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?

I have a couple living underneath me in a 1 bed council flat who have just had a baby. Very soon after baby born they suddenly accused me a wearing shoes in my flat and just generally making noise.

I have a family above me with two small kids a dog nd a cat. Of course I hear them all. Thats what happens in a small block of flats. I also constantly hear their baby crying downstairs. I don't bother to complain to the council everyday and the enforcement team fgs.

Our housing officer called me today to say they have been reporting me for noise for a long while now. They have now gone above her to the enforcement team.

I am so NOT a noisy neighbour. We don't play music. Yes I walk across my floor but would never wear outdoor shoes In the house. He has complained about hearing scratching!!!, my washing machine, toilet, Hoover.

I really believe they are trying to use me to get moved to a bigger 2 bedroom place. The HO made it clear she thought the same.

They knocked the bathroom/toilet into one when they moved in. Also have knocked down another wall. I have no idea if he is making it unsafe for the two floors above him. The HO said he would never be allowed to to knock down any walls in a council property. She is going there tomorrow to see for herself.

I never ring and complain about anyone but it seems I need to start as they are complaining about such ridiculous things. I hate it!!

Someone hates my neighbour so much they left a turd in her wheelie bin.

I have to listen to Star Wars and Trolls too. A lot.

^ Ugh.
I could quote along with the first movie.
The second would drive me mad!

Ooh can I join!
New neighbours bought small bungalow next door to us and proceeded to extend it ,tripling its size right up to the boundary. Had a year of builders radio blasting out, builders up on the roof overlooking our garden , lots of building noise etc . Finally finished build ,i thought oh good be able to use garden properly this summer. Extended multi generation family- 5 adults 2 kids and 3 dogs move in. They are the world's noisiest family , spend a lot of time outside, sitting in my garden i can hear all their conversations I know all about freds prostate, Sarah's work conference, Billy's football club , johns new mercedes, every time I'm in garden their dogs sense I'm there and bark loudly at the fence and they rarely try and stop them barking . When they finally go inside I can still hear them - think they must have a open plan kitchen family room with bi fold doors and no soft furnishings- its an echo chamber , so I can listen to the one show, followed by coronation street and eastenders all without switching my tv on,sometimes I do wonder if they are a bit deaf, they are soo loud.

Constant burning if rubbish , bins overflowing attracting flies and shared access used as dumping ground for any furniture etc they are getting rid of

Our neighbour sometimes has her tv loud, occasionally really loud. I assume she doesn't always have her hearing aids in. But that is only slightly annoying. What really bugs me is that she seems incapable of shutting a door without slamming it. Are all her doorhandles broken!? Every single door is loudly slammed shut.

My neighbour has been a pain in the arse for about 14 years now. He's had various women over the years. Noisy parties every Fri/Sat night, and his hottub. He's settled a bit in the last couple of years with the recent woman.

Virtually every neighbour over the back has a dog and they all start each other off.

I hate it and I am moving. My number one on my list is a garden that is not overlooked.

Next door have lived there about a year now. We're end of terrace. They scream and shout at each other constantly, they had an absolute melt down because the council put in a 6 foot fence and she doesn't like it, they never close the gate but when DH took it down to fix she threatened violence against him for it, they are constantly drunk, they have people over all the time, they scream at their kids and the kids are just allowed to do as they wish including them allowing their 2 year old to come into our garden and they didn't know where he was for an hour. The other day her partner got out of a car with an open beer can in hand followed by the driver with his open can.

They make it impossible for me to go in my garden because anything they can find to be nasty about they will including the fact that I don't speak to them because I have severe social anxiety. I miss my garden.

Everything my next door neighbour does annoys the life out of me! Can't wait for her to move!!! I also hate the way she speaks to people in the street Including me "IYYAAA BA-Y-BEEE". Shut the fuck up you annoying woman! Also let's her 2yr old run around at all hours. Poor kid has no routine. She literally has a solid metal ball with bells in it which she rattled off her wooden floor which then projects the sound into our house.

Hasn't cut her grass this year, doesn't put her bins out, let's the other neighbour do it! General lazy cow. Never once abused by lockdown rules either, yet phoned the police on the neighbour across the road when she thought was a family member visiting - it was a paramedic - think the ambulance may have given that away to everyone else..!!!

Oh and don't get me started on the 19yr old who screams at full volume playing his xbox and fifa! I've literally just heard "FUCKING PASS THE BAW YA WEE WANKING C**T". Oh to think his parents are both high up in the police and let that happen on a daily basis...

Rant over.

Abided by lockdown rules, not abused lol

To the miserable old cow next door. Stop trying to get attention, no one fucking cares, no one is your friend and no one is speaking to you still.

Ours is a keen amateur musician.

All our neighbours are really lovely...in fact I worry that our happy terrier is the problem!!

Screaming at each other throughout the day. Tiny terraced and they have 4 people in it. 3 of whom I haven't seen leave since lockdown started. I understand their frustrations but a 15 year old should know better to scream and tantrum throughout the day and in the early hours.

And I know the girl well so I know that she can control it but chooses not to for effect.

But like I said it's a small house for 4 so I do understand and I'm not sure they realise how much I can hear.

