Neighbours are complete idiots!

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Anyone else have the worst neighbours, they trespass on my drive, are druggies, literally dragging their kids up, scream and shout even when all their doors are shut you can hear them. Nosy through holes in the fence where the knots have fallen out. Leave rubbish all along adjoining fence which has attracted rodents! Their dogs are a nightmare. They genuinely think they are something special 😂🤣 but clearly don’t have a brain cell between them.
Just hell to live next to and they are literally the odd ones out on the street. Moving isn’t an option anytime soon for us. Council aware of them and the police. Wish they would move but doubt that will happen anytime soon, due to one of their parents owning the property! Metaphorically speaking I have blown their house up on more than one occasion (obviously not literally). They are inconsiderate a holes. Tried having a word with them about it all and they are ignorant as f. Just wish they would go away.

Really feel for you. Ours is the worse. Tells her dog to sh*t on our driveway and front garden. Killed all of the bushes with her dogs piss. asked her politely to stop which she said she wasn't aware her dog was doing that (we have a ring camera and litterally see and hear her telling the dog to go and pointing at our garden. Now she ignores us and gives daggers out of her window while she records us in our back garden. Bloody weirdo. Luckily we move out very soon to a detached property. Wahoooo

Scoop it up and dump it on her doorstep every time and if that doesn’t work tell her it’s going through the letterbox next!

Omg, like what is wrong with people. It’s the entitled behaviour that gets me so annoyed. Just disgusting. Happy for you that you get to move soon and what a dream a detached house! Wish that was the case for us tbh. But hope you have a great move and good riddance to the twat neighbour.

We have an absolute melter too. Screams and shouts at all hours . Painted all her widows black. Locks folk in her house after several days drinking sessions then screams the place down when they try to leave. Wont let the police in when they appear and shouts at them though her windows.

She shouts and swears at us / the kids / the dogs / the other neighbours and indecently exposes herself on occasion.

The house and subsequently everyone else's REEKS of hash as she smokes non stop.

But nobody can a f*cking thing as she's under the care of the mental health team for depression & agrophobia.

Meanwhile I'm just trying to live a quiet stage 4 cancer fuelled life in peace - bot no.

No chance of selling up as she has destroyed any kerb appear with littering / over grown garden / blackened windows and folk loitering constantly - we actually thought she was either dealing or on the game.

We own. She's council tenant. Council couldn't care less as this is where she's been moved after causing riots at her last place, she's notorious where we stay. She won't even let the council workers in when they arrive for maintenance or repairs.

Ans oh marvellous - speak of the devil - that's her started for the day just this minute. I can hear her from my bed.

You have my sympathies Op, nothing like a shitshow of a neighbour to ruin your day.

OMG! How can this be ok, like what is actually going on with councils and police. No wonder our country is going to pot. I really do feel for you, you should not have to deal with this or live like that. I know it doesn’t help your situation but your not alone and hopefully all of us that are going through these awful neighbour situations can help one another stay sane in this mess 😊.

Having bad neighbours is awful. It’s only happened to us once and he was foul. He would wait until his wife was at work and start singing with his kids by our bedroom walls and banging. He was also really strange. I googled him and found out some extremely frightening things he’d been charged with in the states where you can see people’s criminal records ( sex crime ) thankfully we were able to move and bought a house with no neighbours attached.
i think people are just super lucky to have good neighbours now.

Wipe boot polish around the knot holes in the fence. Or even dog shit if it’s not near your actual house.
Report the rubbish and rats to environmental health.
Pray for them to move. Or make a spell for them to win the lotto and move away; if it works you should get the same thrice over. Woo but not harmful.

I covered all the holes with gorilla tape 😂. Yeah have reported it to councils environmental health department, also let police know about trespassing, put a fence up on the drive to stop the trespassing and now their kids like to push down on it and wobble it it’s on my property not even on the adjoining boundary it’s all on camera so I’m just going to let the evidence build tbh, I don’t want to stoop to them as it’s not in my nature, I don’t wish anyone any harm just would love to have decent mutual respectful neighbours that keep on their property etc is all but I literally have everything documented. God I would love them to win the lottery or a house or something just so they move but as one of their parents owns the property can’t see that happening anytime soon.

