To think all neighbours should be abolished

[Vintagejazz]

The loud music, barking dogs, bratty kids, wind chimes, inconsiderate parking, DIY at 7am, constant barbecues, smoking underneath windows, not collecting parcels and revving car engines at all hours.

AIBU to think we should just abolish the lot of them because they are driving us all mad?

[FidelineAndBombazine]

There had been wine taken

Really!?

[Vintagejazz]

There had been wine taken

Went out on to the balcony earlier to see if they had retaliated but thankfully no, as I have two estate agents coming shortly to value my apartment.

In fairness it could have come from another balcony or blown out of someone's bag of rubbish in the breeze or somesuch

[FidelineAndBombazine]

This could get interesting. Can we come and watch the escalation?

[Vintagejazz]

Just thrown a cigarette butt back onto neighbour's balcony along with handful of cooked rice from my bin

[RelocatorRelocator]

I know Andrewofgg - I would have felt quite sympathetic had he not been such a nob for the previous year.

[Vintagejazz]

My lovely neighbour smokes on his balcony when I'm sitting out on mine (separated by wafer thin partition) and then leaves the butts out on his balcony so they blow over into mine. I have started throwing them back but he still hasn't got the message. Maybe I should start throwing bits of rubbish from my bin over the partition and see how he and his wife like picking that up.

[Andrewofgg]

RelocatorRelocator He was pretending to himself. It's not unknown.

[Openup41]

Sweet summer Please tell me you are joking.

My next door neighbours are lovely.

I have had some awful neighbours;
One left a half eaten pizza directly outside their front door overnight. I was living in a house converted into flats at the time. The same couple overfilled two of the communal bins whilst the rest remained empty

Another couple lived above us. They bought a small dog which ran across their floor all day and all night.

[RelocatorRelocator]

I have lovely neighbours. We take in parcels, feed cats, water gardens, lend long ladders and DIY tools, babysit and more.

We did have a hellish neighbour in our last flat though. His speciality was playing dodgy euro house at full volume at random times of day (midnight being my special favourite) - so loud we couldn't watch TV. He left after losing his job and pretending to go to work every day. He lived alone so not sure who he was pretending to.

[Shockers]

My neighbour on one side bakes us cakes and gives us plants from her wonderful garden. She's 80. We, in turn, help her whenever we can.

The ones attached to us are heavy smokers and my sitting room often smells where the smoke has come through the air vents. I put up with this because they are very elderly and lovely, and they put up with all our noise. We have two teens who enjoy playing football with the dog, one plays the trumpet and the other has an amazingly deep voice. I've asked if the neighbours can hear us, but they say not. We know this is untrue because when DH went in to show them something to do with their TV, he said our house sounded like there was a thunderstorm inside it... I was hoovering.

[Pinot4me]

I've always been quite lucky with my neighbours except for one complete and utter nutter!
Years back we moved into a house that was on a corner of a cul de sac and the back garden was really open to one side so we planted about 20 little trees to create a hedge (completely on our land) which were about 2ft tall. We kept finding the odd tree ripped out and dumped in the road. We were pissed off and puzzled! This went on for weeks. I set up a little camera in my daughters bedroom and left it running. On the 3rd night, we found 6 trees in the road so of course, looked through the video - there was our ndn, clear as day, ripping them out one by one and laughing like a nutter....

I went to see her to ask if she knew anything about my trees and she was uber friendly and was saying how terrible it was...bla bla! I showed her the video and she went ape shit!! Nutter....I reported her to the police and showed them the video but apparently they couldn't 'clearly see' it was actually her....her hubbie was a police sergeant...just saying lol.

[Teddybeau1988]

I live in a flat, on my floor there's three flats. I'm one end, neighbour in the middle is never heard and rarely seen. After living next door for eight years I would not recognise her walking down the street. The neighbours at the other end are a nightmare though. The mum chain smokes outside, and the smell wafts in. They constantly scream at each other. Monday night they had a party, and there were about a dozen adults making a racket until 11:30pm outside their front door while all the DCs ran around the car park blowing whistles. Today's highlight was two of them playing cricket on a balcony.

[EddieVeddersfoxymop]

Oh god, yes. I have lovely, lovely neighbours both sides, we're all detached houses so no noise/hassle etc. Apart from the twats who's house is a 90deg to all of us. They have loud, shouty sweary parties every weekend, go in their hot tub all the time (which is lovely to have, I'm sure) but the whining of the jets is bloody loud, they bbq every fucking night.....oh I could go on. Honestly, we all live and let live, it's a nice area and we're generally all repsectful of each other. Expect these folk. And it's not just me hoiking my judgey pants.....we all feel the same. I'm the only one brave enough so far to confront them on the noise at weekends with a passive aggressive note through the door as the music was so fucking loud they couldn't hear me hammering on the door.

