Getting so fed up of neighbours. Anyone else?

[Maude789]

NC'd, in case my neighbours happen to spot me on here (unlikely, but you never know!)

I am getting increasingly sick of my neighbours. Probably because I'm (like most of us) home pretty much all the time at the moment.

They have a couple of children who are normally pretty well behaved as far as I'm aware. But they are so so noisy and have a dog too that barks consistently.

They have had visitors over pretty much all the way through each lockdown - before I am accused of being a curtain-twitcher our estate is very built up and it is easy to notice new cars and people about.

But today I am working from home and they are having a children's party on their back garden. Can hear lots of screaming children, there are banners and balloons out. To be fair I cannot hear adults, just a lot of children screaming and shrieking. I do not want to report them as I'm not that kind of neighbour. But I'm just so sick of people like this, bending and breaking rules etc.

I understand their kids are bored but come on - a party!? I'm dumbfounded.

Sorry I don't have an AIBU. Just needed to vent and hope I'm not the only person in the world suffering with intolerable neighbours.

NC'd, in case my neighbours happen to spot me on here (unlikely, but you never know!)

Well. I once made a post here about neighbours and their behaviour. Then it virtually stopped over night! I’ve wondered if they read it on here ever since. Glad I NC too.

Hell I’ll join in. Why not.

Ours have a disc cutter going constantly, all day every day, cutting up scrap in their tiny garden. They also have constant fire going out there too. And for added treats, they like to burn plastic packing materials and polystyrene, along with fresh damp garden waste, so the fires are never hot enough to do anything except billow toxic smoke into our house. Our windows aren’t open obviously but it’s getting in through the trickle vents I think and it’s filthy smelling. They do it all summer long too. The baby’s room reeks of burning plastic at this very moment.

We have spoken to them so many times. They just kick the fire about to ‘put it out’ and stare at us. Very strange.

The final straw is they have a string of people in and out of their house all day long, two of whom came back one night to steal two big items out of our garden. They were caught on camera but no one will do anything.

Absolute twats.

My neighbours bought their house 4 years ago when it was dilapidated and have been diy fixing it up ever since

There is not one evening or weekend where we don’t hear banging/grinding/sanding etc

When they do have builders in to do the bits they can’t do the builders always leave their van poking out in front of my drive

I had a baby during lockdown and there were some days where the only thing to do to get them to sleep was to go for a drive due to the noise

They say they are nearly finished

Silver lining is that the once unloved house is going to be beautiful and they’ve done a meticulous job

A sex pond is an inflatable often cheap hot tub that is usually not kept very clean or topped up with chemicals!

I’m fed up of my neighbours too. They moved in 2 years ago and they’ve ruined the enjoyment of our house, they are just awful neighbours. We can’t afford to move which makes me sad.

@Doihavetogotoworkdotcom1 do what I have done, it takes going against every grain of decency, but being a complete arsehole back has made my neighbours put their house up sale. If you can't put up with them, pile it on back. Surprisingly they don't like it - permanent sodding victims, the be kind sort who use it as an excuse to be the worst kind of people.

My sympathies, OP.

My neighbours have been quiet except for building work, thank goodness, but they do let rip in the summer.

We have just moved because of ours. We had a large detached house with a big corner garden and they ruined it. I cried the day the hot tub got delivered. Hopefully the new house is quieter now we are away from that noisy idiot.

Sex pond!
Is that next to the shag (wood) pile?

This thread is cathartic. So glad to know it’s not just me with insane neighbours.

They’re so lovely and sweet but their young boys scream from about 8am to 10pm, on and off most days. If I ask them to keep it down, they make a big deal of loudly shushing/threatening the kids, then an hour it starts again.

I can’t afford to move and I don’t think anyone would buy my house with the constant noise...

@Meowthress inflatable sex pond made me smile, that did x

@BLToutanowhere

I prefer Home and Away.

Guffaw

I've just moved cross country from a seaside town with 6 bloody screaming kids next door on the damned trampoline and running round the house like a herd of elephants day and night, to a quiet rural village with elderly neighbours who I think have died or something because there is no noise whatsoever.
No noise, no kids, just the wind, the birds, very occasionally their tv very quietly.
I didn't realise how much the noise pollution affected my mental health until now. Now I can just come home from work and relax with the cat and sleep properly.

