What are your neighbours like?

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We live in a terraced house, the neighbours on our left are a lovely older couple who we (my partner and I) always say hello to and have a chat with if we’re in the garden at the same time. However our neighbours on our right are an awful family who are always outside in their garden screaming and swearing at their kids and are really just horrible. We have low fencing on either side and it’s difficult to avoid them but I feel like I can’t even bring myself to even smile at them. Is that really bad of me? What are your neighbours like?

Ndn is an entitled prick. Started smashing down the wall between our houses... That our ll owns..
No shame...
Other side bare minimum chat but def there if we needed each other.
Best kind imo!!

I live in a cul de sac of 5 houses. Thankfully, the occupants of the other 4 houses are all lovely. Helpful, friendly and supportive. When I read of some of the neighbour issues people have on here I just thank my lucky stars ours are generally decent and respectful people.

An elderly neighbour on one side, drinks like a fish and smokes like a chimney and loves to pounce when you are in a hurry to put you in a verbal stranglehold! But has a heart of gold, we run errands for her and she has watched the kids in emergencies.
Quietish couple on the other side, young professionals, do very occasionally have a noisy gathering with drinking, swearing and crashing around but so few and far between that really not a problem.

Lovely. We live in a cul de sac, it’s mainly families, with a couple of single people and couples. Everyone is really friendly without being intrusive, and we have a street WhatsApp to share news etc which is fab. There’s only one set we don’t get on with but they’re adjacent to our cul de sac rather than in it and we just studiously ignore each other.

Really nice. Next door is attached and 2/3 of our top floor is over his house (and old Weavers Cottage that was divided up moon ago) I hoover 'quietly' and other stuff in those rooms 🤪

There's another two neighbours on the lan, we bring each other's bins in, have a WhatsApp group etc. Nothing over friendly but normal friendly neighbour activity. We have a shared restricted access driveway so we have to get along and park efficiently!

Our immediate neighbours both sides are brilliant and we all look after each other when needed. Several other neighbours a few doors away are also fab.
I’m very aware I’m lucky.

Next door, he's cheerful, she's very quiet but nice.
Beyond that, friendly if a bit mad.
Opposite, She's friendly, he's a bit grim and spooky.

Lovely! They look out for me and give me some of their home grown veg. They are the reason l have been here so long.

Ours change frequently as we live in an area with lot sof rented properties, I used to quite like this but now would like some more stability. The change is tiring!

We had lovely neighbours
Until one side moved and the other died
One side have their kids every other week-screaming and shouting all day,climbing into our garden and gawping over the fence
All we hear is the parents shouting-them shouting back and doors slamming/them thumping up the stairs

The other side seems to think she owns the street-we’ve been yelled at for parking in our own drive and she went mental at me the other day for going to the loo at 10pm-I’m not sure if it’s the fact I turned the light on or that I flushed that wound her up
She will stand at her window every single time we leave the house just so she can watch and pounce if we breathe the wrong way
She also loves a garden party and it goes on for hours-drinking and smoking weed

We’re not moving anytime soon so she either shuts up or fucks off herself

I only really have one set of neighbours and their house isn't too close to ours. They are very lovely though. They are foster carers and often worry their little fosterlings are making too much noise. We can only hear them playing in the garden and it is a lovely sound.

Next door on the right we have a brilliant couple similarly aged to us, also with no plans to have DC, with similar interests: the first time we had them over for polite neighbourly garden drinks we all ended up quite drunk and discovered we are all TG club-goers. We have drinks with them at least once a month.
On the left we have a really nice middle aged woman who talks very loudly to her cats every morning and sometimes gives us plant cuttings for the garden.
On the other side of her is a house share. They’re fine, but they’ve let their garden turn into a literal jungle which attracts mosquitos and other bugs, which we moan about in summer.

I live in an end terrace, our NDN are an elderly couple, keep themselves to themselves and we never really hear a peep from them.
Unfortunately on the other side of the fence there is a four in a block, upstairs and downstairs neighbours don't get on at all and are always arguing or winding each other up. Upstairs neighbors always stinks of cannabis whenever he has the windows open it's all we can smell and I hate it.

