to not want the new neighbours to...

[kitbit]

...have loud and late beer drinking sessions on their front garden, sit in their spoiler covered 1000cc car playing deep bass music while snogging, let their kids play in the street screaming until gone 10pm, park their 3 cars and big van in the street rather than in their (big) drive (we don't have drives on this side of the road and now 4 of us can never find a place to park), take motorbikes to pieces in the driveway while wearing a string vest and holding a bent fag in the corner of his mouth (sorry about that last one, but he DOES, and it does seem to sum up their lifestyle quite well)

????? am I?

It WAS a quiet street. I don't give a bugger about how people live their lives but it's affecting us quite badly, and to make things even more interesting they have a thousand mullet-haired friends who visit each day and peer at the motorbike debris while nodding sagely or just lean on the wall in groups. Our front space is a very small terrace and has only low walls so ds can't play without being watched, I can't sit out with a coffee and best of all we are treated to surly sneering every time anyone lopes past.

And yes, tis true, I am judging mullets. Nothing to do with the people wearing them, am purely judging mullets on their own considerable merit.

I guess I just needed a rant and this seemed a good place to do it. AIBU? Anyone else want to join in? I know I'm not the only one with lovely neighbours.

oh dear - when did they move in?

It makes your heart sink doesn't it - the thought of living next door to people that you know have totally different values to yourself.

Nightmare.. you have every sympathy and are NOT unreasonable to be unhappy about this !

[skock]...get the house on the market quick and run to the hills.

I feel so sorry for you it everyones nightmare.

ooooops...really can't type today that should have been

Nightmare. We used to live next to five students and each one came with an appendage, sorry, girlfriend/boyfriend! Our terrace is tiny and I used to pray for rain when they were all out the back. They've gone now, landlord sold up after five years but I still have a twitch We were just about to seriously consider moving when they put it on the market, it can be life consuming if every night you are disturbed and you have to cope with your day and the children etc. Yours sounds worse though, it's easier to speak to students although as they changed every year there were no groundrules. Sounds like your neighbours won't have a reasonable conversation about it?

I so sympathise.

I simply can't understand people who are so selfish that they never think about the impact of what they do on other people.

It can really, really ruin lives

I must say moving sounds like it may be the only solution. You'll never change people like that, unfortunately.

Though you do have the right to contact your local council about the music - noise pollution.

kitbit - have you tried asking them if they'd mind parking some of their car yard on thier drive? Know it won't fix everything but must be damn annoying for you guys not to have anywhere to park.

Do feel for you as bad neighbours are horrid - I'd always had really nice neighbours til we moved here and now woman next door sees fit to complain about anything we do (our decorators , when we put aircon unit up despite moving it and the latest gem which was could we not put our hall light on as it woke her up..). I don't know what to do for best as seems anything we do is likely to make her complain

Sounds awful.

I guess they're unlikely to want to park their cars/vans on the drive though if they need the drive for motorcycle building. It is very inconsiderate of the, but think they are allowed to do this.

But you could certainly ask them to keep the noise/music down.

I would want to move, but its so bloody unfair that other people can impact on your life so much.

They sound really foul and I wonder if anyone who mis-guided enought to walk about with a mullet on their head is in any state of mind to listen to reason.

No, you are not being unreasonable - I can completely empathise. Our first baby is due at the end of August and I am really concerned about our neighbours and their constant door slamming and drunken arguments. They have about 5 dogs who are never taken for walks so their back "garden" constantly stinks of dog mess. They are truly awful and I am seriously considering making a complaint to the council/RSPCA/environmental health. No mullet though - which is a small mercy I suppose.

thanks for the sympathy and the sanity check on whether my personal tasteometer and tolerance abilities are spot on or way off!
Thanks too for poking fun at the mullets, cheap shots but making me feel lots better

They have parked their bass-mobile outside our house again but I notice with satisfaction that the neighbourhood stinky tomcat has decided to include it in his territory so two of the chrome-and-very-black wheels have yellow tomcat spray up them. Ha.

Should also add that we live in Spain, am guessing that the local town hall would fall about laughing if we went to have a word, and the bloke who appears to be the "man of the house" can only speak in grunts and has grazed knuckles from dragging them on the floor. Am trying for the "sense of humour" route before deciding to take any drastic action like selling up .... anyone?!