Bear with me on the background here: We live in an end of terrace house with a front and back garden (fenced in) but alongside our back garden is a pathway to other houses in the estate. There’s a huge, long strip of land in between our garden fence and the pathway and it has become really overgrown over the past few months.
When we first moved in (rented) we didn’t even think about maintaining it, as it’s outside the boundary of our garden and isn’t an area we would go out and sit in- we would literally be sat on the side of a path opposite people’s doorsteps. We have since learned that it is our responsibility though, so we are getting a gardener to come and tackle it, as I am pregnant and DP gets horrendous hay fever. To be honest, it’s not really a priority of things to sort right now, but we are getting it sorted all the same.
Anyway, this morning a neighbour whose house is opposite the pathway, knocked on our door and asked what we are intending to do about it! AIBU to think that this is a really snobby and entitled thing to do? It’s not blocking access to anywhere, there’s no rubbish or dangerous materials on it (just weeds) so apart from it looking bad I don’t really see how it’s affecting him to be honest. Was tempted to tell him to pay someone himself if he’s that bothered! Maybe it’s the pregnancy hormones but it’s really riled me!