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Noisy Neighbours

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TheSummerHolidaysMakeMeCrazy · 31/07/2023 20:34

I have neighbours to the rear of my house in such a way that my back garden has 3 back gardens backing onto it, iyswim.

Over this last year it's come about that all 3 houses have new tenant who each have a 5 or 6 year old child living there. They've become friends. Except they haven't, they're nemesis'. They holla, argue, scream, shout EVERY. SINGLE. DAY.

I know I'm not unreasonable but how on earth do I separate "kids will be kids" with "your kids are awful, please deal" in communicating my frustration. It's not just me, it's my husband, kids living here with me plus my neighbour venting to me.

AIBU?

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Nica07 · 01/10/2023 07:27

Bit of both - nightmare when all around are becoming friends and their children merging to one happy family
Will be unsettling that you're left out in the cold and three households against one (yours - most invested, perhaps other neighbours less invested)
Wouldn't stir things were I you as you'll become an unwanted neighbour by ll of them;
Best way is to ride it out and remember children rarely stay close with one another for too long - all kinds of disagreements and changing interests will soon make them go their own ways a bit; who knows one might even inadvertently break a precious toy or item of their friend and all too quickly those neighbours who are currently close to one another can turn against - particularly if one gets into junior league team (similar) and another doesn't make it; they're on far tighter a tightrope than you are in minefield of children on your doorstep ;

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