What are the BEST and WORST things your neighbours have done for you?

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That's about it really - just wanted to know.

I typed that full of neighbourly muffins from yesterday, having planted out a load of free plants another neighbour gave me, and after putting away a big pile of terrific children's books she just gave me as well. The neighbour opposite fed the entire street with Biryani one weekend (she had overcooked for a party and had a kitchen full of it - it was amazing). Another always has my kids in a crisis. There's another who always mows the communal areas and gives us free rein with his monster lawn mower whenever we like. We also party together. It's great here.

neighbour one side is lovely cuts the grass and offered other help with moving furniture. The other neighbours have very odd teenage daughters who seem to play their music at full volume when Im putting my son to bed and they stare at you when you are in the garden so I havent really engaged with them being honest. They also have a dog that barks all the time and when they go out they shut it in one of the bedrooms and it then barks and howls. Im hoping its the dog anyway! ha ha ha

Best:
Mind many young DC at short notice & for free (due to unexpected hospitalisations & suddenly near-death elderly parents), we have no friends or family to do that.

Worst (not same Neighbour, obviously!): Gossip about me+DC rampantly, throw back in my face things DC had done to upset her DC, even if months previously (although DS had been provoked, and even though both written & spoken apologies were issued at the time), encourage her DS to bully mine, collude in reporting me to SS. I don't speak to her any more, strangely enough!

We're great friends with most of our neighbours and our next door neighbours are firm friends - we swap emergency childcare, babysitting, homebrew, plants and cooking all the time.

One neighbour (a bit further up the street) lets his dog out at night to shit on everybody else's gardens, the paths and the street ( it seems to have a problem because it is particularly vile) he has no shame despite us all talking about it to him, shame as its a really nice street with loads of little kids who like to come out and play - we have to sweep for shit before letting them out.

Another (married, older and quite vile) neighbour once hit on me at another's neighbours party and knowing that I was home alone as husband was working nights wouldn't leave me alone when I went home - ended up deadlocking door and threatening to call the police. Was really unpleasant - his wife has now unsurprisingly left him.

In my first house I had a neighbour who tried to report me to the police for running a brothel - I lived with 5 blokes and she was convinced that this meant that something untoward was going on. Thankfully they realised she was bonkers and we were abnormally nice & sensible mature students.

Mine were waiting for me out in the street when I moved in, both sides, they parked their cars across the front of my house so that they could move them when we arrived and we could get the truck directly in front of the house. That set the tone from then on really. One side have just moved and I was gutted when the board went up. Now got two posh boys on their first mortgage, it's OK but not the same.

Worst I know of was my ex's next door neighbour robbed a building society at gun point and then stashed it in their house. They raided him, he thought it was all a big joke until a copper dropped out of the attic with a carrier bag full of cash. They wound him up a bit before telling him that they knew he wasn't in on it, they found it funny for some reason!

One area I stayed in after I split with ex H was awful. A kids fight over a toy led to a feud between two families that raged for a year, and ended up in one being stabbed with a samurai sword, and various retaliations.Nothing to do with us, I hasten to add. It was a block of flats and I was stuck piggy in middle between two of them. Even worse, my downstairs neighbour complained to the Council that I was a noisy neighbour. My crime?- my baby learning to walk up and down the hall, and obviously falling . I also had him coming to the door in his jammies at 11pm to tell me to go to my bed (they were elderly), cos I had just come in from work, and was going for a shower! Apparently he could hear me walking up and down my hall. He soon shut up though when the neighbours from hell started their battle with baseball bats and samurai swords :o

We have now bought a house-and my neighbours are (mostly) lovely.

Best. Neighbour on one side is nice, quiet, friendly and owns every gadget known to man which he will happily offer and lend out.

Worst. House on other side rented and most of the tenants have done midnight flits. We've had parents who have erected huge trampolines in the shared garden, badly behaved children who were never disciplined because they had ADHD and it "wasn't his fault" when the little git tried to kick my door in and picked a fight with my DS, the eldest daughter of the next lot had noisy sex with her bf with the window wide open.
The current one is so nosy it beggars belief. She stands outside looking in through the window having a fag and her son will walk into any house thats unlocked on the street.
Can't wait to move..

Best: helped with the garden

Worst: not come out to see if we were ok when our house was on fire despite being up and seeing the fire engines at Midnight both sides by the way

well mine dont seem to bad after reading this thread!!
my joined on neighbour is ok ,not too noisy bit of door banging and thats about it ,the not joined on one is a nightmare ,they ruin the street for everyone :0(

Best: Let me in their house and cooked for the kids when I'd left my keys at school. Then their dad drove me up to the school to get my keys. Also cooked for us, given us leftover party food and cakes for the kids. Generally all round lovely neighbours.

Worst: Drug raids, screaming, swearing, abusive language to her children. Leaving her kids home alone so we were woken at 5.30am by her son screaming outside the house.

So glad we moved here!

