urgh new neighbours!!

[cazzz1975]

I have been decorating our new house, we will be moving in next friday (hopefully) anyway where I live now (rough council estate) everyone is so nice and friendly except the asbo's (ppl accross the road) and the gang of thugs who plague everyone here.

We saw our new neighbour yesturday and bid her a friendly hallo, to which she gave us a look of disgust (okay we were in decorating clothes and covered in various blobs of paint) but barely acknowledged us.

my first inpression was "snotty cow" which I know is wrong but that was the first descriptive thought of her in my head, however understandably there were a family from hell living here prior so she may feel a little concerned as to the calibre of her new neighbours, we did look like tramps and we are both fairly loud people (lol not a good mental image!)

Im hoping the family next door will thaw out once they realise that we are awesome neighbours!!

Does anyone here have neighbour problems? Im hoping mine will iron out but there is always the chance that we will have the kind of non existant relationship only seen in the more plush sides of london ;)

[ELVIS68]

Nice house! good luck with the move, all neighbours are wary of who move in next door to them, give them a knock and introduce yourselves

One thing though, blank out the name of the road next time!

[mydogsandme]

hi cazz- congrats on your lovely new house! I live on a small council estate (a lot of the houses are owned) and have always found them much friendlier- our last hous ein quite a "posh" area was awful- people so unfriendly. My advice is to smile lots and chat away regardless- as they say it confuses people!- I do this with people who appear not to like me and it grinds them down evetually!:)

[pikk]

Congrats with the new home!

We moved into our new home on 2nd June, its very loud compared to where we lived before, we have said hello to the neighbours both sides & have had the same, we were ignored one side & the other side just grunted!
We exchanged into this house & it was very dirty & the back garden was a tip - full of rubbish & dogs mess!
So it took a while to get it sorted & clean, yesterday was the 1st day that our kids played out there, they had the ball pit, wendy house etc, we had a bbq (inbetween the showers!) & all had a good time untill the kids from over the back somewhere decided to try to climb our back fence, shouting & swearing, they chucked over bottle tops, broken wood & glass!
After being told not too & getting a fair bit of abuse thrown at us they then decided to look through a hole in the fence, my niece who is 4 was looking back through at them & got stabbed in the face just above her eyebrow with a wooden skewer, the kids ran off so i waited behind the gate for them & when they came back, opened the gate, kindly told them to stop it as they had hurt someone & they all denied it, even though one of them had the wooden skewer in her hand, i told them i would go round & see the parents if they carried on.

We love our house alot, after a long wait in a house which was too small for us, it is perfect but it looks like we could have a bit of trouble here!

[sense4all]

Congrats to you and yours Cazzz, all the very best in the new house. Chat away, some people might be wary but smile and wave, especially at the miserable ones- it has always worked for us.