I don't like my neighbours. Do you like yours?

[MeLovelyNeighbour]

Small 1930's house. Small garden. Neighbour has huge trampoline. Children spend whole time bouncing and looking into our house making strange faces and silly/rude comments. Children are over 12. I would understand if younger - as wouldn't know better perhaps. Am I unreasonable in thinking they should have the manners to look away from our house/windows and not make stupid/rude remarks? Their mother is equally as bad... please tell me if/why you don't like your neighbour?

[Meow75]

Oh, and the house opposite - not directly, positioned at about 2 o'clock on the 360 if you stand at our front door - have three young sons who drive me nuts, as does their dad. SOOOOO NOISY!!!!

The dad has a couple of trail bikes in his garage that he tinkers with ... very loudly ... on a Sunday afternoon ... with the garage door open.

The kids are quite naughty, especially when all three of them are together, and their parents, especially dad, like to parent VERY LOUDLY when the kids are out on the front. Small lawn at the front, cars going by at irregular intervals, get the kids in the MAHOOSIVE back garden for all our sakes!!!

crawls back under my blank ice to suck my thumb!!!

[Hoppinggreen]

Mine are all lovely.
We live in a cul de sac of 8 houses and we all moved in at roughly the same time 11 years ago. Some of us have had children and some moved in with small children and now have big ones. They have kind of all grown up together and the older ones are now old enough to babysit for me!! If I need anything ( dishwasher tablet, tin of beans etc etc etc) I can ask anyone and we have got plenty of cat sitters too. I will be walking next doors dog tomorrow lunchtime and tonight someone let my kids play in their house for an hour while I made an important work phone call. We aren't in each other's pockets but we do socialise a few times a year and have a brilliant bonfire party too.
It's the main reason why we have never considered moving to be honest.

[MeLovelyNeighbour]

Amazing... some people have lovely neighbours! Actually... all of our other neighbours are fantastic, friendly, not too friendly, and just basically nice - very good to have a nice friendly chat with. Next door we know are wrong.

kazzawazzawoo - our neighbours play football in the trampoline. We are not happy as it's extra loud and we get loads of balls over into our garden and then they shout through the letterbox "GIVE US OUR BALL BACK". Hmmmm. We always give the ball back though. I think it's a legal requirement.

Sadly can't complain to council as not a council house. Woman next door thinks she's very important for some reason (obviously whilst for some reason hating us). Does lots of weird things really (like she waters the garden and also waters over fence... so she waters us using iPad/kindle/phone etc). Weird..

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Oh I forgot to mention that our neighbours from also DIY whenever the fancy takes them - could be 7am - 12 on a Tuesday, 7pm - 10pm on a Sunday, 3pm - 8pm on a Thursday. Just whenever really. It's a 2 bedroom flat and we think it must resemble a sieve the amount of drilling they have done since they moved in.

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MeLovelyNeighbour

I'd be so tempted to cover your NDN trampoline with bird seed one night in the hope that the birds would swoop down and shit on it.

Or if their garden is small, and they can't move the trampoline (that makes it a chavoline in my neck of the woods) I'd plant something fast growing that sheds leave, sticky resin, fruit or berries to overhang their garden.

Or there's always a hosepipe oops accidently sprayed over the fence when they give you a fright with their jumping.

[MeLovelyNeighbour]

Hoppinggreen - where you live sounds perfect... any houses for sale? Sounds like a nice, normal level of helpfulness and friendliness. IMO. I've had all sorts from my neighbour to deal with (unsure about typing it here), but she's a horror and so are her chidden. You are very lucky!

[BobCrow]

Can't stand the neighbour on one side - single woman, probably about 60. Since we moved here about 5 years ago she has been really nosey and interfering - she sticks her head over the wall between our gardens and says "I hope you don't think I'm interfering but......." she also tried to blame us for a crack that appeared in one of her walls which is on the side of her house that isn't adjoining ours - think she's a bit of a nutter really.

She got one of those made up pedigree dogs about a year ago (it is a cross between a beagle and a pug, think she called it a puggle - looks more like a bug tbh). the fucking thing barks constantly when she goes out - we can hear it through the wall between our houses. Also now that the weather is better she puts it in her back garden so that it can bark there too. We have had words about her dog barking, so hopefully she will now be less keen to engage in conversation over the garden wall - every cloud and all that.

Neighbours on the other side are ok, if a bit dull. On the whole it is a friendly street. There's always someone keen to stop for a chat in the street.

