Who were the worst neighbours that you ever had the misfortune of living next door to?

Question

Having been a student, I have too many stories to tell! Luckily I've never had violent or frightening neighbours but I've lived with some weirdos in my time! Have you had a neighbour from hell? What happened?

Answer 1

My ex-neighbour was the worst, He was very much like Homer, and his son was like Dennis the menace. Thank god, i moved out before something worse happened to me.Though his wife was nice.

Answer 2

Noisey neighbours. I lived next door to a guy and our bedrooms backed onto each other. I used to hear some VERY strange noises in the middle of the night through the wall and finally found out it was him watching pornos at full blast and enjoying them a little too much! Also lived somewhere else where the neighbours were Iranian and had lots of late night parties with the women dancing and making screaming like noises until about 4am - on ANY night. Got so bad I had to go to bed in earplugs and buy an airconditioning unit for the summer as you couldn't open the windows at night without getting deafened! They were really strange and offered to buy our house from us the day we were moving and wanted to know how much we'd sold it for!

Answer 3

For 17 yrs I had the misfortune of sharing the bedroom wall with the old couple next door. Not only did the old woman yell on the phone at 6 am, not only did she try to learn English through an audio cassette (that meant that between 13.00 and 16.00 I could get no sleep, since all I heard was 'this is a cat, this is a dog'), but also she constantly banged against the wall when i tried to listen to music.

Answer 4

The ones we have more or less straight opposite us right now, she is worst than the neighbour from hell, she has parties Thursday to Monday, the noise is worse than hell, she has two kids that she constantly screams and shouts at, cars are coming all the time for 'business' yes shes a prostitute, druggies are hanging round all the time and we found out off the environmental health last week that she has Hepatitis C, fantastic hey, thankfully the big balls are rolling to get her evicted within the next two weeks, the welfare, police, environmental health and her landlord are all involved so complaining does work.

Answer 5

Our neighbor across the street sits on his porch and looks into people's houses with binoculars. He even asked the people that live beside us, "what's that thing in the back of your dining room?" They are the most shallow and superficial people on the earth. A few weeks ago, a guy came through our neighborhood knocking on doors to tell us that this neighbor is an unregistered child sex offender. It's a new neighborhood with houses priced at $700,000 to $800,000 - well this guy built the only $1,000,000 house on the block by putting everything you can inside of it, like marble countertops and wrought iron railings. He also bought a $9000 pool table. He's now bragging to the neighborhood that they have over $1,000,000 in debt. Would any of you be proud of that????? I went to this guy's old neighborhood knocking on doors to try and find out about the child sex offender thing because the police and court systems have nothing on record (we did an extremely thorough search) and EVERYBODY in his old neighborhood hated him. They got pissed off just talking about the guy. Now, a bunch of people in my neighborhood are talking about possible ways to make his life so much of a living hell that he'll move.

Answer 6

I use to live in a flat South London and we had a guy in the basement flat that played his stereo at full blast all through the night, and the guy upstairs use to deliberately intimidate the girl I lived with. He was a really nasty piece of work. I also suspect that he was dealing in drugs but could never be sure.
Anyway, it is all part of the learning curve of life.

Answer 7

I live in a flat and every time I come up the stairs one of my neighbours pops her head out and watches me open the door and go in. If I have a guest she grills them- "Are you with her?! How do you know her?" and asks me to verify their story. Then she stays there until we've both gone in.

Freak.

Answer 8

Many years back I moved in with the local "bad boy" who just happened to live next door to the neighbourhood gossip. All day long you could hear her yapping over the fence at the back.
Funny thing was, when my family came looking for me and my dad asked her about me, she refused to tell him anything!

Answer 9

I lived in a flat once and the girls living below played Nelly's Hot In Here on repeat for three days solid.

That to me is hell!

Answer 10

Well, me and my ex had upstairs neighbours who partied all night and then clumped around playing loud music at 3am without my shitty landlord ever doing anything about our constant complaints. They chucked rubbish in our garden and all sorts. Stupid soul-boys hating us because we were punk/goths. Anyway my girlfriends parents hated us being together and so they called her to Saudi Arabia twice a year to coincide with both her and my birthdays in July and Christmas and New Year later. (Lucky they never thought about Halloween!) so we couldn't really celebrate anything together. Nevertheless, I saw the bastards looking out of the window during one of Paula's 6-monthly visits, smirking and incorrectly thinking 'She's left him - good!' I assume. So, next time they went out to go pubbing and clubbing (plus drink-driving of course), I dug over a piece of our garden about 6ft x 3ft and do you know, they were as quiet as church mice until Paula came back from holiday. She was furious when I first told her what I'd done but laughed her head off about 4 minutes later.