Neighbors habits that annoy you.

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When people pull up outside your house early in the morning (to give a neighbour a lift) and they have the engine noisily 'idling' for 10 minutes or more instead of being considerate and turning the engine off while they wait.
Every sodding morning. Don't need to set an alarm.

It's not as if it's the middle of winter and the car needs warming up. It's not an old car either.

when i lived in london i had a lady next door that would ''feed the birds'' at every opportunity. Front garden and back garden. If she had meat /bones she'd throw it in our back garden for our cats. Made me so mad !!
that is just throwing her rubbish all over the place and encouraging rats.
Glad we moved.

I have a back alley running between the back of my house and the next street over. Victorian terraces if you can picture it.

The bloke directly behind us is really odd. I think he's retired but his backyard is like a builders merchants with just random pieces of wood everywhere. He'll bring new lengths of wood home every few weeks, leave them out in the backyard leaning against the wall then they'll be there forever. I've never seen him move them or use them, just accumulate more wood.
Last year he put loads of lovely plants in pots in the backyard but I never saw them being watered and they all died really quickly. He didn't bother to move the pots or do anything with the dead plants so now there are loads of pots with dead brown branches in them.
Whenever there's the merest hint of sunshine he sunbathes on a lilo in speedos. Not a nice sight.

God these posts have made me laugh (although I know of course it's an absolute nightmare). Here goes my two penneth:

Neighbours with the kids - shouting at their kids constantly (even Xmas Day has no reprieve), kids scream constantly, crying, then thundering up stairs, doors slam, all goes quiet.

The parents intelligently placed their kids swing such that every time they are on it it slams into the fence and drives me up the flipping wall as I sit, anxiously, hoping that the plant pots that are affixed there don't come off and smash to pieces.

Cannot go and sit in garden as the kids observe me from their climbing frame (surprisingly disconcerting) which unfortunately includes them gawping at me IN MY LIVING ROOM so it is not uncommon on a summers day to have to sit indoors with the curtains drawn!

Have not slept beyond 8.30 am on a weekend since I moved in 5 years ago due to the noise and thumping screaming and banging doors and thundering down the stairs that these kids do right on cue every single morning.

Other neighbours with no kids. Lovely! Except when they first moved in and had a housewarming and I was staggered by the shocking lack of respect people (adults!) have for other people's property. My kitchen window looks onto a small drive - I look out to see a guy standing on my drive making a phone call feet from my front door and almost directly outside the kitchen window (there could be no confusion it's not the drive of his mate's house as there's a low wall separating them), whilst his oaf of a friend is literally trampling all over every single plant I've put in to deter the neighbourhood cats from sh*tting out the front all the time - I couldn't believe it.

Still, they did replace a guy who overtly dealt drugs out of his house for about 3 years. He went 'missing' for a while at one point - that's cos he'd been nicked for growing and dealing cannabis from that house and was in prison.

All in all the family with the kids are the worst but the layout of the area outside my house is kind of like an ampitheatre - someone down on the nearby main street sounds like they're right outside your house. Unfortunately my outside area is on a path back from the small local town's pubs and one manky nightclub so on the relevant nights you cannot fail but to be awoken at some point by people stumbling along, swearing, shouting and threatening to duff each other up. Most recently a new feature has arrived via a resident of the flats opposite who parks up at about midnight about once a week and, prior to going in, sits with rap booming out of his car which he raps live along with then proceeds to chat and chill with his mate, all the while keeping me wide awake.

Fun times.

JacquelineChan I had the same problem where I lived years ago. They used to throw food out in the garden.
One morning we had a rat hanging off a flower pot in the front garden and the next day there was one hanging off the bin! Poor DH I was screaming both times!

A few years ago, when I lived in a student house, the people who lived opposite insisted on parking opposite our driveway. This would usually be fine, except the road was very narrow and it was almost impossible to squeeze past this car, let alone reverse off our driveway with it there.It also made it very hard to pull into the drive.
They were obviously very car proud, so I started off by politely asking if they could move their car every time I wanted to get mine out, but they didn't seem to get the message (even when I did it at 11pm to go and get a McDonalds 😁).

Eventually, I waited until they were definitely at home and in the living room (which overlooked the road) and reversed my car out without asking them to move theirs. I deliberately got very close to their car. I saw the curtain twitch.. and got a bit closer.
It took me a good few minutes to manoeuvre out of my drive without hitting their car, but they were sufficiently worried I would do it again - and hit their car next time - that they never parked opposite again. Result!

