I like my neighbours 🙂
1)didn’t complain when my teenaged offspring had a once-in-a-blue-moon party
2)came round and politely suggested we bring in our washing as they were having a barby
3)neighbour on other side drives Mad Max’s VW Beetle in off-road trials and has been endlessly helpful when I get out of my depth with DIY projects
4)neighbour across the road goes mountain biking with me

anyone else have good neighbours? I can’t be the only one…

Our neighbours are neutral. Some of their visitors can’t park but other than that, everyone seems to keep themselves to themselves. Not exactly the Walton’s but I’m satisfied. It could be a lot worse.

Yep mostly OK. If anything we get tolerated. We’re the ones having late nights and loud(ish) music.

Married couple one side, retired couple the other side.

Our old neighbours were totally cool both sides. So are our new ones.

I think that half the people who moan about the people they live near don’t realise you can TRAIN people to be good neighbours, just with YOUR attitude.

Ours are great – the lady one side lets the kids scooter in her yard endlessly, unless she has been on nights and then she parks car in middle to ‘tell’ us. Been round for meals and regularly help each other in garden etc.
Other lot are holiday cottage, and whole family are great apart from one wobble about the kids trampoline blocking the view, sorted by moving trampoline 10’…
Next door but one is single lady of 80+ who everyone helps out and is a delight, regularly leaving plants on the doorstep for our garden.
Whole street pretty much knows each other and helps out if needed.

I don’t know anything about my neighbours – they could be benefit scroungers for all I know. When our paths sometimes cross we do exchange smiles and greetings……..do benefit scroungers do that sort of thing ?

Neighbours?

I have a slightly odd situation in that its offices below me so a lot of usual stuff is reversed – keep the noise down during the day but no one to complain at night

used to have an old man across the hall but he ended up in a nursing home. I helped keep an eye on him while he was here tho towards the end

I think that half the people who moan about the people they live near don’t realise you can TRAIN people to be good neighbours, just with YOUR attitude.

A crock of shite.

I am an unobtrusive neighbour and thats all I ask of them. However, I have one bunch of **** who lets their kids shreik and scream non-stop for hours every time the sun comes out, another who lets his dog shit all over my drive then pretends its a ‘jack russell from down the road’ and another tosser who pings fag butts all over my driveway. ****

Its just fukking rude. I dont understand why people behave in this way?

How do you suggest I ‘train’ these people not to be a bunch of ignorant unthinking ****?

Goodness me, kids shouting and screaming whilst playing outside. Who would allow such an outrage? They should be sat inside vegitating in front of an xbox. On their own.

My neigbours are, well… let’s start in order:
1) opposite flat
She’s fit, blond, a tits out and mini on type – complain????
He’s ok, handy with cars, never loud, maybe only fault is he smokes.
2) flat to the right
She’s slim, lagre tits, gingery blond long hair, big smile all the time.
He’s the most relaxed guy ever.
The kid is quiet and irrelevant.
3) flat to the left
??????? after almost a year I still don’t know them, they’re never there.
OUR FLAT?
She’s moody and shouts at the cat, husband and the kid.
He listens to music so loud it’s impossible at times.
The kid runs, stomps, jumps, chases the cat, shouts, sings, makes a lot of noise.
Why should I complain?
BTW I had an escort girl for a neighbour, sadly she moved out (didn’t give discount for the neighbours I’m told). She was ok-looking but liked reverse oral sex (WTF is it?). I posted a liny to her profile once but the thread got closed IIRC.

The neighbors in my little cul-de-sac are all great. The few, generally well behaved kids, accidently bouncing a football off my car is about the only annoying thing I can think off. Mostly all very sociable and considerate. Lots of shift workers, so the neighborhood is looked after day and night and we know roughly what shifts people are on and when to be quiet. Between us all I don’t think there’s a profession or skill not covered, so we always help each other out with diy etc. Well apart from Steve at number 19, nobody likes to require his services, but then he is an undertaker. 😀 In fact Ive just finished replacing a broken spoke on next doors bike, and fixed his lawn mower in work. He washed my car last week when he had all his valeting gear out and saw I hadnt got round to doing mine in a while. I consider myself very bleeding lucky.

