Things your neighbours do that annoy you

[Moominfan]

Such as playing happy hardcore in their garden at 10 in the morning.

The son of our NDN smokes and then flicks the butts on to our side of the fence. They dump their rubbish and are generally a nuisance.

Sadly I traded lovely neighbours on a great street for some fundamentally ok but rather irritating neighbours. I live in a small square so we are all quite on top of each other. Naively I thought it would make it easy to make friends with the new neighbours. In fact they all specialise in being professionally offended about everything anyone does (not just me I'm pleased to say).

NDN nabbed me the morning after we moved in (and we did not get the keys until 5.30pm) to complain about some fictitious mechanical noise allegedly emanating from our house which had apparently terrified her 17 year old daughter(!). There is no noise and if there were we would hear it too. Also even if there had been a noise, would you not give brand new neighbours the benefit of the doubt?

She is one of those saccharine sweet Queen Bee bitchy women. She tried it again recently and was amazed when I suggested the noise did not come from us.

She also dropped in comments about "oh dear three dogs" and similar twattish waspish comments delivered in a sickly sweet manner when we moved in and periodically has a go about various trivial things ever since. My dogs are beautifully behaved, hers is not.

TBH I think it is because our house was empty for a while before I bought it and they resent that it is now occupied. There is definitely a "we are more important because we were the first to move in" clique.

Another rather entitled neighbour took it upon herself to harangue me because I had a workman's van parked in the square and ticked me off in the manner of a naughty child. I took great pleasure in informing her that it was nothing to do with me. (In fact it was NDNs but I was the bigger person and did not drop her in it). Again who does that and who does it in that manner to a new neighbour you have to live with for the next X number of years? Really none of her business.

One of my other neighbours who has the parking space next to me cannot park and leaves his car sticking literally half way out of the space every day. This is completely pointless as all it does is make it harder for me to reverse in.

Don't get me started on the 7am pogo stick child whose adoring parents let her be as noisy as she likes at the weekend. I'm pretty tolerant of childrens' noise but I do draw the line at the bloody pogo stick thumping away.

And breathe! I will be moving again soon to a village where I have lots of friends and can leave the bitchfest behind - can't wait!

Two weeks of nice weather, every single day of it there was yelling and screaming and bashing of footballs loud enough that I went indoors and shut the windows. It went on all afternoon and evening until it got dark. Not even next door, and so bloody loud, 2 young boys yelling at the top of their lungs, interspersed with a small dog with a bark that sounds like it is being murdered, the loudest dog in the area.

The woman that lives there is friendly, and sugary sweet and the loudest person in the whole road, no consideration whatsoever for anyone, arrives home, leaves youngest in car with the radio on full blast and the windows open. She is 'that neighbour'.

And then there is the bashing of a football on the house and wheelie bins opposite, 2 different boys, in the front garden, why not use the back you idiots? Oh yes, wouldn't want to disturb mummy and daddy, but sod the people that are trying to get some peace and quiet by escaping from the noise at the back to the front which was previously a bit quieter.

my neighbour is so weird. He is the type that has bodies buried in his basement. Honestly. Quiet. Does not talk to anybody.

Creepy.

He sits outside at exactly the same time every evening. Goes in at exactly the same time. Vacuums at the same time every week. Practices guitar at the same time every day.

Wears sunglasses and hat constantly, even coming out of the house.

When he is in his garden alone from 4-5 exactly, he makes these weird hand gestures (like a tic ?) and then abruptly stops. Like he is practicing something (wringing my neck, probably?) I have lived beside him for 10 years, so you notice these things over time.

In the summer he brings out a wind chime for one hour. Then he puts it away. So strange.

SO REGIMENTED.

If any of us have any problems, we help each other. If someone goes away we keep an eye on their property for them. We invite each other for drinks. We are sociable but respect each others privacy. We are considerate, polite and courteous to each other, which includes the children. I have more parking space on my property than I need, so I let the neighbours who don't have any room park on my drive, and they maintain my hedges and garden, which is a godsend, although I do not expect them to. We take parcels in for each other. We offer advice and assistance, if we have relevant expertise, if it is ever sought.
We are obviously bloody weird!

Using parking bays to have a bbq (I kid you not) when there are very few in the first place. Also using said bays to put up a paddling pool and bouncy castle (last year) and then only let certain people go in/on them! And yes we all have gardens.

Someone over the back likes to blast bad rap music in the middle of the day when I'm wfh, and this has 'upgraded' to doing their own words over the top. It's bad.

The people we are joined to (semi) probably get annoyed at our noise from DS as he can be loud, he's 5, but they like to go out and come back in the wee hours with their friends and have a 'party' - I think they try to be considerate as they don't play music - but they talk VERY loudly/shout and there's one friend who thinks everything he says is hilarious. It's not. Wakes me up every time and can hear every word.

