A thread to moan about neighbours who don't merit a whole thread to themselves

[Clymene]

Here's my moan. Bin day is Thursday and it alternates between recycling and rubbish. Yesterday was recycling. In our recycling bins, we can put cans, glass, cartons, plastic trays and bottles. We cannot put in paper/card (separate container for that) or polystyrene.

My neighbours put their bin out and I could see some polystyrene sticking out the top and the bin men didn't take it. Any normal person would surely find out why their bin hadn't been taken and sort out the stuff that shouldn't have been in there, surely (well most people who have lived in the same area for as long as they have already know what the rules are but anyway). Not these people. What they did was pile even more stuff on top of the already full bin so now the lid doesn't shut and push it right out onto the pavement.

Tomorrow we are forecast 45mph winds and we live at the top of a hill.
I can predict exactly what is going to happen to the contents of their bin.

Why do you hate your neighbours today?

The man next door has lived in his house for decades. This means he is super confident in rounding the corner into our close and onto his drive in his huge car at speed. The fact that his neighbours (including children) might be out on the shared access doesn't cross his mind.

New dog allowed to yap for ages. Really annoying. Mine are brought in immediately if they bark, which is incredibly rare. I have done the whole ‘In! In, if you’re going to bark, you’re not barking in the garden, no’ thing.

Two doors down seem to be constantly throwing out the entire contents of their house. It stays on the drive for days if not weeks. Really annoying. This week, it’s smoked glass wardrobe doors and a flat screen TV. I’d be down the tip with my shit, was, in fact, as soon as I could when I was clearing out the garden.

Ours have just moved in and have a handful of teeth between them. 4 kids and it's a 2 bed terraced with paper-thin walls. The kids are playing football in the house, both parents screaming at eachother and at the children. Every other word is f@(k and the oldest child is only 7. We've luckily just sold but I'm so worried it will fall through and we'll be stuck here with them forever

Our street is a nightmare for parking with only a handful of houses having double driveways. I look upon these double drives daily, wistfully thinking "oh they are so lucky to have ample off street parking on the most narrow, overcrowded, hellhole street in existence. I wish I was them." Recently one of the double drivers BLOCKED OFF HALF OF THEIR DRIVE and now park one car on the narrow, over crowded, hellhole street. Which they are entitled to do but WHY would you? They seem like nice, normal people but now I have to quietly hate them.

Our immediate neighbour took 2 years to renovate his house. He would frequently begin at 8am on a Sunday.

My other neighbour is a landlord and we have a shared drive, with our sections and a bit for shared access in between. He has converted the house into flats which each has a car. So he decided he would squeeze both cars on to his drive which could only be done if his tenants were able to drive over our property. We even had one of them ask of we could move our car once so they could drive over our drive to get out. I soon set home straight. CF..

Tuesday is bin day. Every time they wait for DH to bring the bins in. Stand at the back door waiting. Grrrrr.

My neighbours are genuinely very lovely, but both have very distinctive voices/accents. I have a manic life, very very early starts so when I can grab one, I like an occasional daytime nap. Maybe once a week/fortnight, usually no more than 40 mins. EACH AND EVERY time I have this spare magical time to have a quick recharge, they emerge into the garden and start talking. Keen gardeners, they drone on and on and on about various plants and their positioning and what they can plant where next when etc. in their especially loud, distinctive, droany voices. It annoys me so much, but then it annoys me even more that I'm such an uncharitable judgy cowbag of such nice people so I have an extra dollop of self loathing on top of the annoyance on top of my irritation.

Our front door is next to theirs and they are...quite relaxed about cleaning. It is very, very smelly and the stench blasts out every time they open the door. They have been trying to sell for over a year and I am not surprised at all.

Our new neighbours can’t shut or wedge shut, a door to their garage - it was very windy and it banged open or shut every two minutes all night. They have two driveways for two cars - yet still park on my driveway and my other neighbours driveway (across the main road). Both of us are contemplating getting new patios and yes, we’ve both complained - with zero effect.

Lovely people yet nosey neighbourhood watch type neighbours! Forever telling me about x at number 24 doing such and such, or y at number 20 doing something else.
I just don’t care
Often I pull up in the drive after work to see on of them come bustling out to talk to me about said street neighbours - I really can’t be arsed to give a shit!!

One of ours has security lights at the top and bottom of her garden. They’re set off by the slightest thing.