[EverythingsDozy]

I like mine. There are five houses which are all set a bit further back than the rest of the street. Two are elderly, my husband used to take one of them to the shopping centre until we had to take the car off the road, the other is friendly enough, says hello etc. Both have dogs which are friendly.
One is mid 40's, friendly. Always asks how the children are. Has offered to help me out since my terrible bastard husband left which was lovely of him.
Then there is a couple who we say hello to but don't know well. They seem nice enough, although before they moved in we had a lovely big driveway to ourselves and now they have a van on there but it's a small price for people who aren't shit!
Obviously, the last house is us! We are the youngest so probably make the most noise but I think they like us too. I quite like where we live

[EverythingsDozy]

I think I overused the word friendly but it's true, they are all friendly!!!

[MeLovelyNeighbour]

Gosh... amazing responses. All my neighbours (apart from one I'm talking about) are also lovely, kind, helpful chatty etc.

So it's just this one person (Mrs Chav as we call her). She's borrowed stuff and never returned it (eg. new bottles of ketchup etc). She's dumped washing on our doorstep when her machine broke (even though I only agreed to one load) - I didn't do it. She is above herself and thinks she's perfect and makes rude comments in her garden about us knowing we can hear her. She often shouts at her children. VERY LOUDLY.

[MagicalHamSandwich]

Townhouse, three flats. Downstairs are lovely.

Upstairs is nice too - but someone has got to tell her to improve her orgasm faking skills. She sounds like the sound conserve for an abattoir - but on a metronome.

I'm afraid it's going to have to be me who explains that to her eventually.

[Eatriskier]

Mid terrace here. One side are some of the most lovely people you'd ever meet. The others are a bunch of criminals who've threatened to kill my kids. Complete swings and roundabouts

[ShatnersBassoon]

I do like them.

They're in their 60s and a bit eccentric, have terrible taste in garden ornaments and Christmas lights, but they're lovely kind people.

[PicaK]

Love my neighbours. One of the best things about living here. Been on holiday with one side.

[insanityscatching]

No I don't like our neighbour. OAP who spends all her time watching the comings and goings at our house and we are probably the most boring lot on the street tbh. Every time I leave or return to the house I say "As if by magic......." and out she comes to nosey.
I'm actually amazed that she finds us so interesting and sometimes go in and out repeatedly to amuse myself So tomorrow I will put the bins out, we have two and she has one so she takes hers out when I take the first one out and then hangs about until I take the second one out. Just to make it interesting I will go in after the first and then five minutes later take the second so she comes out again

[MagicalHamSandwich]

*insanity" yours sounds like the one from my childhood. That one was certifiable. She really liked my mum and told the entire neighbourhood about the lovely widow with her two daughters.

My parents were divorced and our father very much alive ...

[SpinningFates]

Both houses either side of me are empty. My neighbour two doors down parks in my drive when he thinks I'm not at home. He has his own drive. My DH calls him Dickhead Dave. I have no idea if that is his real name.

[Erroroccurred]

Lovely on one side - they maintain they can't hear my children and I maintain I can't hear their dogs. Friendly and polite take in parcels etc. Next along are even lovelier and adore the kids and are great company.

Then their is the woman next door, not attached but to her we are the awful awful neighbours. She hates us and whilst certainly more bother than the previous sole pensioner we are friendly and responsive and she is miserable old bugger.

[BritishGal]

My neighbours are my (ex) in-laws - husband and I currently going through a bitter divorce. You should ALL consider yourselves lucky.

[misog2000]

Next door spends a lot of time shouting.....at the kids, hubby and the dog. Fortunately she only shouts at 'socially acceptable' times (between 8 and 8ish) so it's not too awful, sometimes it's like having Jeremy Kyle next door and is vaguely amusing.

Their dog also howls c

[SpinningFates]

for you BritishGal

[misog2000]

Posted too soon!

The dog howls constantly when they are out, but the walls are fairly thick so the radio drowns him out, do feel sorry for him though.

The other side are silent, never heard a peep from them.

[Mintyy]

Love my neighbour on one side - she is fab and hands home-grown rhubarb and strawberries over the fence to me and we have lovely chats when we are both out in the garden in the summer. Never hear a peep from her in terms of antisocial noise and we feed each other's cats when we go on holiday.

Have taken a strong dislike to new ndns on the other side. They have moved in and are immediately embarked on major, noisy, dusty renovation works. They are also 20 years younger than us and clearly have a ton more money than us.

[songlark]

I used to have a neighbour who couldn't let a day go by without"borrowing" something(never used to get it back)..... all the usual stuff like tea,sugar, milk but often soap, washing powder, washing up liquid, toilet roll, even toothpaste once. She'd always send one of the kids, usually with a cup for putting whatever it was she wanted in...if it was washing powder she'd send over the biggest cup she had hoping to get it filled.