Tell me about your shitty neighbours

[SpeedbirdSquawker]

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.

@Lordofmyflies But how do you know all that about her?

My nearby neighbours are all lovely but there's a woman in the next road who leaves her yapster dog outside for hours on end to bark. My partner knocked on her door at 10.45pm last night and she sheepishly brought the dog indoors. It's been wonderfully quiet this morning (apart from Thames Water working on a pipe blockage).

My neighbours are all lovely, although one set are … amusing.

They are very often out the front of their house talking and socialising with other neighbours, and they are sweetness and light - the perfect couple with the perfect kids.

Then they go back indoors and forget that with the windows and bifolds open, and even just when they are in the garden, we can all hear them screaming profanities at each other, all the time, at the tops of their voices 😅

To be fair, I think they are just naturally volatile because they will scream bloody murder at each other but then make up again a few minutes later.

Why don't you just tell them to bugger off?
It's your home and your not committing any crimes. I honestly just wouldn't speak to them.

My neighbours think it's acceptable to park in the turning circle as it's outside their house, even though their doing so makes it difficult for me to reverse onto my drive, because they're inconsiderate, selfish scumbags!

Our nextdoor neighbour is slightly down hill from us. She moved in a few years ago when the previous owners got divorced, and got the house for an absolute bargain due to a few issues with the survey plus them wanting the sale to be wrapped up quickly.

She did some work before moving in, which included pulling down the shared fence with no warning and ripping loads of plants in the process

We then got a legally-worded letter from her demanding that we pay half the costs of repairing the damp in her cellar on the basis that water will have run downhill from our front garden into her garden and then into her cellar.

We said no, which turned into a 3 month back and forth of letters in which she accused us of being ‘unwelcoming’ and ‘unneighbourly’ by not giving her several thousand
Even though she knew about the damp before she bought the house, and used it to negotiate about £50k off the asking price

She refuses to acknowledge us in any way while we respond with the cheeriest hellos whenever we see her

We can’t use out back garden anymore since the new ours moved in feb 2021. They use their kitchen and garden as 24 hour living room. There are 2 adult and a teenager(not his child). They all drink to the point where from 1am the domestic starts (now confined to Saturday/sundays). We get woke up to screamin and yelling, thing been thrown, even this morning at 1am the police arrived, after he had drove off full of alcohol, with an untaxed car. Oh and they also seem to think the way of using mobile phones it to put them on speaker so you can hear full conversations until late at night. They also run up and down the stairs and bang cupboards and doors. If you try and broach the subject with them you get verbal abuse and get told to jog on.

@Anatomyofawaffle, I really don't know all about her. What I wrote in one post was the grand sum of being her neighbour for many, many years. The fact she keeps a record of who visits our house was told to us by the Police who found it on her iPad along with her recording of our children playing in our garden. Visitors, friends and family tell us that they have been stopped in the road by her asking them about their business.

I would remove all of your bushes and install a fence right along your side of the wall, six feet high, or even better, build a six foot wall on your side, fence would be the cheaper option though.

Life is too short to have to suffer these people.

My neighbour lit a bonfire this week at 7am. My 2 year old’s bedroom window was open due to the hot weather and his room stank of smoke while he was still in it.

Generally though, I think it’s interesting how adults are allowed to make noise until 10/11pm but god forbid i let my son in the garden before 9, when he’s been up since 6.

This was years ago. I live in Australia and used to foster injured and orphaned wildlife. I had a lovely black cockatoo whose partner had died after being hit by a car. They mate for life and this poor bird was absolutely grieving…He was silent and still and when I took him outside to the aviary for some fresh air and sunshine, he used to tuck his head under his wing and hide from the world. We lived next door to this little snot of a kid (destructive, whiny., aggressive… too many stories to explain why he was a snot) with a loud, entitled mother. She would send him over to play with my fosters and orphans, and get stroppy when I sent him back. There was no telling her that these were not pets and I was trying to get them back to the wild. The kid was vindictive and I caught him throwing rocks and dog shit over his fence at the aviary when I had the cockatoo out. Shortly after this, the cockatoo started shrieking “Daaaaaaavid? Daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaavid? DAVID!!!” in a perfect imitation of the mother’s voice. (I changed the kid’s name, btw…) The kid used to go bonkers, yelling “Whaaaat!?!”. She called the police and complained that he was “Making fun of her.” (They came over and saw my animals and actually later helped with a fund raiser.) They had had many run ins with her and didn’t even pretend to take this seriously.

