Neighbours! How do ye get on with yours?

We bought our house a few years ago and we have no neighbours at all. Our nearest neighbours are probably 2km away at least so I've met them, but we don't know them. This mightn't suit everyone, but we love it.

I rent on the cusp of suburbia in a relatively nice working class estate mostly private housing and housing association, lots of driveways hedges floral very open with regards to space. Lovely Families I've known for 40+years and neighbours I've known for 7 years and they're honest salt of the earth types. There is some crap that trickled in as well doing their best to wreck the area, we've a hostel/halfway house nearby with one troublesome resident known to the locals.

The private cul-de-sac top of my street their teenage kids are just rotten bstards and thanks to them I've my cctv facing our car but I also have 3 points of street view covered as well. Gable end where they think they can gather and do whatever they like (wrong) the opposite side of the road where their pals take vids and gather in 10-15's to cause others upset and the telephony box facing the gable all covered by CCTV, almost 360 pan and 180 degree tilt fully recordable night vision and zoom including audio.

My record for chasing them off property we pay full rent for is I think 15 aged 12-16, put me in my place eh? do as you like when my wife isn't well eh? think again! they wanted attention they got the sort of attention they didn't want and the local rep may have gotten involved as well. I have them all on stills as jpegs a rogues gallery. All dated and time stamped as evidence should I need it. One of their hangers on has an e-scooter and keeps lookout. When I see him passing our block I hit record he's also a sneak thief. Caught him last year stealing easter eggs left for a toddlers supervised easter egg hunt.

The law is on my side I have nothing to lose, their parents haven't the balls to keep their own kids in check so they know not to come to my door with empty threats they can't back up, other than that everythings just peachy. (not really it's hell being honest)

Mother and father in law 30m away on one side, sister in law and her family 40m on the other side. Brother in law building 100m from ours.

They're grand, but never out of our house. The mother in law would be over at 9am on a Saturday and Sunday morning and could call 4/5 times during the day then. It drives me mental.

Sister in law and her husband, nice people but jesus they never shut up when they're over. Talking about anything and he'd turn into the subject matter expert no matter what the topic.

I lost something there recently, cue the father in law going through my garage without asking rooting for it, just rocked over, opened up the shed and worked away, I bit my lip big style that day. He followed this up by rooting through the house until he found it while we were at work. You can't say anything either he gave us a site and I'd be in the wrong...

True what they say, you don't marry the love of our life, you marry the family too!

I live in an estate in North Dublin for 20 years and rarely speak to my neighbours. Most have their own lives and just don't mix with each other. My next door neighbours moved in two years ago and we have never spoken to them.

You know how in every estate, there's one front garden that all the kids gather in to play....even if the kid who lives there isn't actually there at the time?

And you know the parents who relive their nightclub days by blasting drum n bass in the front garden every time the sun shines via the recently acquired large Bluetooth speaker, making it impossible for anyone else to enjoy the sunshine?

Well, I live next door......😊

😂 brilliant!

I'm lucky with mine. Apart from a small bit of noise from power washers and god awful hip hop music blaring from one car when the owner comes home and parks up, no problems, and those things are forgiveable, they're not constant.

I've probably been a bad neighbour as my gutters are in a state but they'll be sparkling tomorrow when the guy I've booked to clean them comes.

Genuine question...is it worth it to live so close to in laws ...for the land etc?

(Side cheeky question) have u ever worried about divorcing and splitting up the house cost etc?

Neighbours to the right are an elderly couple late 70s very nice quiet people who always have a word with you, they just want a low key retired life and im happy to help with bins and parcels etc.

However...neighbours to the left are an absolutely bizzare twosome. They came down from the west of ireland to start afresh and get new jobs. They walk the dog every night, head off for romantic dates and generally are stuck to each other. Sounds normal right? Except they are brother and sister!!! I smell a big scandal in that family but i ask no qs. Theres nowt as queer as folk.

Not Burkes by any chance? 😂😂😂

Last two paragraphs are beautiful. Sound load of people you got there.

I'm the quiet neighbour. Just go about my business. Have a quick chat (mostly under duress), but not upset and most are sound. I'm just happy to be left alone.

It’s half three of a Sunday. Mother in law on her third visit of the day……