How well do you know your Neighbours?

Patww79

Patww79 wrote: »

One side has never spoken so much as one word to us in four years and the other side only bothers when they want to complain that there's a stray leaf in the hedge or something.

I wouldn't give either the skin off my ****e.



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they sound like dream neighbours tbh

Sac O Spuds

Living on country by road here. 2 neighbours both sisters married and living next door to each other on sites on original farm with about 14 yrs. We'll call them A&B The home house a cottage is idle and was bought by A about 3 yrs ago after a brother put it on the market. Other sister B got odd and put her house up for sale. Whole place was delighted as herself and husband are hated.

They've had disagreements with everyone over trivial stuff. Never sold house as they breached planning when building house back in 03 and had to apply for retention . Now sister A has her house for sale. A's husband took B to court recently over a spat at a wedding 2yrs ago. A got a bill from Eircom for about 3000 after B physically stopped them from shifting a pole on As property back in 15. Job was only supposed to cost about 400. Called guards as well on the day. Pole hasnt been touched since. Mad stuff altogether. Children would conduct themselves better.

gozunda

Where I am, there are
Clowns to the left of me,
Jokers to the right, here I am,
Stuck in the middle 

SimonTemplar

I know they exist. That's about all.

freshpopcorn

We do have a bit of a feud going on our road.
They are two houses diagonally across the road from one another.
One couple started sitting out the front in the evening to be in the sun. The lady across the road sat out the front to have the shade of her house but she kicked up a fuss saying the couple were looking at her and they should sit out the back.

The Crowman

buried wrote: »

I live in rural area too and I don't really know anybody, don't want to know either. But I know this.....if I've been out on either a date, holiday, any half pleasure exotic excursion of any kind, all these rural witchcraft piseog neighbour f**kwankers know all about it. And will let you know they know all about it too.

Did you move to this area from somewhere else? If so why did you choose to live there , if you hate it and your neighbours so much?

buried

The Crowman wrote: »

Did you move to this area from somewhere else? If so why did you choose to live there , if you hate it and your neighbours so much?

I like the countryside, the landscape is what makes me enjoy my living area. I also like to mind my own business. You can't beat it. Don't hate anybody crowman, I hate noseyness.

Mebuntu

I'm the "Neighbour from Heaven" and am surrounded by at least a dozen other "Neighbours from Heaven". .

Been like that for more than 40 years.

andekwarhola

Don't socialise with them, bar one guy I go to football with, but I know them quite well as our kids all hang out together and are in and out of each others houses. They're decent neighbours and would help you out, leave keys with each other while on holiday in case the alarm goes off etc.

Sleepy

We moved onto a terrace of 12 houses in a village in North County Dublin almost 2 years ago and the neighbours have been one of the highlights of finally owning our own home! We don't exactly live in each other's pockets but we'd all at least know one another to stop and say hello / have a quick chat to and most of us would have a few drinks together every 3/4 months. There's one family on the road that myself and Mrs Sleepy have become pretty good friends with: I got my first drive of a Porsche recently when said neighbour threw me the keys to his new toy!

There's even a Whatsapp group that's used for those "does anyone have a ladder that we could borrow?" questions or to arrange clean-ups / let each other know if the power is due to go out etc. We all look out for one another and after a decade of floating around Dublin rentals (and house-shares before that), it's great to live somewhere that really feels like "home". It's not something I've had since my childhood neighbourhood and I absolutely love it.

rickis tache

like others religious nut one side and ok family the other on a main country road. don't be here a lot so no interaction with either tbh. Still renting after 5 years and probably move once rent increases so see no real reason to make friends.

Graces7

honoured and blessed to have neighbours who respect privacy but who will help in kindness when there is real need...and I need to try to reciprocate... good neighbours is two sided

murpho999

Live in an apartment and don't know neighbours at all.

I have a nodding relationship with some of the Irish people living there but there are some east european people renting their and they don't want to know you at all.

Walk by you in corridors, or ignore you at the main door. Strange behaviour to me.

Grayson

One of my neighbours is an irish couple, the other side are indians. The smell of cooking from the Indians is amazing. I walk past their apartment and my mouth waters.

The Irish couple are expecting a baby. I know this because I was woken up last night at 12:30 by the woman screaming "What do you mean is it bleedin yours?" and "why the **** do you think I'm angry".

Normally my reaction to loud noises next door would be to tell them to shut the **** up but in this case

1) I was not getting anyway involved in that.
2) I think she was allowed go a bit nuts at him.

dinorebel

Not well enough to know any names but well enough to throw the car keys in the bowl and off we go.

freshpopcorn

Grayson wrote: »

One of my neighbours is an irish couple, the other side are indians. The smell of cooking from the Indians is amazing. I walk past their apartment and my mouth waters.

I heard of somebody with similar neigbhours as yourself but they lived in an apartment block. The smell of curry used be everywhere in the building.

PlaneSpeeking

Been in my house 11 years, don't even know the names of any of the neighbours.

There's a guy across the road I know on a nodding/"s'up ?" basis but beyond that ? Nope.

I'm out in the morning - back 13 or so hours later and either dead in the house for two days or flying to England for footy.

Lovely area though.