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?

[Mimishimi]

We think we might have just been victims of credit fraud from possibly one of them. Just over a week ago mailbox lock was broken - we weren't sure if it was broken into or just fell apart. On Monday night we first noticed that calls to my husband were ringing but not getting through to his phone. On Tuesday morning I rang him, same thing, but could still text him. He tried ringing himself from his workphone and couldn't get through. Rang his phone provider who told him that someone rang up a few days ago claiming to be him and requested that all phonecalls to his number be redirected to a different one. They gave him the number that the calls were redirected to. Husband left work immediately and contacted all banks. Major credit card fraud of the equivalent of 4500 pounds with one card, someone rang another bank requesting a new pin but failed the identity test. We've lodged a police complaint but why I think it might be a neighbour is because they must have rang the CC company, said the card was lost, arranged for a new one to be sent to our address and then broken into our mailbox. It might not be a neighbour of course but all the transactions (shopping and cash advances) have been within our local area. They also must have known some information about us to successfully redirect phonecalls to my husband's phone? Police said it's up to finance company to pursue before they can request CCTV images which is annoying. We want to go after them now!

Otherwise, we like the neighbours but don't really engage with them much. Just received information now that the bank is going to pursue the case and is requesting CCTV images. YES!!!

[LuisCarol]

My ndn are wonderful lovely helpful reassuring people. Their ndns are awful.

[Menolly]

I live in a block of 9 flats.

I never see or hear anything from the people next door except when they smile and say good morning if we are going in/out at the same time, so I'd say they are pretty perfect.

I've not met the adults downstairs but their beautiful toddler likes to shout boo through his letterbox whenever anyone walks past which really amuses me, especially when he made my Dad jump. he also did a wonderful impression of a dog whilst snatching the junk mail out of a leaflet distributors hand.

The rest of the block are quiet, say hello if we pass each other but otherwise keep themselves to themselves.

My old neighbour though was an abusive drunk, who used to press her face up against the back door in the middle of the night and bark at my dog, once covered my entire back garden in weed killer, used to shut her rather aggressive dog in our garden so she could sit in her garden in peace (there were communal access gates through the back gardens) she posted used tampons through our front door, frequently emptied her bins across our front garden and once phoned the police to say I'd smashed her window, which it turned out she had in fact smashed herself when she threw a frying pan at her husbands head whilst we weren't even home, she also accused me of kicking her front garden wall down after a lorry crashed into it. My crime that deserved all this? I invited her and her husband to a barbecue when we first moved in, which made us to common to live near her.

[Letslet]

Just moved in but already hate one set of neighbours . After a particularly stressful move where DH chose to bugger off on an overseas business trip rather than stay and help . I had just got rid of the removal guys and done my nth trip back to the old house to retrieve the dog when my new neighbour leans across the wall. Does he say welcome to the neighbourhood ? No he says is that your red car on the street pointing to DH's car which he had left that morning before flying off its parked in my space . No one owns on street parking and even if he did (which he dosent) it was fairly obvious the reason it was parked there was because of the massive removal lorry which had been in the drive earlier. (Not to mention the guy has a 5 car drive with only 2 cars in it so didn't even need the space) Unfortunately he got my full wrath .in fact When I spotted him out again half an hour later I went out again to give him more . I was like a coiled spring exploding . Three weeks later we have never spoken since and plan to keep it that way.

[Chottie]

I live in a close

1 The odd couple. Retired man and his working wife. He has a chain across his drive and removes it noisily every morning at about 5.00am and then puts his car battery on charge with lots of revving up (!) He dresses in a series of old jumpers with holes covering holes. He does not speak to anyone.

2 Lovely couple. She is Irish and very friendly and smiley.

3 Single man. His marriage broke up several years ago and he lives in the house alone. He is always busy doing something in his garden and has 6 different sheds in the back garden.

4 A couple and their DC, very nice

5 Us :) The family from heaven

6 A really nice neighbour, very smiley and friendly

7 Very pleasant, quiet couple

We used to have a trampolining neighbour, but they moved. I have huge sympathies for those with neighbours with teenagers who play football on the trampoline.

