To ask about your anti-social neighbours?

[FattyAirways]

Now the weather is getting warmer, neighbours seem to ramp up the noise and other nuisance behaviour.

Mine aren't too bad concerned to some, but two doors down, the woman and man seem to have a serious weed habit and are constantly in their shed smoking. It stinks. They have two small children who are around 3 and 5 and the kids are around them when they're smoking week. It's shit. The last week, they've also had the kids out at 6.30am the other day and then 8.00am this morning. They aren't quiet kids, screaming, crying, even at that time.

Then our mutual next door neighbour also smokes weed. She also sits out in the garden at any sign of decent weather watching shitty TV shows without headphones in. It's fairly quiet, but still, I'd prefer to listen to just the birds. They also have a dog who barks very loudly with a high pitched bark constantly when they're out, but even when they're home sometimes. They don't attempt to shut it up until each time I end up going knocking on the door to remind them their dog is upset and that is why it is barking. They've been very good at shutting it up lately but I always know it's not long before it slips.

Then, other next door neighbours are ok really, except they recently used my recycling bin without asking. I will let them off.

You sound fun.

Mine ripped up the mature garden that had been in for 70 years. Stuck it all in a pile to rot, it's still there over 3 years later. They somehow managed to encourage rats in.

They've sunk the levels of their garden by digging out over a metre down. Left it unsupported until recently and have now only supported half of it but only to half height. They've topped that with a fence, put the posts on the outside so they can't maintain it and slung black tarpaulin on the back on our side. The rest is still an unprotected drop.

They have got cameras directly pointed into ours and other neighbours gardens. Everyone hates them.

They've uncovered the foundations of our garage without a party wall agreement and put their scaffolding on the new roof without permission.

They admitted that now their massive extension is finished they are only living in it for a year as they are properly developers

My back garden is now totally overgrown as I no longer use it. I can't dig the bed adjoining them as obviously it would just collapse. My home used to be my sanctuary and I dread coming home now. I worked so hard to have a nice 3 bed semi now it's ruined.

I really hope they burn in hell.

Yes it can be annoying but that's what happens when you live close to other people.

I live next door to a farm and the farmer creates so much noise. If he's not slamming his metal sheet gates, he's jet washing for hours/days on end, (as he is now, on a Saturday), milk truck going in and out, jack-hammering, cow noise, it just goes on.

We're in a village and he has no regard for his neighbours 😞

@Want2beme I think yours is a bit different. Farm will have been there a long time and you're living next to it.....farming is a 24/7 365 days a year jon you know.

Farming's a business and the jobs you describe just sound like a normal part of the business rather than antisocial behaviour. Moving next to a farm and not expecting farm noise is like moving next to a church and complaining about bells on a Sunday morning.

Neighbours at the end of the garden and to the left decided that mid afternoon on a beautiful sunny Saturday was the best time to set fire to all their rancid garden waste so everyone else has had to close up windows, bring kids and washing in while huge billowing clouds of rank grey smoke blow past the windows.

Fucking wankers the lot of them!

The neighbours around our new house are very nice, but there were some oddities living near our old one.

The guy who brandished a gun at his neighbours for some reason. The drug addict who stole from just about everyone on our street, including my friend's dirty, sweaty ice hockey gear, then shot himself in the leg 50 feet from another friend's children. The man at the end of our street who reported everyone for some infringement or other to the Home Owners Association, so if you had weeds in a flower bed or left your bin out overnight then you got threatened with a fine.

The weed smokers you could do something about. If it is as constant as you think, contact social services or the police. Especially if one or other drives a car.

Last summer my neighbour came out every time I was in the garden to hurl abuse at me so I put a 6 foot fence up between our gardens. Now she throws eggs over into the garden.

