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[Misc] How do you get on with your immediate neighbours?
- Thread starter Icy Gull
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GREASED WEASEL
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- Dec 10, 2017
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Our neighbours on one side have three cars as do we but fortunately we have a drive so luckily don’t need to fight for car parking space. Although there is plenty of on street parking available. I am now waiting for [MENTION=15363]Plooks[/MENTION] to pop along and judge and abuse me for having a garden AND a drive!
I'll see your drive & garden with a double garage
Hitchcock made a very good movie out of exactly that.
Maybe time to kiss and make up?
Is it PotG?
Thrifty non-licker
One side, very pleasant.
Other side, utter ####.
Other side, utter ####.
- Apr 5, 2014
- 23,637
Sensible man
My approach goes back to when I was younger and lived in outback Australia. I asked a boss why he was so rude to me and not to migrants from other countries. He said it was because he liked the English.
Probably why he was so popular with everyone.
Whatever the rights and wrongs of that I've used it as a blueprint (although I have no hostility to migrants !)
Quite a few people on NSC are rude to me, but you have always stood out as extremely polite.
Get on very well with one side, looks after the cat when we are on holiday, etc. On the other side there is an older man which don’t see very often at all. I think a member of the family left their dog with him and they let in the garden very late at night and it starts barking. To be honest that does not bother me much. Living in a detached house helps as I think it would be me that would be a pain in the arse as I like to play music loud.
- Apr 5, 2014
- 23,637
Yes, I realise my strategy could be open to miss-interpretation.
I'm very rarely rude to anyone. Forthright, sometimes, but even then I'm not comfortable being annoyed for long. I can be very sarcastic though.
Not sure you've ever done anything to upset me.
I would bloody love it if it turned out that two NSCers who were neighbours who didn’t get on appeared on this thread
That would be ****ing funny. However, the neighbours I'm talking about are such massive snobs that they hate football, which is just another sign that they're not normal human beings
You might be on a short list if I haven't
Yes, I realise my strategy could be open to miss-interpretation.
I'm very rarely rude to anyone. Forthright, sometimes, but even then I'm not comfortable being annoyed for long. I can be very sarcastic though.
Not sure you've ever done anything to upset me.
ooh . . . our original neighbors (2003) where Kylie/ beatles standard on both sides . . . quality . . . .ages 2-90
Our Current ones are Coldplay/U2 standard. on one side and genesis on the other.
Our Current ones are Coldplay/U2 standard. on one side and genesis on the other.
LamieRobertson
Not awoke
My neighbours are lovely
One side - elderly couple, old proper East End Girl (sent to Sussex in the war and never left) and a Sussex country boy, both absolutely salt of the earth characters and would do absolutely anything for you. Get on very, very well with them, he in particular has done loads for us over 20+ years (including building our extension), now we’re doing a bit more for them. He keeps loads of birds at his yard, I get a constant supply of goose eggs. He’s got contacts for literally everything.........they’ve had some truly shocking times, losing one daughter to a car crash and then a son to cancer a few years ago (really lovely fella who lived with them). Their other daughter is very well known locally.
Other side, not so close but they’re also fine. She teaches at Hurst College, also lost a son (plane crash) a couple of years ago.
More widely, our close is pretty tight, only 36 or so houses and they very rarely go on the market so everyone has been here ages - we still feel like the ‘new’ couple even though Mrs D was pregnant when we moved in (junior is 22 now). Thought about moving a few times but really wouldn’t want to...........not going to happen.
Other side, not so close but they’re also fine. She teaches at Hurst College, also lost a son (plane crash) a couple of years ago.
More widely, our close is pretty tight, only 36 or so houses and they very rarely go on the market so everyone has been here ages - we still feel like the ‘new’ couple even though Mrs D was pregnant when we moved in (junior is 22 now). Thought about moving a few times but really wouldn’t want to...........not going to happen.
I apologise in advance but I do find it strange all this interaction on Facebook with neighbours ffs.
Weird imho, talk about everybody knowing everybody’s business, I imagine you would like to organise a street party after all these current challenges are over, I think your the sort who would, you’ll have to invite them [emoji23][emoji23]
Edit all my neighbours are fine, we are all respectful.
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Ok where do I send the cheque
juliant
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Just moved thank goodness as I was quite prepared to do time for one of my old neighbours. Had numerous disputes with him in 17 years of living there and it all boils down to the fact my ex wife called the police when he went into one of his daily drunken rages and beat his wife up. All 3 of his kids moved out as soon as they could and I really feel for his wife who is left with him but shes too stupid to leave him.
He really is a grade a nob and makes my piss boil but thankfully I no longer have to deal with him.
My new neighbours are great and i cant wait for this nightmare to be over so we can invite them for a BBQ and a drink so we can get to know them properly
He really is a grade a nob and makes my piss boil but thankfully I no longer have to deal with him.
My new neighbours are great and i cant wait for this nightmare to be over so we can invite them for a BBQ and a drink so we can get to know them properly