Moaning about neighbours, please join

[Astressie]

Thought I'd start a cathartic thread to anoymously vent / let off steam about neighbours. Here's my very lightweight moan. I love my garden it's my sanctuary from life / DP/ stress I love wandering around it and occasionally doing a bit of gardening. Sooo relaxing and lovely even though pretty small. But my neighbours spend their whole life in their garden. I have very rarely been outside when they're not out there too. Doesn't matter whether it's late at night or early in the morning. Thank god there's a high wall. Continually have to here their conversations (a couple) smoke constantly & barking smokers coughs and loud belching (not bothered about smokers generally as I vape) Constant chat about the minutiae of life. Never any peace. Sooo annoying!! I'm sure there are much more annoying neighbours, but lockdown and now having to self-isolate for 2 weeks has magnified it.

What winds you up about your neighbours?

Dog barking (yapping) in the early hours. Get up and let it in you lazy buggers!

We’re in a detached house on a relatively new (20 years) estate so minimum distance between houses.
Old neighbours on both sides have very selfishly sold their houses to families both with 2 daughters under age 8. These girls have played outside a lot through lockdown-lots of laughter, no horrible squealing etc, very much reminding me of when my own children were that age.

This has made me feel OLD!! Most unreasonable of them
This has made me feel OLD,

Next doors teenage son and his friends always hanging out in their front garden near my bedroom. Loud, smoking weed, mopeds up and down the street. Tab ends and litter sometimes in my garden. Otherwise my other neighbours are great, albeit loud sometimes.

Our neighbours are overly friendly (a bit like Flanders from the simpsons 😂) but they are also always in the garden, they sometimes look over the fence and on occasion we have been in the hot tub with our 6month old we also find them very odd...they have three adult children and since lockdown have been spending a lot of time in the garden (which is understandable). But they have also been camping there too!

Detached house. Neighbours have built a shed against our wall. Every now and again, we'll have the bejeezus out of us with sudden hammering that sounds like it's coming from another room in the house. 🙃😑

Constant DIY projects that all seem to involve as much noise as possible.
The whine of a buzz saw thing goes straight through me, and I start to get twitchy every time I see the garage door open now.

Neighbours who use the garden as their main living area, speakers on from before 8am, constantly have around 10-12 guests so the noise is constant, can’t hear our tv over their noise, can’t sit in our garden to relax at all. They are driving me mad. Not to mention the constant smell of weed.

My neighbour hasn't changed their curtains in 20 years. We have had estate agents knocking on our door asking who owns the property as they think it's derelict and are amazed when we say someone actually lives there.

Back and from gardens are covered in weeds and some have taken root and grown so tall (think over 15 foot) that they cover the 2nd floor windows and are constantly knocking down our fence.

He has a leaking pipe that is constantly dripping on our patio. Spoke to him about it 2 years ago and he said he would fix it. Well its still dripping.

They were broken into one night and when the police knocked our door to ask if we had seen anything, they said they thought that due to the state of the property, it was someone looking for a squat. Oh and they complained about the noise when my partner had the radio on when mowing the grass (well we've had 20 years of your crap).

There is a family of foxes living in the back garden who once it gets dark make a constant high pitch noise. We have offered to help. They said they would think about it.

Our next door but one neighbour is a lovely lady but fuck me is she loud. Her normal talking voice is so loud that I can hear her in the garden at the front of my house with the windows shut.

Ours appear to have mounted a tv and/or embedded speakers into the shared wall with our living room (terraced house). And they clearly don’t use any of the features to stop the sounds being absurdly loud. In fact, they turn it up really loudly so they can hear the dialogue and then it absolutely booms when there’s music or noise. It’s much louder than our tv is (in our own living room). And the sound tracks all the way up the chimney breast, so you can hear it (not quietly) in DS’s room and ours.

We live in a city centre street largely made up of 3 and 4 story large victorian terraces. Private road. In its prime, would have been amazing. Unfortunately, some of the houses have been converted into flats and the tenants in these are transient and varied. Our neighbouring house is split into 4 flats. Guy occupying too floor a drunk. Over familiar with us and others in the street, including children. Back tenant plays violence themed computer games loudly through the night. Constant smell of weed. Constant front door slamming.

@JudgeRindersMinder that's got to be the loveliest rant I've ever read

God I knew I had it easy. Some of these posts are making my blood pressure go up just reading them!! to all.

I don’t have any neighbours for miles..... I’m not even the littlest bit sorry!

Where to start ! ☹️ They have SIX dogs, 2 children under 3 and two lodgers (plus birds). The three year old screams a lot just because he can, the dogs are never walked and the garden is an absolute mess. They’ve parked ie dumped one of their old cars on the front garden. They constantly bang internal doors and cupboard doora at all hours. They smoke in the house whilst hanging out the front bedroom window. They have had relatives round throughout lockdown (as clearly it doesn’t apply to them!!) and have a trailer full of rubbish bags on the side of their house. It is a housing association house and really deserves to have gone to someone who’d treat it better !! And breath - that feels better out

I just hate hearing other people so summer just pisses me off. We’re surrounded each side and over the back. One side has constant visitors so I hear the crunch crunch as they walk up the side of our house a s then conversations so close it feels like they’re in the kitchen. Over the back is a very loud woman who bellows down her phone and has constant BBQS. The other side is an enthusiastic DIYer. I too whinge when I hear the power towels come on as he’s always doing something that seems to affect us.

