To be sick of the neighbours looking into our garden?

[Wannakisstheteacher]

Background: house is rented so fence cannot be changed.

We live in a semi. Garden fence between us is a chain link about waist high across 2/3 of the garden and a wooden 6ft fence for the other 1/3 closest to the house where the patios are. NDN have a table in the garden and eat there every night in the summer. AIBU to think it’s really fucking rude that they’ve pushed the table right up against the chain link part of the fence so they are sat there looking into our garden? Why would they not have their table on the patio where the wooden part is so we both have some privacy or at least not right up against the fence?!

It’s pathetic, I know. But I just hate going into the garden in the evening as they just sit there with their endless stream of guests, and watch everything we do. It’s just so awkward.

@Wannakisstheteacher

So I’ve put on my big girl pants and sent DS out to play basketball as soon as they sat down to eat 😁 30 minutes of constant bouncing and they’ve gone indoors for the first time before 10pm since it stopped raining.

So what happened last night, OP? Were they out there again?

I would be furious too, I would have to move. They are very rude not to allow you some privacy.

Privacy seems to be only for the wealthy it would seem - council/social housing only comes with waist-high chain link fences. There's a housing association site being developed near me with a few private sale houses to fund it. The private houses get nice 6 foot fencing, the housing association ones get the 1.2m chain link fence. 'Poor' people (like me) don't deserve privacy in their gardens I guess!