Sam sodding Smith. On repeat. Every day.
They have a lovely outdoor area that they, rightfully, use often, but cannot seem to go outside without having Sam Smith warbling in the background.
I was kind of apathetic towards him previously. Now I can't even write his name without feeling tense and annoyed.

I'm in a flat and my neighbours opposite have a sort of cupboard on their balcony which blew over in a high wind 3 YEARS AGO and they haven't put it back up straight since. Why???

My neighbours are mostly great.

My little niggle is: one of them has the generally reasonable habit of settling their morning alarm on their phone to "vibrate" rather than a noise presumably to reduce the impact on others in the room. I think that they must then place their phone on a shelf which is attached to the shared wall between our two semi-detached houses because the vibration seems to then vibrate the wall right by my bed and wake me up. AT 6.15 ON A WEEKEND.

But obviously I can't say anything to them about it.

The walls aren't thin - we can't hear voices or normal household noise, there must just be something particularly amenable to transmitting that particular frequency of vibration in that particular spot.

My neighbours are just odd. One side grumpy single man goes to work at 6am Never ever goes in his back garden so it’s like a jungle - I didn’t know ordinary grass will grow to 5 foot or more if you let it !

Other side has an ever changing number of kids started with three then two. One for ages Then four currently it’s two And I’d love to know who is living in their shed Favourite game is running around the living room and up and down the stairs.

@Callcat

My neighbours are genuinely very lovely, but both have very distinctive voices/accents. I have a manic life, very very early starts so when I can grab one, I like an occasional daytime nap. Maybe once a week/fortnight, usually no more than 40 mins. EACH AND EVERY time I have this spare magical time to have a quick recharge, they emerge into the garden and start talking. Keen gardeners, they drone on and on and on about various plants and their positioning and what they can plant where next when etc. in their especially loud, distinctive, droany voices. It annoys me so much, but then it annoys me even more that I'm such an uncharitable judgy cowbag of such nice people so I have an extra dollop of self loathing on top of the annoyance on top of my irritation.

Boots wax earplugs are your friend here. They are marvellous!

Lots of very loud (shouty) kids, a fondness for musical instruments without any apparent knowledge gained in 'trying them out' for many, many years 😒. Constant DIY, refurb (potentially just hammering through the party wall to stealthily move into mine?). Lots of very sensible adult convos with the young children when they're screaming their heads off (no SEN, I just opted to tell mine to pipe down, but hey ho). Then there's the 'musical entertainment nights with friends) It's interesting.... And yes there is a fucking tambourine included 😒.

Our house is on a 90° curve, on a hill, the neighbours opposite have a driveway where she parks her fucking massive black Range Rover. The house we rent was previously occupied with someone with no car, we have two cars, we park so that she has space to reverse out of her drive, but she is terrible at driving. Her husband guides her out every night before work, it takes her a good 5-10 mins of revving her engine til it screams.
The husband cornered me the other week and asked if we would not park our cars in front of our house or next doors so that she had more space to reverse, effectively he wants the space of three cars left empty opposite his house. No chance matey. Your wife needs to learn to drive properly or get a car she can control.

Mine brings my bin in as soon as the bin men have been. I'm going to bring it in, just not immediately. Makes me feel really awkward when I'm working from home. Leave my bin alone!

DIY. FUCKING DIY.

He always has to be doing some sort of DIY. Once he has finished one project it's on to another. The banging drives me insane.

@oldmotherriley

Mine - in a street of otherwise neat terraced houses - have grown trees in their small front garden, such that if you stand across the street, you cannot see their house at all. Er.....why ?

I would guess for privacy!

@HunterHearstHelmsley

Mine brings my bin in as soon as the bin men have been. I'm going to bring it in, just not immediately. Makes me feel really awkward when I'm working from home. Leave my bin alone!

He's doing you a favour

@justanotherneighinparadise I already wear earplugs. The issue isn't noise it is physical vibration. The noise is quieter than my own lovely DH's snoring which my earplugs block quite effectively but the vibration isn't coming through my ears.

Oh I wasn't paying attention - your earplugs recommendation wasn't directed at me

We have off road parking but our four immediate neighbours have more than one car per house and all park in front of ours.

We don't drive so 90% of the time it's not a problem at all, except when I have to lug my food shop out of a taxi three or four houses away in the pissing rain and get charged waiting time.

We are both getting lessons so I predict the parking wars will soon be on.