They can’t shut a damn door or window without thumping it.

Their kids go to bed the same time as them so there is noise until 11pm.

Wood floors and thundering herds if elephants day and night as the youngest appears to like to run back and forth in 20min chunks. Right up til bedtime.

Smoking weed yesterday, which is an unpleasant change from their usual drugs as it stinks.

Dog barks all the time. Even they can’t shut it up. And it’s constant when they go out and leave it behind.

Cars coming and going all the time. Doors slamming. Crap music very loud.

Their garden is a tip with mega weeds.

*wince
*Power tools 🙄

One neighbour has a screaming child (nothing wrong with them, they are just a pain in the arse), and a constantly barking dog. The dog sets the kid off and the kid sets the dog off.
Another neighbour has a bazillion children and one of the teens has taken to dealing drugs from their garden and another keeps thinking it's fun to ring our doorbell and then run away, they won't think it's fun if I catch them doing it tomorrow!

My neighbour is unbelievable, she is an alcoholic in her 50's she will awake around 2pm, open her bedroom window and begin to shout really vulgar abuse on repeat, shouting things like oi fucking slags, fucking fat bastard junkies, fucking bullies... This will go on until around 4am.
Honestly I have never encountered this extreme sort of behaviour before, I really regret moving here.
Sometimes the police will turn up but they never arrest her and as soon as they leave she will just start again.

Next door neighbours are unbelievably loud from the minute they wake up until they finally go to sleep at 4 in the morning. There isn't a day I can't hear them talking. Shouting, blasting there speakers outside my front door for hours on end even though we live on a main road and they have a garden. Can't even sit in my living room or any part of the house with my tv on or just in peace without being able to hear there's word for word extremely loudly in every room in my house until 2 in the morning. Or the constant screaming and shouting and phones beeping. Constant banging and slamming of doors every 5 minutes at stupid times at night. Always sat outside my door step drinking with no tops on. Neighbours the other side are very lovely thankgod however I cannot stand there need to drill walls and put things together at 6/7 in the morning especially when you are heavily pregnant exhausted and have a toddler to look after. Can't wait to move that's for sure.

I hate everyone who lives adjacent to me and that’s in no way an exaggeration. As I type this I’m having to sleep in a humid top floor room (3 storey, the heat really build up here) listening to some twunt who most certainly is using his ‘outdoor voice’ and has been since 9pm. And trust me; NOTHING on this planet is that funny that you need to laugh like a pissed donkey. Apart from that....

A selection of yapping, growling, over sensitive dogs who need to STFU - got 7 dogs in the neighbouring houses in total.

Crap FM. Loudly. All day and all evening.

Jet washing anything that moves.

Outdoor projector screens. Whose genius idea are they? Sorry, hearing your crap radio inside and out all summer isn’t enough. I have to listen to Star Wars and Trolls too. A lot.

They all drive up and down the road like they are competing to kill someone or someone’s pet. They all do this with Crap FM blaring out of their car windows too.

Despite spending so much time in their gardens it’s a miracle that most of them are shit tips with rotting sheds and weeds and the waft of dog crap when then breeze is in the wrong direction.

Mowing at 7.30am on a Sunday - those that care about their gardens that it.

Bonfires. Loads and bloody loads of bonfires.

Loud conference calls outside on headsets. I have no inclination to hear about your work issues. And just loud generally. I can tell you a lot about people round here - what they need on their shopping lists, what they are having for supper, and a running commentary on CV19 for the last 3 months. I am sick of their booming voices!

It’s not polite to dry your pants and bras and other greying lingerie items on a clothes horse right outside our front doors, even if that is the only sunny spot.

I could go on but it does my blood pressure no good at all.....

Next door's dog barking when anyone approaches our front door, when we go in the garden, when I open our windows, when I hang the washing out, when anyone walks past the houses and pretty much at anything. I hate the fucking thing but I hate
them more for not doing anything about it,
even though we've asked if they could.

I have a drug dealer across the road, likes to think he's a gangsta!
The customers next door with loud droning music 🤔 til 3am most days giving absolute zero fucks for the neighbours with kids and those who are working 🤬
Neighbourhood watch on other side who watches everything and likes a good gossip about the neighbours
And this is a nice area too 🤦🏼‍♀️

Next door rebuilt their house practically from scratch- 2 full years of construction noise and dust.

They forgot they had 3 kids and covered their whole block with house. No outside space at all, bar a tiny bit of covered driveway. So the kids kick a soccer ball against the fence from dawn till dusk. It’s a lowish fence, so they jump over it eleventy billion times a day into my garden to collect the ball. The fence is about a metre from our house on that side. About 3 rooms in my house are now impossible to work or relax in, due to the constant thumping of balls.

I have dreams of waiting behind the fence with a huge kitchen knife and putting a hole in whatever comes over next.