To ask for your worst neighbour stories?

[WingsgivenbyRedBull]

I’ve been lucky that I’ve not had nightmare neighbours, just rude and inconsiderate ones.

One ex neighbour used to use my driveway all the time until I blocked him in and he stopped.

Had the excessive noise ones - months of renovations, barking dog and crying baby.

@Smallonesaremorejuicy Are you kidding? Is that all you have to say?🙄

Having experienced "drug addict" behaviour (if you'd like them shooting up in your bin store, feel free to invite them to yours) calling them junkies is the most polite term I'd use.

I had two - one each side. One side was an addict and shouted and screamed with her bf at least twice a week from the early hours (which woke me up) until they were exhausted (usually about five hours). She was the single most selfish person I have ever met. Nothing and no one came before what she wanted.

The other side had a hot tub and would play very loud music (and the shouting on top) from about 2pm until midnight each night. They were not working and I was. They would also constantly bang about with their bins. They were very upset when I pointed it out to them that it was unreasonable and I had to work.

I survived on about three hours sleep for months. It damaged my mental health.

I live surrounded by more people now and it is much quieter.

What has happened to others and I on this thread is not normal. I know that when I move again, I am having nothing at all to do with any of my neighbors. I no longer believe in community. I just want to live in my own home in peace.

@PearlclutchersInc - I agree. I've found that people who have neither experienced things like us (even if they've witnessed it) or cannot believe it can be that bad are the most judgemental.

They need to trade places with us. In my case, they needed to change places with me and lose money and feel trapped for nearly two years and then see if they feel the same "life and let live"!

A previous neighbour complained to us about the light above our kitchen door keeping her awake at night.
We pointed out that the light fitting had no bulb in it.
She maintained that if it had a bulb in it, it would keep her awake. So we had to do something about this.
We smiled and nodded and ignored her.

I live in a flat , current upstairs neighbours are horrible, we have had cigarette ends dropped in our garden constantly. They also have noisy barbecues throughout the summer and winter ! Moving isn’t an option for me as I’m in social housing, I just hope they move soon .

Next door neighbour's are awful here.
They poisoned my poor car,she passed away a few days later.
Slams his door so my windows rattle!!
Calls my DP racists names.
Phoned the police a few times (I'm no longer allowed to park my car on the front of my property) yet when there daughter comes she can!!
Gives his dog a squeak toy at 6am in the back yard.
Goes to the caravan on a weekend leaving his small yapping dogs barking all weekend! ( but this is ok because somebody walks them and feeds them a few times a day!)
I cannot wait to move!! The day I move I will play loud music from early morning till late night and slam my door while I'm at it!!

Not neighbour, but house mate in a HMO. I worked away a lot for weeks at a time. Unknown to me she had a copy of my key and while I was away would use my room and belongings as if they were her own. E.g. borrow clothes, hang out in the so to watch my tv, use my desk space and even sleep in my bed! Found out when I came home one week to find my laptop had been knocked on the floor and the screen had broken. She had been doing y for 3 years! 😱😱😱

Did them ‘ shooting up’ in your bin store actually harm you in any way? I believe they are sick & need help. If you are able to get them to mine feel free.

All people should be treated with respect @ not labelled.

Nothing is wrong with me . I don’t like people being labelled.

Never known a junkie who didn't self identify as a junkie tbf.

By the point you're having a dig in a bin room you're fully aware

I live by one like this - she’s bonkers , puts a head light on to garden at midnight???
Time to sell up I think.🧐

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smallonesarethemorejuicy
All people should be treated with respect

Respect should go both ways. People shooting up in your bin store is not respectful - doesn't the OP deserve respect too ?

My point was that the OP told a very sad tale about her early life and all you could do was reprimand her for using a term in common parlance. I don't find that very respectful.

She and her partner they would fight like cat and dog, they would say the vilest things to each other, screech like banshees and break stuff up. It would regularly get physical and they both gave as good as they got.

We were attached houses off a lane converted from an old outbuilding (badly so the wall were paper thin) . She owned, I rented. My little house dog legged off the road so it had a drive & hers was mews so didn't. She took to parking on my drive as I didn't have a car at that time. I politely asked her not too. She threw a giant temper tantrum about how she owns her home, not fucking useless cunt of a student renter scum so she will be having the drive. I said, it's still a no.

She ignored me and parked there regardless.

I think as I was a shy 18 year old student she felt that i should just bow to her wishes and was outraged that i said no to her. So she then reported me to every single agency she could think of with any tale of woe she could imagine up. My Landlord/Agent/RSPCA mistreating my animals (i didn't have any)/ Social - beating my kids (I didn't have any)/ fly tipping/ prostitution / water leak/ gas leak you get the idea. I had a knock on the door from some service wanting to have a 'quick chat' most days for about a year.

It came to a head when she came to use the drive and found one of those huge cement motorway lane dividers across the entrance. My new boyfriend who was road crew had got one of his guys to drop it there in the middle of the night. (he had a motorbike so it didn't inconvenience him)

She came round full of rage and very obviously spoiling for fight yelling and ranting as she walked round from where she parked her car. I heard her as she passed in front of the living room window swearing and yelling her head off and HAMMERED on the door to the point that pictures on the wall rattled. I legged it down the stairs just in time to see her comedy gulp and a slow upward stare that just carried on up when the absolute unit of my new partner answered the door. A strapping lad of 6' 5 and his shoulders filled the hall.

She was nice as pie after that, almost sickeningly nice.

(I should add he may have looked an absolute unit, he was HUGE - but he had a heart to match and wouldn't have hurt her or even said a mean word to her. He was a gentle and wonderful soul - she just made the assumption. I want to stress that he did not do a thing to warrant that assumption he literally just opened the door)

We lived next to a family where the teenage son (and his awful brother who lives around the corner) murdered someone just outside our cul-de-sac. Then their mother lied to the police about it. It affected the sale of that house two years later.

I currently have a neighbour who I dislike. She's a childminder and her house and garden are grubby AF. Plus she ignores the screaming kids and just stands there having a fab and changing them in full view of my spare room upstairs. She had the audacity to complain when the fence fell down during a storm and wouldn't go halves even though it's a shared boundary.

I hope you sold it to them!

Not a real nightmare but current neighbour is a DIYer. He always seems to be doing something to the adjoining wall (semi) and unexpected drilling noises make me jump out of my skin.

Sorry but that is hilarious! Did you just walk in the room and see her sitting there?! I don’t know what I would do if that happened!

I think we live in the same neighbourhood :)

Neighbour (in enormous, most expensive house on the street) shoots his crossbow in his garden. Except he is not a great shot and sometimes arrows have landed right next to my child when he has been playing in the garden. Wanker.

I have a label for you, here it is: bit of a tit

I confess that ten years ago we were nightmare neighbours but we didn't realise. We bought our house but kept on the one we were renting for two months while we did it up. We went round nearly every evening and weekend to get it ready. There wasn't much drilling - most of the work was cleaning (there was a lot of cleaning) and decorating, but there was a LOT of flat pack furniture building and since the rooms were empty and had laminate floors the noise must really have echoed. Lovely neighbour - I am very sorry. It must have been really annoying for you. I hope you haven't been too bothered by anything we have done since we moved in nearly ten years ago.

Oh you have made me laugh , thank you 🙏

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