Not attached are lovely (apart from the bright as fucking hell light they’ve installed on the garage that is in from 930pm - 6am so our landing and bedroom are lit up like a Christmas tree!). Bring round veg they’ve grown from time to time, chat every now and again, nice and quiet, and don’t get mad when the dog barks at them (he is being trained not to!). Attached has been empty for a year after the owner died. Her family has been selling the property but no sign of new owners. I’m absolutely dreading it as we know it needs lots of work doing and we have a newborn imminent so I’m expecting loads of noisy building work at the wrong time they also have lots of trees in the garden and I’m expecting they’ll want to chop them all down too which will be sad.

Amazing, our "worst" neighbour is still a delight

I really feel your pain.
I just moved to a flat in November (small building,4 flats) on the medium sized estate that has lovely green space in the middle & playground).All families are lovely,considerate bar one on the ground floor,right under my flat.
They act like they own the building,keep propping communal door open for their numerous visitors to come as they pleased,keep their flat door wide open while having large number of visitors who chain smoke while there (sometimes daily occurrence),frequent parties,kids who always scream and shout in the hall and outside(not normal level,it sounds like caged animals set free rather than kids playing),whenever you try to talk to them they are aggressive and name calling monsters,they have 2 grown up daughters who are very unpleasant,one shouted at me few days ago when I was leaving the building to move out of the way,called me names etc.I have a dog which they threaten to poison.The list is endless.And it seems that they really want to provoke any possible situation be it dirty looks,sly comments etc.Today they put massive speaker outside (they have tiny garden in front of the building),playing really loud music on the loop since 10 am,now they have barbecue underneath the gazebo which is touching our building walls,I had to close the windows as it goes straight to my flat,music still on(almost 12 hrs of torture ,lots of visitors again and I am scared to go and take my dog for the last wee.
I do love being here,love the area and am happy to escape DV but this kind of behaviour is just terrible,they behave like no one else is existing here.
Luckily I managed to befriend few people on the estate so don't feel so miserable but I just wish neighbours will be more civil

I live on a marina, we have 3 other boats next to our mooring. We’re really lucky that we all get on very well, especially as 3 of us have DC so we are practically with each other all the times

New neighbours one side elderly couple seem pleasant enough. Other side are nightmare neighbours with a very long list of annoyances.

I live on a mixed street - I am a Housing Association tenant - super neighbour on the left with partner, 4 kids, 2 parrots (gorgeous), 2 rabbits, 2 dogs - lovely house, supportive and a good laugh. Right hand side 2 private flats - amazing woman in her 60s with cute dog and pleasant couple (he can be an arrogant prick at times) - also a retired NHS Nurse who is a Scouser and into crystals etc, a current NHS nurse, a very sweet Polish lady and her 2 girls and a ditsy woman with a partner who is a notorious local criminal - great neighbourhood though - I love it :)

Dirty, loud, noisy, entitled, scrounging, rude, arsehole scum bags!

One side are really lovely.

The other side have never forgiven us for being on the other side in the Scottish Referendum. The post nasty things on social media about us, take photos of people visiting our house, chuck rubbish in our garden, spray our plants with weedkiller, etc.

Neighbours in general are great just the bloody teenagers that let it down. Wish they would grow up quicker and eff off.

I live in an end terrace, my ndn attached to me is a single retired woman who is very quiet but also very nice. Ndn we share a driveway with who arent attached are a young family like us with a similar aged child who my Ds plays with. Also lovely. The rest of my neighbours opposite and in close vicinity are also all very pleasant and we all say good morning etc. We even have a street Facebook group of around 50 people who look out for each other. I need to upsize but im very lucky and reluctant to move just yet because you hear horror stories of awful neighbours.

Quite family on one side of us, friendly & water the flowers when we are in hols..
Other side is strange.. I invited my next door neighbours daughter to dds party a while back & she said they would be going "we have somewhere to go afterwards but we'll go after the party", from insta I could see they went on staycation... Why not say that! Also they've had building work donw three or four times & never bothered to tell us they were getting anything done or when they were starting... Just a bit odd but then I'm very open...

We live in a semi, the connected neighbours are of similar age to us, we get on well, have spent many an evening with them, the other side is an old man, polite enough but don't see much of him. The ones opposite are all busybodies that discuss each other constantly! We are polite and say hello, nothing more