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?

He's a complete tosser.
Wants to know about everyone's business and constantly watching everyone. I live above him and he turns his tv up so loud at night I can hear every word he is watching. It's pretty obvious when my son goes for a nap as I close the blinds. When he sees this he will get a drill out this isn't coincidental.

Then there is a different older couple who will just bog us out. They constantly threaten their dogs so I phoned the rspca. Maybe that's why. Maybe they knew I had but when I heard 'I'm going to fucking kill you' to the dog I'm not going to let it slide.

Next door seems friendly. DH gets on well with him, hardly see his wife. Across lane is a holiday cottage belonging to quiet retired gay couple, who keep themselves to themselves when here. Always polite & friendly when we see them.

Further down, other side of NDN is miserable sour old woman who screamed abuse at me & DH when we moved in, telling us she had no intention of being friendly. Told her a few home truths, last time she yelled insults at me & since then she's not bothered us.

We're moving this year, will really miss this house. It's quiet & peaceful (now). Moving to a larger town, hoping new neighbours will be nice.

The ones I am attached to are very nice but also very loud, think blasting music to the neighbourhood from their garden. However as they have young kids it quietens down quickly on an evening. They've had to put up with me WFH so it's swings and roundabouts.

Other next door neighbours (but not attached) are lovely.

We chat but nobody is in each others faces so all good.

Attached neighbours are lovely, other side, CFers. I have posted on here about them before and overwhelming consensus was they were CFers!

We live in an old industrial building of new apartments, underneath us are a lovely Romainan family, the dd is a model and has hair down to her knees , above us is a single guy with a revolving door of girlfriends, to the side of us is a guy and his Thai wife (really creepy bloke, beautiful girl who never says a word) In the attached mews cottages one guy is a writer, one guy is a surgeon and one is a concert pianist, the latter was lovley during lockdown and gave us a recital every afternoon, it was fantastic.

Fab neighbours and they feel the same way about us, it's a real blessing.

Between the three of us we have saved each other's lives (almost true), managed a kitchen flood and a washing machine flood (definitely true), lent endless eggs, dishwasher tablets, bin liners. One of us always puts out everyone else's bin, and it's always the right one. We have a shared key safe. One of us keeps the shared outside space gardened. Nobody has any children any more. Nobody is shouty. Nobody is a parking CF. If one of us moved it would be a disaster.

One set of neighbours are in the 70s and have lived next door for 25 years. They are lovely and we have had no issues at all. The other side belongs to an Housing Association and there have been 5 families living there at different times. No real problems with any of them. Current neighbour is a single mother with 3 children, one of which is autistic. Yes, he has meltdowns from time to time but he is a charming boy who always cuts our front lawn. The mum bought us wine and chocolates at Christmas thanking us for putting up with them!

One side are lovely. The other side - no. Woman in her fifties. Only talks to us when she wants something.

A fucking nightmare, a single dad with three kids who are verbally abused from morning till night. He's a piss head who shouldn't be allowed anywhere near children.
The kids are constantly crying, screaming, kicking the walls etc. The house stinks when the door is open.
We've reported to the landlord, the police and social services and nothing has been done.

On one side it is a single man who works all day and potters about in his garden mainly.
The other side has been bought and turned into a HMO for vulnerable adults. The first lot in were awful, playing music into the early hours, drugs dropped off in the afternoon, alcoholics and crackheads calling at all hours...
I complained for 6 months and they were eventually moved on. The current tenants have been there for 4 months and have caused no trouble thankfully 🙏

@Terminallysleepdeprived if your neighbours dogs are being left outside all day in rhis heat I would report to the police

Lovely neighbours in our row of 5 townhouses. Also some good neighbours a little further away. It's a long cul de sac and there is nobody awful just a couple of annoying people at the top end who park on the pavement. I make a point of walking on their front garden if necessary, they don't seem to comprehend that anyone might want to walk. It's nothing compared to the nightmare neighbours I read about on here or have lived near in the past.

Nodding smiling acquaintance (ish) level here but we haven't been here long (less than 3 months) so anything else would be odd. I do worry a bit about keeping dc quiet in the garden as we are the only young children family for a bit. However they seem fine with it and DC know my feelings on shouting and shrieking in the garden so it's looking OK.

In the last place it was oddly wonderful. I say oddly because the area was horrific with Anto social behaviour, drug dealing etc but not from residents (seasidearea where the local problem causes were funnelled away from the tourist areas to cause trouble for the residents ). Up to a point the residents more or less just smiled and nodded. If that. Vague polite ignoring was more common.

Until in the same week my neighbour locked herself out so we got to know each other as I boosted her over the back fence and checked she was still alive as she missed her footing and yelled "Shit I'm going to die" as she fell. She didn't. She was fine . The tree she was trying to climb down wasn't though and looked lopsided for months.

A few days later some people were glue sniffing on steps near a neighbours house and an altercation due to the neighbours children being upset by it occurred. The glue sniffers became racially aggressive to the Muslim neighbour. Well blow me. All of a sudden it was like something snapped in everyone. The months and years of people drinking fighting, shagging and urinating while all our children walked past had built up. Being ignored everytime we reported to to police and council built up.

All of a sudden every neighbour on the road came out in support of the neighbour. Not in a violent way but basically everyone stood up to them and told them where to go.

From then on every single time there was a fight or an OD the road banded together to see them off or call an ambulance depending on the situation.

Created a wierd sense of community. Everytime someone got locked out or had their car nearly damaged someone else stepped in. It actually became lovely. Mostly now we all had enough and started to move out but that sense of support will stay with me.

Also in a terrace...had a single police woman on one side and a single elderly man in his early 70s the other.

