Dost thou love thy neighbour?

Answer NO
A complete nightmare

We have lovely neighbours, we get on really well, but they have a very large garden and to the best of my knowledge have not done anything to it since they moved in 30 years ago and little enough to the house.

Lack of money doesn't seem to be a problem, as if things really need doing they are done. But one or two tradesmen we have employed have regailed us with tales of things they wanted done that were dangerous, which the electrician refused to do, only to find on a later visit they had cobbled something together themselves.

I spent the whole of this morning going round our boundary clearing all the weeds etc that were encroaching on our property. Brambles, nettles and hops over topping a 6 foot fence all cut back and the trimmings left in their - wasteland/jungle/'garden', then pulling up nettles, bindweed and ground elder out of the beds up against our boundary fence.

Funnily enough, on a walk together this morning, the DH said to me that the only thing that would make him want to move house would be if bad neighbours moved in.

We really like our neighbours. One is a lovely family:- a mum, dad, atwo girls and a dog. The children have grown from babies when they moved in to A level and GCSE years now and are a credit to their parents. The dog gives one bark in a day and that is all we hear from her.

On the other side is an older, single lady who has completely neglected her house and garden for about fifteen years. She is friendly and no bother at all. When we think that the front garden might be tidied before it disappears under a jungle we remind ourselves of who might buy the place were she to leave!

Two not atwo!

My neighbours are just like the one's who cut the tree in half . We live in the country and they have wanted to cut every bush and tree down they can get there hands . Then replace it all with fencing , which will rot in time . They are in there 70,s and have a very passive aggressive attitude . They moved to the country and have tried to change country living since they moved in . We are all on septic tanks are happy with it , except them who think we should all be on main sewage . I am beginning to wonder why they moved to the country if they want to change everything about it . You know what they say there's nothing as weird as folk .

We don't really have "neighbours" as such, and haven't yet met our nearest neighbours across the street. There is a garage next door to us on one side, and we have met the owner of this. He's a lovely chap, very friendly - but he doesn't live at the garage, of course! He has a full time job, doing something else entirely (can't remember what) and does his "garage work" at evenings and weekends. There is sufficient space between his property and ours that there is no "noise nuisance" at all. At the other side of the bungalow are several fields, until you get to the very top of the street, where there are a few more bungalows and a farm (at least a thousand metres away). We only moved here earlier this year, so Covid restrictions have meant that we can't really interact to any great extent - though we do wave and/or say hello to anyone passing, when we are outside! Looking forward to the time when we can chat and get to know a few more people.

I've had a few odd-bods over the year's but otherwise been fairly lucky however recently, suffered with someone who kept accusing me of making noises, even when I was at work and the house was empty!
She's recently moved so I'm hoping the next tenants will be more balanced!

There are 12 houses in my road. We have lived here for 56 years, and there has never been a single neighbourly fall-out in all that time. Many of us have been here for many years, but even the newer people have fitted in well. We are all friendly and helpful to each other without being in and out of each other’s houses.
Some years ago with had some trouble from a house at the rear of us. Their teenage children were often left at home alone, and used to bring in their friends and play very loud ‘banging an oil drum and shouting’ kind of ‘music’. Eventually the Council and Police dealt with them, and no more trouble ensued.
We consider ourselves very lucky to have such good neighbours. One of them was 80 today, and had a Covid-friendly tea-party in the garden, with a shift system to accommodate everyone safely.

Some of our best friends happen also to be our neighbours. They are lovely and we are lucky. ?

I do sympathise with the poor folk whose tree was sliced in half. What odd behaviour from those neighbours
Not so unusual as, at out last house our neighbours also sliced a conifer in half, it looked a mess and cost them a lot.
If only they had talked to us about it we could have saved the the money as we had planned to have it cut down the following week!
Glad we moved away from our toxic neighbour, I hadn't realised how much it was bringing me down till we met our new neighbours here. They are lovely and we get on really well, occasional drinks and lots of chats, just wonderful and such a relief

Our street are on tv at the moment (The One Show) and have been since the beginning of the pandemic as we all meet in the street but socially distanced, love our neighbours and our street

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I do sympathise with the poor folk whose tree was sliced in half. What odd behaviour from those neighbours
Not so unusual as, at out last house our neighbours also sliced a conifer in half, it looked a mess and cost them a lot.
If only they had talked to us about it we could have saved the the money as we had planned to have it cut down the following week!
Glad we moved away from our toxic neighbour, I hadn't realised how much it was bringing me down till we met our new neighbours here. They are lovely and we get on really well, occasional drinks and lots of chats, just wonderful and such a relief

yup, thought i had dealt with my toxic neighbours well eventually but when they finally moved I could feel my shoulders relax.

