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.

our old neighbour was a single woman and we rarely heard her. She sold to a couple with an adult daughter with a baby, several dogs and 2 cats. Never hear the baby, the dogs bark and whine, the cats constantly shit in my garden and I've lost count of how many baby birds they've killed this year. They cut down several trees in the nesting season and after spending weeks out the back every night chopping up the good logs have had a bonfire every night for the past 2 weeks burning the crap. They also come and go at all hours and invariably slam their car doors at least six times every time they arrive or depart. They've also built an extension with all the accompanying noise and mess, and wanted to knock our wall down to give them wider access during the build To say we have noticed the change would be an understatement.

Hate my neighbours, a week after I moved in I got a loud bang on the door and opened it to an aggressive middle aged man shouting at me for parking on the street in a space parallel to my front lawn that's 'his space'.
It's an unmarked unrestricted public highway.

I was 8 months pregnant with twins and couldn't get in and out of my car on my driveway (steep slope and I was a whale).

I call my annoying neighbour the Doofus. He is obsessed with fire, random outdoor pursuits, boy toys, & noisy equipment of all kinds. He earned his name by starting a fire directly under a cedar tree on a really hot summer day, I marched over & told him he would set both our houses on fire, so put it out. A couple of weeks later he trimmed & thinned his very overgrown hedges (copying me, but I got pros in); having no means to take limbs & branches for disposal, he started a conflagration on the boundary (opposite to me, supposing no one but me would notice) but one of the other neighbours put him straight. Fires up chain saws, tables saws, strimmers, especially in evenings when we like to be out in garden. Recently got a sit-upon mower (and with his gut, he needs the excercise of a regular on) which he runs every night, so his lawn must be about a millimetre high. He & his screechy voiced girlfriend and 3 yapping dogs have a little encampment right on our boundary next to our bedroom window ( despite having a quite large area of garden to use. ) I think it is close to the kitchen so he doesn't have to heave his great hulk too far to get a beer. Also the time he put a stinky green stump on his BBQ one night (summer so our windows open) which stank up our house. I told him next morning I was starting a diary to present to EHOs at the council, so he hasn't done anything quite so stinky since. And the time he shot off fireworks over my roof. I could go on. I make a point of telling him off, so he is terrified of me. Job done.

This has my name written all over it.
My lovely NDNs have one parking space, we have two. They continuously park so we can't use second space.

They are also pissed a lot of the time, and go into the garden in the wee hours to have shouting matches, and allow their child and nephew to play in the garden, talking anywhere up until 4am.

There is also a lot of banging on the walls, and fair amount of fights going on at odd times.

Besides this, their daughter often follows mine into the garden, talking of how "wonderful" her 10th Birthday party will be, and everyone but my DD will be invited (this party will never happen, and I did feel sorry for her, until it came to my attention she was trying to make DD feel jealous)

We were quite friendly with them, but it became a habit that we were awoken by their fights-final straw was one about ndn and his sister both arguing about cocaine and being very drunk, then NDN felt the need to run down everyone she came into contact with, coupled with the fact they were general scroungers....they took complete offence to the fact we tried to inch away very, very slowly...things have just gotten worse and worse over the past year.

Most days, my neighbours stand in front of my garden wall and stand facing my bay window, staring at me through the window. If I wave they turn around and walk off. On more than one occasion they have come round with something like plants, fruit, eggs, even things like sellotape and said along the lines of "saw these and they were on offer and we didn't need this many so you owe us £x amount" like seriously wtf I don't want them.

Kilgrave my Auntie does that!!

"I saw these great birthday candles that sing to you...so I got you some...they're a fiver."

I don't want them!

Mine smoke weed and the smell drifts into my garden and through my windows if they are open.

To be fair they are a lovely old couple, and they don't do it in the garden if we are outside with DS, they move indoors if they have been, but the smell still comes through.
I've started to smell it a little bit in the spare room too so I think it's coming though the wall, which is annoying as we plan to move DS in there when he's a bit older.

BummyMummy77,
And they built a shed at the bottom of the garden and moved their Granny in which always used to make me feel sad seeing her shuffle down there in her nighty and thick woolies in the winter.

WTF?

Ugh They park on the street although they have a dedicated private space and there's flats opposite that need the on street parking.
They burn electric cables which smoke horribly.
And a bit more irrationally they leave their washing out on the line for weeks. It just gets rained on again and again this baffles me.
The woman is also mean and shouty to her grandkids who are over a lot which I find upsetting. One occasion this summer she praised one of them and it was so unusual I told dh. Generally it's yelling and don't do this don't do that.

Although seeing some of these posts helps me feel better about mine.

My upstairs neighbours (three 20-something girls) drive me crazy- they are the most illogical people I've come across...

They currently still have their heating on- I hear it switch on at 4am every morning. They must be baking hot, we're in central bloody London.

They are incapable of closing the front door to our apartments. I once found a homeless man sleeping in the entry corridor because they left it open.

