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POLL: Do you like your neighbours?

Tom Flanagan
7 years ago

A major consideration when moving into any new home has to be your neighbours. Unfortunately this can often make or break the appeal of a home - good ones make it that much better, bad ones send you running.

So as a safe space here on Houzz we're giving you free reign to tell us - do you like your neighbours? Vote below....

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Yes - we're friends!
No not really...
We get on well enough
We're at war
We're moving..
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  • louisecampbell09
    7 years ago
    our neighbours are wonderful.. they put up with us so they must be! We mow their lawns and help with recycling and they never moan about our constant diy renovations. They are 91 and 86 now and I dread them not being there in the future

    Comments (24)

    • PRO
      Fusion interior design
      7 years ago

      We feel very lucky to have friends that live in the same road and the road behind us. My wife is in a Book Club (although should be called Prosecco Club) with 8 other girls and I'm in a band with 4 other fellas. We've held 3 street parties and had many impromptu evenings :)

    • Impossible Bebong
      7 years ago

      Hmmm... We live in a mind your own business neighborhood. We great each other but don't hang out together. I have no idea what keeps them busy or if they have many friends but judging by the cars that park on their driveways, they practically live as much as I do- isolated. No, I don't live in a city. A suburb where houses are mostly detached with reasonable fenced garden and a busy road in between. Do I like my neighbors? I can say that I have no reasons so far to hate them.

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    • Lee Foster
      7 years ago
      we moved almost a year ago. And never really talk to our direct neighbours. except when I had to tell him his dog barked for 4 hours whilst he had been out ( at the pub). There is only parking on one side of our street and neighbours up but 1 have major bug bears with it. today I was asked to take in a parcel for them, the courier said no one will take them for them! lol
    • catty1942
      7 years ago
      We are great friends with our neighbours. They live in Switzerland and come for two weeks every so often! We take care of their house while they are not here, a perfect arrangement and mutually very satisfactory. We also love the choccies, Italian coffee and the duty free booze which arrive with them. Lol!
    • barbara19
      7 years ago

      Check out https://nextdoor.co.uk/about_us/
      We didn't know our neighbours until we got on this site and have now made a few friends. Though it's unlikely our closest neighbour will join, because he's a nit-picking troublemaker. We once had a note put through the door asking us to turn off our Wi-Fi at night because it was damaging his son's brain development. On the other side, the neighbour regularly uses his hot tub on the front drive; no gazebo or screen!

    • peediewee
      7 years ago

      our neighbours are all lovely. lucky us. :)


    • User
      7 years ago
      OMG barbara19, Your neighbours sound a hoot! I think as far as brain developments concerned, his son has far more to worry about having him as a Father! And as for hot tubs on front drives Ewwwww! I have neighbours but have long ago learned the invaluable lesson of keeping things strictly to Hi or Thank you if they get lumbered with the postman giving them one of my parcels in my absence. I'm probably a bit anti social but I just don't want the pressure of having to be friends with folks just because they live close to me, because if things go wrong (as they did once) it's a pain until someone moves (which fortunately they did)
    • Alis Mizon De Pinho
      7 years ago
      We're quite lucky that all of our neighbours are lovely. Our only issue is with the family next door and the family above us... next door, as nice as he is, is constantly screaming at his children. I think he struggles with the three little ones. He's a single parent and the youngest is particularly naughty but incredibly cute. The screaming however is becoming an actual problem... it's so loud and aggressive that it a. makes us worry about the children and b. wakes us up at 6am and doesn't stop until around midnight. The family above are always fighting and again, she's very cruel to her little girl... I wanted to report her as it's really quite disgusting but my other half thinks we shouldn't get involved. Her boyfriend is also a dodgy character who comes over, has a huge fight with her and then storms out, crash bang wallop galore!

      If it wasn't for them it would be wonderfully relaxed and peaceful here. I can't complain too much though because they are lovely people to have as neighbours and although loud or whatever, it could be so much worse. They also really love our two cats and thankfully they let us know if they see them in any trouble... e.g. the local fox trying to follow our cat in our window!!
    • Najeebah
      7 years ago
      we get along with many of them, get together often, take care of each others places when needed, send over desserts/ fruit, help out, and live happily ever after. there are some we aren't quite close to, but get along with well enough. there are a few, very few, who are problematic, to varying degrees, but on the whole, the neighbours are great, for which I'm thankful
    • Joanna Biddolph
      7 years ago

      I have a fantastic next door neighbour - we are semi detached - and after 29 years of nightmare neighbours (below me or next to me, in flats) I know how supremely lucky I am. I'm beginning to worry about the house on the other side (not attached to me, it's two stretches of terraced houses and I'm on the end and so is he). I am worried he is turning the house he's just bought into an HMO and goodness knows what that will mean. Another HMO nearby is a huge worry - rogue landlord who has broken every planning, building control and health and safety rule leaving tenants without a regular supply of hot water or heating and the house is, inevitably, over-filled with people who are desperate for any shelter, no matter how grim or unsafe. My previous neighbours, below me in a lovely house converted into lovely flats, were unbelievably self-interested and entitled with novel excuses why they couldn't ever hoover the communal hall, replace a lightbulb, sweep leaves off the path, clear up the rubbish they'd left out in bags that were attacked by vermin, throw away the junk mail ... I was apparently their skivvy. It's small stuff overall but it soured the atmosphere in the house. I'd dread bumping into them on the stairs, in the hall and out and about.

