To want our neighbours to not dry their laundry on their front drive?

[Hop27]

We have new neighbours, they seem to live out their garage. Constantly fixing their 3 cars, parking their cars in front of other peoples drives. Sitting in their cars with the door open talking on their phone via the speaker, vaping - music blaring. Now drying their laundry on an airer on the front drive. AIBU to think put it in your back garden like normal people FFS. The rest is bad enough, but the whole street doesn't need to see your pants!

And I'm not usually a spelling pedant but this one seems worth noting since you're calling me ignorant - it's ignorance, not ignorence.

I'm with you OP. YANBU

Lol!! Dillon what quote of yours did you want Daily mail published in their paper? grin

Not sure if the following is Mail material.

You make it sound like a Persil ad. The washing my neighbours at my old house used to hang out was a motley selection of yellowy Y-fronts, teen stained Spiderman duvet and bras that could be used launch bowling balls into space.

That's quite a good list. I know people that would try to start a (one sided) argument with the Dalia lama ! I'm gunna use that list when I watch them start up

I'm quoting myself here . I meant that's quite a good list for spotting low emotional IQ . It rung a bell

I wasn't talking about
Bovrilly's list which was a shit list of mis-quote of everyone else who explained before.

I grew up on a council estate. It was thought common and youd be thought less of if you put your laundry out in front garden , left it out online a lot overnight, if you didn't tidy away your stuff and didnt keep a nice front of house. But we had proper long gardens at the back , plenty of room for clothes line. Thats just how I was brought up to be proud of my house and my street.

Dont see why OP wouldn't think it bit off for her neighbour to hang washing at the front when she already said they have good back garden to put it out in and it's a nice area. The sun hasn't suddenly stopped working in the neighbours back garden if it worked there before! So all them people saying they can't dry washing in back garden aint what's happening in OPs street.

I think when you dont have much you grow up appreciating nice things when you get them and you want to keep them nice.

One reason I’d not like this is that it is quite unusual in terms of behaviour when it comes to keeping a house and being a neighbour. I’ve learnt the hard way that ignoring signs like this - innocuous as they are on the face of it - can be a mistake. May be a sign that someone is a little eccentric. Also could be a sign that they don’t give a damn about their neighbours, and in this case the other behaviour seems to back that up.

I was warned not to buy a house opposite one that was a bit of a dump. I ignored that because I couldn’t see the harm, having lived close to untidily eccentric but harmless neighbours in the past. Thought it was snobbery. Lived to regret that decision big time!

It also sounds pretty unattractive. I’d have to be staring out of an upstairs window to have a view of back garden washing, but if the people opposite had their washing out the front it would be in eyesight whenever I was in the lounge. Would make the street look a right mess.

@Bovrilly

And I'm not usually a spelling pedant but this one seems worth noting since you're calling me ignorant - it's ignorance, not ignorence.

Don't be that person @Bovrilly! I'm Dyslexic you patronising ....

People DO NOT dry their washing in the front of their houses.

Just go away @Bovrilly
Lots of people have asked you to stop. We're all having such a nice chat on here about houses and laundry and what Dillion wishes they were quoted on by Daily Mail and it would have been a bloody funny quote!! 😂😂😂

I was warned not to buy a house opposite one that was a bit of a dump. I ignored that because I couldn’t see the harm, having lived close to untidily eccentric but harmless neighbours in the past. Thought it was snobbery. Lived to regret that decision big time!

What happened @TheAntiGardener ??

Also @DillonPanthersTexas
I'd love to have seen your comment quoted in Daily Mail too instead of the banal ones they chose
You make it sound like a Persil ad. The washing my neighbours at my old house used to hang out was a motley selection of yellowy Y-fronts, teen stained Spiderman duvet and bras that could be used launch bowling balls into space.

I mean people would have had a good chuckle at that!

If they have to rip off MN then why doesn't DM capture how witty MN can be?!

Nothing particularly exciting, @whereismumhiding3 - the usual asb stuff of noise (in this case music, shouting, revving cars for hours) and aggression. For example, dp once asked politely if a visitor to our neighbour could move their car so he get get ours out of the road and neighbour flew out and said he’d put him in front of the car . One night heard him and his brother swearing at their mum in the street - that got a few of us up and out of our houses to check nobody was hurt. Also the mess outside the house got much, much worse.

