Throwaway username so I don’t doxx myself.
I live in a victorian terrace, so I expect to be able to hear the neighbours sometimes - and vice versa. The gardens are all quite small and most of us have dogs, so it can get quite noisy. I’m not averse to that and I’m not immune from making noise myself - everyone yells at the telly/partner/kids at some time.
my neighbours both sides are nice people, I get on with them. However on one side, they are overcrowded - two adults, two older teenage boys who seem to have friends stay over, a mid-teen a primary aged boy. So it’s noisy. The littlest one is often awake until 11pm and I can hear them all running up and down the stairs, the door banging and shouting. Just family noises, but it’s every day and night. The mum works in a school, one of the older boys is in college and works, the younger kids are at school, so there’s usually at least one adult at home. They also have at least four dogs, a cat, reptiles and at some points have bred rabbits. One of their dogs jumps up at my fence which drives my dogs mad. Their house stinks. You can smell it at the front door, it wafts into my back garden when their doors are open and into my house when it’s windy as it comes through the floorboards. They have a growing pile of broken furniture and plastic bags on their front door and they never open their door for a delivery. Even the postman apologises when he knocks. I work from home a few days a week so have often taken parcels. They usually ignore the card for several days and don’t answer when I knock so they’re sometimes stacked in my house. I’ve stopped taking things since they had live insects delivered which I assume were frozen and began moving as they thawed.
As I’m writing this I’m realising what a nightmare they sound. Anyway, that’s my reason for the thread. AIBU to expect more consideration for others and - more importantly - what (if anything) can I do to get them to move all the shit off their front garden, clean their stinking house and shut the fuck up occasionally.