I have fine neighbours. On one side is a friend and old boss who is usually our running somewhere so never see him. On the other side is a couple in their 40 who just had a baby who are really nice and we chat lots and help each other a little when needed. Could not ask for better.

I’ve only been in the new place four months.. but our neighbours seem ok so far..

two kids and very quiet on one side.. but smiley and friendly.. the neighbours on the other side have a young lad of about 10 who is quite stompy around 10pm.. but our 18 month old is quite stompy around 7am.. so we live and let live..

The neighbours in our old place.. (a block of six flats) were all pretty good.. always enquiring after each other and offering to help out.. apologising for late night disturbances if and when they occurred.. the old biddy on the bottom floor was a bit of a moaning battleaxe.. but we all put up with her with a wry smile cos she was 80 odd..

it’s all about communication.. if you’ve got some really bad neigbours but don’t have the neccessary clout to sort them out then I pity you.. I think I would resort to involving the authorities if my neigbours were habitually anti-social and had exhausted all lines of communication.. but only as an absolute last resort

cheez0.. you’ve got problems mate

She was ok-looking but liked reverse oral sex (WTF is it?)

I think it’s where the client performs it on her

I’ve got only one neighbour, she’s a manic depressive and i don’t see her from one month to the next.

How do you suggest I ‘train’ these people not to be a bunch of ignorant unthinking ****?

Try getting a grip on reality first. Then try being friendly. Smile, make eye contact, enquire about their kids, dog etc. Be a neighbour. Give it a go for a week. Let me let you into a little secret, people tend to be more considerate towards people they like.

Sadly not. On one side we have the really bad ones. It’s all about noise from them, they make so much of it. Loud music, shouting, dog barking, kid screaming.

On the other side he’s not so bad but his friends are tossers, at least they don’t seem to come round so often any more.

On the back we have the people who go away every weekend and leave the dog at the house. It lives in the garage but has a dog flap into the back gradebn and it just whines and barks the entire time they’re away until they come back and the bloke kicks it to be quiet. *someone* called the RSPCA out once but they seemed to go away satisfied.

Mine are too far away to really bother me. 🙂

I like my neighbours, they don’t bother me and I don’t bother them. I say hello to them if I see them or I might have a small chat but that’s about it. The bloke below me doesn’t even know i’m here half the time i’m so quiet and he’s fairly quiet himself as is everyone in the courtyard.

we have a nice old lady next door ex-theatre type often holds late night garden soirees with fellow ex-theatre types very friendly and always claims she cant hear our 6mth old when he does his monster screams!

other side house is to let and we are hopeful that we will get some norms in,

rest of the street is quite friendly too, and we live in that london where everyone hates each other and wont make eye contact 😉

however, have had some bad ones

last place we had a polish couple next door – the girl was a screamer and they were always shagging!

my parents had the worst ever
an illiterate wheel clamper/bouncer with dubious large source of income and his troll of a wife
here is an abridged list of their finer neighbourly ways:
expanded their back garden into the downs behind ours so they could house the animals they kept:
alsatian called satan- was actually a lovely dog
several chickens
the 4 or 5 further dogs they were breeding and selling the pups- that went a bit feral, turned into a pack and tore apart some of the chickens
a goat
a horse, to be fair they kept that down at the padocks but my mates sister with a horse down there too said their shack was full of rats
when my folks called the rspca, they turned on us threats were made and car tyres were slashed
they were also involved in a kind of turf war with other bouncers/clampers that resulted in their front window being put in and their car mysteriously bursting into flames outside the house one day
they adopted a child from guatemala (social services said they couldnt adopt here so they went to one of the few countries that let you essentially buy and remove children)
they followed this with at least 10 (not an exageration) further children, i think it was a kind of benefit scam

all of this in regular semi in a quiet suburban street

when they finally moved (to a smallholding in devon i think) the rest of our neighbours held a mini street party and bought my parents a case of champaine for being the ones who dealt with them