I'm the grand scheme its liveable.

Reporting me to the council for having sex in my house at 10pm on a Sunday night (no, we weren’t operatic, they’re just bored, lonely, sad little people

Telling the police I have ‘malliciously’ watered my garden

Driving their car into my front fence repeatedly (after driving their car into my hedge so much it destroyed it)

Reporting me for

Having a bonfire
Having a wood burner (which apparently melted their tv)
Changing Cookers and ‘making their wall hot’ (I hadn’t got a new cooker)

Telling my children if they climb/talk in the garden, the police will evict us

They’re absolutely, completely and utterly nuts

They put the recycling out in a very noisy fashion and stand there for ages doing things by the recycling bin. I just dump it and go. What are they doing? It takes blooming ages.

Throw toys over the fence that narrowly miss DH's head.
Hold noisy barbecues until 2am on a school night.

Queen 👋 Hello, I'm your neighbour! 😆

God reading some of these I am so lucky. My neighbours aren't very close by so it's very rare to hear them at all. I have had bad neighbours in the past though. One of them was so invasive I had to call the police on him and another broke up with his ex and was playing the same song all day and all night for WEEKS on full volume.

Keeping bees in a built-up area. Not mine, DSS's.

They had a barbecue for DIL's birthday yesterday, and no fewer than 6 people (3 of them under 5) got stung.

When the bees are swarming, they have to stay indoors with all the doors and windows shut, until they've stopped.

I love bees and totally recognise their importance as a pollinator. But in a city centre, in a street of tiny semi's, with no more than a few feet between houses, I'm not convinced it's fair on the neighbours.

Play loud music in their garden at weekends when it's warm weather. Have late night garden parties in a big marquee with a DJ and the works, blaring out music like a night club at 2am, then moaning "but it's only my 60th birthday once" when I come round and ask them to turn the volume down as my bedroom windows are rattling.
Sit in the back garden, drunk, shouting and swearing at their poor dog (vicious bastard of a dog when it sees my dog on the walk, but very obedient. I wonder where it gets its aggression from?).

Oh god..we are so lucky. We live on a farm ( still working but small scale ) in a naice village. Our neighbours have to tolerate our dogs, tractors, horses, noise etc.
But we do provide them with acres of lush fields to look out on they know wont get built on any time soon!

Loud boom boom music and kids playing on the trampoline until 9 or 10 at night. I am fine with it at weekends —just about— but Sunday night to Thursday night eg ‘work nights’ it’s so rude. They are unemployed so I guess these things just don’t occur to them.

Live out in the countryside with only one attached neighbour who insists on having their stinking wood burner/aga thing on which spews stinking smoke all over my back garden especially annoying when I have washing out and it then stinks! This is even in late teens temperatures like this week which is prime washing drying time!

Same family: yappy shitty little dog that never shuts up, shouty parents, they have fucking trampoline, teenage girl who seems to think she is Ariana grande but hasn't a note in her head yet warbles along to shit music for three fucking hours with the windows open, too many bloody children 3 or 4 older ones in tiny arse little yard garden they all like to pile into on sunny days and roar and swear happily at each other for hours on end while everyone around them (including the students!) is like .

Loud boorish twats, the lot of them.

Winterdown Poor guy, he sounds like he probably has autism. How would you feel if somebody called your brother/son with autism a creep?

As someone with ASD it makes me so fucking sad that people are still so ignorant about autism. He is somebodies son, his mother probably worries about him every day.

Every time we have a BBQ andcare sutting out enjoying the garden he comes out with hedge clippers. Also spray painted the fence and all my white washing, my kids toys and my brand new decking.

Loud music - Elvis or country & western usually - in the morning, accompanied by his impressive smoker's cough.

Often parks across our drive.

Has a weird habit of walking veeeerrrryyyy sloooowwwwwly up and down past the house whilst smoking, then chucks all his butts over our wall .

Neighbours on the other side are fine, no issues at all.

Exist

Leaves 4 Jack Russell's out on a night and all they do is bark and whine to come back in

I think I am the horrible neighbour in this situation. Mine are pissed because my son has taken some bricks off the top of a small wall that separates our properties. It's my wall and my responsibility and I am going to have it fixed but the son pointed out what the wall was like on there side, including a piece of rotting wood that was coming away which is apparently our fault too. Oh, and then he said he would report me to social services. So, that was nice.

(My son has severe learning difficulties, ADHD and autism btw. Which they full well know. He just likes being an aggressive fuck)

Wind chimes. There is never, ever any let up. It's a 24 hour a day menace and, if you have some, consider your neighbors if they are within war shot. Right outside my bloody bedroom window.