Am I a misanthrope, or is it normal to dislike half my neighbours?!

[chorltoncumhardly]

I live in suburbia at the end of a cul de sac and have more neighbours bordering/almost bordering my plot than I've ever had before, including a small block of flats, so I’d consider that about 8/9 different households are immediate neighbours (didn’t really notice this until I moved in and it might have made me reconsider if I had)

Two of these households I’d quite happily launch into orbit if I could, and I’m quite irritated by one or two others as well, mainly for noise reasons but also because, in the case of my next door neighbour, the place looks a bit of a tip from the outside as they don’t bother maintaining or tidying up the garden.

I will be honest and say upfront that I’m really not a people person, but is it fairly normal for me to dislike half the people around me?!

On MN it's practically mandatory!

The thing is, it’s their fault. If they weren’t such wankers you wouldn’t be feeling this would you?

Mine are wankers. I can hear them, smell them, see them. I can’t touch or taste them fortunately.

I’d say on MN you’re the life and soul of the party.

You need to step it up a bit - refuse to open your front door when someone knocks and hold anyone who does knock in total contempt; treat a wedding invitation as a personal insult; go no contact with anyone and anything for the most minor infraction.

Do the above and move to the first tier of misanthropy.

I’m a borderline sociopath so you’re a rank amateur from your description.

Nothing amiss at all OP. You crack on. Most people are absolute 💩💩💩

People in chorlton are largely unbearable. As are people in didsbury.

How anyone can get along with the parking situation in either place is beyond me.

it definitely sounds like you are the common denominator!

🤣🤣

I will be honest and say upfront that I’m really not a people person,

you really didn’t need to clarify that

Completely normal. People who are overly friendly or even just polite with their neighbours are weird.

All that negativity and that drive for violence isn’t healthy to keep bottled up though, find a discreet way to get it out before you start going crazy. I’m actively ruining my neighbours lives and they have no idea, it’s my sadistic source of entertainment.

I wish my neighbours would get kicked right to the moon by a runaway kangaroo and stay there so yanbu.

Yesterday was lovely. They all went out and I could hear birdsong instead of the idiot pretending to be a monster when he's looking after grandchildren one side and other idiot shouting at her barking dog other side.

If I win the lottery I m buying my own island.

I don't think YABU.
I live in a small cul de sac too, and like all of my neighbours, admittedly though, we dont do more than pass the time of day occasionally.
But with people in general, there are definitely more that I don't like, than do.

I feel your pain OP.

I once bought a house where two roads converged meaning my triangular garden was like a slice of pie with 5 other gardens.

Here are the names we gave our neighbours

• Trampoline Screamer
• Fences for goal posts
• Permanent BBQ
• Get OFF the fucking lawn Hugo
• Power Tool Fool.

We moved after 2 years.

Haha, no, I’d say it’s normal to loathe half your neighbours. I really f-ing HATE this assumption that just because I happen to live near you I have to socialise with you. I have known people who think that not only have they bought the house, they’ve also bought their neighbours, and that somehow we are obliged to chat to them and invite them over.

Part of the problem is that the U.K. is overcrowded, and the houses are small and jammed on top of one another, so that you can’t escape. If I had my way, my nearest neighbour would be at least 100 yards away. I was woken up at six this morning by a neighbour who has modified his car so that the exhaust makes a banging, exploding sound.

I feel a lot better now. I didn’t think it was particularly unreasonable, given the fact that I consider about half of them to be perfectly fine. If I hated every single one it’d be different.

Sorry so many other people have shit neighbours too, though.

Not unreasonable in fact I have moved last summer to a hamlet and have no neighbours because I absolutely hate having neighbours.

Somebody once said... " Hell is other people "

I think it depends… I like all of my neighbours (all aged 60-80, exceedingly polite and helpful) but I used to hate 90% of them in my old house (loud, messy youths and a litigious lawyer).

So maybe you’re miserable or maybe your neighbours are cunts. Depends.

I fell out with my NDN within days of moving in because she sent workpeople onto the property without permission. When I objected she told me s she did nto need my permission because I was only a tenant. At a later stage I bought the house from the LL and didnt tell her for 3 years (private sale/no for sale sign). You should have seen her face. Ive been punishing her ever since as I am a vindictive bitch.

The rest of the neighbours I dont have anything particular against. Just the fact that they are there. I dont open the door to them. A good neighbour is a dead neighbour.

I was always irritated by my opposite neighbour insisting on reversing out of her drive without looking into the main road, every single time. Then she taught her kids to do it so now there's three people doing it. I can be half off my drive - going forward, so I can see - waiting for a break in traffic and one of them will manage to run out of the house, ram the car into reverse and try their hardest to pull out in front of me as I am still mid manoeuvre. How they haven't mown down a child on a pavement or been tboned I have no idea. I call them the Reversing Wankers.

There's a odd cohort of people on MN who are strangely proud about hating other people in general like it's something to aspire to rather than being a character defect.

It's all a bit pathetic really. I know a couple of people like this in real life and they give the impression that they're quite unhappy in a low-level sort of way.