Tell me about your shitty neighbours

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So before 9am this morning, after a lovely soak in the bath, I thought I would potter out into the garden with a cup of tea and listen to the birdsong. No chance of peace and quiet. My neighbours two doors down were out with their constantly screaming/crying young boys and playing loud music. What is wrong with people?

If it's not them making noise, my next door neighbour is out playing whatever loud on her phone and then my other next door neighbours often blast music. There's no peace!

I am on a mission to move next year though.

YABU re the children
YANBU re the loud music so early

Also on a mission to move next year after a summer of neighbouring kids and their parents shouting at each other all day.

I love hearing kids having fun but even my DD14 asked me why they are so noisy and never shut up.

I definitely need to move somewhere quieter. It's been a great 7 years here but this summer has been not good.

There is no time at all when you can sit in the garden and get peace.

We are considering moving but have managed 24 years with lovely neighbours and that includes a few neighbour changes.

We have a next door neighbour who seems to think we should consult her everything we do something on the house. That may not sound too unreasonable until you consider that even putting planters on our drive sent her into a meltdown. She actually cried! We have a fence up so it's not like we were trying to be passive aggressive or anything just thought they would look nice. Any work we have done sends her into a frenzy, we bought a wreck of a house and have slowly turned it into something that didn't bring the street down. Anyone working on our house is threatened with the police (she called them once because our builder had some sand on our drive and a tiny bit blew on to her garden), DH washed his car and water seeped under the fence (not a flood just normal dampness from a car wash) she had a fit about that.

If she sees anyone turn up to carry out work, she immediately calls her Df who turns up puffing out his huge belly and wants to know from our workman what's being done and why... had we know what an utter twat she was we would have never bought the house

Sorry no shitty neighbours now but I did when I was living in Birmingham. The guy in the neighbouring flat kept playing Brimful of Asha by Cornersjpp at full blast almost 24/7. We had been in the flat for about 2 weeks and DH who was then my BF was going to go round but it suddenly stopped. Turned out he had been found as had skipped bail for a stabbing. As a child we had a neighbour whose dog barked constantly when left alone.

My neighbours kids are screaming in the back garden from 6/7am every day.

This morning it was topped off by their mum screaming bloody murder on the phone.

I wish I could move.

I can't as my neighbours are nice.

We had a neighbour who got up at the crack of 1pm every day then blasted a Depeche Mode greatest hits album several time over, including cheering with the audience during the live tracks.

Not the end of the world as I quite like Depeche Mode.

Mine throw potatoes into our garden... it's very bizarre!

Throws large quantities of bread on her front lawn at 7am every morning. Gulls and pigeons gather on my roof as dawn breaks, make a racket fighting each other while waiting for their feed, then shit all over my car when they've finished.

Also she doesn't work and seems to be at home most of the time. She's got plenty of time during the week to cut her grass but chooses to do it at 8am on a Saturday morning. Really annoying when I work full time weekdays and would like a lay in on Saturday mornings.

It used to be really quiet here but a young lad has bought a house out the back. He puts metal/rock music on loud and invites his mates round who all shout and muck about loudly and the language is awful. It started about 4pm yesterday and was still going on when I went to bed at 11pm. It's like living next to a city centre beer garden instead of a quiet village now.

My neighbour told friends visiting us yesterday not to park next to our house as she needed to turn her car round there. This left my friends with the option of parking at the space as the end of our shared drive (which is our other neighbour's space) or blocking the drive itself, neither of which they wanted to do. I solved it by parking my car beside the house (the land belongs to our house,which we rent, so are entitled to use it) as she could hardly tell me off by parking on our land!

Her house is an AirBnB, and she likes to try and dictate to us what we can do so that things are best for her guests, seemingly forgetting that this is our home. When she first had the property she'd tell them to park on our land as, apparently, the fact she'd bought it cheap as there was no parking with it was our problem to solve.

My neighbours on one side are fine for the most part, but weirdly petty. Cut the lawn yesterday and realised that our bush was dying, and it's because they've cut it on their side - it maybe encroached a couple of inches into their garden, but they've chopped what is one of two main branches really harshly so it's killed it. They have multiple bushes that encroach on ours far more and I've never touched them (though I might start doing so now!)

Thing is, the reason it is going to encroach on the wall is because the wall is only three feet high and they stopped talking to us after I suggested that we raise the height (we were offering to pay for the whole thing)

They refused having a proper boundary despite the fact that they turn their backs on us whenever we're in the garden. It's weird, it's like they hate the fact we use the garden and that there's no privacy, but they stopped talking to us as soon as we suggested doing anything about it.

My neighbour to the left is lovely, buys my girls gifts for birthdays/Xmas. I feed her cats if she's away that kind of thing. My neighbour to the right is a young family they've only been their a couple of weeks but I know her anyway and their ok just normal children noise and a dog that barks occasionally. If anything we are the noisy family 🤦🏻‍♀️ household of 6 and 5 dogs 😂

Some of my neighbours have been letting their kids play football in the small cul de sac that we live in, this goes on until 10.30pm, they also hit cars and the parents don't care as they are always drunk. If they are not out the front they are constantly in the back garden smashing the ball against the wooden fence which is next door to us! The street has always been lovely until they moved in this summer. We are moving hopefully soon as we have a 3 month old baby and want to live in peace.

