Think it's weird that my neighbours EAT their dinner in the street?

[Esoresila]

I live in a usually quiet cul-de-sac (now I say usually, we do have 2 persistent drug users who are middle-aged women and an old couple who seem to think it's 'normal' to have their ds, dil and GS round to their bungalow 7 days a week from 7.30am till about 9pm).
Now the aformentioned old couple have a tendency to think they 'own' the cul-de-sac they sit out side in all weather's watching their GS (who isn't a nice little boy- he swears and punches other kids) ride around on various powered cars from about 10am till about 8pm weekends and school holidays and then from school finishing time till 8pm during the week.

This isn't just the odd hour here and there it's ALL the stated times!
Now the better weather is here the whole family sit in the road on deck chairs with a parasol up and a kiddie bench for the GS. They have now started encouraging other children (some of their own family's children some that are strategically dumped on them by the lazy mother who would rather be out on her own than watching her 2 kuds and others on the estate) to congregate in our 'quiet' cul-de-sac, (please bear in mind that there are about 12 houses in this area with about 2 cars for each house).
So today it's been a lovely sunny day I went outside to put washing out only to be met with the familiar smell of cannabis from drug addict no1 them to top it off we went out to take our 3 kids to the park only to be met with the old couple their DS, DIL And GS EATING their full Sunday roast on their laps on deck chairs strewn all over the road!
I am definitely no snob but come on surely this is a no-no? Or am I just as my husband puts it 'getting myself worked up over nothing'?

Call environmental health, if their visitors are causing issues then they will investigate it. They sound like hell.

I'm torn between agreeing with you and thinking it has neighbourly, old fashioned charm!

If it was a BBQ it would seem a lot less weird. Especially if they were offering it round.

Are they sociable/friendly? Or just taking up the street while being exclusive about it?

It's the weed giving them the munchies.

Wait until they drag a rubber trug out, fill it with water and start having a bath. Or a personal wash.

Viennetta nothing wrong with a viennetta. I believe you can buy a mint one.

When my DS lived in another town, he said lots of the residents would pull up a deckchair on the pavement and would sit there for hours having breakfast, lunch etc out there. To us it is really odd as we have never seen it before, but he says its quite the norm.

The first time I went to see him and saw what looked like a crowd hanging on the railings near to traffic lights I thought there was an incident of sorts. I was told its just what they do

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They do sound like binners, I would move. Awful.

Manicisommnaic.....they are the most unfriendly of people I've met....the dil threatened to punch one last lady who I live by in the face as she asked them to keep their child over by their house as she was nursing her ill husband and didn't want the constant noise then the DS threatened to bring his mates to 'do them over!'

I'm sitting having a bbq Poverty long may it last. It may snow next week so I think we should make the best of it

Sounds like a soap opera.... But not fun if its intimidating. Would you let your DCs play out there with their boy? (I always thought living a cul de sac would be fun for kids).

I have this a bit, I wouldn't class them as neighbours as they are up the road and I'm up another lane. But they sit out in the front smoking and lining up the whole family. They like to see who's going where and what they are up to. Very unfriendly and very nosy people.

Luckily they marked us down as snobs when we arrived so I'm happy with that. I'm more amused by their antics now. Never seen a full roast outside, but I have seen other things that make me laugh!

Lots of people taking the piss out of the OP, but I bet they wouldn't like these neighbours living next to them.

Frankly, they sound dreadful; We used to live next to a 45 y.o. couple who had 2 adult daughters and 2 adult sons, and they and their partners and the 9 kids they had between them, would come around every weekend from 9am til 6pm. (And some evenings from 4pm til 10pm.) And all summer they would be in the garden screaming and yelling, the whole street stunk of cannabis, and our garden ended up with a dozen beer cans over it each weekend! A couple of the kids behaviour was awful too. Spitting, screeching, and swearing.

In addition, even on school days, at least 4 kids were there, (under school age,) plus the foul mouthed mothers. Sometimes for 10 hours. Why they didn't stay in their own home just baffled me. They also had noisy barbecues every bleeding weekend too! Sometimes as many as 30 people came around and stayed til 2am.

6 months we stayed there, and then we moved on. It was private let when we were between homes. Unsurprisingly, this house and the one on the other side of them is up for rent at least once a year!

I am finding the attitude of some here quite condescending tbh. It's OK for people to take the piss, but I bet none of YOU would like to live next door to the OP's neighbours.

Garliccansaphire.....my daughter (whose about 2 years older) played out once with him and he punched her in the face and stomach because he wanted her scooter my daughter came to me in tears so I took her to the boys mother and told her what happened (politely) and she said nothing at all to him.

Bet the trampoline is coming out next!

User149375.....thank you for being understanding....and to the others too! As I said I'm no snob but they are very intimidating. The D'S and DIL have their own house about 1/3 mile away but they are never there!!

Well I get why you don't like it OP. Absolutely. Defeats the definition of home being a place of safety where you can relax.

When I moved into my house with two small children the NDN blithely told me that the nuts guy living in the derelict house 4 doors away killed his mother. I've always steered well clear when I've seen him passing and advised my DC to do the same. I've seen him shouting aggressively at people in the street. It freaked me out a bit when we moved in but now I dont seem to notice. Apparently one first floor room fell though into the ground floor a while ago - he was sectioned but is back again.

Sounds horrible Op. No idea why people think it would be hilariously good fun to live near people like this.

It's a micro street party!

Get one going with all the other residents and start the invite with "Although it isn't the norm to eat your dinner in the street we thought it would be great to make an exception, as a one off, by celebrating...."

...The Duke of Edinburgh's stand down
... buying a pair of new shoes
... the upcoming election
... the fact you can buy the box set of Shameless on DVD
...

Where do you live? In an episode of shameless?

Get your family trained up using roller boots.
Next time they are out in deckchairs with their Sunday lunches, whizz past on your roller boots and nick their roasties.

Gosh some of you have low standards!!! I would move, they sound awful!!! MN isn't what I thought it was if this behaviour is ok with it! I remember the heady days of harshly judging people who feed their children Greggs sausage rolls while walking around town! This is SO much worse!

I haven't heard the term "scrubbers" for YEARS. Are you in the Midlands OP?

And there's a difference between being a snob and having standards and a social conscious. OP I really do feel for you.

KimKardashiansArse........how did you guess????

The other stuff doesn't sound great but I have a feeling I might really enjoy a bit of deck chair based snacking in a cul de sac if the opportunity arose on a sunny day.