Neighbour mocking me?

[kularni]

I live in a semi detached and can hear my neighbour repeating what I say in a mocking tone.

This afternoon my husband was upstairs and shouted down to me, I said “what are you talking about” and then heard my neighbour say “what are you talking about” or when I laugh I can hear them repeat it in the same tone.

It’s getting boring now. Aibu?

To be fair, OP has admitted they are shouting!

Shouting up and down the stairs has always been banned in my homes. If anyone shouts up or down, they will be ignored unless it’s “Fire!” Or equivalent emergency. Kids soon got the hang of it.

Professionals with notions?

Wagner's music is "nasty"???

I'd just repeat the sentence again and see if they say it again. Then do it again until they give up first. You can have a bit of fun with it, like a verbal who-blinks-first.

Upmarket suburb for medics and academics at the new university and new nearby hospital. Elaborate flourishes in the architecture, enormous gardens. Not cheap housing stock. Neighbours still very audible. Not a Wagner fan, other than The Flying Dutchman, and scratchy records of the Ring cycle played very loudly on the other side of the wall wouldn't endear him to anyone.

😂😂😂😂😂😂

It probably is a noise issue but I absolutely hate these passive aggressive hints! The neighbour should have the courtesy to have a polite word not behave like a teenager!

When I lived in my house up until last May (I downsized to a flat then), it was a semi-detached and I never heard my neighbours on the attached side. I could hear the French doors and back door opening and closing sometimes, but never heard their voices indoors, even when their children lived there. They were lively, happy people, I knew them reasonably well but voices did not come through the adjoining walls, even upstairs. If there was work being done, drilling, banging etc, obviously I could hear that but it wasn't loud.

I can only assume, op, you and your husband have loud voices.

Not much of an answer.☹️

My DGP's lived in a Victorian terraced and could (and often did) talk to the neighbours through the party walls as they were just plaster partitions.

True that tolerance is important and that hearing attached neighbours some of the time is normal, but this happens when OP and her partner are shouting up and downstairs, and surely there is no need for that. I've never lived anywhere where I can hear what my neighbours are saying.

Yeah, I'd just shout FUCK OFF as loud as possible.

Your neighbour sounds like a nob.

It sounds to me like a way to let you know you are being very loud, but without being confrontational.

Having lived in an old house, the chimneys in every room were the cause of noise transference.

I'd rather be too loud than a passive aggressive wanker.

I aim for being neither

This!

Obviously.

Do they repeat other people too...does your DH have an issue with it too? Does he hear them doing it?

You’d think

Yes, I would think. Anything constructive to add or are you done?

This made me chuckle 😂

I’ve just looked back to find your constructive contribution….

Oh… this is your “constructive” contribution? Okay

That's nice. I'll just be over here not giving a fuck but you crack on love. 😆

You're the one who had fucking had a pop at me for fuck all! 😆 🤣 😂

I said I’d rather be neither

and you regard that as taking a “pop” at you

life must be tricky for you