Do your neighbours annoy you when they're not even that bad?

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I've been thinking about this recently because whenever I mention this to friends they tell me I've got it good and I guess I have in some ways but I can't help but feel irritated by my neighbours, quite a lot of the time.

They're retired, mid-70s, very friendly and nice people, BUT a lot of stuff they do pretty inconsiderate. For instance banging bins really loudly, radio on in the garden loudly, talking to each other loudly down the side of the house when our kids are asleep next to them (we have a bungalow), extremely bright security lights that shine into houses opposite's living rooms of which the people in those houses have mentioned it to neighbours but they've chosen to ignore and kept the lights up.
It just baffles me how such nice people can be so inconsiderate at times in terms of noise level. I feel unable to say anything because they're obviously a bit deaf, but is this a generational thing? Are people of that age more comfortable with hearing their neighbours?

Maybe they are losing their hearing so don’t know they are loud, or maybe it’s just because they don’t have youngsters so they don’t remember the need to be a bit quiet?

Our perfectly nice neighbours annoy me because their new log burner has a flue that discharges level with, and pointing in the direction of, our bath room window. Our options when showering are to either open the windows and fill up with the smell of smoke, or keep windows shut and fill up with condensation and mould! He also seems to use an electric saw or jet washer every weekend for several hours.

Another neighbour slams everything. Car doors, house door, porch door. They can’t leave the house or vehicle without slam, slam, slam. No matter if it’s 7am or 11 pm. We are detached but I pity the people the other side of their semi because it’s loud to us and we aren’t adjoining them. They must make the house shake.

I am a natural city dweller, I think. I live in zone 3, there's loads of noise all the time. It doesn't really bother me.

@YourGoatAteMyFishfinger

I would be totally with you on those things. It's like people just have no clue, and you're thinking can you please be a bit more considerate you f*tards!!

The issue with my neighbours is yes they are going a bit deaf, so I have to consider that, but they are not used to living next door to people with kids, so they are set in their ways. But in my mind they need to consider WHO they're living next door to. It's not just this is who we are so everyone has to like it or lump it.
It's like I'm very aware of my surroundings and how I come across, why aren't other people 🙄

I agree.
People give old folks way too much leeway.

Dazzling security lights are an absolute act of aggression.
A local 'Unpleasant'' neighbour has them aimed at the houses behind their house, in case ''people try to break in''..but it's actually done out of aggression, this person has ''form'' for being extremely difficult and unpleasant.

They have actually caused one family to move - people like this should live on an island where their own paranoia can keep them company.

I'm lucky that {so far} immediate neighbours are ok.

They also say I am quiet.