WibblyWobblyLane can you get a ring doorbell cam or similar to catch your neighbour doing that? My current neighbours had a camera as someone used to let their off leash dogs attack their cats in their garden. They asked the owner to put his dogs on leashes, he wouldn't and escalated to encouraging his dogs to piss in their garden and set off their security lights etc. at 4.30 a.m. He also started screaming and swearing at their house which made him look insane to everyone else on the street. This was all caught on their camera. They told the dog warden and he forwarded it to the police anti-harassment team who surprisingly took it seriously and visited the jackass to tell him to back off. My neighbours were surprised as although it is annoying they didn't think it would interest the police. The police officer told them 'I don't know where he's from but we don't act like that in this town' a small town noted in Wiki for 'having no amenities and being packed with drunken idiots' so it's not like we are an upmarket place. I would imagine there must be something similar where you live.

I wish I lived in the middle of a field. There's been a kid screaming since 7am (not upset, just wild running around encouraged by the parent), next door FaceTiming at full volume in the garden, a bloke revving his motorbike for over two hours, a garden fire, jet washing, someone with power tools doing their unknown endless DIY project and the drug house mouthing off. I know all of these are legitimate noises (except perhaps the drug dealer) but I just want to sit and listen to the birds and read my book like the grumpy middle aged woman that I am!

Home owner ndn. We rent. Smashed down 2 foot of the wall at the back of our listed building house..
Woman across the back hired a tree surgeon (previously a butcher) to chop down the trees on our property that had a protection order on. Man from the council said never mind it will grow.

I'm surrounded by chaos. Kids out playing , shouting, playing football. BBQ's music, hot tubs lawn mowers. I love it, it's the sound of summer, my street is alive & outside😎

I love the smell of a bonfire! You don’t have to close your windows or bring your kids in - that’s your choice.

You sound like an anti social neighbour.

@SmurfHaribos I don't mind a bonfire of sticks and twigs, this is garden waste, pallets, old fence panels that have been treated, general plastic rubbish. The smoke is dark grey and toxic smelling.

@panteranoir I know how you feel as they sound like our old neighbours. I was diagnosed with situational depression in the end and had to take anti depressants.

We moved.
New neighbours are fine. Could be quieter and still are annoying sometimes, but normal people and just annoying and don't make me want to kill them/myself.
I think I have PTSD though as every time there is a van or loud noises or someone starts cutting a tree in the neighborhood, I have a massively OTT reaction and have to put headphones on as I can't cope with anything that reminds me...

Mine love playing musical instruments. I have the guitar, drums and piano playing at all hours. I knocked at 2.30am to tell them to STFU because they were playing the drums. They often play the piano after midnight but at least that doesn't are my house vibrant.

I really hope you're taking the mick.

If not, why the fuck did you move next to a farm? That's like moving next to an airport and being pissed off with planes.

Go back to the town.

You do if you don’t want your house to smell like that or want to breathe such smoke in. For some, it triggers health issues and in many places you shouldn’t be burning garden waste or any waste for that manner at a time where it will effect your neighbours.

Besides, you don’t know what some people class as garden waste and will likely burn things they shouldn’t like plastic plant pots.

Mine has 2 children who scream inside and outside from about 6.30 to bedtime. No exaggeration. She puts the radio on loud to drown them out. We're mid terrace with paper thin walls.

My nearest neighbour is just over 2 miles away and I couldn’t go back to living near people for all of the reasons listed above!
I get really peopled out at work so love coming home.
We do get passing traffic to the beach but mostly no one bothers us.

Mine punched a hole in the party wall and ignored us when we raised the issue. Threatening them with an injunction finally stopped those works but they also thought it was ok to install a rooflight so close to our side they had to lay the flashing under our roof tiles.

They are now sorting it all out but they seem genuinely confused by the fact that they can't trespass on our property to get the bigger house they want.

I'd be raging if I wasn't so baffled by the level of entitlement.

Another grumpy middle aged woman here, just wanting to sit in the garden, listen to the birds and read.

Instead, I have next door's dog barking incessantly, other neighbours playing shit, tinny music, other neighbour strimming and someone has had screaming kids in the garden all day.

Ah, the joys of summer.

I wonder why the noisy never think of the quiet?