Old man died of Covid and police woman moved within the space of about 6 weeks earlier in the year.

Old man's house is empty...have a middle age bloke the other side now whose girlfriend comes to stay at weekend.

He's a nice man, but his dog whines and barks intermittently all day when he's out at work and when he's home he's constantly doing DIY which is a bit of a ball ache tbh.

I'm resisting saying anything as I know what it's like when you move in somewhere new and he's been great about taking parcels in for me and leant me his pressure washer so I'm gritting my teeth and hoping he finishes soon!

I am so very lucky, I am on a corner of 2 roads so one neighbour is actually at the bottom of our garden and is a lady in her 80's, who is very quiet and lovely. NDN's on the other road are a couple in their late 40's who are extremely quiet, I have only known them to have people over once or twice in the 20 years we have lived here. I don't have anyone opposite but I do have people opposite my garden and they are all elderly or single people who are generally very quiet. My children are now 19 and 21 and have been the only children in the vicinity of 10 or so houses for most of their lives. I read threads like this and realise how incredibly lucky I am!

Our home is in a fairly new housing development - many of us moved here around the same time. Mainly young professionals and people with young families.
Next door to us are a lovely couple who we speak to regularly. We recently went round there's for a bbq. The other side are also great, we speak regularly and they will often pop round for a brew. They can be abit loud when they have mates round, drinking and talking loudly in the hot tub but it's not very often and they don't swear or get aggressive etc so doesn't bother us. Some of the conversations I overhear are actually quite funny! The houses to the back of us are quiet, there are young kids but they don't shout and screech, just normal playing and laughing which is lovely to hear when you are in the garden.

I think we are lucky, there seems to be a good community sprit round here. Alot of us know one another by sight to say hello to, even houses on different streets.

There is a community WhatsApp but I'm not in it, my neighbour tells me anything relevant. It's mainly about any crime, new proposals to the council, road improvemente etc.

Left hand side, a family of indeterminate size with at least 3 kids (teen who is always tinkering with his bike with deafening music playing, and 2 primary-aged kids who are always kicking their footballs into our garden). Adults seem OK, quiet, no real problems with them apart from the abovementioned minor irritations.

Right hand side a horrible man who throws cigarette butts in our garden and constantly parks across our drive. His 20s daughter is nice though, and their cat is cute.

Unlike my last house which was neighbour hell on earth my new place is fantastic. They are all elderly, dead quiet and unlike Glastonbury there are no incessant didgeridoo players and weed smoke at all hours.

@Mumvschildren I’ve got one of those think they own the street neighbours. We live in a row of semi detached houses. The ones on the left are lovely stop for a chat but keep themselves to themselves. The one attached to us is awful, elderly woman lives on her own and thinks she can tell us where our own bins should be in our own garden and that’s just one of the things. She’s very passive aggressive in her comments. I don’t stop when I see her now I just say hello, unfortunately DH is soft and listens to her

Ours are lovely. We live in a cul-de-sac and are on friendly terms with about 8 of the other households. They’ve been round for Christmas/summer drinks (pre Covid) so I’ve seen quite a few of them pissed 😆

DD babysits regularly for one of the families; another feeds our cats when we go away, and we have looked after their dog. Over the past 18 months, when residents have had to self isolate or have actually had the virus, we used our WhatsApp group to ask for and offer help to each other. Feel really lucky to live here and hope no one moves!

Lovely couple with young kids on one side, we get on really well with them. Weird couple on the other side, don't even know their names. The husband was very unfriendly when we moved in and went round to say hello. I spoke to his wife once about a year after we moved in and she seemed really lovely but shortly after that they got divorced and she moved out with the kids and he moved his male partner in and kept all their annoying noisy dogs.

One side is an elderly man and his son. They like to perve on my teenage daughters when they go out or in the garden. They don't try and hide it. Apart from that they don't bother us.

Other side is a young couple who work nights. They like to wake the street up when they come home at 5am. It's a huge improvement from the previous neighbour who had all night party's.

Nearest neighbours are about 500m away. Works for us.

I live in a terrace of 8 houses and all my neighbours are lovely. Everyone is friendly without intruding, apart from Martin who was born in his house and is 85, he loves a chat but he is also very kind. My boys help him round his ducks up and he let's me have homegrown cucumbers and tomatoes in return. We take parcels in for each other and help out when asked. I have certainly hit the jackpot with my neighbours.

Absolutely fine, block of four flats 2 downstairs one at the front and one at the back. I have the ground floor front one. The communal hall way is in the middle of us and then there's a door to go upstairs. Similar layout but not as bigger hall space. When I first moved in above me was empty so it was mega quiet. I had actually contemplated going for that one but the one I have, had fitted wardrobes, chest of drawers and 2 bedside tables plus it also has a lovely bay window in the living room creating more space. Up above me moved in shortly afterwards although in all fairness apart from the first day they came and were banging around until the early hours which wasn't great for me when I was up at 5am to start a 15 hour shift. I barely ever hear them now. The only things I hear is the blender going off twice a day, the occasional footsteps on a night time and the opening and closing of drawers. I think I've only heard the washing machine and hoover twice in the last couple of years. They do talk bloody loud though and her laugh is scary. It isn't too bad during the day but it is when I'm sitting on my own in the dark watching a horror film Another neighbour takes all the bins out and I've not long had someone new move in downstairs opposite me after my other neighbour died. New one seems ok just has a massive car. Likes to nick my parking spot although I think he soon realised that I'm the one who comes in last thing at night and by parking in the middle it means my lights shine straight into his bedroom. Now he parks his in the middle but still more onto my side which means I have no choice but knock half the flowers as I reverse out and stand on the mud so I can close or open my car door.