It's Friday, the weather's glorious... AIBU to feel my heart sinking? (noisy neighbours)

[BeforetheFlood]

I can hear them getting it all set up. Crates of bottles clanking as they unload them from the car, speakers already in position and turned halfway up. I guess that if they start drinking this early they might just crash out before 2am this time, but I'm not holding out too much hope.

They're nice enough, but there's 3 houses in a row, lived in by people with no kids who love a booze up. I don't want to be a fun-sucking killjoy, but AIBU to wish they'd realise that the rest of the street don't want to spend every warm evening in summer either inside with the doors and windows closed, or listening to their shit music and loud voices until the small hours?

YABU for thinking the weather is glorious. It's boiling.

I've hit the jackpot with neighbours as no loud parties or screaming children here. I have 2 young children so I'm probably the annoying one! They don't scream but DD is a talker and will give a running commentary on everything's she's doing as she does it. Next door will listen to his personal development podcasts loudly from 6pm to 8pm on a weeknight so I guess we're even!

Our neighbours are in their front garden skinning up and drinking. Also arguing with people down the phone and threatening this and that to them.

It's all very Jeremy Kyle. Folding washing and putting it away listening to them with the blinds shut

We're the annoying antipodeans who bbq far too much, and while we're considerate with music, most probably annoying with how loud our voices are. I do try though!

Our neighbours are wonderful. We have the gentlest, kindest people right next to us, and the ones over from us - he got a little bit loud with the music during lockdown heavy, but I reckon his Mam put him right.

The ones with kids - well, they're kids. There's going to be tears, shouting, and balls. As kids go, they're pretty damned good, and their parents are wonderful at taking them out on the common and having a game of cricket or frisby, or just letting them rip.

I think (hope) that my neighbours might have gone on holiday. Oh, the joy of a whole afternoon without the sound of performance parenting!

You could do the whole council thing, if you’ve got a few months to spare, and low expectations.

Or alternatively, get out there, crank up your own music, and knock them off their stride.

Selfish gits.

Utter cuntery

Aaaaaaannnd - the rain has reached us!! There is a God.

HoneyBee I think the last 3am session was 3 weeks ago, so I guess I can't really grumble. Until last year we had neighbours in the house adjoining ours who would go out every Friday and Saturday, year round, and come back at 1.15am to sit outside their back door (metres away from my bedroom window) smoking and shouting inside to whoever was making the bacon sandwiches, and yelling at their dogs that they'd let out to wee on my drive. It honestly nearly broke me, and I'm glad every day I don't have to live with that anymore.

nancy that sounds so grim. Sending

I want rain!

Give me rain!

We're so lucky to have nice quiet neighbours.
Our old ones loved a big Friday drunken sing song at 2am. Just what you don't want when you need to sleep!
I'd love to live away from everyone but I'd also not handle anything too rural as I'm a town person at heart. It is inconsiderate for people to have these big parties every single week though. No wonder your fed up and with more pubs and clubs shutting down I'm sure people will do more of this type of thing. :(
Not fair on you at all.

Utter sympathy the hell of grim neighbours cannot be under estimated. We moved to a posh area and now have swapped gangsta rap and drug fuelled parties for quiet conversations about gardening and the odd chink Of wine glasses. Bad neighbours turns you from left wing to right wing pretty fast.

we've got a back yard wedding getting set up; two large tents and lights on all night last night (the wedding's on saturday) and the hugest bbq i've ever seen in my life!!! it's going to be a loud one. but i'm sure the bride will be beautiful and i can't wait to see her.

YANBU. I agree with previous posters, I dont think until you have noisy/asb neighbours anyone can really understand how utterly depressing it is.

I feel bad for moaning now as it's actually gone pretty quiet. But in a way I think it just shows that when you live in a situation like this it's always an issue, even when it's not IYSWIM. Dreading it happening, waiting for it to start up, is almost as wearing on the nerves as it happening. (And, let's face it, the night is still young. I might be back here, swearing at 2am.)

Thanks for all the support, and to all those whose Friday evening peace is shattered by selfish neighbours. (fallfall hope you get some sleep, or at least a lovely burger from the bbq, passed over the fence!)

@Wannabefarmer please come and be my NDN. I will happily swap your talkative DD for their two DDs, who have one volume; screaming like they are being murdered.

It's non-stop all day - not an occasional shriek, but full on running round the garden screaming like tin whistles for the best part of 12 hours. Until I moved here I didn;t think it was physically possible for children to make as much noise without a) losing their voices and b) being knackered!

The awkward part is that my neighbours are otherwise nice and the wee girls are quite sweet. But there's some kind of magical properties in their lawn that mean when they step foot into the garden, their vocal chords go into full-on opera mode.

DH and I have concluded that the parents are now deaf and immune to it. I am rather longing for them growing up and reaching the want-to-stay-in-all-the-time-on-devices stage, just for the peace and quiet

Have you considered talking to them? I've plucked up the courage to talk to various neighbours about noise, and found them pleasingly receptive.