Neighbours just complained....again

[nuttyneighbours]

My neighbours and us do not get on, they complain about everything............

*our shed is ugly
*my cat makes their dog bark
*My baby cried (he was 6 weeks at the time)
*we objected to their builder using our driveway (not shared) without asking us first

The list goes on. Whenever one of my babies is ill or upset in the night she moans (I do not allow them to cry in their rooms as they back on to their bedroom, I always take them in my room), we hear them all the time, never grumble about it, they are a young couple with no kids (well one due next month) so their lives are different to ours and they are up late etc.

Latest complaint...............your cat has had a blackbird. Honestly I could scream. I won't say anything to her about this or anything else, she gets very verbally aggressive and has a very entitled view on life.

But am I being unreasonable to think she's not suited to live in a terraced house or am I a terrible neighbour!

Put a bell on the collar or one of those bleeping collars you can get to warn off birds?

We had neighbours like this when we were little. He rang the police on me because I hit his fence with my plastic spade (the sort you make a sandcastle with) I was 5 at the time.

I'd tell her to do one. There's only so much you should take and I think you need to draw the line

SlightlySuperiorPeasant - our other neighbour had a massive extension built over the summer, work all day, everyday, but they are lovely, and I don't mind give and take. It's sad really, hate bad feeling. Maybe motherhood will sort her out!

YANBU, some people would be better off as hermits. Our neighbour downstairs (council flats, but she owns hers) is always complaining and telling us shes reported us - all bullshit as we've checked. The last time she went off on one, she told DH we were horrible people and going to hell, and DH said to her it couldnt have been us etc etc she made him swear on the bible. no word of a lie she went into her place and got a bible and made him swear on it. Some people really do just need to live on their own in the middle of a field.

Some people are just a bit looney about noise. When we lived in a flat our downstairs neighbours were obsessive about noise. Converted Victorian building, pretty good on sound insulation for stuff like music/tv, absolutely shocking for footfall noise. We were fully carpeted and they still moaned about us walking around. I once dropped something in the kitchen in the early evening and they banged on the ceiling. When we brought our newborn daughter home they banged on the ceiling in the first week because I'd been walking about too much trying to get her to sleep. I used to tiptoe round the flat I was so scared of making a noise.

They moved out, new guy moved in. I mentioned I knew there were noise issues and by then we had a neary toddler but we hoped to be moving soon. "Oh I barely hear you at all" he said, "can't think why they had a problem".

Goes to show, some people are just arseholes.

OP I hate to say this, but I think having a baby can make unreasonable people even worse.

We know some people who had ended up in a really bizarre situation with their NDN's when female friend was on Mat leave. We all heard about garagegate, dustbingate, and the time she called the police on them because they were blocking the driveway. The NDN's were admittedly agressive and not people you'd want to live next to, but it was blown out of all proportion. Said friend is pretty normal, but being at home all day with a new baby sent her round the twist a bit.

God knows what will happen when your crazy neighbours have a newborn and sleep deprivation thrown into the mix

eeek.....hadn't thought of that. Bugger, oh well in for a penny in for a pound!