This is my first time having bad neighbours. The last couple that lived here moved due to the neighbours behaviours etc so says a lot. I’m hoping they move or something better comes along for us were I don’t have to move my children schools as they are very settled and in crucial years (gcse) and I think why should they have to go through upset ment because of these twits next door who are idiots. But I will remain as positive as I can some days are harder than others but I’m a true believer of karma, glad to hear you got the move to better place 😊

Honestly wondering if ypu live near me….. we have neighbours exactly as you describe. Thankfully, after 2.5 very long years, just found out they have put their house on the market……….hoping they are gone very soon. No advice sorry, just empathy xx

Before this house we always had lovely neighbours.

Ours in the community appear lovely, however living next to them is very different. Behind closed doors they scream and cuss at each other at least once a week (always c word constantly). Kids do drugs and have flung drug equipment stuff in our garden - I’d fling it back but worried it would be on camera. Binned it but if happens again I’d like to mention it, but they’ll just claim it’s not theirs. Garden generally stinks of weed and was party central every day for local young adults for a few years. At these parties more drugs, fights, drinking etc. Other side to them people never stay, we can’t afford to move. General and complete inconsideration with all and they let their dog bark all the time.

spoke to them and apparently noise isn’t that bad, it’s what you get with neighbours and we should move.. which when we can afford it we are going detached and never to a semi again.

This sounds awful. I’d report it, daily if needs be to the council as anti social behaviour. I wouldn’t accept the council can’t do anything.
If you don’t already, keep a diary of things they do so you can present them with everything.

Also there could be a potential safeguarding issue here for the kids growing up in that environment. Safeguarding is everyone's responsibility so report things when you see them. Too many cases end in tragedy when neighbours dont act on things they see like this. Social services may already be involved but they won't have the full picture.

To add I like the previous persons idea about reporting. Many don’t as when they sell it can pop up in searches.

Police often want you to submit videos of them doing / dealing drugs.

if children are present you may have an Avenue for safeguarding to authorities, if you know which school they go to you could approach their school, who probably already know a lot as behaviours like this at home pops up at school in many different ways. Safeguarding will prevent the school saying anything, but could be worth a letter but ask for anonymity as you don’t want repercussions. Safeguarding at schools is huge and a lot goes on behind the scenes.
Sadly often people like this don’t change without intervention.
All their behaviours point to possible mental health disorders, so getting them help could help and you need authorities involved for this. Difficult.

Our difficult neighbours have young families each side and yet they think nothing of their behaviour in the middle of the day, we all have young toddlers in the garden. I don’t expect to not hear the odd word (I’d rather not but I’m also aware of differences). But to a point.

We moved. The anxiety was making my DH unwell and he already had a heart condition. We’ve bought an absolute doer upper of a detached house and are already so much happier (even though we have no carpets!)
Horrible neighbours are the worst. Love to you all.

Gosh I feel for you, my neighbours are out and out filthy scumbags. And try to come across as bullies but I won’t tolerate a bully, like others have said report, report and report. And document absolutely everything and get a camera your side so you can catch them throwing things over to your property. Why should you have to move. They are the problem. Hang in there

Trouble with reporting it is that nothing will be done but you are now legally obligated to report it to prospective buyers if you try to sell up.

Bit of an update 🙂. Neighbours are still idiots and behaving like such.police are useless and so are council But my prayers have been answered and we have found a perfect house to move to, we knew the neighbours were never going to move due to a parent owning it, still the same issues with drugs and rubbish. Buts it’s soon not to be my problem and I can’t wait 😊. I do hope karma pays them a visit tbh for all the crap and invasion of our privacy. So there actually is hope in the end

There is a feral family a few streets away from me. Council tenants. I feel for their neighbours. Screaming and shouting at all hours, broken windows, rubbish everywhere and a literal fire in their house the other week. Teenagers don’t bother going to school so the cycle will continue. Shocking that no proper intervention has taken place.

Have you tried speaking to their parents who own the house? Make them aware of what is going on and the state of their property as a result. I don't think they would be very happy of they knew. I would get onto the CAB and maybe try reporting them to the anti social behavioural unit and social services about the kids obviously neglecting them, not going to school etc.