[vrtra]

upstairs: night shift twat

downstairs: door slamming twats

next door: teenage party throwing twats

other side: garden music party throwing twats

oh and one of my neighbours has the charming habit of letting their toddler wander in the road, as I recently discovered when I was woken by a copper ringing my doorbell to inquire if said sprog were mine.

[GhettoPrincess001]

As we live at the corner of the street we've technically only got one NDN. They are both retired. Having an active retirement. Very pleasant people. Very quiet.

The sort of NDN as our gardens are on a right angle to each other are tenants. The house has been tenanted all the time we've lived here, that's two and a half years. Sometimes a party has got to loud and gone on to long but that's about it.

Current tenants seems to be a Dad and two intermediate school age children. So far, not a peep out of them.

We've been lucky with neighbours overall where we've lived.

[aGirlDownUnder1]

1. Middle aged Pot Smoking lady who lives with her teenage son and her boyfriend behind our house but has a giant Pine tree in her back yard and a whole lot of native trees, oh and her cannabis trees. Pine tree is tall that is dangerous that it could fall on my house or NDN house, she won't chop it down despite me and NDN offering to pay and it blocks most of our winter sun :(. Her other trees branches hang over on to our property. She can be nice if your not talking about her trees.
   

1. Middle aged lady with two adult sons (they don't live her), who lives next to us she is very nice, we always have a good chat to each other and we both have been trying to get NDN1 to chop down her trees for years and have always teamed up against her and NDN3. I give her my delivered paper if we going away.
   

1. Married couple with a teenage DD but it's only a holiday home and they're only their in summer mostly, really nice and have invited us to their party's a fews times their DD and my DD get on great but they can throw some big party's and have been known for their loud music (though their music taste isn't to bad). NDN2 called noise patrol one :D
   

1. Horrible old lady with a horrible dog, their dog has bitten my dog on numerous occasions and has came over to out property a few times, once biting my dog who then ran out onto the road and got hit by a car :( haven't talked to her since (6 years ago)

[Misspixietrix]

One side yes. The other side. No I can't stand them. Mind you I am much enjoying her comeuppance at chasing round her brood her are no longer at 'sitting still' age. She was part of the 'my DCs will never behave like that' brigade . Oddly it's the opposite House that gets on my nerves the most. Even comes outside to 'see what's going on' if a car pulls up outside my house. Too much time on their hands!

[CharityCase]

Live in an apartment. Upstairs- don't know them but they're not noisy. Have a child who plays the piano and violin a lot but at least plays them well and at sociable hours. Downstairs- has a Zumba habit but again, never that late so just have to put up with an hour of very loud repetitive base every other day. I'm sure we annoy them more than that. Next door- they're nice but heavy smokers- the smoke drifts into our apartment through the air com vents. Also they go out at the weekends leaving their dogs to bark. The dogs are super old though so may not be a issue much longer.

[Wuxiapian]

We have one set of neighbours and, no, I don't like them.

They reported us to the council for noise nuisance when our dog, who hardly barks, barked a few times when the elderly mother was out in her yard. They didn't come talk to us - that would be too easy. We apologised profusely and said we'd not leave the dog unattended in the yard again.

We sent them Christmas cards in the 2 Christmases since, but they've ignored us since.

Previous owner of our house forewarned us that they were difficult.

[Ledkr]

I always tell mine to stop screeching if they are doing so on the trampoline.
We have new neighbours who I'm unreasonably annoyed with after their building work went on for months which ruined our summer as it was too noisy and dusty to use the garden.
Their two boys make nasty comments and stare when my dds are in the garden. I'm currently trying to get them to ignore them so they stop but dd1 does like the drama

[digerd]

You have the legal right to prune any branches/roots that encroach onto your property, up to the boundary line.

[Nataleejah]

Squirt them with water, like cats

[oldgrandmama]

I live in one of four houses, which together with a large house containing four apartments, surround a communal courtyard. All the neighbours are young(ish) and I'm the elderly lady. Everyone is absolutely lovely - all help each other out, keep an eye on properties when owners away etc. I have the keys for most of the households, since I'm almost always here.

I know I'm very lucky. My terrific neighbours are the main reason I'd never sell my house (to be honest, it's too big for just one person) and move somewhere smaller.

[Stinklebell]

I live in a tiny estate of 8 houses in the middle of nowhere.

Most of us get on fine, feed each other's cats, put each other's bins out, socialise at BBQs, etc.

2 are awful though -

My are horrible, rude, loud, awkward, teenagers having loud parties until 2am, etc - we organised a street party for the royal wedding, they refused to come and then he came out of his house, moved his car and parked it right in the middle of where we were all sitting (communal grassy area) and then fucked off back inside - odd

Other neighbour a few doors up - so far up their own arses if ear they may turn inside out.

Generally, we just leave them to get on with it, the rest of us get on well, kids play out together, we chat, help each other out. 6 out of 8 is good going I think

[thegreylady]

Mine are lovely. When I was having chemo Mrs Nextdoor came and did my cleaning and her dh helps mine with outdoor jobs. They appear rough and ready but I wouldn't swap them. On the other side is a retired public school teacher. He is a bit posh but so kind. He brings us veg from his garden and often chats to us when we are ouside (what do you do with 2 carrier bags of artichokes though?).

[Lj8893]

We have only lived here since November but everyone seems lovely and friendly.
Our neighbour before that was upstairs from us and was an old lady with some obvious mental health issues, she would shout to herself at 6am, bang on our door telling us to turn off our music at 2am (we were asleep with no music), constantly accuse us of hacking her computer, tapping into her electric etc etc.

Neighbours before her killed my mums cats.

Neighbour before them was really nasty, called me a slut lots (I was 17), told my mum he hoped my nan suffered when she lost her battle to cancer and took a piss in my mums car when she accidentally left it unlocked.

I think I deserve nice neighbours now!

[gingermop]

neibours one side lovely, the otherside, pot smoking lazy asses, there hoarders, half there garden has fallen into mine since fencing came down from bad winds, there house is a hovel.
they have a 2 y/o ds living in it .

[Kentonian]

End of terrace. Neighbours are lovely. They are retired so home often. They bring our post round.

Neighbours across the street (garden fence aligns our road) never say hello. Their five children play in their garden everyday in the summer - in the tree house/trampoline/paddling pool/swing and slide. You can hear their conversations and screeching. I look forward to the winter months! They have a dog which they allow outside to bark at 7am and just before 7pm

Other residents on my road keep themselves to themselves. No arguments, no shouting, no hanging around, no parties!

Reading some of your posts I really cannot complain.

[SeaSickSal]

My Gran had this problem with a neighbour and a trampoline.

A male friend of hers (in his 80s) came over one day and they were sat in the garden with a kid appearing over the fence every two seconds.

This man started very loudly calling out the colours of the knickers each child was wearing. It soon stopped and never happened again.

I know it's awful and he shouldn't have done it but it served them bloody right, if they felt it had invaded their privacy and was someone looking at something they shouldn't have done then they knew exactly how my Gran felt.

They really were bloody awful, they actually came round with a timetable telling my Gran what time's she could use her garden when their children wouldn't be out kicking balls against the walls and using the trampoline. They live in the middle of a seaside town full of pensioners.

[silverten]

I think I'm quite lucky.

Three doors up: young family with kids a bit older than ours. We get on fine.

Two doors up: working couple, hardly ever see them but they are smiley. Probably because we let them off having to pay for some maintenance work on our shared garden.

Next door: older couple, really up themselves. Think rules don't apply to them (lots of alterations to house without permission, used to rent it out against mortgage rules) and don't bother with basic courtesy (needed to use our drive to prune their tree but didn't bother asking- we came home to find a bloody great cherry picker on it). They are currently selling and I'm taking some pleasure in fucking up their sale with a neighbour dispute over a window they had put in which means they can see into quite a lot of our house.

Next door down: lovely people.

Two doors down: fabulous smiley old lady who loves children.

Three doors down: soon to have our mates moving in