Can’t enjoy my own garden
I’m so sick of never being able to just have some peace in my own home and garden.
My next door neighbours are incessantly loud, them, their kids, their dogs even who continuously bark at everything and whine for hours when they’re left alone in the house.
They have 3 young children between 2-7 I believe, oldest was 2ish when they moved in and from a young age all she did is SCREAM, one time I was cleaning the room that backs onto the shared wall and the kid screamed, mother just screamed back - it’s honestly no wonder the younger ones have gone the same way, as theres clearly no discipline in that house. The children are regularly up past 10pm because we can hear them when we’re in bed.
If it isn’t enough that we can hear them regularly through the walls, they let their kids make so much noise outside too, completely stopping me and my fiancé from enjoying our garden in peace.
Today is probably the first actual warm day of the year and it’s a bank holiday where I live and seeing the weather would be nice I ordered new furniture for the garden so I could sit and enjoy the weather, (to clarify I have no issue with them being outside to enjoy the weather too, the unnecessary noise is my issue) and could only manage a few minutes before one of them started playing a game with the volume all the way up (because of course they’re also iPad kids) their dogs barking for no reason and in turn my dog barks back.
So I gave up and came inside to build some Lego flowers and I can still hear them.
One day I would happily move somewhere with zero neighbours for miles but financially it’s not gonna be doable for some time. Things like this is what makes me hate the phrase “you’re entitled to a childfree life, not a childfree world” because even in my own home I can’t avoid them.
Edit to add - we wanted kids when we moved here so being in a community type neighbourhood was very appealing, these neighbours are probably 80% of the reason we are now childfree.