Moved house because of neighbours?

Tippytoes

I moved house solely because of awful neighbours.  I loved the house itself, the location, the close proximity to work.  In fact, I loved everything about it, except the neighbours.  I knew I could never be content there and eventually decided I would have to move.  I was sad to leave my home but it was actually the best thing I ever did.  What price can you put on peace and contentment?  I just wondered how many others have resorted to doing the same as I did?

onyx911

Not quite the same as we had out grown the house and were ready to move but Getting away from neighbours we didn’t get on with definitely helped make the decision easier. 

SaintJudy

I'm currently doing exactly the same, although I'm renting at the moment. I've rented this flat for 20 years and it's been great until a couple moved into the flat underneath me, and then proceeded to have 2 children. The last 6 years have been frustrating and stressful with the amount of noise they make, and no matter how many times I've spoken to them or the landlord about it nothing changes, the landlord himself even says that the flat they're in isn't suitable for a family and when he let it to them he had no idea that they planned on making one. The children thunder up and down the flat so hard that things on my bookcase shake, they're always screeching and singing at the top of their voices too. The couple themselves have very loud speaking voices and during lockdown they would still be talking and keeping me awake at 2 or 3 in the morning, now the eldest kid is back in school they're shouting in the common areas at 8 in the morning. Earplugs make no difference at all. The sad part about it all is that they're actually really nice people, they're just absolutely awful and completely inconsiderate neighbours. I'm finally now in a position where I can buy my own place so that's what I'm doing. 

I will be incredibly sad to leave London and probably wouldn't if it wasn't for them. On the other hand, I'm glad of the push to buy my own place. 

Davesnave

Yes, we were prompted to move by planting of leylandii along the bottom of our short garden with the potential to blot out all the sunshine.

We purchased a friend's house and were then semi-detached to the leylandii planter on his sunny side!

Did we do the same to him? No, his thoughtless action had caused us to move at exactly the right time into a road where we were much happier and stayed 21 years. We  became friends and still send Christmas cards, although he's ancient and 100 miles away now.

Our old garden 33 years on? Still in the shade! We watched the house gradually disappear. Had we stayed, I think there would eventually have been a chainsaw massacre! 

RelievedSheff

We moved from our last house to our current one due to the neighbours. Unfortunately due to bad timing buying the place on our part at the back end of 2007, it took us 12 years to have enough equity in the property to be able to sell up and move on which was incredibly frustrating and annoying.

I am so glad that we made the move last April. I can not even imagine how bad it would have been living in that house and street through lock down. I don't think we would have come out of it very well and there is no way that I could have worked from home with the constant noise from next door. It would have driven me insane.

We are so much happier in our new home, even the dog is so much more relaxed. We did buy a detached house this time as we were just not willing to run the risk of having bad attached neighbours again. We bought the most detached plot there is on the new build estate we are on with the nearest neighbours being 6m across a double width driveway and 13m away at the bottom of the garden.

Once bitten twice shy!

Splatfoot

I suppose I have in a way. When I bought my first flat, my downstairs neighbour was a drunk. A pleasant enough drunk to me. But when he started 'helping' by weeding my garden whilst I was at work, and having small bonfires on my patio, I thought it was time to go. 

Scotbot

I have had noisy neighbours and the house before this one was a semi so I spent weeks before purchase stalking the neighbours to check them out. They moved 9 months after I moved in! Current house is detached, moved to a cheaper location to bed able to afford it. Not fund of deepest suburbia but love the quiet.

GibbsRule_No3.

I was very lucky to get a move via my council. I had lived in a two bedroom ground floor flat for more than 40 years, mostly with just two different family’s above who were lovely, then unfortunately the family from hell moved above. I was lucky that by the time they arrived I was eligible for age related property. I now have the perfect, single bedroom bungalow in a close, with just 11 neighbours. I am hoping the new neighbour when they move in won’t be deaf, as the last one for the past five years was perfect. We are only connected by the living room though, so bedroom should remain quiet.

lozzy81

Yes! We had to move as the neighbours above were so inconsiderate, the woman threw up every morning, could hear everything, they thundered up and down the stairs at all hours banging the railings as they went, my for sale sign went up followed by 3 others in the stair! Happy in a detached with no noise from anyone! 

MovingForwards

The first rental I had when starting over was good, unfortunately the one I moved to was a living hell. Block of 8 flats, 5 of which had parties, drugs, shouting, banging amongst other things at all hours.

The minute I got enough money together for my deposit I found my own home, unfortunately it was when Covid was being noticed around the world. By the time lockdown came I was 2 weeks away from completing and moving; everything stopped.

The neighbours carried on, only their hours were extended because of not working, I was working from home surviving on an average of 1 hour sleep. It was foreseeable I was heading fast towards some form of breakdown and I got very ill.

Thankfully my solicitor, broker and lender worked their bums off, I got out 6 weeks after lockdown started and have been trying to get myself right ever since.

Never underestimate the impact things can have on you.

Davesnave

lozzy81 said:

Yes! We had to move as the neighbours above were so inconsiderate, the woman threw up every morning, could hear everything,

That's not inconsiderate, it's worrying!