Alongside with my crappy neighbour issues, I've made life long friends with the ones we did get along with an stay in touch I certainly keep to myself as much as possible when it comes to general noise like dogs, parties, fireworks and burnouts..we were all doing it at some point, but when they start nagging about the same things you've let go for years..its like.." well hold on a second cowboy, now I've got a story to say to you as well..."Filthyphil said:Live and let live
This has always been my motto and has served me well with all neighbours even the troubled type.
Bwahahaha ohh the south east suburbs are awesome are they notSwinging & digging said:I have been told if you want good neighbour,s in Melbourne you have to live in Suburbs were the houses are priced at $1,000,000 or above to rule out the ferrule Bogan factor!
I use to think my house was worth $430,000 but going by recent sales close by more like $500,000.
I HATE MY STREET and i are a very quiet person:
I have to put with the following : Nearby Drug dealers ( Ice users & distributors ) Police don,t tackle them?
24 hour, 7 day a week VERY LOUD MUSIC from the dole bludgers across the road from me?? I am convinced our government is way to generous when it comes to welfare!
Speeding motorists, despite living in a residential street close to a primary school ( speed limit 50 km/hr ) the dead beat Aussie Bogan,s in their heaps drive at up to 150 km/hr in my street frequently? They are usually playing very loud music in their car sound system? ( this is a definite distraction to safe driving ).
Extreme Rat & Mice infestation due to nearby homes not been careful with food scraps for pets & kids? I had a pest controller come visit and he is wanting to sell me chemicals to kill my neighbours! In winter i am subject to extreme smoke pollution from nearby homes as many burn wood fires and burn the wrong kind of wood? With my windows and doors closed my house stinks of chimney smoke! Barking dogs, across the road from me a dog barks consistently at night when its owners are out?
Can,t wait to win lotto and move to a good area? Is there one left in the country?
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Goldtarget said:Never had a bad neighbour. ......maybe I'm the bad neighbour!
But seriously just tell all the good neighbour's what your up to and invite a massive amount of people around. When things escalate as they surely will you can claim plausible deniability.
A few heavy set blokes and a bunch of families does the trick(in case the cops are called). A quick show of force and a bit of humiliation usually forces the worst behavior to stop.
And to balance the equation look after the good neighbour's, often they are your greatest asset.
Just ask my neighbour what happens when you refuse to quit doing something I ask which is fair and reasonable. You get no joy unless I relent.
Avenged said:Bad luck Bushpig
We had a bad neighbour too... we live in a really quiet street and have lived there for 20+ years. Everyone literally knows everyone and we've all lived well for the 20+ years. Unfortunately the house next to use sold one year after our good neighbours decided to cash up and sell to live in a more fancy area. The couple that bought the place had 2 young kids (around 9 - 10) and a jack Russell. They kept to themselves for a good 3 years and said "Hi" if we were out gardening the front. Then it all changed one day.
The husband stopped gardening and let what was once a pristine house become overgrown. The hedges and bushes became so overgrown in the front you could only just see the tip of the roof. The hedge lining the back side fence also grew rapidly. We ended up having to prune it back to keep it from being too invasive and in our gutters!
One summer day it was a nice 26 degrees out and we decided to watch a movie in our theatre room with the fan going when all of a sudden we see the young girl on their roof!! Bare foot and in shorts and a tshirt on the roof throwing lemons at our place!! Mind you the lemons weren't small either!! One narrowly missed out garage window, we had about 3 land on our roof and others ended up in the garden. My old man ran out and was telling her to stop throwing them while mum went next door to complain.
Unfortunately the husband was one of those men who didn't like listening to women at all (go figure he had a wife right? ) so he did nothing about his daughter at all despite us doing nothing at all to deserve this. We copped random attacks like this for another year or two until she was about 15 and was walking the street with strange older men and stayed away from home.
Around that time the wife sort of went a bit quiet and she soon left, what I can only presume was a marriage breakdown? She lived with another man and then it went even worse. The garden became even more over grown and he literally stopped coming outside. One morning our neighbours opposite us mowed the lawn at 11am. He ran out in his robe and was hurling abuse at them and making a huge scene. 3 days after that police showed up in the day time and then he left in an ambulance. A month down the track my cousin stayed the night and at 1am we all awoke to our neighbour smashing up his house with what sounded like a mallet! all the glass windows shattering and everything being smashed up. Yelling from him as well. Mum called the cops and thankfully they sorted him out and took him away after almost an hour of tantrums with the cops.... we only found out a month later that had we not called the cops he was going to torch his place as he poured petrol over everything.... His house finally went up for sale and he moved out.. but still that was the scariest thing to live next to him.
Can feel your pain but unfortunately sometimes you can't do much but put up with it and pray they move
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