Last year we had a downstairs neighbour who would smoke weed. It was fine initially because he would do it at about 3am, just on a Saturday. Within a few months this had increased to pretty much every day, from 8pm onwards. The smell seeped into everything.

We just recently moved and - fingers crossed - our neighbours seem decent.

My neighbours never seem to sleep.
Any time in the night I wake up I can hear them and their lights are all on.
Generally all I can hear are people chatting, closing doors etc but sometimes the make a huge row. Once or twice a week the whole family pile into the car and go supermarket shopping, at 4am!
They funny thing is that they are frightened of DH, no idea why, so if he tells them to shut up they do straight away.

They do annoy me, mainly because the outside of their house is an utter tip but they aren't nearly as bad as some in here.

Hmmm, let me see

• jacuzzi parties until 3am on a weekday
• the sound of them screaming and physically assaulting each other
• his vile gf screaming in the street because he BIT her
• his vile gf screaming in the street because he put a pic of her on fb she didn't like - "how could you do this to me!!!!!!"

I live in a nice area, he's a 20 year old who has a very wealthy family and NO SOCIAL AWARENESS

My neighbours are brilliant. All children are polite and well behaved. No one has cats or dogs, no one smokes weed or tobacco, no parking wars.
No screaming matches, no slamming of car doors.

Now I'm beginning to wonder if I'm the bad neighbour

Ours wind me up every now and again, but surpassed themselves last week by (accidentally) setting fire to the fence which in turn set fire to my (cheap, plastic, and now very dead) greenhouse.

(I could complain bitterly, but they have replaced both already)

My Dad's neighbours one side built a fucking great extension which has blocked out all of their south facing light in to the house and they're so rough he's terrified to get it taken down.

The other side, well they are really something. Mother has I think seven kids and her level of speaking is screaming. So all the kids do the same. Which would be bad enough except her favourite names to call them (even the two year old) seems to be "you fucking cunt" "stupid cunt" "ugly cunt" "fat cunt".

When we were staying there ds was too terrified to go outside and I damn near went round and gave her a talking to. but not really as she'd have knocked me out

I love my neighbours on both sides. :)

If we are in the garden, one of us will make tea for everyone. We regularly drink all together. If we eat outside, the others are welcome. Our kids play nicely with one side's dog, all the children play nicely together. We look after each others' houses and gardens when anyone is away. If someone is going to the shops they will often ask if anyone else needs anything. I love living here. :)

In our last house the neighbours used to cook what can only be described as a pot of bubbling shit every couple of days.
Our downstairs toilet seemed to be connected to their extractor fan and the smell used to honk out that room.
Awful, when we were selling I prayed the woman next door wasn't concocting another batch of it.

Taking their wheelie bins out at midnight.

Mine bring their bin in at 3 am some weeks tbf they are on shifts so i think their days and nights merge but the trundletrundle does wake me up .

Every fucking night, the lady across the road from us is visited by some cunt..turns up with music BLASTING, sits in car beeping for her to come out. THEN will get out of the car and go into her house for half an hour, come out, turn music back on, open windows and BEEP goodbye.

Drives me crackers to be honest as DD has a bit of a thing about cars beeping at the min (shes started going hysterical at the sound of the icecream van, gets very upset when she hears cars and such, no idea where its came from) so every night without fail we have a mega meltdown when this dickhead turns up. Even if shes fast asleep, her room is pretty much right next to where he parks and she wakes up 9 times out of 10. Mind even without this it would piss me off. This can be anytime from about 8pm (more reasonable) to midnight!

Why can he not just get out of the car like a normal person and knock on the door. Its not that he needs help getting into the house as I have watched them for a few weeks now when it happens and he gets out and struts in ahead of her once the door is open...I have never known people to beep for attention unless they are picking someone up?