I'm a childminder and let the children out before 9 am, especially when it's hot.
I have neighbours who cut lawns at 7 am on a Sunday, one neighbour was smashing up a rockery at 7.15 last Sunday morning, neighbours who are retired but decided to do DIY at 7 pm, neighbours who's dog literally just stands in the garden barking at 2 am every bloody night....so I absolutely couldn't care less what time the kids go out!

Next door neighbour murdered his wife. Horrible horrible situation with police and press for weeks.
Over the years we’ve had 7am screeching kids and earlier cockerels, parking annoyances, barking dog (that was us 😳) and 11 on building works. In every situation bar the murder all amicably sorted with a chat.
I’d hate to live isolated.

My sister is celebrating at the moment as her awful next door neighbours have finally been evicted after four years!

• They filled the back garden with piles of stinking rubbish which attracted rats. The council cleared it multiple times but they just did it again each time.
• They played loud music all night long, screamed abuse at each other, their kids and the neighbours constantly and frequently had police round due to their loud arguments. They seemed off their face on drugs or drunk much of the time.
• Their three kids were blatantly neglected, filthy, had unaddressed SEN, missed school often and their social workers seemed too scared of the parents to actually do anything to help the kids.
• The bloke started a new "job" last year as a removals man with a huge van. Yet he only went out to work in the middle of the night, leading to him being arrested on suspicion of being part of a car theft ring.
• They had debt collectors, loan sharks and bailiffs round often which terrified the kids.
• My sisters whole house stank of weed because they were growing it in their attic.

After they were finally given their eviction notice, they barricaded themselves in the house for weeks and eventually had to be removed by police. The landlord went in to check the property and it was so awful he came back outside and threw up! Dog shit and rubbish everywhere, floorboards ripped up and everything trashed. I can't believe SS let children live there without taking further action and worry what will happen to the poor kids now.

But my sister is pleased that she can sleep without ear plugs and noise cancelling headphones on for the first time in years.

There is a household on the street that is ruining it. They constantly park across people’s drives and then pretend they don’t understand English when you ask them to move.

Constant reshuffle of people in the house, possibly some kind of dodgy business going on. Choose to treat the front garden like a cafe hang out spot. Full dining room table and chairs set up. Numerous hangers on communing there and spilling onto pavement. Loads of cars running engines parked outside.

Generally noisy and scruffy, don’t give a shit about the street or other people. It has always been a rough area but they are making it worse. I can’t afford to move and they are bringing down house prices. I hate them.

@Chickpea17 because in the beginning we were finding out these things were happening when we weren't around as she was singling out builders while we were at work. We even had the police attend once when we were away and the builders were putting a supporting beam in, she claimed they couldn't work on a Saturday apparently, the beam had to be put in as an emergency as our builders discovered that the previous owners had bodged the extension. Last time when she called her DF because we dared ti have a new flat roof as it was the last thing we needed doing and had water coming in. I was home but had no idea her DF had marched onto our property to demand he new what we were doing, I would have been out like a shot to have words had I known about it but they told me after he had left.

The woman is bonkers tbh weve fou d out from other neighbours they have also had the police called for spurious reasons and apparently the local council actually joke about her many emails of complaint.

What I've noticed is she avoids me and kicks off at DH or any workman we have, I would absolutely love her to approach me and complain about something but she seems wary of me.

I used to have to put up with noisy neighbours and their stinky barbecues but we moved and it’s blissfully quiet where we live now, apart from a few animals and birdsong which is quite soothing. The nearest neighbour lives about half a mile away.