I have a flat that I have kept after my divorce, neighbour upstairs was selling, new buyers wanted me to sign an extended lease for them (no problem), I decided to extend mine at the same time. Neighbour who I have always got on well with turned into a crazy person and began constantly chasing me about the lease. I was understanding moving is stressful and I didn't want to make it anymore so was prompt responding to solicitors etc and keeping her in the loop. However, she began to take the piss, was messaging me multiple times a day about the move. I realised how stressed she was making me about HER move when she said she was going on holiday and I thought thank god a week of peace! She came back from holiday ut started again! On one day alone I had 20 messages about the move, she tried to pressure/bully me into signing the new lease that wasn't checked by the solicitors and I said no sorry I'm not doing that.

She then asked when I'd be at my flat and I naively told her, she turned up with flowers and the bloody lease I'd refused to sign. I again said sorry no, when that comes from my solicitor passed for signing I will happily do that.

The text messages continued and I was actually jumping everything my phone went off. In the end I told my solicitor what was happening and she passed a message to them this was harassment and to stop. It didn't, instead she gave my number to her BF without my permission and he began harassing me instead. He was blocked immediately and my solicitors sent a strongly worded email to neighbours saying stop or the police will have to become involved.

Thankfully it has, all paperwork signed, interestingly old neighbour seems to have done a moonlight flit and as far as I know the sale still hasn't gone through!

Some neighbours can start out lovely and turn into complete arses without warning. All of this was going on while I was dealing with my dying father going into palliative care. Neighbour new this but didn't really care, her BF text me after I'd been sat at my DF bedside all day and told me if I just signed the paperwork he would leave me alone and I could concentrate on my dying dad

We live in a basement granny flat. Our neighbours are family who think it's ok to have washers and driers running at all hours and kids stampeding through the house until 1am. They scrape bar stools across the wooden floor and shout at the tops of their lungs. Drives me insane.

We have great neighbours now, but when we used to live in a flat, our upstairs neighbours were…interesting.
Like clockwork, about three nights a week, we would hear the woman screech like a banshee as they had sex. At 3am.
She’d be yelling, the headboard would be banging, the floor would be vibrating. I’m amazed we didn’t murder them.

The pump, the radio, the dog, the horrible cat, the talking to alexa ..the hot tub of course

Our neighbours are slow to cut their hedges that unfortunately line the track to our house. Just basically not caring about their neighbours. The track has become more and more narrow over the years and the hedges brush our cars and delivery guys hate it. I dream about having a chainsaw!

My upstairs neighbour (who thank the Lord has since moved) was completely unhinged and I don't use the word lightly or in a sexist way.

She decided from the word go and for absolutely no discernible reason, to make my life hell. In the space of five years living in the flat above me she:

• Summoned me back from my job in the City several times to remove (empty and clean) bin liners which had nothing to do with me from her wheelie bins.
• Called and emailed me multiple times to demand that I install an expensive appliance (nearly £1000) to our shared water tank because the faint thud that the hot tap made when it was turned on in the morning was causing her "distress" and "trauma". It was never made clear why this was my responsibility.
• Complained to the freeholder about this when I wouldn't agree to it.
• Called environmental health about this when I wouldn't agree to it. They investigated both sides, came to both of our flats and listened to the noise. I heard her losing her shit with them because they sided with me. I could hear her screaming after them.
• Complained to the council that my daughter was causing noise pollution because (aged 8) she accidentally slammed the front door.
• Slagged me off on the street NextDoor and WhatsApp, telling other people I was an unfit mother.
• Asked my next door neighbour how they felt living next door to a single mother.

And this is a relatively "naice" area.

She is the closest I've come to feeling pure hatred for anyone. If I ever saw her again I would really struggle not to be verbally abusive. She has since launched an online business and I'm occasionally tempted to do it through this. I have restrained myself because its not worth the candle. But by God do I want this business to fail.

It's really brought home to me how a spiteful neighbour with a grudge can literally ruin your life.

A few years ago I had an old cat and my neighbour had a young cat. Her cat bullied mine but I didn't say anything because, you know, cats will be cats.

Now the tables are turned and I have a young cat and she has an old cat.

I get a barrage of aggression about how my cat is raping hers (they are all neutered) and will murder it. She insists on feeding hers in the porch and leaving the windows open and is outraged that mine unsurprisingly goes in her porch for the snacks.

We are no longer on speaking terms.

And he speaks one of the louder languages (from a loud culture)

I have a property next door that no one lives at. However, there's a shed in the garden for feral cats - a guy who keeps an eye on the house,comes and feeds the cats. The cats then shit, fight and hunt all over my garden.
I can't see cats as anything else than pests now. To anyone not seeing a problem with this - please come and take the shed&cats and set them up in your garden instead. I may just trap and "rewild" them somewhere far away one fine day.

Lovely neighbours here that have replaced our shitty one.
Did hear what I thought was a massive row happening outside this morning stuck my head out in case it was serious but it was just 2 kids on the trampoline at 7.30 this morning shrieking at each other and laughing. Went from being concerned to cheering me up. You can’t control what they do but you can (sometimes!) control how you react to it. Good luck with your move - neighbours are a lottery so unless you’re moving somewhere detached in the middle of nowhere then be prepared to have to deal with crappy neighbours in future!