Left - paedophile groomed dd, patronises my disability, plays loud music, arrogant selfish git
Right - domestic violence, mates park in my disabled space
Opposite - nice but racist
(Altogether) 'Neighbours, everybody needs good neighbours...'

Neighbour who called out to warn me and ds's that the loud noise was a swarm of bees heading in our direction. Children were playing in paddling pool and I hadn't even noticed the sound (which was loud, once it was pointed out!).

Best: old neighbours who came to DS's christening in spite of being devout Muslims and looking completely out of their comfort zone.

Worst: well, it may or may not have been a neighbour who did but somebody was shot 150 yards from our front door when I used to live in a really rough part of town. The victim survived and I moved out several weeks later.

My downstairs neighbour makes me suspect my DH is a better person than me. He is super isolated socially, chain smokes and as a result has emphysema. My husband will feed his cat when he goes into hospital, and now has started shopping for him. I on the other hand keep my distance, I have been pissed off by the fumes from his fags entering our home, and his unpleasant letter to me re my excess noisiness (I once slammed the front door). I suspect he is a bit of a woman hater. Most other neighbours are recent immigrants, often with shaky english, however i speak spanish and converse with my colombian neighbour, who is a night time office cleaner. I once babysat his sister when she came to visit and he was out.

My neighbour mows my lawn for me!

my lovely neighbour is cabin crew and taking me to bangkok on a freebie, does it get better than that??

yes it does, other neighbour always has the bbq going and were invited and cuts the grass all the time...whoop whoop

We have lived in 4 different rented flats since 2007 and have had our share of crazy and lovely neighbours.

The worse were:

1. Neighbours who had cockroaches in their kitchen and migrated into our flat. The pest control people said that their kitchen was absolutely disgusting and covered in dead cockroaches.

2. In another flat we had an old alcoholic woman living above us who answered her door fully naked (I knocked because I heard a loud bang and thought she might have fallen over unconscious). She then went on to berate me about how loud my child cried at night.

3. In our current flat we have a Spanish couple, the woman screams at her partner for hours every day and sometimes at night. The amount of times the police have been called...

We have also had lovely neighbours;

My favourite was the 85 year old woman who always invited me in for tea and who fussed over my son when he was a baby. When we moved she said she couldn't bear to watch the removal van packing our stuff :(.

We have lovely neighbours to the left of us who we would help like a flash and often do and as some of you know from other threads awful neighbours who I deplore and would not help if I was the last person on the earth. xx

Are you being unreasonable about what??

we have lovely neighbours
young couple one side that have recently moved in
retired couple the other side who are really nice and give my dd lovely things to plant in the garden/greenhouse
opposite my dd's best male friend [they are both 7].often in each others houses and myself and dh are good friends with his parents.we go out for meals,have bbq's etc and often do things together as families.
infact we're really lucky as we live on a lovely street and everyone's really friendly

My neighbours are ace. Gave me advice when PFB arrived, watches our house when we're away, does all my manicures and we swap the kids clothes when they grow out of them.

On the otherhand they constantly park in front of our drive, are quite nosy (even knows what we order at Dominos cos they ask the delivery guy!) and smoke under DD's windows pretty much constantly.

Meh, better than the last ones whos son left us a disembowled hedgehog on our doorstep and posted used syringes through our letterbox....

Worst-After having one of her many party's neighbour one side stabbed her (one of many) ex boyfriends on MY driveway! With an old screwdriver from a skip I had. This was after she had had sex with him on her kids trampoline in garden. AND she got away with 20 hrs community service
Best- my neighbours other side are lovely. We have 3 cars but only room for 2 on driveway so they let us park one on theirs. They look after our 2 dogs when we go away and also walk them for us during the day as we have full time jobs and they don't work

Our current neighbours are the only ones we've ever really known properly.

Best: The neighbours on one side who feed our cats for us when we're away, buy the kids little xmas gifts, lend DH tools, etc. Really nice people. There's also a lovely family on our close whose kids come calling for my two through the catflap on weekends and the Dad is a plumber so we have an agreement where we let him use our empty driveway if he needs it for his work van and he does free plumbing for us.

Worst: Probably the worst ones are the families who live two- and three-doors down the road. They seem to really dislike each other and one time nearly had a fight because one of the thuggish sons got blocked in and went mental at 5am.

Having nice neighbours do increase your quality of life imo. The nicest neighbours in our close are 2 eastern European families who still appreciate communities and integration. They always say hello and talk to dc . Our worst neighbours are a family where one of the parents has a serious mental health issue and will rant and rave at all and sundry (including dc) when manic. The other nightmare neighbours are competive keeping up with the Jones types One of my friends said she'd never move as she had such lovely helpful neighbours.

gorgeous neighbours one side. They babysit, look after pets when we're away (including having our cat in their home so he's not alone on Christmas Day.)

Worst, in old house, were so filthy the smell worked through to our house. I had to get rid of ten bags of decomposing rubbish and bleach their driveway when housebyers came round. Luckily we sold in the end, but they seriously deterred some people!