How to deal with neighbours.

I'm glad you'll be able to move away from it in a few months time.

I live in a terraced house and a lot of the neighbours around me are really noisy, it's almost always been this way since I moved here back in 1999.

First it was thump, thump music which would happen 2 or 3 times a week for several hours at a time, even in the early hours of the morning, and the next door neighbour vacuuming really early in the morning which would make her dog bark non stop while I was trying to sleep.

The dog barking went on for 2 or 3 years, and the music went on for around 10 years until the late 2000's, then everything was fairly quiet for around 5 or 6 years until my next door neighbours kid starting learning to play the guitar everyday, it was really loud in most of the rooms of my house, this went on for around a year.

Then things were quiet again for around 3 or 4 years until some chavs moved in next door to me, they made noise all the time, random bangs and knocks, shouting and swearing and huge bangs even in the early hours of the morning, and really, really loud music everyday, it was so loud it went through my house and into next doors house on the other side of me.

The music was so loud that even if I were wearing ear plugs and ear defenders at the same time I could still hear it and it was disturbing my sleep.

They would also spend so much time all day and then sometimes in the early evening constantly trying to kickstart a motorbike that didn't work, and then when it was working they'd be revving it all the time, it was really, really, loud.

Around not long after them moving in another neighbour a few doors down would let their dog into their back yard regularly every single day which would bark.

This was when I started having to wear earplugs and/or ear defenders almost 24 hours a day.

Then after maybe a year someone new moved into the house opposite the back of mine, they would leave their back door open all day, which meant from early in the morning until the early evening their dog would be coming out into the back yard barking, on and off regularly from the morning until early evening every single day.

After around 3 or 4 years the chavs moved out and no one lived next door to me for around a year, but the dog barking from the other neighbour continued.

Then new people moved in next door to me and I don't know what it is they do in there, but every 15, 30, 40 seconds it's bang, thud, thump against the wall, almost 24 hours a day every single day, it's been like this now for around 3 years, the bangs and knocks are sometimes so loud I can hear them in every room in my house, and I can sometimes still hear them even when wearing ear plugs or ear defenders if I'm in the kitchen, bathroom or living room, they will also sometimes play loud music or their TV loud as well.

Also, the dog barking from the house opposite mine stopped around 2 years ago, but would you believe it that around just 2 weeks after it stopped someone new moved in next door to her, and they started doing the exact same thing!

So for several years now it's bark, bark, bark, on and off from the morning until early evening every single day, week after week, month after month, year after year, and thump, thud, wack against the dividing wall on and off 24 hours a day every single day, week after week, month after month, year after year.

Also, the neighbour on the other side of me is having to put up with the people's dog living next door to her barking all day throughout the day every day, and their kid regulary kicking a football against the wall.

I really don't understand how people around here are able to get away with making so much excessive noise all the time, it's as though no one cares.

They would never get away with this where I used to live, where I used to live if you so much as played loud music within around 30 seconds there would be someone hammering on your door and having a really good go at you.

I've never been able to complain about the noise myself since I don't have the confidence. And I don't have the confidence, know how, or money to move away from this area, so sadly it looks like I'm stuck with all this for the rest of my life and be having to wear earplugs and/or ear defenders almost 24 hours a day for the rest of my life. It's horrible that this is how I'm having to live in my own house.

Luckily the neighbour on the other side of me is quiet, but God knows what I will do if she ever moves out because the chances are whoever moves in will be really noisy all the time, and then I'll be getting it from both sides, which will mean there wont be anywhere in my house where I'll be able to sleep peacefully even though I wear ear plugs while sleeping, I'll be getting woken up and kept awake all the time.

I would give anything, absolutely anything to move back to where I used to live.

Sorry I just needed to vent.