[YouTheCat]

I live in a terrace of 4 houses. Next door is an old alchy who likes to burn rubbish. Next to him is a young family with a dog (they allow to run around in our garden) and very noisy, whiny children. Next to them is a total stoner. I'm pretty sure he's growing weed if the condensation on his windows is anything to go by.

[Andrewofgg]

Using incense can be inconsiderate too. Not everybody likes it and it spreads.

[pukkabo]

Yy to neighbours in our last house. Was a terraced. One side were bbqers, including a bbq with about 50 members of their family rammed into the tiny concrete back yard (think Coronation street style houses.) They never told us when they were having one, had to drag washing in a few times. Plus they must have never ventilated their house, every weekend the stench of fatty greasy meats would come through the walls and we're veggie so that stench literally had us gipping- had to burn incense to cover it.

Other neighbours were grumpy old sods. A middle aged couple, they were friendly at first- even got us a card when Dc2 was born and would make friendly chit chat over the wall from time to time. Then suddenly when DC3 was born they took to banging on the walls whenever she cried, drilling specifically on our side of the walls for hours including last year on Boxing Day! Which made our young DC scream, scared of the noise. They would cross over the road to avoid us too and purposely wait for us to be inside the house before they left their house. Very, very bizarre! Not sure what we did to offend them, aside from having a baby that SHOCK HORROR cried. On the day we moved out they took to drilling on the wall and making our DC scream again, just to wind us up one last time I guess- lovely.

In a semi detached now, neighbours are a lot better. Can't hear anywhere near as much noise through the walls as in a terraced. No booming music or BBQs yet. Dreading bonfire night though, this is more of a family area than where we used to live and I can tell most of them will be firework lovers- I am not.

[TheScottishPlay]

How horrible for you Felix.

[FelixFelix]

I've just had to close my front door and all my windows even though it's boiling hot because next door are sat on their step smoking weed again. Every fucking day.

[Vintagejazz]

Hi

OP here. I have had some great neighbours and a few annoying ones. I was really just commenting on the many threads on here about neighbours and the things they do that drive people mad and thinking about how nice it would be, sometimes, to just wave your hands and make neighbours disappear.

[wonkylegs]

Noooooo
OP must have lost out in the neighbour draw. We had great neighbours at our old house & we are still friends now we've moved.
Our new neighbours are fab too & I don't know what we'd do without them they've been so helpful whilst we've been renovating our house.

[TheScottishPlay]

We had bizarre neighbours when we lived in a flat.
When we moved in the girl lived alone. All was quiet from her. In fact our then 2 year old running around possibly drove her to distraction. Shortly aftet her bf moved in. He was diy mad. A new bathroom and kitchen were fitted with the aid of horrendously loud music.
Nearly every weekend she went away to a sports camp or something and he had every trollope for miles around partying all hours. This was followed by a mass clean up again to loud music on a Sunday afternoon.
They also didn't have effective ventilation to get rid of cooking smells so we would come home to garlic heaven most evenings.
The worst was the wooden floors which I would ban in flats. It was like living above dinosaurs.
It has been our only experience of noisy and inconsiderate neighbours but was enough to persuade us to move to a semi-rural environment. We have been here 6 years and love it.
The only sound I hear at the moment is DS watching Pirates of the Caribbean on his tablet.
Well that and the gas gun the farmer has to scare the birds from his barley.

[SweetSummerSweetPea]

I realise there are exceptions Haunted and Sweet and that it must be awful to not feel safe in your own home

At LEAST three houses on our street with nightmare from hell situations going on...even now another thread where poor op wants to move due to hideous neighbours...and no one to protect her...

Op is talking on a different level of neighbour problems here....Sadly mine have been much worse.

[Ladyfoxglove]

Agree LadySybil In my experience, noisy neighbours think they are 'normal' and you are 'abnormal' for being so quite/keeping to yourself. One neighbour of mine (years ago) a middle-aged man with a girlfriend (no children) came to my house at 8 pm, knocked on my door and asked me what I did ALL NIGHT, ALL on my own and asked me if I drank, smoked, was religious or did drugs because they'd all (the neighbours presumably) been wondering why I was so quite and surely I must have ONE vice. I told him that I tended to read a lot. He couldn't think of anything to say. He did offer to 'service' me if I ever needed it though.

[Suzannewithaplan]

It was an emergency!
I had a great idea for customizing a piece of furniture and I just had to get it finished.
I am normally very quiet, but I have occasional evening diy urges

[chockbic]

Tsk on that coach with you. Go on.