Neighbours. What are yours like?

**Ladydragon** · 28th January 2012, 22:19

I have such nice neighbours a Fijian Indian family (Musleims) on my right they are soo nice tonight they brought me over my dinner they do it now and then marinated chops,sheske barbs,steak BBQ (Halael meat very nice) sometimes I even get lunch the boys Nana next door even makes home made cherparties they are lick a thin Nan bread had three of those tonight plus chicken fried rice.His nan made me lucnch cause I went up and got her milk for her shes not to well.The other day I even got invited next door and Dhisharns Nan made some special tea for me so we all sat down and had tea with bickies.

My neighbours before then are really nice to the one before them are Puru so i've they are really nice to and in num one shes a lovely lady.Theres a few kids around and the boy next door we all play cricket,soccor and basket ball in the front lawns.I think it's really cool when you are able to live somewhere and you have nice friendly neighbours.

**pzkpfw** · 28th January 2012, 22:57

Yep. The folk who live nearby can have a HUGE effect on your own quality of life.

Currently we have quiet old folk nearest. Mostly we all just leave each other alone, but that's fine. On the other hand we help each other when needed, like when they took my kids in one cold evening when I was late getting home from work and they'd forgotten keys to get inside.

Previous house in a dodgy area. Unemployed losers across the road; could have noisy parties any night they wanted - but I had to go to work and wanted some sleep, arseholes. (Used to happen a lot). Google street view even caught on "film" the dead ute they had parked on the road, which they filled with their smelly trash that they couldn't be bothered disposing of properly.

**Crasherfromwayback** · 28th January 2012, 23:08

Came pretty close to a large scale dust up with mine tonight.

**pete376403** · 28th January 2012, 23:35

Had noise control on speed dial with the last collection of losers next door. Fortunately the flat owner is back from Australia and hes cleared them out (his own son and all his hanger-on mates)

Problem now is that the owner is going back to Aus and I'm guessing the trash will move back in. Tempted to burn the place if i thought I could get away with it.

**Gremlin** · 29th January 2012, 00:04

Older woman lives alone with her two dogs on the same ROW behind us. Used to be fine, got along great, helped her with odd things when she needed it. We'd heard from her the previous owners of our house were terrible, nasty etc, and thought, gosh, why on earth would they be like that.

Fast forward time, we now consider her a crazy old bat, she's tried calling the cops on us for bullshit stuff, and we've resorted to a couple of lawyers letters telling her to leave us alone (so there is a paper trail), we'll have nothing to do with her etc. She tried having a BBQ, invited all the neighbours but us, tried to turn them against us, no-one ever went to her BBQ etc. Neighbour diagonally from us (her neighbour) resorted to a fence to keep her from using his garden as a shortcut to another road. We happily agree with him she's nuts.

All in all, one crazy old bat is hardly a problem to manage compared to youngsters who wouldn't give a shit, do whatever they like etc, so it's not that bad in the scale of things. We're also having second thoughts if the previous owners were really that bad.

Oh, and for the rest, being a nice big city, we hardly know a name of a single one. They leave us alone, we leave them alone. Know one couple who are hardly there, but they're nice enough.

**Ladydragon** · 29th January 2012, 00:33

Originally Posted by pzkpfw

Yep. The folk who live nearby can have a HUGE effect on your own quality of life.

Currently we have quiet old folk nearest. Mostly we all just leave each other alone, but that's fine. On the other hand we help each other when needed, like when they took my kids in one cold evening when I was late getting home from work and they'd forgotten keys to get inside.

Previous house in a dodgy area. Unemployed losers across the road; could have noisy parties any night they wanted - but I had to go to work and wanted some sleep, arseholes. (Used to happen a lot). Google street view even caught on "film" the dead ute they had parked on the road, which they filled with their smelly trash that they couldn't be bothered disposing of properly.

I do the same for Dhishan's Nan i've told her she can ring me up any time even if it's early in the morn and also to send her grandson to come and get me if i'm home shes not very well sometimes and gets very bad ansiaty attacks and her blood pressure gets very high her daughter works and starts at 6am and shes not home till the evening.

**TrentNz** · 29th January 2012, 00:43

My neighbors were kind enough to make their wifi password the city name (wellington)

**Hopeful Bastard** · 29th January 2012, 01:28

Mine keep to their own. So we keep to our own as well. What with having a Corner-ish section and ex Council flats as neighbours, We have 9 neighbours.

However, They are all kind enough to give us a free soccer/rugby ball every so often. One of them is even kind enough to have an unsecured WIFI.. Shame im leaving this house in a months time...

**hellokitty** · 29th January 2012, 06:48

Most of my neighbours are great except for the ones next door, in the only rental house.... This house has had nothing but problems since one of the tenants hung himself in it about 5 years ago.
The guy goes to work at 8pm in a huge roadworks type truck and comes home at 4am and uses his air brakes for about 10 minutes while crawling down our nearly flat street, he then parks outside our house. When he and his wife aren't screaming at each other and the other 10 people that are living there, then they are playing loud music. The cops are always there.
This guy wanted another neighbour's van that had broken down - he offered him $400 for it and was told no, it is getting fixed. So he breaks into it and takes the rego and WOF off the window and plates off the van and sells it to the broken car company. I saw them take the van away. That night I have a hysterical neighbour looking for the van, and I tell her I saw the tow truck. Another neighbour took photos. The guy got charged.
It sucks cos I love my house, but these people are driving me crazy, I can't go over there and talk to them because I am scared of these people. I am also scared for my dog - people steal bulldogs and these people seem to think they can do what they want.
I have lived here for 9 years

**SMOKEU** · 29th January 2012, 10:21

I'm happy I don't live in a black area, my neighbours and all the people around my area are great.

**Virago** · 29th January 2012, 10:40

Originally Posted by SMOKEU

I'm happy I don't live in a black area, my neighbours and all the people around my area are great.

I didn't think you'd be far away with another mindless diatribe.

I suspect that if you lived next door to Ladydragon's neighbours, you would consider them the neighbours from hell...?

**Owl** · 29th January 2012, 11:07

Mine wears women's clothing

Probably wouldn't care if he had tits

**bogan** · 29th January 2012, 11:54

Neighbours we have our driveway next to are great, home buisness so great security for our flat too. Other one is kind of grumpy/crazy. Ones over the back fence like burning plastic and other crap so the odd council call is required.

Few houses down just broke the record the other week, 5 cop cars turned up for the domestic disturbance (sounds like pretty much the whole street called the cops about it), previous highest was only 3.

**hayd3n** · 29th January 2012, 11:57

we appear to have good neighbours !!
we rent out a garage from one of them,

our new cattery has proved that they can tolerate a bit of noise !!
www.wildheartbengals.co.nz

the bengals get quite noisy at times, and yet no complaints so far

then there's my 7:30am noisy hornet wake up call it wakes the neighbour across the street up,
she calls it her alarm lol