My Neighbors Are Awful (I Can't Sleep)

[Jackie Daytona]

Do you have bad neighbors? Leave a comment. I got ya'all beat though.

3-4 years ago I moved to a new neighborhood. I dislike all of them. To protect identities (and myself) I'll be assigning numbers to these people.

Some of these complaints will seem unreasonable. Until you understand that I spent YEARS working night jobs. Which make it very hard for me to sleep at night. And my neighbors? They make it impossible to sleep during the day. I'm so tired.

Neighbor 1
Has endless woodworking projects. Opens his garage, and moves his saw table to the entrance. This creates an amphitheater. Which blasts my house with a high-pitched sound. He'll do this FOR HOURS. He's doing it right now as I type this.

He also setup (and purchased) a drum set for his son. Which he decided to put in the garage. (Never mind the spare car they don't use is parked outside. Because what is a garage for if not for junk?) And they also open the door each time they play the drums. Because I guess they want me to hear clearly how bad their son is at playing. Dude could not keep time if he strapped a watch to his ear.

Oh, and they have non-stop guests. Which park in places that block me from backing out of my own driveway. And make noise. Because they leave their car running. And stand around talking outside. All of which drives my dog crazy.

Neighbor 2
Some old guy. 70+. Stares at me. Literally comes out of his house and stares at me. Every time he sees or hears me outside. It's like he spends the whole day looking out the window. (Seriously, it was 4 a.m. and my dog randomly barked at a guy going past. This dude turned on all his lights, opened his door, and stared at me from his doorway.)

Why? I've no idea. I tried confronting him and he ran inside his home. All I know is my dog won't take a dump with someone staring at him.

He also obsesses over his lawn. Mowing even when there is barely any grass growth. Even during droughts. And he'll go over the same section multiple times. It takes him an hour to mow a section that is roughly 8'x10'.

Autumn is the worst. He has one of those backpack leafblowers. I heard him holding it down at full blast for over 20 seconds. I looked out the window. Dude is staring at a SINGLE LEAF on his lawn. It's stuck. And he spends MINUTES blasting this high-pitched machine at ONE LEAF. Unlike the leaf, I was blown away.

Neighbor 3
Has never heard of a condom. He has a ton of kids. Which scream. Endlessly.

That could be forgivable. Kids are rough. Being a parent isn't easy. But your kids really shouldn't be keeping me up at 10:30 p.m. because you're having a party. A week away from the last party you had. And I couldn't sleep then, either!

One of their dogs escaped from their back yard. I tried to wrangle it. The dog was insanely aggressive, and starving. There was nothing I could do.

Also, owns a chainsaw. Spends hours cutting wood. Sometimes all day. Where did all the wood come from? I don't know. But he sure has a lot of it to cut.

Also sets off fireworks on random evenings.

Neighbor 4
Grandparents of some kids. Which get dumped on them every weekend. They are completely out of control. All they do is scream, squeal, shout, or talk loudly. Non-stop. From 10 a.m. to dusk. They very literally spend all their time in the back yard. Which is just outside my bedroom. It's a nightmare.

Neighbor 5
Old lady that puts her cat out at random. Climbed up on my car. (Multiple times!) Scratched the paint. Then had the nerve to ask me for a favor. Nope!

Neighbor 6
He's a pretty good guy. Except that he uses a high-pitched mini chainsaw to cut small branches into exact 1.5 ft lengths. And will spend hours doing so. For days. I dread the next windstorm.

Neighbor 7
Installed a super-bright porch light, and aimed it at my house.

Neighbor 8
Two doors down. Brings his dog to my yard to take dumps. Sometimes he cleans it, sometimes he doesn't. Why can't this bozo walk in his own yard?

Neighbor 9
Retired cop. Smokes a cigar at midnight. Why would he do this? Beats me. All I know is that he stares at me.

Neighbor 10
Lives a good distance away. Has shooting practice in the evening. At complete random. Throughout the year.

Neighbors X
Then there are these people that are outside between 12 a.m. and 4 a.m. People riding bikes around town. There's quite a few. I don't know what's going on around here. It's weird.

Not Neighbors
There are owls, random animals, and other birds that make it impossible to sleep at night. As they constantly make annoying noises. With no rhythm.

Randos
For reasons unknown, lots of people throw their trash in my yard. It happens multiple times per week.
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This place was perfectly fine when I moved in. Now? It's intolerable.

All my other options are far more expensive. I don't know what to do.

[Zepondrax]

Messaggio originale di Jackie Daytona:

Do you have bad neighbors? Leave a comment. I got ya'all beat though.

3-4 years ago I moved to a new neighborhood. I dislike all of them. To protect identities (and myself) I'll be assigning numbers to these people.

Some of these complaints will seem unreasonable. Until you understand that I spent YEARS working night jobs. Which make it very hard for me to sleep at night. And my neighbors? They make it impossible to sleep during the day. I'm so tired.

