I live on a modern estate with 5 houses and gardens sharing my rear bounwary. Without exception my neighbours are lovely but we all have habits or lifestyles that could potentially annoy each other. Yapping dog,DIY Diva,Screaming baby,Lawnmower man and Teenage Trampoline but we all rub along nicely. Early weekend morning are bliss.
Dont get me wrong. Living where i do you get used the urban din of children playing, a revving engine, the freight trains nearby and the hum of the M6! Plus we all make a racket in our gardens at some point (lawnmower, strimmer, pressure washer etc). But that is background and not unpleasant in its own way. But when the background is shattered by the persistent scream of a circular saw 20ft away from where you are sitting, and usually at times when most people are relaxing after a hard day at work, it begins to grate somewhat!
Gardening. The cause of, and solution to, all of my problems.
If you're not wealthy enough to own a house with a large land buffer around all sides then you've no right to complain about other peasant neighbours! 🤣
I'm pretty relaxed about noise but one neighbour bought one of those little yappy dogs and treated it like a baby so much that it developed severe separation anxiety. She'd go out for the whole day every sunday and it was left to entertain the street with its high pitched, non-stop barking for hours. People inevitably complained and her solution was to buy another, even more yappy, dog to keep it company and to install a cat flap so they could both go outside and yap by the front gate rather than just be confined to the house. We popped the champagne the day she moved out and a nice family live there now.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
If you're not wealthy enough to own a house with a large land buffer around all sides then you've no right to complain about other peasant neighbours! 🤣
There are some people so unpleasant that we can only thank the deities that they are wealthy enough to own a house with a large land buffer around all sides so that the rest of us need have nothing to do with them
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Some friends of mine had an upstairs neighbour who played loud music all day and all night. They tried to reason with him and all they got was abuse. It got so bad they rented a bedsit to sleep in. Dave kept threatening to "go up there and punch his lights out" but his peace loving wife restrained him. They put the flat on the market and hoped potential buyers wouldn't ask why they were selling. Shortly after they moved out, to their dismay, they chanced to meet the man who'd bought the flat, and couldn't avoid an exchange of "how are you settling in?". "Fine thanks," said the man. "I soon got fed up with the bloke upstairs and his music, but I gave him a few smacks and he's been as good as gold ever since."
We lived up on top of one of the hills in Auckland a dozen years ago, and the neighbor bloke would get pissed drunk and fancy himself a rapper.. blasting his sound system and karaoke across the neighborhood valley. I was young and childless, and found it all rather amusing. Mostly just on the weekends, luckily.. but OH and I still laugh about the poor fellow. He never seemed to have parties or friends.. just himself and his piss poor (but passionate) rap recitals.
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.