Boom boom boom boom

[Elisi]

I put this on FB. We are being harassed and I am SO fed up with the people next door, and have been for 3 ***** years.

Beginning to wonder if the teenage party next door, which began at 7 pm, and is still BOOM BOOM music and loud screaming voices will ever actually allow us to go to bed and sleep? It's coming through the walls :-( Call me old fashioned, call me anything you like, but isn't there something about living in a community which means you have a certain respect for others??? Obviously not

OH wanted to get the hose out

All summer, if the weather is fine, out they come, BOOM BOOM BOOM, screaming, running around....no thought for anyone but themselves. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr. Have no idea when we can actually get to bed.

Venting, my friends. Venting. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

[Oma]

Elisi I know how you feel been there with noisy neighbours it makes life he'll , I don't understand why they have to have the music blasting at the first sign of warm weather , ours had a flat top roof on the extension and would sit up there with his cans of beer and had the speakers from his music centre and it went on day and night then they would scream and shout at each other smash stuff up till someone called the police who would cart him off for the night

[Gemini]

How awful Elisi I have only suffered with bad neighbours once. It was only over the course of one summer, but it felt like for ever.
I know you are planning to move Elisi, I hope it is soon xx

[Plantaholic]

That sounds dreadfulElisi and Oma, you shouldn't have to put up with that

[Mimi]

Elisi I think there is a whole generation of neighbours who seem to be getting increasingly noisy without any thought to anyone else.

Where we live now at first was really quite but now they seem to be getting far noisier. It's not just music that they want to share with us but also telephone conversations. Why would you shout down the phone while in your garden with your phone speaker on so that everyone can here I fail to understand. But the playing of loud 'music' especially late at night/ early morning is completely unacceptable.
Our local council has a scheme running throughout the summer months. The idea is instead of having to ring the police there is a 24 hour 7 days a week manned phone line that we can ring for unsociable behavior , noise issues etc; I had to use the service in our previous home. I had to ring them as the noise from the neighbours across the road was unbearable. The lady I spoke to could hear the music down the phone. She thought I was in the same room as them . To be fair their response was very quick and the music was turned down as soon as they had a word with them .
I understand they have the power to confiscate the music system that neighbours are using.

[Nanto2girls]

Don't have any problems with loud music from neighbours, BUT our next door neighbour is very loud. She speaks very loud, while her hubby speaks quietly.
I was once sat in the garden and she was talking to someone about their finances. After a while I came inside, I thought I was hearing too much.
A few days later, my hubby told her hubby about it, but he just said she talks loud because she came out of an abusive relationship.

[Clover]

Elisi,have you any other neighbours who are affected? It might be worth having a word with them and getting their take on this horrible situation.

[Elisi]

Ahhhhhhhh lovely to read your replies XXX

So many of us seem to be caught in this " bad neighbour" trap. Very sad situations. Never ever used to happen when I was growing up. Everyone seem to respect each other. Sometimes I do wonder about this country of ours.

The whole cul de sac are full of very nice people except for the ones we are next door to! The woman is rude, she has a live in partner, and the teenager is hers. I've never heard so many "Oh my God's" and ****ing hells" as last night coming from the kids themselves !!!!! All between 14 - 16 !!! No one could hear the actual music as the bass was so loud and dominant.

The woman went to several houses on the Friday warning them there would be a teenage party, so I guess that is at least one act of courtesy. We didn't expect this though. They are very noisy all through the summer, they open their door and music blares out, and you have to go inside to escape it. Thoughtless behaviour really. Lots of BBQ's with friends who often stay overnight and don't go to bed until 2am., unless it rains!!!

3 years now I have prayed for winter as they go quiet then. Trouble is, although yes, we hare clearing up the business slowly and hope to move, we do wonder if it will be the devil or the deep blue seas??? Steering clear of estates and modern families, although by no means do I tar every family with the same brush XXX

PS, had it gone on much longer I would indeed have called the police, but at just before 1 am it all went quiet.

[grannyjules]

How awful for you, but do be careful if you are thinking of moving. I think if you make anything official then you have to inform any potential buyers. Not sure if that's just court action or council action or police involvement.
I hope they go for a nice long holiday and you go the day when they come back.

[Daisy]

Elisi - Poor you. That is dreadful, and you shouldn't have to put up with it!

New tenants moved into the house next door to us on Friday - a lovely family with 2 little girls. Big mouth here said how quiet it is around here - and last night somebody at the back was talking and singing in the garden until gone 11 pm!! Then this afternoon we had GS1's 13th birthday at our house - although I had warned the neighbours and it wrapped up about 7 pm.

[Glammanana]

There is nothing worse than noisy neighbours with no consideration for others,I can hear my downstairs neighbour talking on the phone at the top of her voice she also has a well known local phone in on her radio late at night and this time of year she has her bedroom window window which is right under mine so I can hear every word until it closes down at 1am,the family opposite are very vocal and have their back door open all summer and you can hear mum shouting at little one (4yrs old) some of the expletives are not for young ears at all.

[Elisi]

GrannyJules...no worries 😍😍😍 we are renting so can move anytime and if we ever did have to report them it would not follow us anywhere as the owners are in New Zealand for 5 years.

Its just so lovely to be round the corner to the gk's as they grow up, sleepovers, fetching from school, general child minding etc. is all a blessing. We won't move very far away but miss living near town TBH as more facilities and the hospital is there, something you have to consider as you get older, like OH and his awful fall this Spring. There is too long a drive to get to our volunteer jobs in the cathedral in the winter months in semi dark, and then there is UFTA, university for the third age there, and not even a very active WI round here.

Somwe we may end up moving closer to town but we have already had nearly three years watching the girls grow and flourish right on the doorstep, so we are very lucky people. X

[Shemadee]

GJ - you do have to declare any significant problems with neighbours on the searches that are sent and you can be sued if you try to cover anything up. Would guess this is only official complaints to the police or council but it does create a real dilemma though luckily not a problem for Elisi.

It is difficult Elisi when you are quite happy where you are but people like this spoil your quality of life to this extent. I know sometimes people worried too much about what neighbours and other people thought but at least people behaved considerately. We had a neighbour who accused DD1 of stealing clothes pegs off her line. DD1 was about 13/14 at the time and the woman confronted her by yelling at her in the street - she certainly found that I have a real Irish temper under my normally quiet demeanor.

Not so long ago a lady (used loosely!) was walking around Lidl having a loud telephone conversation about her child/childrenwho had been taken in to care. Something that would have been so shameful and embarrassing once upon a time and certainly not broadcast to all and sundry.

[Daisy]

Not so long ago a lady (used loosely!) was walking around Lidl having a loud telephone conversation about her child/childrenwho had been taken in to care. Something that would have been so shameful and embarrassing once upon a time and certainly not broadcast to all and sundry.

It always seems that the people who lead the most chaotic, shambolic lives are the ones who are most prepared to tell the world about their problems.