Neighbours! How do ye get on with yours?

I’m not surprised that this sh1t is still going on in rural Ireland. It’s those children that I feel sorry for. Your parents are supposed to nurture and encourage you in life, not shelter you into ‘sticking to your own’.

Exactly. Wouldn’t want a ‘blow in’ taking their little Johnny’s corner forward position on the under-12’s team. You’d think there was pro contracts up for grabs when the kid turns 18 the way some people treat the GAA.

Anyway, end of my OT rant.

I get on well with most of my neighbours except the ones next door. The father is a very petty man. If we have visitors and anyone parks anywhere along the line outside his house, he will take his car out of his driveway and park up close to our visitors car.

Good hedges are a must when you have bad neighbours. You generally don’t even see them then.

That's crazy, change the locks and make MIL ring the doorbell to get in. As for the garage, change the lock and only you have the key. They need to learn some boundaries.

And neither you nor your wife have to be eternally grateful for getting a site to build on.

have been here about 6 years, the majority of us all moved in the same time, im very lucky to have lovely neighbours beside me which is a blessing as our doors face each other, which can be a pain for them, i guess im probably one of the annoying neighbours , but they are very good to the cat and the dog adores them.

guy on the other side of the wall is a 30 something bitter twisted mean piece of work. constantly doing and saying awful things to me and others but is cute and stays inside his flat mostly when roaring and shouting at us, so gards said nothing can be done about him, because he is inside.

there are two other yokes living in flats by themselves, one little runt scratches peoples cars at night, mine says 'c**t, i added WHAT A and and exclamation mark at the end.

he also abuses people verbally. but the biscuit was taken by a girl who has not been seen in 3 years , but place still there. she had me tormented , and went out of her way to get myself and another tenant here thrown out, basically because she was bored . if she had put that energy into doing something good , couldve been really helpful.

then a couple who moved in during covid who fight very loudly every so often, he has a real attitude and shouts loudly when stressed, but oddly its often her that gets taken away by the gards.

another guy walks about at night like he is on duty doing manouvres , very troubled.

in the 6 years that ive been here, ive had quite a lot of stuff stolen from me, bizarre items, and then some more valuable , sets of keys going missing, portable gas stoves (2), huawei p40 pro and gt2 matching watch, passport, dogs passport, car log books, gifts from my son to me that were personal and had no value to anyone else, old coats , crochet cardigan my mother made , socket sets, odd little things .

could write several books about them.

there are others here too who are decent lovely people and thanks to the mystery person who leaves the bones in a freezer bag by the door , they are highly appreciated .

As you may gather, several here have come off the 'sheltered' housing list, but still that is not licence to make other peoples life unpleasant.

C*nts to the right of me and idiots to the left. We're living in a Dublin suburb and while its a lovely house and nice neighbourhood we seemed to have picked the worst house on the street to buy.

The rest of the neighbours are nice and we get on well with them. Every year its something with them. Every single time they get something done to their house we have to clean up ours, be it paint on our car or when they get their drive power washed. There is zero consideration for us.

They've even gone to the extent of intentionally damaging our property recently and the Gardai have been involved. We decided after 5 years we need to start saving for a deposit on our next house. It's not worth the stress anymore.

get on great with mine... dont talk except for hi,how are you exchanges...best neighbour ever...8years and sometimes we still dont even talk..

I’m good thanks. The partner was stressed all weekend though because of it and forgot to apply for a job before the deadline as a result. The neighbour was sticking his nose in where it wasn’t wanted and was being accusatory and condescending. I told him in a stern but diplomatic way never to speak to us ever again so hopefully that will be the end of it.

Gone are the days when everyone knew who their neighbours were within a 5km radius and would "ramble" unannounced to each others houses - particularly in rural areas. Modern society requires people - and even relatives to make "appointments" to visit nowadays.