Neighbours

I've never really met any of mine, except for a woman over the hall who has a little foofy dog. The people next door are kind of inconsiderate and sometimes play music quite late, but it's not, like, life-ruining. We live opposite a bar that is currently the subject of a noise disruption campaign: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-28838947 But it's more drunk people on the streets outside that are a nuisance than the bars themselves. And you know, when you live in a city centre you take these things as they come.

We're not badly off neighbour wise. We're in a semi and the lady who lives in the house attached to our is my god-mother and she knew my Nan and Granddad for over 40yrs. She sometimes has her tv a little loud as she's deaf but so am I so that's ok.

Our neighbour over the driveway is actually my Great-Uncle but we don't talk due to a family rift started 50yrs ago and I never forgave him standing at his window watching Nan (his sister!) struggle to drag out her wheelie bin in winter when her parkinson's first started creaping up on her.

Our neighbours over the road are nice, when H is in hospital they pop round to check I'm ok.

Like you, I live in a cul de sac. And I am mid terrace.

We used to have nuisance neighbours (made a thread a few months ago) but thankfully they got chucked out. We have another Polish family in next door but they are much nicer and quieter.

I live opposite a man who appears to live alone and looks a bit like Mr Bean. Never spoken to him but he is constantly tending to the plants in the cul de sac, sweeping up leaves, picking up rubbish etc and even goes into our little front garden-y bit and pulls my weeds out!

I'm not sure if this could mean he has an OCD issue? but *sometimes* it irritates me that he does my garden as if he thinks I am too lazy (I promise I'm not ☹️) It is just a bit weird driving past my house and seeing some guy in the front like he owns the whole place. On the other hand it is kind of nice he seems to like doing it and I guess it saves me a job... H suggested we thank him one day but might be a bit weird for him? He also brings my bin round the back if I leave it out there more than a day...

Our other neighbours are lovely and we do always say hello to them and have spoken a couple of times.

We have lovely neighbours on one side, good friends who are coming to the wedding. The house on the other side of us is, unfortunately, a student let so we never know quite what we are going to get. Our house is mid-terrace so when we get a bunch of party-loving students, it can be wearing to say the least! I have been yelled at, called names and accused of threatening behaviour by one lovely girl. And all because we dared to complain about the noise level at 3am on a tuesday morning! The following lot were quiet as mice, we hardly knew they were there, so its swings and roundabouts really.

Across the road however, is a woman who is good friends with h2bs ex. As a result, she rather dislikes me which can be a little unpleasant! Mostly, she just glares at me a lot though.

Gaaaahh! The upstairs to us are the bane of our lives. Lovely, lovely people either side to balance it out but upstairs jeeeeeeeeeeeeeebus I have never met people like it. They are the most rudest, selfish, lazy, ignorant people I have ever had the displeasure in meeting and I hate sharing a main front door with them. Cinnamon009, we had the same first meet experience, they didn't even introduce themselves and instead came at me to ask if I'd seen anyone vandalizing their car in an extremely aggressive manor. They have no idea about social etiquette. We're in the middle of yet another 'discussion' with them and I can't wait to go on honeymoon tomorrow as it's got to the stage that we just don't want to go home after work anymore.

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One side seem nice enough. Their cat comes into my garden and Joey goes in their's and they are nice to him...

The other side is a chav-tastic, benefit claiming twunt. Her and her boyfriend argue constantly. It's not unusual to hear him scream at her that he's 'had f*cking enough and he never wanted a kid or to move in with her. They also have a party every Sunday. SUNDAY? Monday morning dread is bad enough without them and their friends in their garden until 2am...

She hates my cats too. Maverick was up on the wall that divides the gardens and she told him if he set foot in her garden she'd kick him up the ar$e. I heard this and told her I'd do the same back to her. She then proceeded to tell me how my cats always sh1t in her garden... Even when they're out and about they come home to use the litter tray. Stupid chav.

We live in the arse end of nowhere, and only have one neighbour within shouting distance who is living in the semi next door. They're lovely - a retired couple who really look after us and bring us food/flowers etc. They do like to stand and chat which when we're rushing out to work can be a bit irritating! They're really helpful though and are always happy to come and let the dogs out! Other than that our neighbours consist of several thousand pheasant and partridge!

I live in a cul de sac, where up until a year ago, we were the youngest family here. I know the woman over the road, from my childhood, so we chat in the street.

My neighbours on one side are in their 50's, grown up kids, and will say hello. Well, the bloke will, his Mrs has her nose stuck in the air and never speaks.

The other side moved in this year, replacing my horrid neighbours (who apparantly moved because we made her life hell). They have 2 boys, the same age as my two. We always say hello, and our kids will chat.

There is one woman who lives one door down who is a one woman neighbourhood watch. She's ace, and takes my parcels in, buys my kids easter eggs, and things at Christmas. She also gives me stuff (her unwanted baking equipment was the most recent)

Now my nightmare neighbours have left, it's a nice place to live. I will say Hi to the neighbours I don't really know, but they like to keep themselves to themselves.

