Do you like your neighbours?

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I have noticed there are a lot of posts about annoying neighbours on MN and just wondered what the general consensus is?

I like my existing neighbours but strongly went off one side of my old neighbours, the other side were lovely. Part of the reason we moved really.

I like most my neighbours , the ones I don't are the ones who have no consideration for other people.

Downstairs is a miserable bitch whose guiding principle in life is that she should in no way be inconvenienced. Highlights include telling us her heart sank when she found out we were expecting a second DC and slamming her doors every time our toddler cries. Everyone else is super lovely!

We moved to so we now have no neighbours; it was intentional and says everything you need to know about our old neighbours

One side is lovely and the other side is awful. It doesn't affect me day to day at all I just stay away from the side I don't like but will give a friendly hello and how are you on the rare occasions I do see them.

The lovely neighbours are great and sometimes give us home grown veg from the allotment and we return the favour with the odd bit of baking.

I like most of my neighbours apart from the teenage son next door and his friends. Fed up of teenagers hanging outside my bedroom window smoking weed and making loads of noise. But if I say something to the parents I'm scared of the retaliation.

Thequeenofdreams you must be sharing my house, that's exactly my situation!

I get on great with one of my nighbours, we have lived next door to each other for around 10 years , we take each other's bins in and out and parcels and her son has helped me shift heavy furniture around

But the house on the other side is used as temp housing so sometimes people stay there for a month , a week , a few days or up to around 7 months and we have had some right arseholes, , they are generally put there because of of complaints from the previous landlord or neighbours, so it is generally feel by inconsiderate noisy alcoholic drug-taking annoying people that think nothing of playing very loud music until 4 in the morning.
I hate them all !

I love my neighbours. There’s only 5 houses in our close and we look out for each other. However, the next road along are a pita. They keep flytipping in our private road and get caught every time on cctv. Just really annoying as have to go round and tell them we saw them. Fucking idiots!

Yes, I've got about a dozen neighbours and they're all nice people. Neighbour disputes make life unbearable and I've been very lucky to have avoided them. 2 have moved recently, fingers crossed for replacements.

We have no neighbours - I'd find it hard to go back to living near other humans now (yes, totally a hermit!)

Yes, actually have had great neighbours in every home and relationships from nods & hellos right through to considering them family.

Of course there have been grumbles now and again but that’s just the ebb and flow of life. I’ve never had a direct neighbour that I’ve had longterm or serious issues with

One neighbour let me kip on her sofa when I forgot my keys after a night out but I was able to find her kitten when it got out one night so we understand shit happens to everyone now & again & the important thing is to cut each other some slack & lend a hand when we can.

When I moved into my first flat in the 1960s I was quite friendly wth some of my neighbours. One was a gay couple who lived next door. Others were two couples with who I used to go on nights out, dinner parties etc. That sort of petered out in my 40s when I was working in a customer facing role and had enough with people. I then got in to the "morning" and "evening" polite but distant routine. I avoided chat or social relationships because I had frankly had enough in work.

I live in an end detached house now and have only one NDN whom I avoid like the plague. Im on polite nodding terms with others but thats about it. I try not t get involved and sometimes I only go out after dark when I am less likely to see anyone or get waylaid in the garden.

Yes - live in a block of flats, neighbours range from "never see or hear them", "occasionally see and say hello", and one of DS1s classmates families (very handy if either of us are running late for the school run, and in a few years for playing out).

Only slightly annoying neighbours are two men upstairs that play video games loudly (but tbf we have occasionally tantrumming children) and the family that walk their dog outside our living room window (so I feel it always has to be tidy).

Everyone on my street is great, apart from our two immediate neighbours 😂.
One side the children are very unruly and even climb over our fence. The other side smokes so much we have to close the windows.

There are 12 houses in our street. 8 are lovely, we all get on great, very community minded so have a couple of street parties a year/looked had a community shop set up during lockdowns etc.

Two are pleasantly polite, but keep themselves very much to themselves.

One is a fucking nightmare and I often dream about winning just enough on the lottery to buy their house and bribe them to leave.
For context they called the council to complain about my cats “making” their dogs bark… they actually tried to make a noise complaint about their own dog and blame me. They also, despite having a huge garden, put basketball hoops on their driveway so regularly take up all of the on street parking with their 4 cars.

Don’t know them. Very quiet and one side offers to take our bins in etc. We exchange Xmas cards with them but only say hello in passing the rest of the year. The other side are very reclusive and we only nod if we see them. I don’t know anyone else in the street. I wish I did.