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

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MeLovelyNeighbour · 11/03/2014 20:42

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?

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treaclesoda · 12/03/2014 16:01

that should say one couple in the whole street, not one couple out of those on either side of us!

JuliaScurr · 12/03/2014 16:02

those of you with noisy neighbours - contact council environmental health. I did :)

FelixFelix · 12/03/2014 16:04

I live in a terraced house. Right hand side have massive screaming matches on a daily basis. Left hand side I am convinced are drug dealers. I know exactly what car is going to pull up to visit them at what time of the day now. How sad Grin

mumslife · 12/03/2014 21:00

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EurotrashGirl · 13/03/2014 06:54
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gobbledegook1 · 13/03/2014 17:29

At my last house my neighbours on the left were awful (well the bloke was his wife was actually very nice). He used to scream at me accusing me of swapping his bins, he used to stand in the back garden and when he could hear me outside would slag me off to his wife deliberately loudly for me to hear (went round and told him if he had a problem to grow some balls and have the decency to say it to my face - funnily he stopped after that!) and when my dad died he went out of his way to block in the funeral cars rather than park on his drive like he normally would!!

My current neighbours are lovely, the ones on the left send my dog christmas cards and rescued my chickens from their cats when they got through a small hole in the fence whilst I was at work, caught them, returned them and posted a lovely note through the door letting me know. The lady on the left always stops and chats with me and is forever lending me bits and bobs when I have DIY moments.

Preciousbane · 13/03/2014 18:21

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Shockers · 13/03/2014 18:29

We have elderly neighbours on both sides. On one side is a lady in her late seventies who bakes and sends cakes over the fence to us. She seems to like DH more than me, possibly because I once lost my temper with a goon in a car who had been revving his engine and sounding his horn for over an hour. I snapped and swore loudly several times at him, not realising that sweet elderly neighbour could hearBlush.

On the other side ( attached to us) are a very nice couple. The only problem is that she smokes and the smell travels through the air bricks into our sitting room. They're both elderly and not in particularly good health, so I've never made a fuss. I hate it though.

winniethepoohpooh · 13/03/2014 18:41

No, we are very lucky.

I will go and buy a little cottage in the middle of the forest if it changes...

KashewK · 13/03/2014 18:55

"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."

Over 12 kids spending "whole time bouncing" in March?
LOL are you for real???

HesterShaw · 13/03/2014 19:00

Why shouldn't she be "for real" Confused?

nokidshere · 13/03/2014 19:55

I love mine Grin On one side is my (Lovely) MIL and on the other a really nice couple with a son who is good friends with mine. We live in a cu de sac and all our neighbours are really nice, we don't socialise but we chat and I could go to any one of them in an emergency and they would all help (as would I for them).

Nocomet · 13/03/2014 19:55

I have a 12-13 yearold who has bounced on the trampoline every dry non school second of the winter.

However she's usually upside down and too busy not breaking her neck to look through windows.

nokidshere · 13/03/2014 19:57

?? where did my post go?

My neighbours are lovely. On one side is my very Lovely MIL and on the other a couple with a son who is good friends with my son.

We live in a cul de sac and whilst we don't socialise with the rest of the street, we all stop to pass the time of day and I could go to any ne of them in an emergency and know that they would help (as would I for them)

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MeLovelyNeighbour · 14/03/2014 11:58

KashewK... yep I am for real!! Why would people not use a trampoline in March?

Kids are over 12 years of age (not 12 children in total). Obviously they are only bouncing when not at school. They seem to bounce constantly - even when it is raining. I don't care too much about the bouncing (though in fairness it is very annoying, but I know I can't complain about that as we all make noise which irritates our neighbours). It's the fact that they stare into our house and garden and shout and scream and make silly remarks and comments on what we're doing that I find really irritating.

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Giveusabreakplease · 14/03/2014 15:49

I understand how you are feeling we had that problem previously but we had the adults when sozzled do it as well, and they had a very large long trampline, they would also kick a ball against the wall as well as bouncing.

You have my sympathy xx

mumslife · 14/03/2014 21:32

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ChocolateSnowflakes · 14/03/2014 21:35

I don't even know mine and I dislike them. I was playing music (not blaring but thin walls, they could probably hear) at about 9pm on a Friday. They banged in the wall so I turned it down. The following Sunday they played theirs LOUD at 11pm. Wankers. (That was last summer. I've still only ever seen the man!)

DisgraceToTheYChromosome · 14/03/2014 22:39

Our neighbours are pretty much OK, Next door to the left is a curtain twitcher, to the left a pleasant woman in her 60s on her own. There's a career criminal 6 doors away, but he's usually inside.

This being East Angular, they're all related, sometimes rather closer than the permitted degrees of kinship.

OhTheDrama · 14/03/2014 23:49

Both sets either side are lovely, on one side they keep an eye on the house when we go away and take any parcels in when we're at work. We always speak but generally keep to ourselves but I know they are there if I need them and vice versa.

encyclogirl · 14/03/2014 23:55

Mine are 500 yards away. I love them for that reason Grin

expatinscotland · 14/03/2014 23:57

No, it's a flat. Our lovely neighbours are moving next week. Hate having neighbours right next to us. It sucks.

randomfemale · 14/03/2014 23:58

I like my neighbours - the ones to the left are good friends and the ones to the right never answer back because it's just a patch of land that one of the other residents owns and grows veggies on.

GwendolineMaryLacey · 15/03/2014 00:14

Yes mostly, neighbour on the left is lovely lady in her seventies. Would talk the hind legs off a donkey, even more so if you have shopping to go into the freezer...

Neighbours on right are so so. Have a fuck off big rottweiler in a little flat and they let him wander round the street but otherwise seem ok.

Across the road is a family with similar age children to us. Total misery-guts. And along from them is nice family we share school runs with. So not bad overall.

beaglesaresweet · 15/03/2014 01:22

complained about our cat walking around inside (yes, seriously)

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