I was burning the seeds on some weeds with a gas flame thrower and this neighbour came over to the fence and really abused me and calling me names because the smoke was going to get on her washing.  I was only using a gas burner to heat up the seeds to kill them and there was no fire just a little burning odor.  She's a nutter this one and always complains when I mow the lawn also - there's always a reason to have a go at me.  A real nutter this one.

What are your neighbours like?

Mine are pretty good.  I have loads of them because I live in a unit.  I think my TV gets a little loud at times is all.  Acrross the way is more units as well.  The only thing that worries me about my neighbors is that I just recently got a barbeque for the balcony and I'm sure that although I don't know what law I'm breaking, that there is at least one law being broken when I use it.  Other people have them, but my fear is that someone from accross the way will call it in and a cop will be close by to drive through the alleyway and see me.  I live really close to a sizeable police station.  I suppose if I get a fine then I get a fine but I'm not likely to.  I think the worst I'll get over it is someone in a bad mood.  Of course I've got the guy that takes care of the gardens living right above me... not too sure about him.  I WANT BARBEQUE!!!

I don't really know my neighbors.  I know their name and I see them in town occasionally and we say hello but that's it.

Can you call your in-laws neighbors because they are always here overstaying their welcome bragging about their high pay and large 4X4's and always ready to give advice on how I should live my life.  If they're so well paid why then don’t they just rent a unit on the coast and leave me alone.

I respect successful people, I just don't like braggarts!

BTW Dean, Police just love BBQs, especially whats in the esky!

We have good neighbours, except the ferals at number 11 that is!  Some people should not be allowed to have children!

I've never heard of any BBQs being illegal, MD, except on fire ban day. You would be safe at this time of the year.

I rarely speak to my neighbours. The friendly ones were oldies and have all died. Their houses now have renters in them. Most renters don't give a fig about noise or mess. I don't have to worry about my jungle lawn anymore because it blends right in. My old neighbours would politely knock on the door and give me advice on weed killers and edgers and blade heights and fertilizers ..... and then probably went home muttering about youngsters.

Next door is a rental and he has two housemates. They all have very loud cars and all of their friends have very loud cars. The music always has the bass cranked up to the max and my windows rattle. You cant hear a tune all you can hear is doof, doof, rattle. The vibrations through the house make me feel a little bit queasy.
I wondered why the boys would rev the engines to a whining peak everytime they pulled into the driveway. I asked ... they do it instead of pressing the doorbell. Of course.

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We have good neighbours, except the ferals at number 11 that is!  Some people should not be allowed to have children!

One of my favorite sayings is 'some people shouldn't breed'!
I live in a very high density area which is unit block after unit block. Mostly townhouses. My neighbours are virtually all renters like myself. Some are great, some are good and some are downright dreadful. There is one mother who screams at her kid (12 yrs) for up to one hour and every second word is 'f' but to look at you would never guess that she is like this. Her son has learned to behave like her and now fights back. Then there is the young couple who up until a week ago were making our lives hell. A temperamental 21 yr old new father who is obviously unhappy with his lot in life would take it out on all the neighbours by screaming off in his souped up V8 at 6am every morning. The morning it was 20 to 6 I went to his girlfriend and mother of his baby and asked for their Real Estate's name and she pleaded with me not to report him. I didn't... this time... and he has been angelic ever since. The moment he regresses I am onto it. Give some people an inch and they will take a mile. I am a very friendly and compassionate person (typical Libran) and get along with all my neighbours but am not averse to ringing the Police if things get out of hand. I have raised my 2 adult offspring to be respectful of others and be aware of their own behaviour but always lived by the adage 'give them enough rope to hang themselves on' which I found helped them to learn their life lessons even more thoroughly.

I suppose I am lucky living in a cul-de-sac...........except for a few noisy kids playing cricket we have it pretty quiet.......Every time they get a bit noisy I remind myself I was a kid once........

We had a lovely neighbour on one side but he moved out and now the people in the three newly built units won't even return the occasional 'good morning'.  The people on the other side are alcoholics but the worst they've ever done is leave their radio on very loud overnight.  In the main they're good people, and even the dog knew the difference between them staggering around in their backyard and potential burglars.  The people over the lane used to be very good neighbours but we had a falling out over the unit development (where the snobby neighbours live).  The neighbours over the lane ignored us for nearly two years but as we didn't notice I can't say they achieved anything.  

Overall, our block has pretty good people. No ferals, party animals or other sorts of trouble.  

I have no idea who my neighbours are, or what they look like. Its as if I don't have neighbours, they are so good!

I have a terrific neighbour on one side and the neighbour from hell on the other. They're so bad their children have all fled the state. I still don't understand why you would flick all dog droppings from your side across to mine. I don't know why you would go ring barking neighbours trees because leaves are falling on your verge. I'm thankful we no longer talk.

That's horrible.  I couldn't sleep at night if I had neighbors like that.  I'de be awake angry and researching explosives or something.  Probably wouldn't make any but it would certainly have me up at night if I had to clean someone elses dog poo on a regular basis.  I think you have everyone beat for worst neighbors for the moment.
I almost didn't add 'for the moment' to that but then I remembered some friends of mine that had rabbits and one day came home and found only rabit heads in their yard.  Hopefully the person who did it at least ate the cute bunnys.

That reminds me. When living in Tamworth 15 odd years ago our neighbours had a beautiful new home built and yet they were ferals. They had 2 'Dobermans', male and female. They said they were pure bred but the male had a head similar to a Rotty and I think he was Doberman/Rottweiler cross. They bred puppies and even though they were 'purebred' the owners almost starved the puppies to death. It was a large litter and they didn't supplement feed for the Mother. They kept one little female and were starving her and we made a gap in the fence for her and fed her. She spent more time with us than with her owners. Then one day before we left Tamworth to come to Qld another neighbour was searching for her cat which was a grey persian which had cost her over $3000.00 to get fixed after it was hit by a car and it's whole face had to be reconstructed (and most of the rest of it). It had never gone missing before. I was talking to the neighbours who had the dogs one day soon after and the chick told me she had found a cat's head in the yard, her dogs had attacked it and eaten all but the head! OMG! I told them to get rid of the evidence which they did and they got rid of the male doberman as well. No-one ever told the lady about her cat's demise. We left Tamworth very soon after that and I don't know the outcome of the never to be found cat or the doberman females.
Up here on the Sunny Coast we have had neighbours who were drug dealers and other's who were hookers. All very colourful.

I wish the people in the flat next door would move away or get some new cd’s.  They don’t play anything except rap music and when my friends come over they turn the music up loud.  I live on the end flat so there is no one on the other side to annoy me.

Guys, all this read like something out of an episode of Jenny Jones which I half-watched one Sunday ago on one of those pay channels.

Is that a good thing or a bad thing, Frankie? I don't know who Jenny Jones is and don't have pay tv.