Things your neighbours do that annoy you

[Moominfan]

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

I have nice neighbours but one side has the two noisiest small boys I have ever come across and the other makes a lot of noise doing DIY , always building something new and has a yappy dog that drives me nuts. I would love to live somewhere quiet where it would be a pleasure to sit out in the garden.

burnt a hole in my new garden table with their disposable barbecue

We have lovely neighbours ,so seems petty to moan on here, but they are retired and apart from the odd holiday and afternoon out are at home a lot.So why do they always mow their huge lawn and use the strimmer at the weekend during the afternoon? Today for example.Just got a glass of wine and sat down with the papers and up revs the motor. Mind you DH always cracks on and does ours in the morning,but never before 10ish and maybe they think that's too early ?

The neighbour at the back of my house, who I don't know, has had a bonfire going this afternoon I'm laid up in bed unwell, my bedroom is at the back of the house and gets quite hot with the afternoon sun. I wondered why I could smell smoke and looked out to see him with a very smokey bonfire going! I have had to shut all my windows I live mid terrace and our gardens are all very close to each other.

WHY are people so fucking thoughtless and selfish?

I've got lovely quiet neighbours now - previous house were terrible with 2 happy dogs and loud shouty conversations in the garden.

Before that we lived in a flat and the neighbours drive me mad by parking in our car space (helpfully labelled with our door number) and by putting sofas in the bin room meaning the bun men wouldn't take the rubbish. I used to get the council to move it, and the next day there'd be a mattress in there! Was very happy to move on.

Yappy digs that should be.

I love my neighbours here in my new house, unfortunately next door has sold their house due to separation and my little dd is best friends with their wee dd. Will be emotional when they move out in 3 weeks time .

At my old house, most of my neighbours were fab apart from the family next door. They had a million trees in the garden filled with bird feeders and my washing would get covered in bird shit. The husband also liked to hammer out dents in his shovels at 8 am on a Sunday morning . He would also come home for lunch in his articulated lorry and park it right over my driveway. This alway coincided with the school run. Knob.

Oh and they would never answer the door to their own parcels being delivered.

Rather odd couple moved in next door, they keep their blinds down whether they are at home or not, and if passing rather than say good morning they keep their eyes firmly fixed on the ground. Am not looking for a new best friend, but think it very odd behaviour on their part.

It's sporadic so not concurrent weekends always an afternoon not evening and over by 6 as kids in bed by 7/8. These same neighbours are out constantly when weather is nice and have many people round and the radio blaring so it's not like they enjoy sitting in their garden peacefully. Quite often their get together go on pretty late but to be honest it doesn't really bother me as they don't wake the kids. It just seems to really bother them if we have the audacity to entertain.

I would knock fuck out of someone that shouted that at my son!

Revving the bloody 4x4 car engine every blooming morning for thirty minutes from 8 am just outside our kitchen window. Even in this glorious weather where there is not even the excuse of needing to de-ice!?

@Winterdown That sounds just like my son who has high functioning autism. I totally get how 'weird' they come across, but also know how desperately they just want to be accepted. It would mean the world to him (and me) if you gave him the odd nod of recognition, a smile and/or a wave. It completely breaks my heart when I think of my DS trying to make his way in this world.

I’m lucky because my fellow neighbors are always polite and respectful and helpful. Truthfully I don’t know what our family would do without them around. Love my fellow companions living nearby.

I just came on to say the same to @Winterdown your description definitely rang bells for me in regard to some family members - high functioning autism/Aspergers. Yes they are routine based and look regimented but it's how they manage to survive and function in our chaotic world. The routines let them cope. Be kind

Work from home - c3 times a day answer door to take package for neighbour (they’re in but sleeping).

Once it hits 14 degrees with other neighbour lives a totally outdoor lifestyle. Kids screaming in back garden from moment they wake up till bedtime. All toys chucked in our garden and they regularly want them back ASAP. Constantly on a ladder to look over our fence so no privacy and then about 4 bbq per week so my washing stinks. And they use their water gun on aforementioned washing.

I work around them. However, one day the kids weren’t there - so one parent was having a bit of peace and quiet with a cheeky wine but was hufffing and puffing as as ds window was open and he could hear ds chatting with pals .

Other neighbour went a bit nuts when my ds tiny little drone landed in their back garden and we asked politely for it back but yet the two neighbours either side are friends and pretty much use my front drive for very long chats while their kids knock footballs against my car and garage and the dog shits near my tree.

Other than that, they are actually very nice.

We have some that have spells of playing music, all night, literally, just loud enough so you can hear the base banging but can't actually hear the words. They did it every night for a while and we were getting set up with the council to make a proper complaint when it stopped for months. Then it started up intermittently again. What really got my goat was after a night of listening to their music and shouting till 4am the woman had the nerve to come around at 9am screaming at me because the noise from (necessary) work we ere having done had woken them up.

Anyone read through these waiting to read details about yourself
I worry about what our neighbours think of us. They’re in their 60s and cause no problems. However, I can hear their tv if mine is off and when in bed, I can hear them sneeze. Doesn’t bother me, obviously.
This makes me very concerned about my 2, loud kids who love a good (daily) whinge and fight with each other all day. This leads to me having to shout at them quite a lot. My two are the only children in the street and break the silence, to put it nicely

Mine drive me nuts about the hedges separated out gardens. I’m trying to grow it back as it has a huge unsightly gap in it since before I moved in. I’ve put bamboo poles in it to split it up to make it grow on my side but he keeps trimming it down anyway! It looks ridiculous and is preventing it from growing back. Why would he even want a huge gaping, not even nice shaped, gap there?? Ugh!

Home 1 neighbour opens his windows so the weed he’s smoking doesn’t stink his place out, so my garden stinks instead. Other neighbour is sweet her husband seems a bit odd and seems to prefer you avoid saying hello.
Home 2 one neighbour absolute sweetheart other neighbour is bat shit crazy and clearly an absolute control freak who thinks the world needs 5o dance to her tune

My upstairs neighbour is my landlord. Elderly husband and wife and divorced son and his 3 children every other weekend.

At 22.17 every single night their 2 dogs are let out to go for a wee. Queue much door slamming and banging around. I'm in the basement flat so have to listen to them shouting at the dog to do a wee for about 10 minutes all while dogs are barking and my toddler is trying to sleep in bed with me.

Then every night at 2am one of them comes down for a glass of water. Queue more banging, pipes, water sounds etc. Like clockwork.

Then my alarm goes off at 6am.

I've now read every post and have been thoroughly depressed by all of them.

WTF is wrong with people these days that they can't have a bit of respect and consideration for their neighbours?

Mine hand washes his car. I know IABu but I have decided now that he’s a fusspot and anally retentive.

Existing.

But seriously : objecting to our extension when they had one of their own a few years previously. Wingeing about their ruddy tree when I had to cut it back so that it wasn't poking my builder in the eye when he was up on the scaffolding. They have since butchered said tree themselves anyway. They were nice as pie until we had our extension done; clearly it was crime of the century.

These are neighbours but one, but our gardens are adjacent because the road forks. Immediately adjacent neighbours and directly across the road are all fine and lovely.

Oh and same neighbours erected a second fence, on their side, because they didn't like the existing fence.

If you want to rob yourself of your own garden space at the boundary : knock yourself out mate.