Neighbours are going to get worse for the next 6 weeks, aren't they.

[MostlyMaple]

Just that really.

It is still relatively early but it is a Sunday night. Neighbours have bought a trampoline with loads of kids screaming and screeching on it all day and it shows no sign of stopping. Loads of adults squeezed onto the garden, shouting and hollering and playing music loudly.

I've seen a lot of nightmare neighbour threads recently- it is going to get worse for us over the school holidays isn't it.

@Dentistlakes

Sadly there will always be inconsiderate twats who are so thick they have no thought for anyone other than themselves. We have some on one side of us. Lockdown puppy left to bark outside at 2:15am. I soon put them straight. Your choice to have a bloody dog but I don’t expect to hear it at that time nor at 6am either. If it needs to pee and you can’t keep it quiet, put on your damn clothes and walk it. Your decisions should have no impact on me.

Yep, totally agree with this. Our neighbours have a dog with the world's loudest bark and they leave it outside and shut the door - why should we have to put up with this? Train your damn dog!!

@MostlyMaple thanks I don't want to hijack the OPs thread but diary being kept and incidents being logged as she's already threatened us. Council and it's taking years to evict bad tenants at the moment we've been told so pray our lotto nos come up.
I hate the assumption that anyone who doesn't like being kept awake until 3 4 in the morning when they have work or school runs etc in the morning is a miserable twat of a fun sponge who don't want anyone to have fun. I used to work nightclubs for a living easily I'm not a stranger to a bit of noise and I loved that scene. A residential street just ain't the place for it. I think it's hard to empathise fully unless you've also gone through it which is why I always try and offer support to OPs suffering from such CF neighbours.

@x2boys

Meh it's summer and the weather is roasting if you don't want to hear neighbours move to the middle of no where.

I bet you suggest women moaning about their dh's not helping out 'leave the baby with him and go for a spa day' or 'just get a cleaner' don't you? MN bingo!

Because of course we can all afford to live in huge detached properties set in a few acres down a country lane but decided to buy inner city terraces for a giggle/a social experiment instead

OP I would recommend some good in-ear noise cancelling headphones and downloading/youtubing a long background noise video (rain falling, ocean sounds etc). With them in I can read my book in peace in the garden despite neighbours arguing/screaming/trampolining (sometimes all at once) inches away from my head. Wine also helps . I even watch my tv through them via bluetooth sometimes - not very sociable but effective!

Well no @thevassal I live in a council house on a council estate not many spa days etc around here, we do however have to rub along with our neighbours as what's the alternative?

I finished work Saturday evening and got home at 11pm. Was hoping for a good sleep as working again til much later on the Sunday.

People opposite decided to have a mini rave complete with booming bass til just gone 4am 😭😭

It's so quiet round here, I'm end of terrace, lots of neighbours are retired or older child-free. The rest have young families who keep to themselves. I'm moving somewhere where I'm hoping there are more families with kids to my DC have kids to play with in the local parks and fields.

It's at this time of year that I am SO grateful that our nearest neighbours are 1/2 mile away! We got so fed up with neighbours being picky, making noise, etc. that we took the plunge and moved to the middle of nowhere, best thing we've ever done!

@Fleetw00d

I wish I could afford to live somewhere with no neighbours and no one around, preferably surrounded by fields and woodland with no public pathway so no walkers. I fucking hate having neighbours, I hate hearing them talk (or sing at the top of their lungs because they're in a choir), smoking, bbq, have fun, laugh, I hate it all. I want silence, I dislike most other people hugely and have been known, even at uni, to knock on doors and tell them to keep it down. And summer makes it so much worse. I know, I'm a ray of sunshine 😂

I'm living your dream. We have a house on two acres, surrounded mostly by a county nature preserve. There is one neighbor's house we can just barely see in the winter, when the leaves are off the trees.

We do hear traffic going by and there's a shooting range about a mile away. If I'm outside I can sometimes hear the "pop pop" of people shooting skeet or doing target practice.

The downside is an endless parade of wildlife through the yard.

Well we're only 3 days into the holidays and have had two clashes with the neighbours already it's going to be a long summer holidays. I have no issue with general kids noise or bbqs but I do have issues with them throwing stuff at the fence that I paid for and lobbing their dirty pool water into my garden whilst we're trying to eat.
Unfortunately some people are just twats when the suns out but that doesn't mean we should just put up with it.

Summer holidays always like this. Our neighbour wants to make most of good weather and her kids outside but jeez it starts at 8am - others and their kids join them for loud bbq, kids carry on and in the evening they have a different set of people.
So that’s 8am until 11pm. Their food stinks and they have terrible taste in music. Kids way over stimulated. Yet, when the mum is alone she likes a quiet drink in her garden with a book🤣🤣 neighbour other side has one of those huge summer pools - they have the freaking generator thing to clean the water on for hours and it’s about 1m from our fence - drives us nuts - like living in the bowels of a freaking tanker.

We couldn’t invite people over for a bbq as that machine would drive guests to distraction.

So if I sit outside I just bring a speaker out and listen to music just loud enough so I don’t hear the generator thing. If it disturbs then then tough.

I think all neighbours are doing each other’s heads in atm.