And my son wonders why I don't want to move to a smaller place in town now they're all moving out.

My neighbors threatened to sue me. Twice. Neither item they have any legal basis for. I'm not taking it personally- they also threatened the same to the other neighbor. And their surveyor. And slammed the door in the face of someone from down the street. If they saw this post, they'd no doubt be threatening to sue me a third time

So we’ve seriously contemplated calling the police on ours during lockdown but not sure if we’ve gone a bit lockdown crazy. If we see them outside the house they’re a lovely, quiet young couple. Actually seem quite shy, my DP brought them food once as we were both outside and they seemed a bit taken aback. But inside...there’s screaming, whooping, running about, nursery rhymes and baby talk noises. I’m pretty sure they don’t have a child and we’ve never seen one and we’ve got ourselves worried they’re keeping a child captive in there...I realise I sound completely insane, but...what if it is that? What should we do? We’ve tried looking on the internet for their details but they rent so it’s actually quite hard. Doesn’t help that we watched goodnight mr tom last night :/

Used to live in a block and flats and every Friday at 6pm until Sunday the heavy rock and drum and base would kick in and my flat would be thumping with loud music so much so that my bed used to vibrate with the noise. Headaches were a common problem. The worst was walking up on Christmas Day to thumping drum and base and spoiled the day. It effected my mental health. Im glad to be out of there now, the only thing that annoys me is my Dh loud shouting during zoom calls.

Sex pond was a hilarious Daily Mash description of a hot tub.

I am sorry you've all been so unlucky! We have had awful neighbours in the past, but the ones we have at the moment are pretty good.

I live on the top floor of a huge block of flats on a main road in London, and there's lots of buy to let flats currently occupied by students, which sounds like it ought to be awful, but on the whole it's been fine. Only thing which betrayed student nature of households was the overwhelming smell of weed, the weekend after their exams.

The only real noise "problem" is that my bedroom backs onto the kitchen in another flat, the people who live there are a young Spanish couple, and they sometimes cook in the middle of the night. So a wee bit of pan-clattering and the hum of the oven. That's as bad as it gets, which isn't terrible for a building with about 1000 people living in it.

@Ileflottante

Hell I’ll join in. Why not.

Ours have a disc cutter going constantly, all day every day, cutting up scrap in their tiny garden. They also have constant fire going out there too. And for added treats, they like to burn plastic packing materials and polystyrene, along with fresh damp garden waste, so the fires are never hot enough to do anything except billow toxic smoke into our house. Our windows aren’t open obviously but it’s getting in through the trickle vents I think and it’s filthy smelling. They do it all summer long too. The baby’s room reeks of burning plastic at this very moment.

We have spoken to them so many times. They just kick the fire about to ‘put it out’ and stare at us. Very strange.

The final straw is they have a string of people in and out of their house all day long, two of whom came back one night to steal two big items out of our garden. They were caught on camera but no one will do anything.

Absolute twats.

Report the plastic burning council should do something about that

@Regretsy

So we’ve seriously contemplated calling the police on ours during lockdown but not sure if we’ve gone a bit lockdown crazy. If we see them outside the house they’re a lovely, quiet young couple. Actually seem quite shy, my DP brought them food once as we were both outside and they seemed a bit taken aback. But inside...there’s screaming, whooping, running about, nursery rhymes and baby talk noises. I’m pretty sure they don’t have a child and we’ve never seen one and we’ve got ourselves worried they’re keeping a child captive in there...I realise I sound completely insane, but...what if it is that? What should we do? We’ve tried looking on the internet for their details but they rent so it’s actually quite hard. Doesn’t help that we watched goodnight mr tom last night :/

Might want to Google adult baby fetishism....

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After reading this thread, I am going to slip a note through my neighbours' doors thanking them for not being barbarians.

Why is it that people move into a house in a nice quiet neighbourhood, install enough lighting to illuminate a moon landing & then start having massive parties (pre-covid) ?

I assume the party central will resume post-covid...

I'm also looking for a rural property but shooting upsets the dog...

@Ileflottante The gov passed a law banning bonfires last year at the beginning of the pandemic.

It was for people coping/recovering from breathing difficulties not to have that made worse by breathing in smoke.

So definitely report them. Not only is it toxic smoke, it is unlawful.