To wonder why people seem to forget that if they're sitting talking in their gardens, WE CAN HEAR YOU!

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I'm sitting open mouthed listening to the personal details of the life of our next-door but one neighbour. Does she think no-one else might be sitting in their gardens on this gorgeous sunny day.

And yesterday, I was waiting in the car with the windows open waiting to pick up DS1, and had to endure a racist rant from the man in the garden of a nearby house.

incredible!

My neighbours are tri lingual.. I've nonodea what they talk about in their garden but they understand every word we say in ours.. not fair!!

Oh God my neighbour has an Alexa, one day she spent ages trying to get it to add up ...Alexander what's £11.95 plus £3.76...no response....

Alwxa what is eleven pounds and nintey five pence...on slo.mo voice

It couldn't understand her and she repeated it over 10 times. At this point I felt like shouting the answer, would of been quicker to use the calculator on her phone!!

Did give me a good laugh how she kept changing how she spoke

We have one of those we call him the air raid siren!!!! He likes to give a running commentary of what his plans are for the day as if you give a shit lol. I've started wearing my headphones to drown out the sound of his bellowing winey voice.

My neighbour at the back works from home.
We're already enduring her work calls as she's now working in her garden.

It's so effing annoying as we don't usually hear from them apart from their parties.
She can't seem to just speak at normal level... it needs to be at shouty level. She's quite unpleasant and is quite cruel to whoever she's talking to.
Makes us hate being in the garden but she's obviously allowed to do what she wants too.

You’ve not met my next door but one neighbours. The woman on one side has a foghorn of a voice.

I was woken up at 3am a few weeks ago be next door but one on the other side talking to his wife in the garden. He was pissed but I could hear both of them clearly.

It's divine, an unexpected 'prize' 😜

They probably like being heard.

My neighbours shout and yell all the time, I have to wear earplugs in my kitchen when they have their door and windows open and there is no way I am able to use my outdoor space, In fact I was only thinking that before they moved in I would be pottering around in my back yard attending to my plants but I have given up now as the noise makes me feel ill. My back yard is getting in a state now as I can't be out there due to the noise. I have given up trying to communicate with them (they do not speak any English) and just have to accept that this is how it is now. I am waiting for the council's anti-social behaviour dept to do something, the endless noise is just one aspect the difficulties I experiencing with them, I am not holding my breath though, I have had two years of this.

Same here, I can hear mine as I walk down the road as soon as I am about 5 doors away from my house and that is in the winter, they communicate at full volume all the time and when they are having a row it is just a screaming and screeching contest. Come summer they fling all the windows open and also the front and back door so the entire street is treated to their dulcet tones. They have endless visitors too who hammer on the door and yell at the same time.

I’m very aware that my neighbours who are twice our age with no children can probably hear me call on my kids about 100 times a day .. and the rest of it. Especially when ive tried every trick in the book to resolve whatever problem and I’m about to lose it 😂
they wear ear phones these days 🤣🤣 so yeah I’m very aware people can hear lol

Some neighbours across had friends round. DD’s bedroom faces their garden and she had her window open. She heard one man exclaim ‘I’m going for a piss.’
However dh’s slammed her window shut on hearing one man say’Yeah all lives matter.’

My local council bought a house beside me, and housed tenants that they had previously evicted from council flats for anti-social behaviour. The screaming matches can happen at any time of the day. The drug dealing goes on all day and night. Their callers climb through other people's back gardens to access the house from the back. We hear them knocking on the windows of the house and calling the tenants.

YABU to start this thread and not include what they were saying that’s so shocking.

My ex next door neighbour moved in a convicted rapist,recently released but still on licence….. had to listen to her defending him constantly whilst on loud speaker to her friends…. Grim,.. thankfully she’s gone now,and not with him….
he left her for some other fool !

17 and 18 fighting standing 80meters apart,i live across the street and could hear both sides and they were yelling in their phones
moved yea ! one is in jail now

Omg this is me 🤣 hi 👋

I used to live in an upstairs flat in a converted house. The conversion wasn't done properly so it was more like we lived in the same house, sound carried like anything. I had to listen to my downstairs neighbour having sex with a woman who was not his girlfriend for a period of months, plus the screaming row when his girlfriend accused him of cheating and he furiously denied it. She believed him and they stayed together.

My neighbours also 2 up where having a argument in their garden today I turned my music off so I could hear and my next door neighbours suddenly stopped talking to so I assume they where also listening 🤣

I like eavesdropping on the neighbours. Even better is the passers by on our street, which gets a lot of pedestrian traffic, pausing outside my front door for whatever reason and having a natter - I can hear them clear as anything on the other side of our door. Planning to get a video doorbell to capture the best conversations.

I was painfully aware that my elderly in-laws were broadcasting their many many views plucked directly from the Telegraph.

I was just relieved that they’ve moved on from the Daily Mail because the ranting about immigrants used to be continuous. Now it’s more your basic racism with a hefty pile of misogyny.

I want to be like her when I’m old!

Video doorbells are meant to be for security not eavesdropping. They're the reason why I've told my children/visitors not to talk right outside the house as my neighbour's front door is only about two feet from mine. We're entitled to a private life and these things are intrusive.

Yes! I'd be writing things down!