Council reckon its not their problem (yes, we have complained) and its certainly not a police matter. DH is getting more and more worked up by the day and I am starting to worry he will go and confront this dickhead soon...neighbours have attempted this before and just got foul mouthed abuse and in one case..the guy next door was pushed across the road and threatened to be 'nutted'

There is also a woman who I assume lives in our street but do not know where as she is a proper ninja. Every day at some random point she will slink past glaring into our garden. She looks much like the pigeon woman in Mary Poppins. The other day I eyeballed her slinking her way down the street and as soon as she looked over into our garden I did a random dance, while giving eyecontact the whole time. She continued to stare all the way past. Itw a sso random and I was in a daft mood but now me and DH have a new game of what to do to piss her off when she comes staring. Childish yes, but extremely satisfying. Its hard to catch her on her way though, as I said ninja-ish..usually appears from nowhere...otherwise we would do something new everyday.

Nothing too bad but one of our neighbours is a fire fiddler.
They have a fire in one of the rooms which adjoins our house and it must have some kind of riddle mechanism which shakes through our house when he does it.
In winter he riddles the fire at about 5am!
When he's out, we see his car pull up, he walks up the path, we cound to three...riddle riddle riddle, every time! Like clockwork.
He's obsessed!

A neighbour down the street, thankfully too far away to bother us all that much is an ice cream man. Except that also involved bring home scrap transit vans, cutting them up and welding ice cream van top bits on, all done on their front lawn. The next door neighbours must hate them.
Every now and then he'll park outside our house and rev his engine none stop for 10 minutes, filling our garden (and house if the windows are open) with clouds of blue smoke and fumes. No idea why he does this.

Hate my neighbours with a passion and if I listed all the problems here I'd have an essay to write.

Absolutely hate people who are up there own arses like the bitch next door.

Well that felt good 😊

My neighbour's main fault is that whatever she is doing, wherever she is going, at whatever time of day, she looks like a bloody model. One of those totally stylish and effortlessly glamorous women.

Then she rented her house out and the new woman is the sodding same!

Any time I have seen her I've felt like a bag lady and she looks runway-ready, even if she's washing the car or putting the bins out

(and yes, both of them are lovely people which only makes it worse!)

Neighbours one side are great! Barely know I have neighbours that side. They have the quietest, most polite children I've ever met! I had the living room window open the other night when they were out on their trampoline around 7:30pm, and heard the eldest boy (my guess is he's about 11) say to the other one "we had better be a bit quieter now because the little kids will be in bed" I love those neighbours!
The other side like to wait until I've hung my washing out (which they can see me doing) and then light the smokiest BBQ on the face of this earth. Every sodding time. So my tumble dryer has been on a lot more than I would like this summer
And the people over the back just have irritating children that whine at me and DH about coming to play or Dd going to play over there and then have huge tantrums at the fence if we or their parents say no

One side are lovely, the other side, not so much.

One of them phones his dealer on speakerphone and then shouts at it what he wants. (He's being ripped off)

They have left their bins in the yard for so long, they have their own civilisation. (And rats)

Refused to pass on letters to their landlord about the leaking down pipe which has now flooded my cellar to the point we can't use it until it's fixed. Not great as DS uses it as a studio to practice and record in and was hoping to turn it into a little business and now all the sound proofing is ruined

However, I've just spent the last hour watching them steal the Co-op's big bins to put all the crap they've been throwing in their yard for the last year into them. Maybe they have a landlord's inspection happening. Might write him a letter.

I'll include all the above, plus the loud music until 0300, the loud porny sex and the throwing shit into their yard from the third floor windows as well.

We share an entry for access to the back gardens with NDN, they have at least half a dozen cats who live mostly outside and are prolific hunters. The entry is constantly littered with the remains of dead mice and rats and really unpleasant looking (and smelling) cat poo which they rarely clean up. We have to keep our bins out the front now because it's preferable to wheeling them through the disgusting mess, we also have to give advance notice if we're going to need to use the entry so they can do a big clean.

Omg Hidingtonothing that's disgusting.
I would be ringing environmental health about that

I know I should Mybread but I really hate conflict, especially when it's with people I have to live next door to. Providing we don't need to use the entry, which really only happens if we're doing any major work in the garden and need to get anything heavy or messy in or out, it doesn't impact on our lives so I guess it's easier to just let them get on with it. It's a HA property and we're waiting for them to come to do a repair which will involve them having to use the entry for access so I'm hoping it will be noticed and some action taken then. It's the cowards way out I know but I grew up with neighbour wars at my parents house and really don't want to go there again.

We are now charged for garden waste collections - so one neighbour has taken it upon them to burn their vast amounts of waste, normally just when I have hung out a load of washing to dry.