We had new neighbours move in above us a couple of months ago. Since they've moved in there has been vandalism to cars, strange characters creeping about, etc. Turns out they're dealing and bringing all sorts to our street. They slam the door several times a day and go thundering down the stairs, trailing the stench of weed behind them, only to come back upstairs minutes later. Drives me batty!

Forgot to mention they just dump a black bag of rubbish out first thing on bin day instead of using their actual bins! So the bag then gets shredded by birds and the rubbish gets strewn everywhere for everyone else to clean up...

The guy upstairs plays loud music throughout the night every few weeks or so. Pretty sure he has speakers on the floor as the ceiling vibrates. Our landlord owns the whole building and does nothing. Occasionally to spice his life up he has his kids round and they run up and down and constantly scream till midnight.

Then on one side we have bonfire Barry who has never met anything he won't burn. Sometimes the guy on the other side joins in and we get to experience Dante's levels of hell without even having to die first.

Over the back we have a guy who does nothing at all to his garden. Someone must have loved it once as there are some beautiful large shrubs, but now he has rotting deck and a broken fence that is lying in his garden since the storms last year. Our cats like to bring us mice from his garden, alive and then we get to run around the house at 3am trying to catch them while overhead we have live action Jumanji.

Terraced house here, gardens and patios separated by fence. WFM from my kitchen table.

Every day I have to work with the kitchen door and windows closed, even during this hot weather, because of my NDN’s loud bellowing either with work on Teams/Skype or to her family.

I don’t mind normal family noise, just her and her fog horn voice!

Our neighbour one side is using his furlough to finally lay a patio, construct a pergola and fuck knows what else. It's involved lots of drilling and cutting of paving slabs. He has his radio on all the time.

At least it's keeping his SDS who should be doing his GCSEs occupied.

*DSS

So much DIY it drives me mad ,, when I move there will be no neighbours

Happy that the neighbour next door is a lady in her seventies who is always quiet. Grateful I don't live on the other side of the cul de sac though. Family with nine kids, none of whom seem to have an indoor voice and the father is even louder. They sit on the front from 7am to 11pm talking shouting with the direct neighbours whose son rides his tinny motorbike on and off the street at top speed, if not pulling wheelies, probably forty times a day.
I'm probably known as the miserable one who doesn't speak to any of them with the dog who growls at them as I walk past. No idea why the dog growls as she is as soft as a brush and saves the growling for the shouty father in particular.

With ours is the constant smell of weed. We only have six houses on the street and I'm convinced every one of them apart from us smokes it based on the smell.

It is petty, but I get pissed off with parking as well. Our house and next door have allocated parking outside our houses. Everyone else's parking space is in a car park at the end of the street. Expect since lockdown I have learned that every occupant is a tradesman (to be fair we only moved in last winter) and insists on parking their precious works van outside their house. There is room but it makes it an absolute bastard getting my car in and out.

I feel bad complaining about them because other than that the neighbours are much better than at my old house. It was like living in shameless on my old street. Every child had a name hyphenated with - Lee at the end. The parents drank and smoked weed in the garden constantly while the kids were running feral in the streets. The kids used to climb into our back garden and trash the place. Bottles, glasses and even once a shitty pair of kids knickers (I kid you not) were thrown into our garden by them. On the other side, they stood outside on the front porch smoking and tried to engage in conversation when I'd just got home from work at 11pm and didn't want to see another human being let alone speak to one. They would shout, argue and sing along to music as loud as physically possible. My favourite was in the middle of one argument, we could actually hear them slagging DH and I off (DH worked at same place as their fella) then tried to act nice as pie the next day when I saw them. They would also have their alarm going for 25 minutes every morning at 5am. It wasn't until we complained to their housing association that stopped. Our LL kicked us out the house to sell it and I do really pitty the poor soul who has bought that house now!

I live in a 4 in a block flat, my upstairs neighbour moved in and didn't bother to put proper carpets down then got 2 dogs! They had visitors round every single bloody night till 1am. They knocked a wall down in their half of the garden and then cut the dividing hedge down (that's ours) without telling us. The dogs sleep in the bedroom so it's constant banging and then just when they settle down the couple start having really noisy sex usually it's about 3am by this point! Can't wait to get out of here!!!!

The numptys next door, half a job bob and his wife, take forever to mow front lawn, often only doing half then leave it for months to grow. Last time they did it they left a thin strip down the middle ( there’s no fence) so we had to cut it when DH did our lawn. The back hasn’t been touched all year. They cut down every tree in their garden, built a greenhouse then left it to rot, build a nice little area down the bottom of their garden with water feature, fir pit and solar lights then left it to ro. Never use the garden at all build a hideous second hand conservatory on the patio which sunk cos it wasn’t laid properly then had to redo it and build the conservatory again. We used to speak when they first moved in but when we had our extension built they objected to planning about us having a window in the second floor study as it would overlook their -hideous and never used- garden so we had to build it without, since then they never speak so we just ignore them. They are both smokers, look about 70 despite being 20 years or so younger and never ever open a window even on the hottest days, 2 cats as well! The smell must be horrendous inside and we often smell the fags through a wall in our bathroom.