Does having neighbours bother you?

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It bothers me, but I can bear it.

I kind of know how you feel, but I do feel more secure with neighbours nearby, especially ones like mine who aren't the kind of people to cause trouble. But I do get annoyed sometimes. The people joined on to my house always seem to slam every door they go through, not aggressively, it's just to do with the way they are.

Also I can't bear their noise in the summer when they're out in the garden, and I'm trying to relax in the garden trying to enjoy the birds singing and the sunshine and the heat, and the people next door are out in their garden. They have an 6-year-old child who has a very loud, high voice, and he is always shouting excitably when he is playing, and he's even noisier if he has any little friends round. The dad is also quite loud, like if he does something as simple as coughing or clearing his throat, it tends to make me jump for some reason. The mum isn't too loud, although I think she's the one who has a habit of slamming doors.

I would like to be surrounded by quieter people. The people that live in my house are quiet people (unless I'm having an outburst, then there's a din of yelling, screaming, swearing, slamming, banging, etc).

Our 3rd floor neighbors are noisy. They stomp around, they do a lot of boring, hammering and sawing, I hear them opening/shutting the slide doors, there is a lot of seemingly dropping object (by the sounds of it), we hear them cough, sneeze and talk, they're especially easy to hear in the bathroom and kitchen (due to the air ducts), their loud washing machine is on even rather late at night (which on its own doesn't bother me, but the husband came to our door just before Christmas 2008 and complained they could't sleep because there was a humming sound from one of the bedrooms (one of ours, never found out which one), which was BS because nothing was on in either room. I've ignored them after that and get annoyed by everything they do), and their blasted grill is polluting the air every summer. It stinks, causes my asthma to worsen and we have to close the veranda on that side. In addition they have two children (2 of 11 who live in the stairwell atm, can you imagine the noise level at times?) who run around all the time and scream and shout and are generally loud.
I hope they'll move soon!

I have had ghastly, nasty neighbours in the past who became an obsession. I have since had neighbours who more or less ignore me. I live in seriously boring suburbia where the lack of interaction makes me more lonely than if I lived somewhere isolated but I have lived in this area most of my life so it is difficult to move on. I also realise that as I have always felt the same wherever I have lived, moving is unlikely to help.

EDIT: This reply was to nessa238

^ she was!

and in the past she had made untrue complaints about us as well (calling us whenever someone was boring/hammering, as if ti was an illegal thing to do in day time. Only once was it even us. Complaining about the noise our dog made (which wass none, she wasn't a barking dog at all) and claiming the dog had urinated on the veranda so greenish water ran down to her. At the time the dog was a puppy and we were afraid she'd jump up on the low railing so she wasn't out there alone at that age, the veranda door was closed when we weren't there). She was nice until we got a dog, after that she turned completely.

And yet my mother left our day together (we were gonna enjoy some sweets and play games) because the old hag was too afraid to be alone in the thunder. I think it was incredible to even come to our door and ask us after the way she had acted towards us the last 3 years, at the time! ((this was when I was 11)
I still would have said no had it been me.

While on the subject of that one, she used too much perfume (and she used a heavy one at that), and at one point she got the idea that the trash would get clogged again (because it had been once) so she put cotton in the keyhole to prevent people from using it altogether

When she got really old, she discussed her feces with us. Really. And they say we have no filter!

It drives me insane. Neighbours one side have woken me up 3 times this week with their noise and have kept me awake once or twice this week with their noise. Not unusual either and my parents have moaned a few times about one of them screaming.

I live around people and it doesn't bother me. We have a nice yard and the homes aren't too close. None of them do things that bother me.


When I lived in my apartment, the ones below me bothered me because of their loud music and the one next door would sometimes play his TV too loud and his music too occasionally.

I rather dislike neighbors. I like the idea that there is a bit more safety, but other than that... We all live on 0.47 acre lots, much too close together for my taste, but considering I had to live in a townhouse for a year before getting the house, I'll take it. The townhouse was just a two family set up where we only shared one wall. The first tenants we shared the wall with weren't too bad, but I could hear them, especially at night. The second set were just plain horrible. They had finally moved away from home so they were feeling a bit free, couple of college boys. Set their subwoofer and speakers up against the wall and never slept. We lost so much sleep from them... I couldn't live like that, so we moved. We got tired of complaining about them.
I grew up in the middle of nowhere, where one could run around outside naked and not worry about anyone seeing. It was so quiet and nice, and I could actually see the stars. Moving to an area just outside the small "city", everything is so noisy! I've been living here for 4 years now and I'm still bothered by all the cars that zoom down the road late at night, the sirens constantly going making all the dogs howl and bark. Our neighbors are definitely close enough to smell, mainly because on one side there're smokers and the other side uses too much perfume and hair care products and crap. And they smoke too. We have people who think that it's reasonable to play their stupid music until 2 in the morning and the cops can't do much because they're always busy somewhere else. I wouldn't hate and despise mariachi music so much if I wasn't constantly tortured with it. Achy Brachy Heart done by a mariachi band at midnight is enough to drive anyone to kill.

I've always lived in a semi-detached house so I'm kind of used to be able to hear my neighbours.
The family living there at the moment are one of the worst ones I've had to deal with. The youngest child is probably about four and likes to scream for no reason. Her mother always screams in return and yells at her to stop screaming Then she screams at her partner. They like to throw things during arguments too.

How funny, I just went into my email and found an email from the AA (Automobile Association) saying: