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?

[Kerosene]

Top floor flat. All lovely, particularly the students next door. I'm worried that when we move, we won't have as good neighbours again.

[Jelly15]

Mine are all very nice and friendly and next door are like family. In fact we are going on holiday together this weekend. Have been camping together lots when the children were growing up.

[TSSDNCOP]

One side are newish and seem a pleasant, keep themselves to themselves couple. They have a nice dog. I like dogs.

Other side is cabbie arsehole bloke and his nice wife. CAB is one of those "cheer up love, Christ you could try a smile types". Hes just so fucking hilarious. the last time he said this I let him have it with both barrels.

[wizzler]

We are very lucky.
To our right are a couple in their seventies who have lived in the house for 35 years. They are charming, and friendly and always throw DS' ball back ! They did get a little miffed when the ball went over a lot, but I took some flowers round and said how grateful I was for their patience with him and all is well now

To our left we have a young couple with a three year old. They are lovely, but tbh they do make me feel inadequate because despite both working full time and having a DC, their house is beautiful, with no clutter in the hall !

It is a lovely road.. we have a Street party every year for the last 3 years and since we have started to do that, everyone has started to smile more at each other.

[craftynclothy]

We're in a semi. The neighbours we're attached to are lovely. We both have kids and are quite happy to ignore the noise they make, etc. We've actually apologised to them a few times because DD1 went through a stage of screeching at bedtime and they said they'd never heard her can't believe it but it's lovely they didn't make us feel bad

The other side were really nice when they first moved in (a few months after us). Then she chucked her bloke out and moved someone else in fairly quickly that's how we realised the other bloke wasn't there anymore. He's unpleasant. We have brick sheds that are half ours and half theirs and it needed the roof replaced. He wouldn't speak to me about it at all, insisting on speaking to Dh...who would invariably ask me and then repeat the answer back to him. They then told us they were using their dodgy mate anyway and so no builder will now touch our section. I might have had a rather loud row with the bloke in the street. Funnily enough their mate has never finished their side of the roof and we think this is because we refused to use him for our bit and so wouldn't be paying him any money.

[TSSDNCOP]

Oh and then there the arsehole two doors down who watched as my bike got nicked from my shed at 2am, but decided against calling the police as "well, there was no point really". Cock.

[RedFocus]

I haven't really seen my neighbours except when he came to borrow a gas metre key but I didn't have one and was hoping to borrow his which made us both chuckle but I haven't seen him since. They have a dog who barks at my dogs and then they have a row through the fence which is funny. I feel incredibly sorry for my neighbours though because my daughter, who has autism, has meltdowns and screams to house off and my son who doesn't but is a bad loser screams and cries when his friends beat him at online games. Unfortunately their rooms back onto my neighbours house so they must hear it all must pop a bottle of wine round and a card to apologise I think.

[MizTiggle]

I hate my neighbour. She thinks she's a princess. I think she's a cunt.

[absoluteidiot]

It can change in a moment, as well. We've lived here 12 years, happily and loved our home. These new people have been in since Sept and what is really upsetting about it is, it changes the way you feel about your own home. I feel like there is no point doing anything or spending any money on our home any more, as the man is complaining constantly about my kids slamming doors (they don't and no-one we have lived next door to in 30 years of having our own places, has ever complained) so I feel like I could be evicted any minute. Stupid I know. It is obvious he is only doing it to deflect attention from us complaining about his domestic violence. And the council take slamming doors more seriously than beating up and emotionally abusing kids, it seems.

[Giveusabreakplease]

Melovelyneighbour do you have our old neighbours sounds like it?

[ScrambledSmegs]

Yes, ours are lovely. We had problems for a while with a neighbour who had some mental health issues, I tried to be understanding but really couldn't cope with the screamed death threats while I was holding my 1 week old baby and toddler. But she lost her job and went to live with her caring family so hopefully she is being looked after.

Lots of our neighbours have become good friends. DH was surprised as he bought into the 'unfriendly London' myth. Yeah, everyone's grumpy on the commute, but at home it's another matter.

[caruthers]

My neighbours are brilliant and we are community minded in every respect.

But over the years we have had some shockers.

[fedupandfifty]

Yes. Chatty but not over-friendly. And dependable. The rest of the nearby street is on "hello"terms only.

I'm a good neighbour too, I think. Bad neighbours must be an absolute nightmare.

[SooticaTheWitchesCat]

We are lucky to have nice neighbours at the moment, we hardly see the ones to one side as they are always at work, on the other our neighbour is lovely. Most people around are really nice too.

We did have awful people for a while, they were friendly enough but kept having late night garden parties every week

[MinesAPintOfTea]

I love one set, we do neighbourly favours for each other.

The other side are nightmares, row constantly, smoke right by the boundary fence (so it wafts in through our windows), leave bikes blocking the ginnel, try to start parking wars etc.

[TallyGrenshall]

The neighbour attached is nice. We pass the time over the fence and she never mentions DS charging around making loads of noise, and we don't mention when her dog has a mad half hour charging around making loads of noise.

Other side is a family with 2 slightly older children. Very nice, DS sometimes plays with the children and the Dad lets DS sit in his van and help him clean it. The Mum is always smiley and chatty.

There are a couple of people on the lane that are a bit miserable, my DM's next door neighbour has been trying to sell his house for years but won't drop the extremely over optimistic asking price so generally stomps about with a face like a smacked arse

[Bowlersarm]

Really lucky with ours.

Two sets. We are all similar ages. All at similar stages.

We've all become great friends and socialise a lot with each other.

[ladypete]

I couldn't point out 80% of my neighbours in a lineup! I know the families that went to the local school, the man across the road and the woman next door but one. No one really speaks to each other though.

Street of town houses in London FWIW.

At least you recognise yours OP!

[Topaz25]

I was very nervous of our neighbour when we moved in because our landlady warned us (conveniently just after we had just signed the tenancy) that he once called the police on her for parking in his space (he doesn't even have a car!) Luckily we haven't had any problems. He is elderly and partially deaf and mostly keeps to himself. He does have an unfortunate habit of watching TV loudly late at night because of his hearing problems but we let it go because we are probably noisy sometimes too. Our other neighbours are also elderly and keep themselves to themselves. Sometimes I wish we were closer but I'm quite shy so really we've been lucky.

They are a definite improvement on the interfering curtain twitcher we lived next to before who reported us to environmental health because she once saw two rats coming into her garden from ours. We lived in a row of terraces backing onto fields and woods so the could have come from anywhere, they could even have been going home!

[rideyourbike]

I did like our neighbours both sides, but when we had our loft converted, one side took a great dislike to us and refused to talk to us again and were a bit funny to the builders. 4 years later their house is still standing but we still don't talk. Single Scottish chap the other side is nice though :)

[MeLovelyNeighbour]

Thank you one and all! There are certainly some shocking neighbours out there... but looks like lots of us have great ones too!

All my neighbours are lovely and friendly and helpful... except the next door ones with the huge trampoline in the tiny garden. Even though we have 6ft fences, we can see lots of trampoline over the fence (no problem with that), but its the height the children bounce and the amount of gazing into our house and silly/rude remarks they make whilst bouncing. Though I think I hate it even more when they play football in it. Or have too many children in it. We now just tend to not go outside when they are in their trampoline. I like privacy in the garden - I think of it as an extension of my house. HO HUM!

[coldwater1]

No. I disliske me and my children being woken up to next doors drunken rages and him smashing up his house. Just because they can spend the day in bed, some of us aren't that lucky!

[absoluteidiot]

This new neighbour of our's last week put up a 30 foot aerial thing in his back garden. We already thought he was creepy. But what's that about?

You'll be out in the garden and think there's no-one there and suddenly this creepy little cough from behind his outhouse. And he is just stood there, doing nothing but wants you to know he is just there. My husband came back from work the other night, and as he drove past, saw right into their front room. He said the woman was just stood there, in her coat, frozen and staring into space, against the back wall.

This afternoon, she had her DTs a bit early and just let out this one, creepy shriek. Years ago I lived next door to a registered alcoholic, and sometimes she makes the same weird bleating noises we used to hear him make. I have only spoken to her once and she was incoherent and weird, definitely off her face on something. When I said to the man at the council how the hell could they hand her the keys to a three bedroom house in that state, he said "It's social housing. What do you expect?" Short of looking me in the eye and calling me "Scumbag", he couldn't have been ruder.

But I don't understand why this council thinks its longstanding tenants who have paid them thousands of pounds in rent over the years should have to live next door to the dregs of society. Even if we got them evicted, the council would just put someone worse in there, probably, then call us scumbags if we complain.

[BellaVita]

One side yes, they are lovely.

The other side no. Their heads are up their arses most of the time whilst sucking lemons.

[treaclesoda]

my neighbours are lovely. We're not close friends, we don't go into each others houses or anything, but I feel 100% confident that they would help us out if we were in a fix. One couple are not that nice, they scowl at us all and won't acknowledge anyone in any way (yet apparently complain that all the neighbours are horrible ) but at least they don't cause any real problems.