#28

Older couple on one side only there a few weeks a year. Can be a bit noisy when they are back as they seem to be catching up with people constantly.

Person on their own on other side. Get on great after a rocky start (building work which dragged on ages, our fault). Quite weird, but bonded when we found a body a few doors down.

It’s a nice street. Friendliest one I’ve lived on.

#29

mine told me off about my garden and said I was a hippy but this year they’ve been mostly alright

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#30

their sons come over sometimes and have huge land rovers so they’re probably massive dickheads

#31

Next door: Spanish couple from Galicia. Really nice people. Fond of a smoke. Never cause any trouble and occasionally pop round to ask us questions about the building or Irish tenancy law.

Directly upstairs: Students I think. Throw the occasional party where they shout along to Mumford And Sons until eleven o’clock, which is when they go out to town.

Also upstairs: Nigerian family. I’ve only met the Dad myself but he seems nice. GF says they’ve lived there for years and are lovely.

Top floor: Students again. These guys were fine until they threw a massive party and threw almost all the furniture in their apartment through two giant Velux windows in their living room, raining glass down into the communal area. Parties on the regular now and they keep getting pissed and losing their keys and trying to break back into the building. Dickheads.

Also on top floor: One lady in her eighties. She lives on her own and keeps herself to herself. I’ve had to get her back into the block before when her landlord changed the locks without telling her. I really feel for her as no-one ever visits her. She has our numbers in case anything ever goes wrong but I don’t know if she’d ever ring us. :disappointed::disappointed::disappointed:

#32

4 flats on my floor:
5 - Young couple, barely see them although he leaves out for work at a ridiculous hour of the morning.
6 - New 20-something girl moved in a couple of weeks ago. Helped her carry some of her stuff upstairs. Seems nice
7 - Me
8 - Guy in his mid-30s. Drives a van. Had his balcony doors open all summer and played Offspring and Sum 41 at an undignified volume

#33

that’s a real mix!

#34

They’re our landlords. They’re great tbf

#35

Weirdly the street I live on is almost entirely divided by race. The opposite side are an extreme stereotype of middle class people and from snippets I hear they dislike that the community is mainly working class. I think they and a couple of other streets in this part of town thought that they were moving to an up and coming area but it never happened :face_with_hand_over_mouth:.

#36

:cowboy_hat_face:

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#37

Neighbours one side - family renting, GBOL, take in parcels for us, feed the cat when we’re away for a day or two, pop in for a cuppa every now and then
Neighbours the other side - Student rental property. Up until last year it had been a house full of young women who were all really quiet, but this year’s lot moved in and it turned into a party house and could be noisy any night of the week. They were smokers, so they’d go in the garden and drunkenly shout over each other. But then a fortnight ago the council knocked on our door saying that there’d been a noise complaint. I explained that they’d probably got the wrong house (the students had held a party the night before). Since then it’s been silent. Who knows what kind of threat the council made, but I know that both the universities take it seriously, so it could be that they get one warning and if there’s any more anti social behaviour the council goes to the university and they don’t get their degrees. Whatever it was, it must have been pretty serious for it to get so quiet. Not complaining though.

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#38

Dunno. Just moved and there’s 7 other flats in the building. Met someone who lives in one of them, she seemed nice. People upstairs are Spanish speakers (not sure if they’re Spanish or South American) and are quite noisy. Not noisy enough to bother me personally but my wife’s a bit irked by them.

#39

I live in the middle of nowhere next to someone who keeps very much to himself (which is ideal).

The concept of a neighbourhood is somewhat alien to me.

#40

Do you still live in Newcastle, or did you move to somewhere else?

#41

Nightmare neighbours moved out and some nice, considerate ones moved in. Obviously having to move out myself in a couple weeks. Ffs.

#42

NCL

#43

Romanian coke fiends who had parties on Sunday and Monday nights now gone.
Replaced by a very quiet man who sometimes plays his guitar in an anxious manner, otherwise quiet as a mouse.

Victory for Goryks

#44

Cork City is a very interesting place in which to live Bam!

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#45

Unsurprisingly I haven’t spoken to either after these absolute fuck ups:

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#46

reckon it’d be really cool to live in Cork

#47

Nobody to our left, to our right is a man on his own in his late 60s maybe who we very rarely see but hear doing DIY sometimes. All I really know about him is that he collects model fire engines, cause that’s pretty much all he’s told me. Massive improvement on Bath, where our neighbours were a couple with two very small children who liked to smoke a lot of dope with their babies the house (1 bedroom flat) and we who had to call the police on at least 3 times for domestic violence.