What are your neighbours like?

[Sweetchocolatecandy]

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?

Nearest neighbour is a 7 min walk away. I timed it on the way home after drinking quite a lot of their gin. I can highly recommend this distance for a perfect neighbourly relationship

I’ve got to know loads of my neighbours since we got a dog! Everyone is so lovely. There was a family across the road with a bulldog who attacked us twice. The wife tried to blame us, saying our dog “looked at him” so it’s our fault. Thankfully they moved just before COVID started

Next door on the right are a couple who are perfectly pleasant. He's retired, gardens, plays golf. She works f/t. Occasionally his grown up kids visit. Next door to them is a widowed lady who is very sociable, in her 70s. Sometimes comes round for tea and cake. Next to her is a family with three small children (under 11s) on the corner of a cul de sac. Friendly, polite and kids go to local school.
Next door on the left are a couple with a small child and a new baby. Occasionally hear them argue but they are fine with us. We share a garden boundary and have never had any disputes.

Terrace here also...

Neighbour to right (as look at door) is an arse. He has 3 dogs who are constantly in the garden and bark a lot...for example he has gone away for, went Friday but dogs have been left out in this heat ever since. Someone is coming to feed them but there is shit all over his yard and in this heat it absolutely stinks. Him and his wife shout and scream at each other and I can hear their TV over mine l, but I do keep mine quiet as I don't want to be a nuisance.

The Neighbour to the left is bloody lovely. She is disabled so we kind of got more friendly over lockdown as she was shielding so I popped a note through (had only loved here a few months) to say that as I was a key worker I would be out and about daily if she needed any shopping etc collecting. We have become close friends since and she is lovely. We got a rescue dog during lockdown and she let's her out every day for me, has her overnight when I have to go away for work etc.

More distant neighbours are mostly lovely. We have a few tears who can't park but no one is nasty.

I do have a dd who is going through a nit listening and doing the exact opposite of what is asked of her, so have been a very shout mum lately so I am guessing I have my annoying moments. Nice Neighbour says she doesn't hear me but I am fairly sure she is lying as I can hear her on the phone in the evening

@Lipz
Do we have same neighbours?

Lovely, so lovely that it had actually put us off moving.

Fave, love them all.
There was one Dickhead in the cul de sac but he’s gone now and a lovely couple are there now who just brought me cake
If I need anything there are plenty of people who will help me, many years ago when DH lost his job one offered to write me a cheque to be paid back “one day or never”.
Nobody bitches or interferes but we look after each others pets, gardens etc and we do occasionally have awesome parties (pre Covid). Not only is our cul de sac brilliant but the wider Estate is too, it feels like living in a village but without everyone knowing your business

I live in a semi

Nextdoor are noisy but lovely.

One side elderly lady who watches every move anyone in the street makes, pretends to be deaf but is primed to pounce at the slightest noise of a human nearby. Will talk at you but never let you get a word in. Likes to play bin wars and blast her tv at night.
Other side scouse family who like to make loud random noises, cannot close their front door without a huge bang several times daily. Nice enough to say hello but shout and swear a lot. Occasional ear splitting parties that go on until the early hours.

We are really lucky. Both neighbours, are both lovely.

I sincerely hope they think the same of us. Though at the moment,they must begetting a little stressed at our one year old Jack Russel and her barking (I'll gloss over the howling she does when a ambulance goes by on its blue and twos). She starting to understand the command "quiet" but it's a long learning curve, it seems
I think they must think her name is Daisy, no.

[quote 3JsMa]@Lipz
Do we have same neighbours?[/quote]
I hope they broke the mould when these cretins were made 😂

As soon as I read this title I thought,’probably sick of us!’ They’re middle aged with grown up kids,entirely tolerant of us and our three dc’s noise and buy the most unusual,but most loved present for each of the children’s birthday. We are VERY lucky.

My neighbours are pretty much like yours OP. One side we have a very sweet elderly couple who cause no problem whatsoever. The other side are the family from hell! We are frantically saving to move away from them

Elderly late, adores cat and spend time together, 2 issues in 20 yr, both of us mid terrace, next neighbour Down syndrome early 30s fab

One side are ok, mostly keep themselves to themselves but will have a conversation if we bump into them, would take a parcel in and vice versa, will have a general garden chat if we see them.

The other side is an older man who will barely say hello if you see him, it’s like he’d rather pretend he doesn’t see you. He has lots of family coming and going which is no issue but I’ve tried to say a friendly hello to them and get a similar response.

The only time one of them spoke more in 3 years was to complain about something to do with our garage roof at the back (it’s attached to his), but when I said I wasn’t sure what she meant but would happily pop round and take a look if they let me know when it was convenient (I was just taking some bags of shopping in) she never did, so I still have no idea what she was talking about

@Lipz

I had no idea people like this still exist

Not counting neighbours we had while in various student flats, who were fine but not memorable we have been very lucky with our neighbours.

First house, a terrace in a street of terraced houses of various shapes.
Very kind next door neighbours and lovely people in the street. When we moved and were driving away in the car they all came out to wave us off. I was in floods of tears.

We were moving 120 miles away for DH's job to a semi. A West Indian family lived next door and they loved their reggae; luckily so did we.

When we were selling that house and a viewing was imminent DH popped round to ask if they would mind turning it down for an hour. It was so loud they couldn't hear what he was saying and thought he was asking them to turn it up. When they eventually realised what he was saying, lots of merry laughter and they turned it completely off.

The viewers bought the nice quiet house.

We then moved to a larger Edwardian semi and lived there for 14 years with never a cross word with our delightful neighbours. Even when we lit a fire in our dining room and it smoked out their bedroom. The road was very sociable and when we moved from there we were declared to be honorary XXXroaders.

Now we live in a large Victorian house, detached so no close contact because next door, a similar house, is in seven flats and we can't see the entrance so don't know any of the tenants/owners.

Except one.

She is an elderly lady but very active to the extent that she puts our bins out and puts then back, all unasked, and tells me all about the problems with parking at the flats and gets me to compose and print fierce notices for her to put through her neighbours' letterboxes. When we are away she prowls around checking all is well with our house.

We have been truly blessed with nearly 50 years of fabulous neighbours.

On one side we have an older bloke who is quiet and friendly. The other side is a younger man who is also quiet and friendly but who is also often away quite a bit. On the whole we have good neighbours around us.

My upstairs neighbours feel like it's acceptable to have band practice every day.

I hate them beyond all reason

Neighbours both sides good as gold, say hi, take in parcels and have a chit chat. Would never want to be in and out of houses though, that’s just how I like it. Everybody fairly quiet and no one has a hot tub ! Neighbours round the corner are new that back on to side of our garden, they have two young children, the dad constantly shouts and corrects the little boy even though it doesn’t seems like he’s done anything wrong. I knew the names of the kids the first morning they moved him by listening to him shout. Have lived here 20 years and I consider myself lucky.

Ours are decent - we have retired single people either side (we are detached anyway so wouldn't hear anything indoors).

Luckily we have some other neighbours in the cul de sac who we count as good friends, which is lovely. Always someone to borrow bits and pieces off or have a lockdown driveway drink with!

Brilliant. We're really good mates now. Similar age (late 20s) and both enjoy a whiskey together. He tells me about all his dating stories 😂

The side we're attached to ate pleasant mum,dad and 2 ds.Other neighbour is lad in his mid 20s who lives with his disabled dm we are all friendly.

Are!