Life is so much easier if neighbours get on. So sorry to read about some horror stories!
In a previous house, we had troublesome teens hanging about, a drug-dealing neighbour and another whom our daughter witnessed being shot (just wounded ). Lots of nice neighbours too, although I've made it sound like the wild west!
We moved to our present, peaceful cul-de-sac in a different town 4 years ago. Neighbours very friendly and helpful on the whole. Two neighbours were a bit abrupt about where they thought we should/shouldn't park on the street etc (everyone has a driveway but most houses have at least 2 vehicles). We calmly explained the law and have gone out of our way to have friendly chats since, so no ongoing issues thankfully.

When we moved into our house the attached semi was lived in by a couple, she in her mid 90s and he a year younger. Their house had been her parents’ and when she married (in her 40s) she wouldn’t put his name on the deeds. So for 50 years he refused to do anything at all to preserve the fabric of the house because it wasn’t his. When we first visited them they literally had holes in the ceilings and lived in only two of their rooms (the house is huge) as the others were uninhabitable.

They died (fortunately before they could blow us up with their constant forgetting to light the gas stove) and their house was bought by a builder who spent decades renovating it beautifully - and it has recently been bought by a lovely couple with young children, who called round a couple of weeks ago to share their plans for merging their breakfast room and kitchen. The building work will start soon.

On the unattached side, the house next door has been converted into three flats and all now house young couples/families. We give them Christmas gifts, lend them our water sports equipment and share our allotment goodies, usually in the form of pots of jam, chutney or pickles - and have not had any issues. However, in the past we did have a convicted murderer living there (seemed like a nice chap) and a visitor to the same flat was a voyeur who eventually we had to challenge and the flat was then sold.

over the years in four different addresses I've found one-third of the neighbours were indifferent to me, one-third didn't like me and the remaining third were kind and friendly. (Isn' t this the case with life in general)? However since I moved to sheltered accomodation 3 and a half years ago I've found a wall of indifference. Apart from the occasional "morning" I've yet to engage anyone in conversation. I always thought I could talk to anyone until I met this bunch. I'm beginning to think it's a mistake to lump everyone of a certain age together. Maybe a mixture of ages works best.

We have been so lucky to have lived next door to great neighbours for more than forty years. It is one of the reasons that we don't want to move house.

I have horrible neighbours - noisy, druggy, thuggy, have decking or plastic grass in their gardens, loud smelly bbqs every weekend, I hate them all

Unsurprisingly all my neighbours broke lock down rules from the word go, don't know about masks or vaccines ???

Today, my neighbour came round with an homemade Key Lime pie for me. Whilst here, he looked at my front garden hedge and said "I'll cut that for you tomorrow when I do mine". I love my neighbours. Pity I hate the house.

The neighbours on one side are a very pleasant young couple with their two small children. The other side - similar age to myself, when our wall looked like falling down she refused to pay towards it despite her ivy was pulling it down. She couldn't afford it, she said and went on to have a downstairs extension and an upstairs extension, and a lot of changes to her house that we couldn't afford!! We are civil, but that's all.

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One side of us are lovely. The other side is a miserable old bat who never says anything nice about anyone & moans all the time. She yells at the children next door the other way if they are playing in their garden saying they make too much noise- they are lovely children & are just having fun. She is very deaf anyway! It is far worse now her husband has died as he did keep her in check.
I confess I tip toe around my garden if I know she is in hers & check she is not in front garden when I go out. Luckily we have high hedges.
I hate to say this but she is a pillar of her local church but not my idea of a Christian.
My husband is better with her but then she needs him at times for little jobs etc. Her son lives locally so is there a lot but he is very odd indeed so it must run in the family!!

I am so lucky with my neighbours.Yesterday I was travelling home on a bus after a day out, when my mobile rang. My neighbour who was visiting her son 200 miles away was ringing to check I was Ok because her partner at home had told her that my bedroom curtains were still closed (diabetic so could have been short of sugar).I assured her I was and thanked her.On arriving home I collected some heavy shopping from another neighbour,I then stayed for coffee and biscuits and a long chat.All my neighbours have been wonderful ,I would never contemplate moving.