We're a mid terrace and one side are nice, stop and have a little chat, have no bother from them and they seem quite nice.

Other side is a lady on her own with 2 young boys and she is a nightmare to be fair. She shouts very loudly every day. We can hear her word for word. She also stands on her back door step to shout goodbye in the mornings, just stand inside the house and say it! Their garden is also a tip, for some reason there's loads of beer cans everywhere, why they can't use the bin i'll never know.

Your neighbour sounds like a bit of a mentalist and very selfish! I can see why you told Milly to bite her harder! Surely leaving your ront door open all the time is asking for issues?

Our current neighbours are lovely. On one side are a couple about our age with a little girl. On the other side the house is split into 2 -top is a young couple with a little boy and bottom is an elderly lady. Everyone is very nice and we get on well. We help each other out taking parcels and putting bins away if people are out.

We are very fortunate as we had some nightmare neighbours for most of the time we lived in London -noisy, selfish, messy etc. The last lot were a Northern Irish couple who we had a massive row with one Sunday morning. They basically refused to stop being so noisy at every hour of the day and night and told me "get used to it, we are only going to get noisier". Then moaned about us walking above them (their flat was below ours) which l think was a bit rich bearing in mind they wouldn't moderate their noise and we never wore shoes in that flat.

TFW sounds delightful!

We live in a flat, that I bought on my own, so could only afford so much. Sadly this means although our flat is nice, our neighbours not so much. You often get home and can smell 'wacky baccie' and sometimes even see people smoking it. We're fairly sure one of our neighbours is a minor drug dealer, and our upstairs neighbour, urgh. He's pretty deaf, but it reached the point where we had to get the council involved, because it sounded like we were having a party in our flat, (as in, nightclub volume) and if you tried to talk to him about it he'd swear pretty violently, but that'd be it. Weirdly the council thing obviously worked, but now he's overly nice, and that's kinda creepy! Once the wedding is done, we'll be saving for a house.

My neighbours are nice enough but.....

On one side their dogs bark for hours and hours on end each day which is pretty annoying when I'm trying to work from home.

On the other side is an older lady who is on her own, I suspect she's lonely and I feel terrible for saying it but it gets on my nerves when I have my patio doors open and the lady sees them open so she calls me outside. I've tried ignoring it before when working from home but as she repeatedly calls my name I go outside to check she's ok. But she's actually just come up with any excuse to have a chat. I'm a very private person when it comes to neighbours so it's got to the point where I practically creep around in my garden and sit where I know she can't see me! She's seen myself and hubby eating dinner in the garden before and spent the whole time we were eating talking over the fence at us about how she's been busy doing washing all day, having a clear out etc. I've also had many a ruined dinner where she's seen me in my kitchen and called me outside for a chat. As much as I want to be left alone I do find it hard to ignore her or tell her I'm busy as she's clearly lonely or she doesn't let me get a word in edge ways!

I'm so unsociable!!

We have Vera one side who is in her 80's and very sweet. She takes our parcels in and we get her coal from the shops in the winter- a match made in heaven.

The other side are nice enough- its a lady and her 3 teenage kids, we dont see much of them but they are always plesent enough when we do see them.

next door but 2 are hideous, smoke a huge amount of weed (and never share) rev their shitty moped until 3 in the morning and are generally what you may call "rough".

Nothing beats our neighbor in our old house. Dave was a legend. Hubs lived in the house for years before I came along and him and Dave built up quite the bond. He would pop in most days for a cuppa and chat. When both of our cars broke in the same week he drove us to and from work every day until he got bored of getting up early and instead just gave us his car keys and let us use his until one of ours could get fixed. He rescued me from the snow when I broke my arm and helped us bury our cat when we were too hysterical to do it ourselves.

My Mum and Dad get on so well with both of their neighbors that both sets were invited to our wedding!

Pompey- dont forget- my Sister counts as a neighbour of yours!! Be careful what you say!

On one side I have a church/village hall/infant school. It's fine most of the time, especially since the used needles from the local addicts have stopped ending up in our garden! The other side I have only met once in three years, it was about midnight and he was walking his dog, seemed nice enough.

We are really lucky with the rest of the people in our building though, the lady upstairs is in her 60's and looks after our cats, she makes us cakes, brings us presents and is generally a wonderful woman! The 2 on our level are really quiet, even their dog makes no noise, and they are always offering to help us with gardening (clearly they have seen how quickly my plants die....).

We have two empty flats on the 3rd floor, one belonged to a really scary guy who threatened me when I was in my garden one evening but he was moved into a care facility when he almost burned down his flat by burning the trains tickets he horded. I actually felt sorry for him as he would be fine living on his own if he remembered to take his meds, but his paranoia stopped him. I am glad he gets the help he needs now though. The other flat has just been sold, so fingers crossed for nice tenants! The top floor has two early 20's girls, they are pretty noisy when they leave and get home which is annoying when that is 3am outside my window, but as soon as they are in their flat we don't hear them.

