thanks.

My neighbours are actually fixing me the symptoms of a breakdown. I had a breakdown 5 years ago and all the old feelings are resurfacing with the selfishness that they show. Music that has gone on for 58 hours without stopping, banging, screaming at their child, shouting and swearing at us through our windows when we stomped on the floor to tell them to shut the fuck up. This has gone on since november. We have had the police out, the council out, the managing agents out and even reported the child is at risk of harm (the abuse she is subjected to is horrific) to the MASH. Nothing gets done, it's got worse now with Covid. No official people take responsibility due to the virus. All they do is issue letters telling her to stop which she just ignores. It goes on and on and on.

We are putting the flat on the market as soon as we can after this is over.

Let them have an hour and then turn your TV on loud, slam a door or two, then go quiet for about 10 mins and do it all over again, they will eventually get the message.

The only message they will get is that it is acceptable to continue. Well, why not, you're doing it so why can't they ?

I have learned the hard way that selfish inconsiderate neighbours are just that. They would have to have a level of understanding that is absent and demonstrated by their behaviour to respond to anything and I mean anything i.e. making your own noise, asking them politely, police, local authority etc etc.

Sure you can do it sometimes but often, not. Usual story, the pissed off neighbour moves to get away from them if they can/when they've had enough.

I just can't believe how many inconsiderate knobs there are out there! You'd expect the odd one, but clearly this is very common.

@mummmy2017.... Classic FM is brilliant for revenge. Seems Stampy People only like Pop Music.

Classic FM is too sedate. I'm thinking Mahler symphonies, plus a bit of Wagner...

Someone near me is burning crap today. It’s a nasty chemically smell and it’s making it hard to breathe.

If you've never said anything then they probably have no idea you can hear them.

Same with the nurse - why not just explain you're being extra careful due to your immune system?

Some are these are less about the neighbours and more about you not being able to behave like an adult.

To the poster with the selfish bitch of a nurse next door, who has the audacity to speak to your son through the fence - tell her of your concerns ffs. She'll probably think you're a twat but she'll stop being friendly to your child.

I'm thinking Mahler symphonies, plus a bit of Wagner... Or the 1812 overture?

Some are these are less about the neighbours and more about you not being able to behave like an adult.

Goading much ?

@FlowerArranger If my DD didn't need to be getting on with her work, I'd be very tempted to play this full blast. I'd take it to 11!

One of my neighbours is starting to drive me crazy. I can just about handle the banging and screaming from her DD and the nightly bonfires but her blatant disregard for the current rules has me biting my tongue
Every single morning for the last 8 days she’s wandered up the street in her pyjamas to visit her brother for an hour
She also seemed to have her nephew and his girlfriend living there but then there was no sign of them for 2 days so presumably off visiting someone else
Then the worst for me at least is that her DD has her friend from across the street in the garden playing every afternoon. My DD is upset that I won’t let her play with her friends every time she sees them playing

Today neighbour from hell has a friend over to help tarmac their back garden - such essential travel & great social distancing!

@APurpleSquirrel, having your drive tarmaced is surely top of the list for essential work 🤦‍♀️

No problems where I am, it's as sleepy as normal but thought I would check no one is moaning about my kids back home (I'm at dp's) there's 5 20 somethings (took in friends who couldn't get home from university) so I can only imagine my poor neighbours! (Disclaimer: it's detached and dd runs a tight ship, and my neighbours do have my mobile just in case!)

I'm guessing I'm not the only one who got caught elsewhere for lockdown and whose kids are having fun (safe fun, virtual parties!)

I have the most disgusting inconsiderate neighbours at both sides. It’s the worst place on our street. I’ve been working from home since last week and it’s sooooo hard 😩 Both sides are single parents who don’t work and spend all day in bed whilst the kids run riot. One side has a dog that barks constantly, and at the other side her teenage son who has no fixed abode turns up everyday for a fight with his mother. Both sides are known to the police, have social service involvement and take drugs. They can’t seem to talk....everything has to be shouted. I’ve honestly never met such vile people in my life and I was brought up on a rough council estate and used to work in criminal law.

Lordy, I make it sound like the bronx don’t I 😂 It’s actually a nice street bust these wastes of space totally ruin it for everyone.

I’ll be glad to get back to work for some peace.

My neighbour is a nurse. If anyone is going to catch Covid19 it’s her. Selfish bitch keeps approaching the fence when my DS is playing in the garden

Wow.

@Petiolaris nurses are probably the least selfish people on the planet right now. What a nasty comment. I'd hate to live next door to you, particularly if I were a nurse who had been at work all the hours God sends at a time when the NHS is stretched to the limit - only to be called a 'selfish bitch'.

My neighbour is still having his nightly drugs delivered. 7pm every evening his dealer's car pulls up and he goes out to it. Then proceeds to spend the rest of the evening playing shit 90s dance music top volume.

We're usually pretty live and let live in my house but at the moment it's really getting my back up!

I am surrounded by awful neighbours. My house has been sold and we are dealing with the paperwork but the delay covid will cause has me in tatters.
I can honestly say it consumes my life. It's affected my marriage and my children.
DS who is 3 calls the woman next door the monster in the walls She screams abuse at her kids all day long. The respite was them going to school and nursery.
This woman works with children as well.

Neighbours at the back have constant noisy bbqs with screaming kids and music and the others neighbours have a drum kit. Neighbours down the road have a PA system and regularly do 'gigs' either in their front or back garden. All of this has been happening daily because they are treating it as one long bank holiday.

Burnt out car found at the end of the road. People had a party. Lockdown has sent them all crazy.

The house we are buying is detached, we have absolutely skinted ourselves on the monthly repayment but I can never share walls again.

Many medical staff are isolating themselves outside of work because they’re high risk for infecting others - even staying away from their own children. It’s thoughtless and selfish for such a high risk person to approach the child who lives next door.

@Richwitch, poor you. That sounds awful. We're sandwiched too, but we're in a semi, so as far as internal noise goes, we only get it from the joining neighbours. On the other side, we have a class A scumbag who is utterly vile on on so many levels.

Altogether! - "That's when good neighbours, beeecome.. goooood friends" 👍

I understand your pain @LeaveTheBottle.
But if you're moving you need to keep it shtum...
We've had shit neighbours more often than we were entitled but finally moved to a detached house with lovely news.
We had a tart with a big dog stuck in doors 247 barking.... Druggies raving in flats.... And a dysfunctional family with 3 boys and parents swearing at the top of their voices at each other.
All the best for when you finally move on.

Neighbours not news

@DisinfectantDoris, well yes, this is what we were thinking, but now we're terrified that it will all fall through and we'll be stuck here 😩

Have to say though, I love the sound of a house that comes with good news! 😂

The house we are buying is detached, we have absolutely skinted ourselves on the monthly repayment but I can never share walls again.

Same.

It's very shit, I recommend self medicating with alcohol!

Stupid question but have you ever just asked them nicely to be more considerate?