The experience made me wary when we moved and I’m more interested in the houses that surround any I’m interested in these days. Not that you can really predict what any neighbour will be like when you’re actually living by them, of course!

You could mention the spiders are pretty bad at the front in their earshot, and add that you've heard on mumsnet what spiders do if you leave it out at night to get darked on....

Thanks everyone this thread has made me laugh

Just to give you an update ..... the washing is not on the drive today, but in the garage due to the weather. Or maybe my neighbour reads the daily fail? Who knows

@TheAntiGardener

Sounds a horrible experience.

I'm quite wary too. Not as bad as your experience sounds so aggressive.

My DParents had bad experience of nightmare neighbours. Similar indicators noise and lots of cars! The police regularly popped by as they were a troubled family. Used to park one of their 5 cars overhanging my parents narrow driveway so dad had to knock to ask for it to be moved so he could get out and the dad would swear at him. Lots of noise and shouting out front. Police turning up to take the dad away for DV.

The dad went to prison for some years in the end and never came back , can't remember exactly what he did but it was ABH and theft. So many happy neighbours after then. His adult son lives there now with his gf and baby. He's much nicer, gets on well with my dad & they help each other, and he keeps his front of house nice! Nor because anyone has asked him but because he seems proud of his house.

Hello OP welcome back!
@Hop27

We all wanted Dillons post in the daily Mail too! Do you get DM where you are?

Oooh I wonder why they put laundry in garage? Are they leaving garage door open so it gets air to laundry but is under cover?

I wonder if they've converted their back garden to a large swimming pool... and no longer have the rotary airer Do you think you'd have noticed OP if the swimming pool digging companies had built them one?

@Hop27

Sorry should have said they are opposite neighbours so every-time we drive/walk past we see their washing. We see it from our bedroom & my DH's office window.

What would your husband prefer to see from his office window? The Hanging Gardens of Babylon? The Amazon rainforest? The Himalayas?

You live in a suburban street with houses opposite you. Seeing washing is one of the least offensive things you could see. At least you know they wash their clothes.

For all your wit Kentucky
Seeing washing (out front) is one of the least offensive things you could see Isn't really true is it ?

No washing out front , no cars being repaired n mess would be better . That's 'least offensive thing' she could see.
Gnomes might even be preferable to the drudgery of washing out front

honestly you really havent any problems in life so you are looking for them.
Its nothing to do with you what your neighbours do on their drive. Hanging their pants wow big deal.

Its an insult to people who have really bad problems with their neighbours. Bet they would give anything for their only worry to be pants on the drive.

I don't think OP SIBU yo find it strange and taken together their behaviour is slightly anti social

Ofc there are worse problems in life but that doesn't mean it's an insult to other people with "worse problems "!! That's a bit strong and unkind.
Peoples homes are their peace and anything with neighbours that upsets that sense of peace and escape will have an impact - noise cars and shabbiness of laundry drying outside at front when no one else does that will feel a bit strange and out of place.

OP hasnt said she is floods of tears about it, and wringing her hands- she's merely done an AIBU on an anonymous internet site to see if it'd bother other people. She's not even said she'll say anything to the neighbours not thinks she has a right to have a say in what they do on their property !

Quite a few pp falling over themselves to try to sound overly understanding and chill when in real life many people would find this odd choices and a bit irritating of their neighbours when they have a plenty big enough back garden and could try to keep the noise down

@whereismumhiding3

Hello OP welcome back! *@Hop27*

We all wanted Dillons post in the daily Mail too! Do you get DM where you are?

Oooh I wonder why they put laundry in garage? Are they leaving garage door open so it gets air to laundry but is under cover?

I wonder if they've converted their back garden to a large swimming pool... and no longer have the rotary airer Do you think you'd have noticed OP if the swimming pool digging companies had built them one?

They've probably got a hot tub in there with shower curtains of waterfalls and outdoor rugs 😂😂😂

I wouldn’t like it

Let’s be honest rather than arguing for the sake of arguing vast majority would be bothered by this

I'm old enough to remember people sweeping the pavement in front of their house, keeping garden looking nice.
It's a shame when streets look run down or scruffy - sadly so many btl doesn't help imv. But my DC lives in v expensive south east and people spend half a million on a house then let litter and weeds gather in the garden.