Ours are quite good. We don’t bother them, they don’t bother us and we exchange pleasantries when we meet in the street. 8)
It’s not like the old days when i lived in the flat above Bassspine and got bounced out of bed by his dub reggae in the mornings 😆

heh. remember when there were 6 lots of UB40 ‘present arms in dub’ playing simultaneously around the house? 🙂

One neighbour is a stwer – top bloke 🙂

The other is an old guy who’s very pleasant and a bit deaf so never complains about music 🙂

We moved to this housefour years ago and this is absolutely the best thing we have ever done. All our neighbours are brill. Interesting and supportive. Over the way we have a french bloke who works as a voice over artist on games and files. He is a car nut. Astons, Lagondas, Aflas, Mercs, and exotic yank stuff. Married to a lovely girl from the Carabean. We go there for sophisticated food and drinks! They come to us for bike, diy, beer, homemade cakes and the common touch.
Next door we have a retired Irish couple. The other night we called round to say that everything had been quiet while they had been awayfor a week. Dragged in at 6.00ish and given Pimms, wine and an impromtu barbie. Left about 10.30 in a most convivial mood.
Came back from riding the other day abit earlier than expected and MrsW had popped out to spend money we don’t have. Other opposite neighbour called me in for tea cake etc. Discussed camping bikes and how we can’t wait to be retired!
Two doors away serious MTBer who give lessons and skills training as part of his business always about to help with fettling.
Everyone round here tolerates us!

Neighbour is 35 single mum, we keep each other warm in the winter, with no strings attached

Mine are pretty cool at the moment. Woman opposite is due to give birth any time now, and downstairs also have a 6 month old. No-one will be complaining about ours crying then 🙂 I live an ex-council block built in the 50s, it seems to have incredible insulating properties. I’ve got a pretty nice stereo and it has been played at reasonable volumes for the 2 years I’ve been here, yet I’ve not had a single complaint 🙂

My Parents have the most terrible neighbours, nice house and stuff so ok that way but cars are always in an out of the driveway, people visiting all the time. They have one of those huge aussie grill things in the garden and are always outside cooking with friends round and music playing from the summerhouse. They have a lad at 12 and he’s always got mates round hanging about outside making noise and kicking balls about winding the dog up and making it bark, their summerhouse is like his games room with a tv, console and stereo etc.. If it isn’t BBQs and music they seem to be gardening and DIYing all the time, which is ok but for the noise, he seems to have a gastly machine for just about every job, chainsaw and log splitter, strimmer, mower, shredder, leaf blower, hedge trimmers, rotavator, power washer, last week he was flagging and had one of those whacker plate things, nearly shoock the house to bits.
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My neighbours are my PARENTS !!! 🙂

On one side I’ve got deaf octogenarian Lancastrians who are at worst over helpful and well meaning. And on the other side I’ve got an octogenarian Cumbrian who is a right laugh and takes the piss out of me with his friendly banter.

Most folks on the street I live on are lovely. All the kids play in the street and you can speak to their mum and dads about anything without fear.

Quite a few student houses and some light noise and anti-social stuff, but nowt too bad. Neighbours kid’s scooter was stolen by some drunken students leaving a party and we went round and made our displeasure known, but no joy on the scooter front.

Sleepy Lancaster is much better than the drug dealing gun totting streets of Wolverhampton and the mountain biking is better too. Best move I ever made.

I too have great neighbours, terrace of 6 houses, couple on the end great retired just so still very active,share an allotment with them. Other side guy works away in Cardiff on some TV program thats just started a new series Dr ‘something’ can’t remmeber, his misses great always bringing food round, as just her most of the time and loves cooking. Next Evil satan lady with her hounds from hell, sprays Jays fluid everywhere to cover up smell of Dog piss, permiates the house if you leave any window open at the front ( could devote whole post to her), next guy only comes down at weekends, gave kids easter eggs, cant be all that bad. Spinster at the end, walk her dog, and do a bit of gardening for her when I can.
So 1 out 5 not bad I guess.

Almost all my neighbours are either in or working on the Hobbit.