Neighbor 1
Has endless woodworking projects. Opens his garage, and moves his saw table to the entrance. This creates an amphitheater. Which blasts my house with a high-pitched sound. He'll do this FOR HOURS. He's doing it right now as I type this.

He also setup (and purchased) a drum set for his son. Which he decided to put in the garage. (Never mind the spare car they don't use is parked outside. Because what is a garage for if not for junk?) And they also open the door each time they play the drums. Because I guess they want me to hear clearly how bad their son is at playing. Dude could not keep time if he strapped a watch to his ear.

Oh, and they have non-stop guests. Which park in places that block me from backing out of my own driveway. And make noise. Because they leave their car running. And stand around talking outside. All of which drives my dog crazy.

Neighbor 2
Some old guy. 70+. Stares at me. Literally comes out of his house and stares at me. Every time he sees or hears me outside. It's like he spends the whole day looking out the window. (Seriously, it was 4 a.m. and my dog randomly barked at a guy going past. This dude turned on all his lights, opened his door, and stared at me from his doorway.)

Why? I've no idea. I tried confronting him and he ran inside his home. All I know is my dog won't take a dump with someone staring at him.

He also obsesses over his lawn. Mowing even when there is barely any grass growth. Even during droughts. And he'll go over the same section multiple times. It takes him an hour to mow a section that is roughly 8'x10'.

Autumn is the worst. He has one of those backpack leafblowers. I heard him holding it down at full blast for over 20 seconds. I looked out the window. Dude is staring at a SINGLE LEAF on his lawn. It's stuck. And he spends MINUTES blasting this high-pitched machine at ONE LEAF. Unlike the leaf, I was blown away.

Neighbor 3
Has never heard of a condom. He has a ton of kids. Which scream. Endlessly.

That could be forgivable. Kids are rough. Being a parent isn't easy. But your kids really shouldn't be keeping me up at 10:30 p.m. because you're having a party. A week away from the last party you had. And I couldn't sleep then, either!

One of their dogs escaped from their back yard. I tried to wrangle it. The dog was insanely aggressive, and starving. There was nothing I could do.

Also, owns a chainsaw. Spends hours cutting wood. Sometimes all day. Where did all the wood come from? I don't know. But he sure has a lot of it to cut.

Also sets off fireworks on random evenings.

Neighbor 4
Grandparents of some kids. Which get dumped on them every weekend. They are completely out of control. All they do is scream, squeal, shout, or talk loudly. Non-stop. From 10 a.m. to dusk. They very literally spend all their time in the back yard. Which is just outside my bedroom. It's a nightmare.

Neighbor 5
Old lady that puts her cat out at random. Climbed up on my car. (Multiple times!) Scratched the paint. Then had the nerve to ask me for a favor. Nope!

Neighbor 6
He's a pretty good guy. Except that he uses a high-pitched mini chainsaw to cut small branches into exact 1.5 ft lengths. And will spend hours doing so. For days. I dread the next windstorm.

Neighbor 7
Installed a super-bright porch light, and aimed it at my house.

Neighbor 8
Two doors down. Brings his dog to my yard to take dumps. Sometimes he cleans it, sometimes he doesn't. Why can't this bozo walk in his own yard?

Neighbor 9
Retired cop. Smokes a cigar at midnight. Why would he do this? Beats me. All I know is that he stares at me.

Neighbor 10
Lives a good distance away. Has shooting practice in the evening. At complete random. Throughout the year.

Neighbors X
Then there are these people that are outside between 12 a.m. and 4 a.m. People riding bikes around town. There's quite a few. I don't know what's going on around here. It's weird.

Not Neighbors
There are owls, random animals, and other birds that make it impossible to sleep at night. As they constantly make annoying noises. With no rhythm.

Randos
For reasons unknown, lots of people throw their trash in my yard. It happens multiple times per week.
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This place was perfectly fine when I moved in. Now? It's intolerable.

All my other options are far more expensive. I don't know what to do.

What a long list.

I live In an apartment block I hate my neighbours. Only two of us per floor and the apartments are close to each other.

I have to put up with horrible cooking smells infiltrating my apartment every 2-3 hours, sometimes I swear they do it out of spite. I have to buy sprays to get rid of the odour in the lobby.

They won't spray so I have to. Why should I buy then, they should be doing that they make the bad smells and they know it

[Jackie Daytona]

Messaggio originale di Thadeus:

Find ways to mess with them too.

In Romania, we call these tactics "Carp Pheromones".

It started out as an online meme on r/romania, where people complaining about their neighbors doing things that are highly annoying but not actually law breaking and so the law doesn't do anything about it, were told to just go to a bait shop and buy carp pheromones and smear it on the offending neighbors's apartment door, door mat, car, etc. This is a substance used in fishing, which is dumped at the finishing spot and it makes fish hungry and more likely to gather up in that spot. The downside is that it smells horribly and is difficult to wash off.

Then "Carp Pheromones" just became the dog whistle for all encompassing ways to piss off your neighbor without actually breaking the law.

