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.

Assaulted me 3 years ago - I’m still terrified to be outside when she’s outside in case she goes mad again. Which means my garden is pointless despite my husband building a 6ft wall as she’s shouted abuse before and I’m frankly terrified.

This year, not only can I not use the garden but I can’t open windows or back doors due to her constantly chain smoking weed. I have to keep windows and doors shut to keep the stench out.

I can’t afford to move sadly so I’m stuck in this hell.

Well…where do I start.

We’ve lived here 3 weeks and the police has already been called out at least once.

We can hear screaming and shouting on a daily basis. There is smashed glass out the front where they smashed something.

They let their unnetuered cats roam. I know they have a litter each already (2 cats) but I’m pretty sure at least one is pregnant again. They then moan that no one wants kittens.

They don’t deflea either so I’m having to keep on top of flea treatment for my animals when normally I do it as when needed.

My neighbours are relatively new. They are incredibly loud in everything they do. They come and go loudly, slamming doors repeatedly. They talk at top volume especially on the phone. I can hear what he is shouting saying when he’s in his kitchen with the door shut. He frequently stands on the front step early in the morning bellowing across the road to someone passing. They paid a fortune for a small beautifully restored cottage suitable for a couple with occasional visitors and now they want to cause massive disruption by extending it to accommodate their many young grandchildren. They turned up together on our doorstep to discuss the plans one early evening demanding feedback by end of day. I’ve rarely met people who take up such a lot of space and display such a complete lack of awareness of their impact.

Son reported what had happened to his school so police and social services were involved then. I've also reported for the abuse of the little girl. No one seems to want to help these kids.

@Webmeister999 My gardener came to dig the foundations for a new patio and she poked her ugly snoot over the fence to ask what he was doing. "Digging a grave for nosy neighbours" he told her,

which she could've reported as a death threat
well done your gardener- not 🤦🏽‍♀️

My neighbours like to have loud sex in the middle of the day which is fine when I'm alone as il put headphones in and listen to music while doing housework ect but when I have visitors it's so embarrassing

I’ve contacted NSPCC and SS before regarding a previous neighbour. Fuck all was done

Upstairs neighbour renovated their flat before moving in and thought already idea would be to lay laminate flooring (but of course we have laid acoustic underlay so you won't have noise) it is unbelievably noisy. Slammed front door and stomped upstairs so hard the pictures on my wall have to keep being straighted. Had the genius idea of not having the washing machine in the kitchen but instead in the old airing cupboard above mine, no sound insulation and no consideration meant I was woken regularly in the night as she decided to do her washing at midnight.

Got a very large dog that banged about on the laminate flooring and barked a lot.

Had very loud sex coupled with the laminate flooring meaning her bed slid and banged on the wall and floor.

There should be a law about laminate flooring in upstairs flats to stop your neighbours going insane

Just low level inconsideration really. The worst are opposite us, they run a gazebo business from their house (which, the deeds say is a no no tsk). The clattering from them loading and unloading happens more through the day and night then you would expect. They have a massive drive but their vans and cars are never parked on it so they can access their garage. They now own the house next door to us, and one of their workers moved in. The shouting and clattering has extended to their house now.

Thank goodness they moved several years ago, but we had a family move in with 2 young teenage girls.

They ‘love bombed’ us to start with. “Come around for glass of wine” (almost every night) “ I’ve just baked a cake for you” “We will look after everything if you go away”

All seemed ok, if slightly over the top, but within weeks she was on the doorstep literally every night with some sort of drama. The husband apparently had MH issues but she decided to halve his medication doses. Don’t know why he didn’t do his own medication, or why she was ’adjusting’ it but then she would actively push his buttons, we could hear her in our back garden. He would then be unable to cope and go walkabout. Then the police would be regularly called because she had reported him at risk. One night they turned up with tracker dogs and she asked if her younger daughter could pet the dogs, like it was some kind of game!

In the end, I had to step back and say I couldn’t be involved and she needed to get professional help and then she turned against my whole family. Because worked in education, she reported that the children in my care were at risk - investigated and unfounded. She called the police on my DH saying he had physically threatened her - she had two large dogs that were often out and they had cornered our cat under our car. All he said was to keep the ‘bloody dogs under control’ We came back from holiday to find a huge area of our lawn dead. Something had clearly been thrown over the fence (as well as her dog shit) as there was a clear splash pattern. There was loads of incidents, too many to mention here, but I got to the point that I was reluctant to leave the house empty as I just didn’t trust her next move and seriously considered moving.

Ultimately, they eventually split up and the relief when the house went on the market was immense. Since then, fingers crossed, we’ve had lovely neighbours since although I live in a very small town and hear she’s doing the same nonsense to some other poor person.

you have to get up very early for bird song ime

they put three bags of their rubbish in my bin!

Environmental health for the birds and the music

I used to have 5 dogs next to me.

It was hell. let out at 7am and they'd bark loudly under my bedroom window

Then bark constantly if left on their own

Get them cut back to the boundary

Does your council have a dog warden? Environmental health. RSPCA

Ring environmental health

Dog kept escaping and finding its way into my garden. Dug up my raised beds with all the veg in.

Got a second dog who also kept escaping into my garden and eventually killed on of my chickens and injured another.

Most Sunday morning’s run the engine of their motor big for an hour - just reving the engine at around 8am - unless they have guest in their airb&b when they are thoughtful enough not to disturb people paying them cash.

Pavement parking so that they don’t only block access to anyone needing to use the pavement but causes problems with being able to come out of the driveway.

This is just the edited highlights.

The worrying thing is this could happen to any of us... all my neighbours are fine, but nothing's permanent and I would be devastated if any of them sold their house to people like some of the more unfortunate posters' NDN.

Your neighbours have one of the biggest impacts on your quality of life and there's not an awful lot you can do about bad ones (Apart from call Environmental Health...)

Our neighbour is nosey beyond belief. Retired and not in good health, her house, garden and everything in it's proximity is her world.

She stops friends and family visiting us and asks them their business.
She interviews any workmen at our house about what they're doing, how long it will take, noise levels, dirt levels etc.
She stands in her window and writes note about who's visiting us and when, including their registration numbers. (She told me this and i've witnessed it!)
The final straw was her recording my kids playing in our garden on her iPad. I saw her craning her neck doing and called the Police. She was given points towards an ASBO and a warning.

@Lordofmyflies Is she housebound? Some people do get strangely territorial when they don’t go out I’ve noticed.

Although I think the note taking veers more into personality disorder @Lordofmyflies sounds like someone I worked with. She used to make notes on her neighbours.

I've had a shitty neighbour in relation to parking wars.. which wasn't fun, especially when police became involved. Now it's not too bad either side but one side (who've been here longer) seem to think everything they do is fine (its not) and everything anyone else does should be run by them for permission (size of car, colour of house, location of bins, change of windows) like they get a say over what their neighbours do with their own house! Very entitled power moves which are easy to resist, but stress inducing.

She's not houseboundvand still drives to the local shops but never goes away overnight. No friends ever visit her. She spends hours weeding the front of her house and its looks immaculate (though maybe mine would if I didnt have kids, job, life?!) I do think she has personality disorder. She seems to have no social skills and will just stare out of her windows at people.

Yanbu. I lived on a council estate in a block of flats as a kid-mid teens. Pure utter hell. Fights, fights, music blasting, fights, walls banging, "parents" screaming at kids. Minority make it severely bad for the majority. Noise pollution is maddening and mental health problem causing.