To want to move because of unhygienic neighbour?

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I really want to move because of these issues with my neighbour.

She often has overflowing bins (both recycle and waste bins) which often blow into my garden/ driveway.

Myself and other neighbours have addressed this to her when her rubbish has blown onto our properties.
It's not a one off it's all the time. Every week.

She has a bird feeder next to my window which attracts magpies, crows etc and I am pretty sure that this is attracting vermin.

She has multiple cats which often roam into my garden doing their business.

Her kids also cause issues, they are loud, jump on cars, slamming doors, throwing footballs at windows and doors.

The weekends they are with their dad is amazing.
Peace and quiet. It's bliss.

AIBh to want to move?

Maybe. But no guarantees about the new neighbours being any better. And at least this one is quiet when the sons aren't there!

I think it's a bit odd the bits you're bothered about, a bird feeder is very normal, most people have them and they're nice for nature. I wouldn't describe that as a hygiene issue. I wouldn't think pet cats that wander are very unusual either (absolutely tons on my road!) The bins thing is a bit annoying, our rubbish does this sometimes and I always go pick it up. I don't think any of those issues are wild though, and I think if you move you're likely still to get a bit of it (e.g. on my road, which is really friendly and nice, we have all of those issues and nobody minds, I imagine most roads have cats, bird feeders and some loose rubbish on bin day).
However, rhe kids sound a NIGHTMARE I've never seen a child jump on a car, that's really anti social. Likewise screaming kids, kicking balls at other people's windows- that has never occurred anywhere I've lived and would really piss me off.

So I'd say move if you can, but be aware that some of this stuff is very common (cats and bird feeders particularly). I've literally never lived anywhere my whole life where cats haven't wandered about or where I've not seen a bird/bird feeder.

Oh for heavens sake. Even if there is the odd mouse or rat, (which you haven't even seen!!), if they're not in your house then what does it matter?

The children sound awful though.

Raise these issues with your housing officer. Try and refine it so it’s not an enormous list, ie bins constantly spilling out onto surrounding properties, feeding birds near boundary causing a nuisance etc. You aren’t being unreasonable wanting to move but it’s not that easy to move from a council property in a short time frame and the council can’t do anything about it if nobody is telling them there’s a problem. Ask your other neighbours to also explain what’s happening to the housing office.

Any rats in the area will definitely find the bits of food dropped by the birds. Usually at night, but they will be attracted to it, and will smell it from a long way away. By implication they will also investigate any other sources (or potential sources) of food in the area. (A friend works in pest control 👍)

"All over my garden and driveway"

This makes you sound prone to hyperbole...

Lots of people have pet cats and lots of people have bird feeders.

anywhere you move to is likely to have neighbours who have those.

of course you can move fir any reason or no reason but you’ll be lucky to find a house without either of those in close vicinity

I doubt there’s vermin if there is numerous cats roaming about. Bird droppings? seriously? where do you think birds should shit? in a wee portaloo?
Yes the bin issue could be sorted but everything else you’re being very precious, stop fixating on your neighbour, who knows maybe your child will grow up to slam doors and be loud.
Never good to criticise other kids until yours grow up.

I have cats and bird feeders. I think both are completely normal.

I don’t have over flowing bins one of my neighbours does and I agree it’s horrible. Try offering them some space in your bin if you have any.

Dunno what the answer is but you could move and find you have even worse neighbours than what you got now. The grass ain’t always greener.

Hi
I actually love animals and nature, before I had DC I had bird feeders and I had cats.
I don't want come across as someone who hates animals and nature as that is not the case.

It is just that they are so close to the boundary and the mess it creates on my own driveway such as broken fat balls etc and the poo (I know it can't be helped).

The kids shout by our living room window, throw footballs at our cars, windows, kick out bins, throw things on our driveway.
When they go to their dads every other weekend it is absolute bliss.

The general feeling here isn't very nice here as everyone is all in everyone's business, gossip about everyone, I have never experienced anything like it.

We keep ourselves to ourselves.

I think you need to report the antisocial behaviour to the council. Don’t you have to sign a contract about upkeep etc? Not much you can do about cats and birds I wouldn’t think!
Maybe ask for a house swap?

If they are rentals tell the council/housing association who will address this, usually they send an inspector as you will have rules to follow. The bird feeder however won’t be a concern, you are allowed them

I have 2 difficult neighbours for different reasons, one being total, absolute lack of hygiene and making the communal areas unbearable. At this point I think he does it out of spite because he knows he’s universally disliked in our building. There’s weekly complaints to the HA and nothing happens, at best we were told to try a home swap.

Good luck to you, I hope it gets sorted better than ours.

Your neighbour maybe doesn't know, but she can ask for extra bins from the council.

We have 2 blue bins for paper and 2 pink ones for plastic etc.And if there's more than 5 people in the house especially with nappies etc she can get a bigger general waste bin.