Does having neighbours bother you?

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As long the neighbours are good then its no problem but if they are causing trouble then it because rather annoying overall i would rather be in a detached property then a semi detached or terrace property.

I'm not a particular fan of my neighbors. I put up with it though, because I don't have much choice at the moment. However, as we speak my flamboyantly gay neighbor is cackling as loud as he can and I can hear it from deep within my apartment and it's driving me crazy.

Growing up I was in neighborhoods where most of our neighbors ignored us because we were the weird family, so that might be part of it.

It's okay as long as I don't hear see or smell them from my own apartment. Sound isolation is very important to make it bearable. Ideally I would have my own house, quite far away from anyone else. I look forward to the day when I can afford my own house..

I've never minded having neighbors, other than a problem I had when I was living in a second-floor apartment. The first incident was shortly after I'd moved in......one of the women in the apartment below mine knocked on my door with a polite complaint about how they could hear me walking around in my apartment, and that I'd (supposedly) been stomping on the floor the previous night. (REALLY odd thing was, I'd been asleep at the time she said this happened, but I had no way to prove it)

That was the only time I got that sort of complaint, but I never felt comfortable moving around in my apartment after that......was really happy when those neighbors moved out.

Depends how well I get on with them, and whether they make a lot of noise. But in general I'm fine with them.

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i am considering buying a property with a house on it that is 500 acres in area. but i discovered that no matter how far away i am from the next person, the person who lives closest to me is my neighbor. it is impossible to not have neighbors.

I live on a ranch, and our nearest neighbor is nearly a half mile (1 km) away, and you can't see their house from ours. I used to live in the city, and I tolerated neighbors, but I prefer not having them.

Charles

Currently we live in a small house on an acre and a half - vast holdings of land, compared to anything we've had in the past! I can see three houses from here. One (the closest to mine) is only occupied maybe three or four weekends a year. I have met them, and they are nice, not overly friendly which is understandable: they live in the city and this is their country house, I imagine they come here to escape the crowds.

Another is a single gentleman, older than I am I believe, who keeps to himself as well. I have rarely seen him have any visitors, maybe only once or twice in the year-and-a-half of living here.

The third neighbors are a couple, retired perhaps? They are home as much as I am (which is basically always). Their house is about 300 feet away from mine. I have never met them. I've tried (a couple times when we first moved in). But they are not friendly to me.

They have the dangerous hobby of feeding the wild black bears that roam around our area. This is a drag because it attracts bears near us, and that's not safe. But at least it keeps the bears from coming over & breaking down my house to get food.

I think the best kinds of neighbors to have would be introverts who will help you out in case of an emergency but prefer to keep to themselves, otherwise. That way everyone would be on the same page. I have had extremely extroverted neighbors who annoyed the hell out of me by greeting me through my kitchen window if they saw me standing at my sink (startling me as well.) One neighbor who lived behind me, and with whom I shared a wall, had a group of at least ten friends who would just hang around her house all day and at night the music would crank and the thumping of their walking would start. Worse, I couldn't open my windows day or night because they would sit on the porch and smoke so that fresh air wasn't to be had unless they all went away.

The farmers here used to prefer that if they can barely see smoke out of their neighbour's chimney then it would be far enough for them. Except now you have stereo equipment and cars that seems to breach that range... I think I will have to plant trees and increase the distance exponentially.

Living with people in general bothers me. I've lived on my own for a few years and have had roommates, but I mostly isolated myself because I didn't like pushing myself to make pointless small talk with them. I had one roommate who was awesome though and loved the fact that I was on the spectrum. She really understood my need for alone time but I really enjoyed cooking and grocery shopping with her...but despite this I'm not up for having roommates again as it is very draining socially.

They would bother me if I had any close by,that's why I don't.And the nearest ones are also people that like to be quiet.Excellent.

Yeah, because they complain when I shoot anything over a .22LR rifle on my property (that's 40 acres).

Don't care.
My parents hate neighbours because they argue a lot with them.
But they are very kind to me and to my brother.