Thankfully we're moving into a house we're buying in a month or so, but we've been renting our current house for the past year. I cannot - repeat CANNOT - wait to get away from our current neighbours. I'm going to sound like a horrible person but I don't care.
The attached neighbour to the left of us is an old man who smokes cigarillos day and night and any time we're in the garden it's all you can smell. He's always covered in some kind of skin lesions and tucks his shirt into his pants and insists on having a conversation when we try to get in our car, obviously on our way somewhere. But he's not pleasant to have conversations with - it will always go something like
"Hello, how are you"
(Me) we're fine thanks, yourself?
"Horrible" (and then he proceeds to talk about whatever is making him miserable, usually something gross and medical)
And he's DIRTY (looks like he hardly bathes) and constantly tries to touch our DD's hands or face when he FOLLOWS us to our car to try to start one of these hideously unpleasant conversations.
He also has this habit of crashing about late at night and making a huge amount of noise --which DH and I hope is him falling down the stairs finally.
Behind us is a neighbour with a 19 year old son who has a heavy metal rock band that will insist on practicing for 4+ hours at a time. We tried to ask them to stop several times, especially when out in our own garden with guests over and it's a deafening racket. They were mouthy and rude so we filed multiple noise complaints after recording how loud it was from inside our house with doors and windows closed (You'd be driven mad too if your less-than-1-Year-old couldn't nap for 3+ days in a row) and now, luckily, they've chosen to take their "band practice" elsewhere.
Across the street are two young guys who share a 2 bed house, they're probably early 20s, and they've recently taken up an interest in motorbikes. As well as leaving them running idle in the driveway for 10+ minutes while they go BACK inside to get dressed, they've taken to inviting lots of their new motorbike enthusiast mates round, usually late at night on weekends, obviously when our DD is asleep and sometimes when we're already in bed too. So that's fun.
Then on the corner opposite us are some terrible pet owners who leave their tiny, untrained, evil (tries to chase and barks at anyone who comes near their front garden, to the point where I have to cross the road just to walk down that way) dog outside at night. Because it's a corner plot, their garden is outward facing so this little barking machine just yips away - last night for over 2 hours TOTALLY NONSTOP until they finally let it in.
Across the street diagonally is a single Mum with two 10-12 year old sons who run around in the street playing football and making all sorts of noise (what happened to kids playing in their own garden?!) and I actually found them on our front walk one day with their bikes, shouting across the street to a mate. Wtf?! GO HOME. Their mum seems totally disinterested and only occasionally shouts and swears out the door at them before going back inside. They also don't move out of the way of cars in the street... DH has nearly knocked them down on several occasions and honestly I wouldn't blame him if he did.
So. Sick. Of. All. Of. These. People.
Sorry for the long rant. And if I seem like a monster. It has been hell living on this street, and I am so excited to move (we didn't know the area when we moved here for DH's job).