Here's my suggestion about the woodworker. Buy large speakers and position them towards his yard, then start blasting music the moment he starts blasting the sawmill.

Good suggestions. However... my neighbors have more money than me. And a ton of free-time. In other words, they can do far worse to me than I can do to them.

That said, I do have some powerful speakers... I could hit all the neighbors at once with 'System of the Down' at 4 a.m.

[Zepondrax]

I thought that, try and get your own back on your neighbors for being annoying. Get them back by playing loud muisc late at night. My neighbors next door dont go to work, they stay home day by day, unfortunately for me we live so close and I have to put up with their awful foul smells

[Apollo702]

This is for people looking to avoid situations like this:

If one doesn't deeply know a neighborhood consider renting for 6 months and seeing just what it's like before taking the plunge and buying.

Also, go on YT and consume tons of real estate videos talking about everything from the neighborhoods all the way to individual home walkthroughs. I watch home tours every day in every price range here in Lost Wages, mostly from realtors who I like and who post frequently.

Bonus crazy idea:
Get a job delivering pizza in the neighborhood for a while and take gobs of deliveries. This will enable one to get to a steady stream of new doors and sample what the neighborhoods and people are like.

Try techniques like these and really get a feel before making the deep commitment of buying.

[AlienTestosterone]

It's quiet in my hood there's all sorts of rules that every residents needs to abide in a walled community.

[Zepondrax]

Where I a they dont want residents making noise as it amplifies in the lobby and disturbs others which is true. You would think Apartment living is great but if you live right next door to your neighbour then ti can be a pain, and you have people above you too who sometimes make noise early or late

Messaggio originale di AlienTestosterone:

It's quiet in my hood there's all sorts of rules that every residents needs to abide in a walled community.

[Li77lehorn]

My neighbours are all pretty nice. One just this morning knocked on my door and gave me a tub of bird seed for my birds. He must see them as he walks past sometimes.

[Apollo702]

Part 2:

Neighborhoods can change over the course of years though.

When I first moved to Lost Wages it was the neighborhood from Casino. They were filming in my early weeks here. It's a corny old Vegas neighborhood kinda on the East side. During the early months all I did was work and the once great Gold's gym near it is gone.

I would not live anywhere near it again and many neighborhoods around it have badly gone downhill.

The next place I rented a room for a few months and never unpacked. It was not home. That neighborhood at the time was OK. Now it's not that great.

Then I got my condo in a very central location and at the time it was the perfect bachelor pad, was right behind another Gold's gym and a couple of green stoplights from being on the strip and the strip club(also gone) where all my best girls came from.

My best years were there, fiancees 5 and 6 and multiple serious girlfriends(all strippers from the same club) lived with me for various lengths of time. More than anywhere in my life, I considered that home.

Now, that neighborhood has horribly declined. Even the exteriors of stores look old and dated. The homeless are out, everywhere there are billboards for personal injury lawyers, poverty businesses such as dollar stores...

I would not go back there under any circumstances.

I got this house in 2020 in one of the lesser known best neighborhoods in town. Crime is as low as humanly possible and it's well maintained and quiet. Too quiet. It was built in 2001 and the age is showing. More than anything else it's boring.

The vitality has steadily been moving outwards where all the new construction is happening.

Also, most of the neighbors that i liked have either moved or died just in the past few years. A couple had meldowns and freakouts.

The crowds I see at places like the grocery store have declined, the employees that I liked in a number of these places have declined...

So despite all the work that i keep putting into this house I may move again. It could be as little as a mile or two down the road or perhaps one of the other good sections of town. I want something more modern and with more lively people!


That's the thing with neighborhoods. Over the course of years they can change.

[Jackie Daytona]

Messaggio originale di ciarruh:

jackie seems like an annoying ass neighbour lol, not gonna lie.

Because I'm quiet and keep to myself? Because I never ask them for anything? I think that's the ideal neighbor. Don't make noise, and don't ask me for anything. Perfect.

Messaggio originale di =(^ ^)=:

Sounds like you are some crazy dude, and your neighboards are starting to notice it.

All they ever see me do is walk my dog in my own yard. I'm not causing any problems for any of these people whatsoever.

[ImSoCool599]

Sounds like ur the most annoying one

[Breathe]

I've had seasons of obnoxious neighbours but these days, nothing to complain about.

[Zepondrax]

Apartment living has its ups and downs. Plus side is you wont get broken into but on a bad note you have to put up with obvious neighbours or neighbours that dont care

Messaggio originale di Breathe:

I've had seasons of obnoxious neighbours but these days, nothing to complain about.

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Messaggio originale di Apollo702:

1 word:

Realtor.

country is going to hell what do you expect

[Zepondrax]

My neighbours in my apartment floor next to me they dont care, they just leave the pungent cooking odour in the lobby, everytime I go out there it REEKS. Ive had enough so now what I do is, I leave the door open as we have a side door, so the bad smell can go into the stairwell instead of in my apartment.

[TERRONE]

Call the police