I have the retired couple opposite who sit in their garden from 9.00 am to 10.00 pm every day. He talks non stop for the entire time. His wife must do everything inside as he never pauses for 13 hours. I don’t know who he talks to but I’m at screaming point.

2 doors up play the guitar outside and sing😣

I never do anything wrong in my garden.

@Fleetw00d

I wish I could afford to live somewhere with no neighbours and no one around, preferably surrounded by fields and woodland with no public pathway so no walkers. I fucking hate having neighbours, I hate hearing them talk (or sing at the top of their lungs because they're in a choir), smoking, bbq, have fun, laugh, I hate it all. I want silence, I dislike most other people hugely and have been known, even at uni, to knock on doors and tell them to keep it down. And summer makes it so much worse. I know, I'm a ray of sunshine 😂

I'm with you. I'm very noise averse and dislike most things that many others find 'fun'.

The sound of kids shrieking and screaming, especially, makes me want to claw my own face off. I avoid anywhere that bills itself as 'family friendly' for this reason. We used to live next door to a lovely, but incredibly noisy family and they drove me crazy with their loud ways - none of them could close a door quietly and they shouted as opposed to spoke to one another - not in a bad way, they were just really, REALLY loud ALL the time - and I mean constantly. They were even noisy when brushing their teeth. They were one of the main reasons we moved.

I moved somewhere very, VERY quiet to escape the din of modern life and haven't regretted it once. I choose similarly 'quiet' people as friends, too - none of my friends could be described as 'gregarious'!

the thing is - those who create mayhem without consideration for those around them do not have anyone to complain about - they are living the life of riley. They cannot say - I am peed off with them next door - they are quiet, their dog does not bark, they do not have smelly BBQs and always notify us of building work.

They are in a win/ein situation and have no interference with their lifestyle. Of course - they still get to bleat how ungrateful we are to live in such a vibrant community and 'if we want silence we have to move to the middle of nowhere' - (yeah we can all do that of course)

I am pleased to find others noise-averse and sympathetic.

One of the houses in the street behind has had a new sound system installed and new bifold doors that fully open. This means that we can now enjoy the sound of bass in all the rooms in our house. I hope they get bored of it soon or I'll be stomping round in a rage.

@bunnybuggs

the thing is - those who create mayhem without consideration for those around them do not have anyone to complain about - they are living the life of riley. They cannot say - I am peed off with them next door - they are quiet, their dog does not bark, they do not have smelly BBQs and always notify us of building work. They are in a win/ein situation and have no interference with their lifestyle. Of course - they still get to bleat how ungrateful we are to live in such a vibrant community and 'if we want silence we have to move to the middle of nowhere' - (yeah we can all do that of course) I am pleased to find others noise-averse and sympathetic.

Yes exactly this! It absolutely infuriates me that my selfish neighbours get to live next door to near silence, because we are considerate people and think about how the noise we make affects them. Unlike them, who can't seem to be able to do anything without listening to loud music and let their kids shriek and bang until the early hours.

We have started making more noise just to make ourselves feel better - I leave talking radio on, will hoover early in the mornings as I know they don't get up early, will leave the TV on in the room next door to their bedroom. It's not loud enough to be antisocial by a long shot, but it makes us feel like it's easier to cope knowing they don't get the luxury of living next door to absolute silence. I'm sure they don't even notice, but it makes me feel better.

@MissConductUS can I come live with you please? I'll clean and cook but I'll have a 3 month old baby in tow 😂 she's very quiet though promise 😂

@Fleetw00d, what luck! We have a room opening up when DS goes back to uni at the end of August.

I have had two babies. You will have no time to cook and clean, I'm afraid.

I may buy a small island off the coast of Italy somewhere. Anyone care to chip in? Considerate neighbours only please!!

@Fleetw00d - you can have a cuppa on the deck in the morning and then show your daughter the turkeys in the front yard.

[quote MissConductUS]@Fleetw00d - you can have a cuppa on the deck in the morning and then show your daughter the turkeys in the front yard.[/quote]
This looks incredible!!

@MostlyMaple

I may buy a small island off the coast of Italy somewhere. Anyone care to chip in? Considerate neighbours only please!!

I’m in!

This is why I love the winter! My neighbours have already let there 4 children into the garden and their already kick balls at the fence, jumping on the trampoline and screaming. I hate my only neighbours absolutely idiots they have no control of the children and they often let their annoying children play out the front on the road. They go in everyone’s front gardens and driveways kicking footballs hitting people’s cars, windows and ruining plants. They leave their play equipment everywhere and their bloody visitors never park on their drive. They are well disliked in the street and we all hope they move.

@Ivalueloyaltyaboveallelse sounds like a nightmare - it is so unfair that us polite, good neighbours end up dreading the summer because of inconsiderate arseholes

@MissConductUS fantastic news I'm in 🤣 that looks incredible

The thing is as we all live so close together we need to be more considerate not less. I lived with a large communal garden when my DS was small and it could be noisy during the day because the children would play from about 10. But at 7 they all went in for tea. Very occasionally we might have them out later.

I dont mind trampolines but loud music makes me feel sick. Their right to noise does not trump your right to quiet. They are the ones who should live in the country.

Everyone wants to enjoy the weather and Sundays, school holidays or not, are a time to quieter down as people have work in the morning.