I really dislike our neighbours

sedment

Bailey101 wrote: »

I had neighbours like that - they were a complete nightmare!! We have an anti social behaviour team from the council (I'm in Aberdeen, but I think all councils in Scotland have a version) and they aren't too bad at sorting this sort of stuff out - they come out to your flat and take decibel readings and can issue fines and confiscate music equipment if need be. Might be worth speaking to the council and seeing what they can do.

xx

We were in Aberdeen city as well, and the naughty neighbours learned to recognise the car that the asbo team drove!! The worst occasion we had was when the naughty neighbour took offense with my neighbour and took a axe to his door to try to get into his flat to beat the crap out of him
Phoned the police (who came in full riot gear) and the asbo people, were put on the discretionary list to be moved and nothing happened. Complaining every day to the council, to be told "we cant just put nice people in nice areas you know, addicts have rights as well". Then the court date was set, for which the person who was charged. We eventually moved and the day after we did, the door was caved in with surprise surprise, an axe. He got 150 hours community service.

Delighted to say where we live now, the worst thing that happens is a local cat doing a poop in our garden

sedment

Buttonmoons wrote: »

The woman who lived upstairs before me was horrid - she flooded me 9 times in 18months, totally ruined my kitchen. When I got it redone, she went and flooded me 3 days later - she had no insurance, council wouldnt fix the damage she caused - no end of a headache.

She abandoned the property, now I have someone who sounds like a drug addict blaring music from 7:30am to all hours - I can actually hear it word for word and turn on ID track on my mobile and it tells me what song it is, she then starts swearing and arguing with her other half who is always there despite it apparently just being her and her child who moved in, she has no carpets down of any description, she thuds around like a hippo, and her and her bf scream and shout all day then have 2 hour long sex sessions that wake my 6yr old up - who then asks if the lady upstairs is being killed, because it IS THAT OVER THE TOP SCREAMING.

Sick.Of.It

One suggestion for you, play her at her own game. Once your child is at school, invite a friend round and do totally over the top sex noises and then start over the top laughing. Very immature and but she should get the message!!

DKLS

The only good neighbours are those decomposing on the living room floor.

daska

I have 4 neighbours that front onto the side of my house, 2 are single women who are lovely, funny, helpful etc.

Two are couples who are selfish, inconsiderate and at times downright mean. Their favorite trick is to nip out when I've opened the carpark gate and shut it before I'm able to leave (I'm disabled, sometimes having to open the gate is the deciding factor in whether I am able to go out at all!).

The latest is to refuse to move a security light that shines directly into my bedroom because someone fell over one of her flowerpots. (It's a wiggly path). Surely if your flowerpots are positioned in such a way that people can fall over them it's better to move the flowerpot than shine a light in someone's bedroom?

These are to all appearances retired, middle class, educated, intelligent people?! They know I'm disabled, they know my youngest has special needs, they know that if they shut the gate on me I can end up having to park in the street. They can be in no doubt as to the effect their actions have on me - the other neighbours arent!

I feel like getting the chippy to put up a big board to block the glare from the security light and writing on it exactly why it's there so that everyone who comes to visit knows just how !!!!!! they are in real life.

morganedge

My nearest neighbour is a few acres away and I wouldn't recognise them if they were in front of me, but I didn't always have a garden this big and remember having 'neighbours'.
They weren't awful, but I think even in them 15 years or so that have passed, the UK is full of more anti-social and aggressive people and can imagine it would be a lot worse in general now

thehappybutterfly

I love my neighbours - they're all fantastic. Most of them are older and their kids have moved out and the other younger famiily has a wee one and we're all very good friends. I'm very very lucky - it must be dreadful having anti-social neighbours. We've got junkies across the road but they don't give anyone any problems - they generally keep themselves to themselves. For a wee while, we had teenagers from another street hanging about and running through our gardens but we would just go out and tell them to get out (politely) and they would. If we'd tried that in the big city (where we'd moved from), we'd have got a mouthful and retribution.

ziggy2004

Bailey101 wrote: »

I had neighbours like that - they were a complete nightmare!! We have an anti social behaviour team from the council (I'm in Aberdeen, but I think all councils in Scotland have a version) and they aren't too bad at sorting this sort of stuff out - they come out to your flat and take decibel readings and can issue fines and confiscate music equipment if need be. Might be worth speaking to the council and seeing what they can do.

xx

sedment wrote: »

We were in Aberdeen city as well, and the naughty neighbours learned to recognise the car that the asbo team drove!! The worst occasion we had was when the naughty neighbour took offense with my neighbour and took a axe to his door to try to get into his flat to beat the crap out of him
Phoned the police (who came in full riot gear) and the asbo people, were put on the discretionary list to be moved and nothing happened. Complaining every day to the council, to be told "we cant just put nice people in nice areas you know, addicts have rights as well". Then the court date was set, for which the person who was charged. We eventually moved and the day after we did, the door was caved in with surprise surprise, an axe. He got 150 hours community service.

Delighted to say where we live now, the worst thing that happens is a local cat doing a poop in our garden

We lived in Froghall and it was horrid. I do not scare easily but the year we lived there I decided not to talk to our neighbour about any of the unacceptable stuff they got up to as I was alone in the flat too often for my liking - and I know that it was definitely not the worst area of the city!

Now we have fabulous neighbours who all said hello when we moved in and put bins back for each other when needed and accept parcels for you and then take them around as soon as they see you coming back.

We even got a Christmas card from one today :T

grumpybear_3

Hmm, Neigbours are tricky things.

Just like you cant choose your family, you cant choose your neighbours either.

Living in close proximity with anyone can be tricky, especially if you're both a bit oversensitive and the little things that people say and the way they behave can mean that it can feel very personal and get a bit out of proportion very easily to the extent that walking to the shops feels like running the gauntlet!

After years of minor annoyances I was probably just uptight as they were so decided to take charge of the situation, signal a change of tack, ditch the drama and be nice!

It's still a work in progress but we'll see how it goes, but I feel better about it - and you never know!

looby75

After reading some of these horror stories here makes me appropriate my neighbours even more. I'm lucky not to have lovely neighbours either side of me but in the whole street. We all know each other by name and help each other out whenever we can. My son does odd jobs for all our elderly neighbours, from running to the shop for them to posting letters etc, the kids all play together, my next door neighbour has a christmas party each year for all the kids (and the adults *hick* ) Someone in the street used to work for M&S and when she realised my son was due to start high school she gave me one of her friends and family discounts so I could get some money off his school uniform.

mazza111

Social services are already involved with these kids. They know what's going on. Although there have already been anon phone calls to them with regards to their shennannigans.