    • lisa77226
      7 years ago
      I've always tried to be friendly towards my neighbours. I've had a few that were horrible in the past but my preference is not to feel I have to avoid people when I'm home, the pressure! Our last neighbours actually became friends too which was nice when we felt like socialising without the faff of actually going out, garden drinks in the summer were always impromptu!
    • sianember
      7 years ago

      I live in a terrace (sighs...) my immediate neighbour on one side is nice enough but the other side are a bit of a nightmare. The husband is a total moron, loud & inconsiderate - parking across my front door, attaching their washing line to my fence trellis, encouraging his friends & relations to park outside my house for up to a week at a time, so I have nowhere to park, that kind of thing (we have no pavement on our lane so any vehicle is right up against the front window). One of the happiest days of my life was when he dismantled the family trampoline. Oh the trauma of seeing a 13 stone, 40 year old toddler bouncing up & down with added sound effects, big, stupid face appearing over the top of the garden fence, up, down, up, down - enough to put you off your breakfast...

    • Jane Bateman
      7 years ago

      My best friend just moved out to start a new life in Shetland. (Don't think it was anything we said.)

      It's still early days with the new neighbours but I think it's going to be ok.

      The neighbours the other side are sheep or occasionally cows, so no problems there unless the fence is breached. They can be very chatty.


    • xxxmandy_smithxxx
      7 years ago
      Can't stand my neighbour thinks she is the only one living in the block
    • Tom Flanagan
      Original Author
      7 years ago

      I'm glad to hear that the majority of you get along with your neighbours! In my last place, my apartment was wedged between two others - one home to two girls who decided that 1am was the prime time to call/play music/scream on a daily basis, and the other side a couple who were going through...well, some difficulties - safe to say there was a lot of door slamming....

      When it was finally time to leave I recall quite literally running out the door.


    • smelyi7
      7 years ago

      Hi. Before 1.5 year ago we had a wonderful neighbours! Was really good friends and we still visiting them and they us. But new owners are nightmare, horrible. They do everything what they wont and no body can help! Build shed along boundaries without asking permission, when we was build fence at boundaries they was demanded fence at 2.5 m high. They smoking meat at weekend day time, knocking at walls in the middle of night, swearing when play games - with open windows, loud music . Just no words! We try to chat with them - but they polish and was just two answers - I do not understand and Its my property I can do what I want! Council was told its both private properties -we cant do nothing! We just wait maybe they decide to move somewhere . But its just one house in community - where bad neighbours-others are friendly and we make bbq together and do children's parties.

    • k_sedgley
      7 years ago

      On one side fabulous on the other the exact opposite.

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      House decorater
      7 years ago
      I love my neighbours so much. They are very thoughtful most of them, unfortunately we will have to move due to sewage problems.i will miss them
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      Landscape Gardeners Glasgow
      7 years ago

      Yeah there ok but have an annoying old boiler that makes noises.

    • wallielo
      7 years ago

      ours are grand. the man of the house (who is 80) loves my husband (who is 48) and ive often come home from work to find them nattering over the back wall - like two old ladies. its quite funny when the bottle of JD is being shared back n forth on a special occasion too. I've often asked him in, especially at Christmas, but he prefer's the man chat at the back wall. MEN! their strange creatures!!

    • stewartkeighton47
      7 years ago

      Our neighbours are the worse kind you can get, scumbags who don't care about anyone else but their selves.Banging on wall purposely annoying my wife and I, playing electric guitars in the middle of the night, in fact they'll do anything that will annoy us

    • soozmacrae
      7 years ago

      Its such a worry when nice neighbours move out and the dreaded thought of new ones begins. We are lucky and get on with both sets of neighbours. Friendly but not over friendly.... We do favours for each other, parcels, feeding pets when on holiday etc.

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      Cowen Garden Design
      7 years ago
      last modified: 7 years ago

      I find the pet thing a bit of a problem as I race into the garden waving my arms and shouting at the site of any neighbours' cat, to stop them crapping everywhere and to protect the birds I feed! But the birds still talk to me.......

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