Neighbours from hell

[DodgyAgent]

Been living in a lovely quiet spot in a country village for 10 years or so.

Until now..

Young family moved in to a place at the end of the dead end road I live on and the have the noisiest, peace shattering brat of a son who spends every waking hour shouting, screaming and just being generally noisy.

Now, you might think I'm about to tell you that the couple are chavs on benefits. But they're not. They're a youngish, middle class couple moved down from London, almost certainly left wing. He comes over very foppish while she is one of those women who seems to have a strong sense of entitlement - all of this was evidenced when I finally went and knocked on their door and asked if they would very kindly stop their little ******* brat from screaming and shouting right outside my door and also from peering in through the window as he may get more than he bargained for one day.

The response was kind of a mealey mouthed "We appreciate your concern but we feel it's important for our child to explore his environment so he is comfortable in his own space in the world" while she just tried to make me feel bad by saying something along the lines of "it's just a kid FFS, deal with it" (and yes, I'd love to deal with it dear - with the back of my hand.)

The funny thing is, it's a fairly mixed bunch round here - there have been a few what most people would term chavvy families that I've had no problems with & have actually been good neighbours but, unfortunately, they're moving on as they realise they can get a good price on their houses, buy in a less salubrious are & have plenty of cash left over.

I can only hope that not all of the people who replace them will be like the Modern Parents clones from down the road.

Still, what should I care - by the time he's 10 he'll be confined to his bedroom servicing his online porn addiction and peace shall be restored.

What do you lot do about other people's noisy kids when it's a constant source of irritation?

Good anti leftie rant

[CheeseSlice]

You should be glad its just the kid who will eventually grow up.
Crazy adult neighbors are the real problem, they never change.

[SueEllen]

The brat is bored.

Either give him "presents" that he can take home to annoy his parents with and can only be played with indoors, or wait until he "explores" and does something dangerous so you can go ballistic telling him off.

In the first case his parents will tell him to avoid you, and in the latter case he will avoid you.

If he is stupid enough to complain to his parents about you telling him off you can point out they are neglecting him and threaten to report them to social services. If his entitled mother has a go then report them.

[zoco]

I've got a similar thing but of the chav-variety.

I bought a new build place and the block opposite me went to social housing. Got a really loud family with a huge number of kids together with stay-at-home parents right opposite. They seem to communicate via the medium of bellowing and want to have all their arguments out in the street. I can't believe I'm paying for this lot.

Mind you my worst neighbours here were in the flat above me: it was being rented to a nurse and her drug dealer boyfriend. They woke me up every single night for the two years they lived their. According to another neighbour one night he kicked her dog to death on the communal hallway and there remains a massive blood stain on the carpet where it happened.

The landlord moved back in after that and set up a cannabis-growing factory so involved high-temperature grow lamps which is an incredibly irresponsible to do in a crowded block of flats with babies and toddlers living there.

F'kin 'ell.

What sort of a rate are you on?

[vetran]

Its not actually that unusual with Flats, many get rented to social tenants even in nice areas.

I used to have a really nice flat in a posh part of Guildford, my neighbour was a mad civil servant on a low rent

[Cenobite]

F'kin 'ell.

What sort of a rate are you on?

Haha! I'm just tight! My brother was saying the other week he can't believe I've stayed here for seven years.

Thing is I can pay the mortgage off any time I like with much spare change (but my investments are doing well so I've not pulled the money out) and the area is getting slightly better.

If I took on a bigger mortgage I'd feel as much in lockdown as I would as a permie. I'm even taking some involuntary bench time at the moment. Mind you, I went to my BMW last week and some scallies had nicked my dust caps off my tyres (they're metal so look good on a BMX).

[darmstadt]

Good anti leftie rant

We have some tulip neighbours, middle class Tory voting scum who think its fine to have garden party's whenever they like until the early hours of the morning, park their middle class gas guzzling SUV death traps where they think fit, wear the most god awful tartan golfing trousers on a bright Sunday morning and are just plain obnoxious ignorant pillocks. I was thinking of putting up a Ukip poster but they might start talking to me again (which they haven't done since I bought a more expensive car than them and suddenly found out that I earn more than them.) You see the problem with these righties is they say the left-wing is divided. It looks that way because the left is made up of independent free-thinkers who each have slightly different ideas of what the problems are and especially how to solve them. This is not, however, indicative of a lack of unity, but a lack of conformity. The right-wing on the other hand all pretty much think the same as they think how they are told to by the establishment. This makes them all vote the same way and that's what makes them stronger in a democracy despite their minority view. Funny then how it always seems to be the left doing the most to defend democracy. That's because democracy is not the problem. The problem is ignorance and well spread lies. That is what the left attacks but try telling that to small minded people

[tractor]

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Been living in a lovely quiet spot in a country village for 10 years or so.

Until now..

Young family moved in to a place at the end of the dead end road I live on and the have the noisiest, peace shattering brat of a son who spends every waking hour shouting, screaming and just being generally noisy.

Now, you might think I'm about to tell you that the couple are chavs on benefits. But they're not. They're a youngish, middle class couple moved down from London, almost certainly left wing. He comes over very foppish while she is one of those women who seems to have a strong sense of entitlement - all of this was evidenced when I finally went and knocked on their door and asked if they would very kindly stop their little ******* brat from screaming and shouting right outside my door and also from peering in through the window as he may get more than he bargained for one day.

The response was kind of a mealey mouthed "We appreciate your concern but we feel it's important for our child to explore his environment so he is comfortable in his own space in the world" while she just tried to make me feel bad by saying something along the lines of "it's just a kid FFS, deal with it" (and yes, I'd love to deal with it dear - with the back of my hand.)

The funny thing is, it's a fairly mixed bunch round here - there have been a few what most people would term chavvy families that I've had no problems with & have actually been good neighbours but, unfortunately, they're moving on as they realise they can get a good price on their houses, buy in a less salubrious are & have plenty of cash left over.

I can only hope that not all of the people who replace them will be like the Modern Parents clones from down the road.

Still, what should I care - by the time he's 10 he'll be confined to his bedroom servicing his online porn addiction and peace shall be restored.

What do you lot do about other people's noisy kids when it's a constant source of irritation?

Real contractors live in a cul-de-sac.

Wait until he's bending over trying to get an eyeful of the mrs warming your lunch by the fire, then rush upstairs, open the window and give him his very own ice bucket challenge with a wheelie bin full. that should do it!

[Old Greg]

I can't hear other people's noisy kids over the sound of my own.

[darmstadt]

When I lived on a council estate all the chavvy unemployed people with problem families were actually Tory voters. They were originally Labour voters but when Thatcher came into power (and somehow they all managed to be able to buy their own council houses) they switched sides. People, huh, fickle lot or what?