Our front doors are at a right angle to each other. They congregate outside their door to have hour long, shrieking conversations with each other. We've heard some great stuff about their sex lives.

They leave very important 'final reminder' letters for ages after they have come through our shared letter box.

One of them always forgets the key to the shared entrance door... she seems to think it's okay to buzz us to let her in every time. Fine occasionally, but not weekly or past 11pm...

When she's putting things in the bin and sees your car draw up she stands at the door and waits on you getting out the car.

I would sit in the car and wait it out to see how long she would stand there. 😆

Loads of them congregate in the street right outside our bedroom window and scream cackle loudly and smoke at about 10pm or later every night. Ffs just go round each others houses!!

Encourage their kids to play with leather footballs in our narrow street, bashing against all the cars and running in across without looking (I'm surprised they've not been run over)

Scream at their kids constantly

Wish we could afford to move :(

My next door neighbour is a right nosey git! Every time we have work men around, which is quite often as we're basically gutting the house and starting again, he makes a point to corner the workmen when they're getting stuff out of their vans and ask them what there doing to our house. I'd be less annoyed if he knocked on and asked us directly. He's also tried to poach our handyman in the middle of a job. I can't stand him!

She seemed pretty happy about it though Katz.

Ndn smoke weed which ends up wafting into my house, makes me feel sick. Ndn missus only has only volume so all we hear day in, day out is " girls naaaaaaaaaaaame" and "boys naaaaaaaaaame"

Other ndn for some bizzare reason insist on going to their car every morning at 0530 and they check all of the car doors " clunk clunk clunk clunk" ffs drives me insane.

Our new neighbours have loud screaming sex. When I say loud, it is LOUD! And the length of time it goes on for leads us to believe that a) she is faking much of it, or b) they are recording it. It is loud enough that people stop in the street to listen. How do they think that her braying like a donkey in the dead of night with the windows open is a smart idea? She does seem, on the whole, a very thoughtless person.

i'd speak to environmental at the council, it'll give them a laugh if nothing else, seriously though she sound a fake, but i'd still report it it's anti social and who really wants to hear that shite anyway ?

drumming.
(they're lovely apart from that, and I can tolerate that)

Playing the bongos anytime between 11pm and 1am, never any earlier.

Next door have their childs bed right up against their wardrobe door ( I have no idea how this works by the way, just what shes told me!) and every night at bedtime the daughter has tantrums and kicks the wardrobe door for about half an hour.

Their patio door only shuts if you slam it hard at least 5 times and they like to do this either first thing in the morning or late at night.

Saturday and sunday mornings she has her children all pile into the bedroom and they have random tantrums for around 3 hours from 6am onwards

her cats crap all over my garden

her kids pull all the flowers out of my flower beds

her one child runs out of the house every single time
when she sees me pull up and then quizzes me about where ive been what im doing next, what Ive got in my bag, what I need it for

her ex boyfriend comes over every night to see the kids and they argue for about 2 hours whilst hes there

my other neighbour doesn't have a driveway and has 2 cars so parks the one to the right of my drive and the other to the left but parks each front tyre right up against the very edge of my driveway when theres bags and bags of room behind either side. Means I have to do a ten point turn to swing out of my drive as there are other cars parked on the other side of the road.

Everytime I'm in my garden my neighbours kids shout at me from their top floor window asking what im doing, why im doing it, then when I go into the shed and they cant see me they call me repeatedly...

I'm not a particularly tolerant person as you can tell.

oh and the old guy has a house opposite but doesn't live there so every night he rocks up with his wife at 12am precisely, slams every single car door, goes inside with a bag of shopping ( I think he must be keeping someone hostage in the basement, why else would you need to take food shopping into an empty house??)

Then they sit in the front room by torchlight for about half an hour then slam every single car door, get back in the car and sit there with the engine running and the light on and read books for about 20 minutes.

New neighbours who have a house with a Juliet Balcony. They previously ran a guest house for over 30 years so have plenty of visitors popping by to see them. And every single fucking one is treated to him opening the window and saying 'Juliet where for art though' then laughing as its the funniest most original cocking thing to say in the world.
I'm thinking of buying a catapult.

Smoking in the garden. Do it in your own house but not in your garden so it comes into our garden for us to breathe in.

One neighbour had really grizzly kids who are out shouting at the top of their voices from 7am. Worse is them occasionally playing loud music very early and singing along. Try listening to them singing Nikki Minaj's Starships off key at 7am.

Smokey BBQ. Neighbour has a really smokey BBQ. However this is so bad we have to shut all the doors and windows and stay inside. So tempted to turn the hose on the bastard thing.

Our neighbours have a big dog that they leave out in the garden, that barks loudly and growls every time we go into our garden and continues until we go in again.
Instead of training the dog or bringing it in, they shout 'Shut up!!!' from inside their house. The Dog just carries on but they feel they are 'dealing with it'