TFW sounds like a right piece of work, telling Milly to bite harder next time sounds like a good plan

I want to add on to mine something I'd forgotten until I went to sit in my garden this afternoon because the weather is nice...

Neighbours with the barking dogs also have a garden full of dog poo which I can smell in my garden. I'm also surrounded by flies attracted by the poo when I want to sit on the bench at the back of my garden (which is unfortunately my favourite spot as it's the spot which gets the most sun).

As much as neighbours are nice to my face they're not the kind of neighbours you want to take on in a battle over barking or poo either.

The neighbours on the left are a 30 something couple with a daughter of about 7, neighbour on the right is a single lady. The Husband of the couple on the left had an affair with the single neighbour on the right. This is not his first affair as I hear every argument thanks to thin walls, but possibly his most stupid. Over the last May bank holiday they all stood out on the street with the two women screaming at each other, the husband crying and trying to convince his wife it meant nothing and the poor daughter crying her eyes out. The argument ended when the wife threw a brick or something through the other woman's window and then got in her car and drove off. she's since come back to him but they now argue even more than they did before and after one particularly nasty row she went out and scrawled sl@g in bright yellow paint across the other woman's front door!

The polish family over the road like to shout alot and come out in the street to physically assault each other. we've given up calling the police cause they always have sirens blaring which sends them all running then as soon as the coast is clear they come back out and carry on punching the cr@p out of each other

We're very lucky with our neighbours. In fact we are probably the nuisance neighbours, given that our building work has been dragging on for 6 months instead of 3 so they've had to put up with trucks and vans and builders etc for far longer than they realised. They'd all seen the plans and approved them but obviously the time frame has been a massive p1ss-take.

The man next door is a builder who actually designed and built all the houses in the area of small cul-de-sacs and he has been so helpful during our build and his wife is lovely too. They never complain about the skip in our garden or the fact that vans constantly make their parking awkward. Next to him is a boy who goes to my school and his mum, but we never see them, and I know the boy is lovely. Opposite us are 2 elderly couples who both have been so helpful while we've been going through the build, they kept an eye on the house for us when we received threats from the first cowboy builder and the other couple lets our boy cat snooze in their lounge at night along with 2 other cats from the neighbourhood! They also do a lot of child minding for their grandchildren and are always out and about saying hello. Right next door to us is one of my mum's old mates who moved in last Xmas! So it's such a lovely, friendly environment. Her 2 daughters both live on the next road and she child minds their children every day so it's very family-oriented round our way. A far cry from the 3-4 years we've had of noisy neighbours from hell. I can't wait to get back there (and apologise a lot)!

Oh my god Shwelley, the thing with the kitten is horrific. Did you report her or anything?

That's terrible Schwelley, did you report her to the police for what she let her dog do?

She shouldn't be allowed to keep animals & it frightens me to think about what might be going on in her head if she allows things like that.

I've only just moved in so haven't really got a chance to meet most of them. The people downstairs are relatively young, I think it's a student flatshare or something. They took in a parcel for me the other day, and we lent them a screwdriver, they seem pretty nice. Only complaint is they like to play loud Bollywood music, and sing along, in the daytime when I'm working nights, but I can't complain about that.

Next door seem to have young children who cry, but apart from that I know nothing!

In London I lived in the same block for 5 years and barely saw/spoke to my neighbours, so it's not something I'm really used to.

Your BIL makes me laugh - they make sure they can always get a parking space in the road and he cheers me on when I'm off for a run ?

Your BIL makes me laugh - they make sure they can always get a parking space in the road and he cheers me on when I'm off for a run ?

Some awful neighbour stories and some lovely ones at the same time.

We moved in two years ago in to a semi. The guy adjoining us we see every now and then to say hello but that's about it. He did chop down half my hedge once without asking, I was livid about that but it is starting to recover now so nothing to get too worked up over.

The other house is now empty and up for sale. The previous occupants though used to have rather loud love making nights! Now don't get me wrong I express my joy during the act, his and hers however was a whole new level. think Porn Star and then add even more on top. It was quiet entertaining though when you had people round!!

The House next to them used to be occupied by a chav with a small dog. She left him outside in all weathers. Poor thing. Anyway she went on holiday one time and left him on his own for a whole week. I reported and the dog was taken away from her. She has now moved out.

How awful. Think I'd heard something kind of similar in that if you run over a dog and don't stop it's an offence but it it's a cat you hit you can carry on driving.... Not sure how true that is though.

Cinnamon your neighbour sounds like a right cow!

We are in a block of 4 flats and our neighbors are ok, there is a man, woman and cute little girl downstairs who are nice. Upstairs is okay but can be noisy stomping about, banging but ok. Neighbour before her was awful just used to play euro trash dance music all day and night and would tell us to shut up if we asked her to turn it down.

I seem to remember reading/hearing this too, something to do with the status of a dog - like a licence maybe? So it's illegal to hit and run a dog but a cat is less important somehow.