We’re surrounded by fields and a wood and have a long 100mtre driveway with trees and a curve in it so you can’t see the house from the road. The road isn’t particularly busy as it goes from the town 7 miles away to a tiny one street coastal village and nowhere else.

I’m never moving house again!

@Chickpea17 I might of given the impression we do discuss what we are doing on the house. We don't at all mainly because when we first moved in and thought she was just a normal human being we warned her and apologised in advance, but she just kept whingeing about the most ridiculous things (to DH) even complained that a plank of wood was leant on our fence by the builder. She has never said one word to me from day one (I'm good with that). But the sight of a van on our drive and potential that work is being done and shes off with the drama. We have a garden room about to be installed soon, I'm sure her DF will pay a visit and hopefully I'll catch up with him this time and remind him who's home it is..

Just constant bloody noise. Neighbour on speakerphone for quite literally hours a day - I can hear every word and know far more about his life than I wish to. Kid screaming - I mean excessive unnecessary screaming like they're constantly being tickled. This week someone had a party until 1:30am. There's also a dog two doors down currently barking 2am-5am everyday. Then the shift workers start banging doors, the HGV starts revving, the vans sit outside with shit builder FM on to pick people up, and your night is over before you've closed your eyes.

I used to live in a house which had an old couple next door who would lean out thr window and shout "cunt" at our cat. And sometimes our very quiet and happy toddler.

Their other neighbours were harassed so much that police were involved and eventually the oldies sold up and moved. The whole street looked on and clapped when the removal truck left.

My other neighbours were very lovely but meek parents who allowed their boys (9 and 7 at the time!) To play with knives, quad bikes and fire in the garden. Together with an oversized trampoline that vibrated throughout our entire house and a football against our fence - we too sold up and left.

We had several buyers to choose from but we chose the biggest, noisiest family and went on our way 😂

@AmandaHoldensLips this has been going on here for so long that I didn't even at it to my list, it's just normal life. 5am to 4pm plus evenings out. It's never walked. EH don't care.

I have a neighbour who moved up from down south to “make his money go further”

constantly has “jokey” jibes at Scots not speaking properly. He now ignores me after pointing out he cannot pronounce the words “our” or “train”
generic southern accent
he says “ARE CUNTRY!” Or “TRAYINNE”

weird

Our immediate neighbours, and indeed most of the folks in our street, are lovely, quiet and considerate. It's a good thing, as we live around a shared village green type thing.
There are two families though, one of which parties and plays music until all hours, and the other has bouncy castle parties at 9am on a Sunday which continue for most of the day. Between them they've got me starting to think about moving to a farm or something in the countryside with no neighbours!

I wish those on the left would read this sort of post. As soon as anyone complains about bad behavior, some sanctimonious leftie accuses them of NIMBYism. But they forget that the real victims of this kind of behaviour are the good people on low incomes – people who try to do the right thing, but have their lives ruined by a minority of vicious, selfish scumbags.

People like that aren't 'heros' fighting the system. They're just ignorant, selfish assholes who ruin their neighbour's lives. If I could, I'd build social housing for the good people, and dump all the anti-social idiots on the left-wing anarchists.

Oh where to start. They smoke weed the minute they wake up, and hock their lungs up in the back garden while doing so, then continue all day. She is abusive to her young daughter, calls her an "ugly fat cunt" "little twat" numerous times per day, I've reported her to social services multiple times. Her boyfriend has a nasty class A addiction of which the entire street is reminded of whenever they very publicly hang each other in the front garden a few times a week because he has come back worse for wear. Loud obnoxious music, same song on repeat and over, music turned up and down constantly during that song. Random strays constantly staying there, cars beeping outside every half hour. Bonfires in the back all the time often starting late afternoon, fuck your washing on the line.

I could go on but yes.. they are fucking delightful 😊 i'll miss them terribly when we move to the middle of nowhere because they've honestly put me off every having neighbours again.