We all want to get along with our neighbours, but sometimes they don’t make it easy.
You don’t have to become best friends with your neighbours when you move into a new area, but for most of us, being cordial and saying hello when you pass each other on the street is standard practice. You could also extend your kindness by accepting their parcels when they’re not home or giving them a few tea bags when they’ve run out.
Sometimes, however, you draw the short straw and have neighbours who are an absolute nightmare. Whether they like to blast their music late into the night or block the road with poorly parked cars, there are some instances where you really don’t want to be nice to those living on your road.
One woman is experiencing “neighbours from hell” firsthand and has said she’s at her wit’s end with the situation after she was told by one of the people on her street to move her car off her own driveway.
What’s more, the same neighbour even boldly suggested she should move out of her house entirely and leave the neighbourhood – as someone else was willing to snap up her property.
Nicole Turner Bell shared a video on TikTok in which she said her neighbour had approached her and asked her to move her car from her driveway for a bonkers reason, which left her fuming.
She said: “My neighbour asked me to move my car because it’s ‘not in keeping with the street.’ She came round to my house last night and had a massive go at me. I came back from the supermarket today, and I thought, ‘Oh, she’s coming over to apologise.’
“But no, she came over to tell me that if we are struggling, then she does know someone who wants to buy our house. The only inkling she’s got that we’re struggling is from the car that I drive.”
The woman said she paid just £200 for her car, which she then showed on camera. The vehicle in question is a Kia Sorento, which Nicole said she purchased when her husband’s job change meant they needed to switch cars.
She added: “I didn’t want to pay car payments any more so I bought her for £200. Honestly, it’s such a bargain. It did smell like an old man at first, but now I’ve got air fresheners, and she’s absolutely fine. It cost me £200 and cost me £300 to insure. I’ve had it since June now, and I’ve had no issues at all. Monthly car payments just aren’t for me any more.”
Nicole then explained that her neighbour’s latest outburst over her cheap car is just the “tip of the iceberg,” as the other woman is always complaining about how they run their household.
“She moans if we don’t water our plants enough,” she explained, “She doesn’t like the fact that we have astroturf in our garden for the kids because she wants it to be real grass. She doesn’t like the kids playing out on the street because she said they should be playing in their own gardens.
“God forbid one of the kids leaves a bike or scooter out. She also doesn’t like us leaving any bikes or scooters in our garden, she wants them in the shed because it’s not in keeping with the area.”
Commenters on Nicole’s video were gobsmacked by her neighbour’s “cheek.” Many pointed out that the car she drives is perfectly fine and doesn’t look as old and tatty as they had expected for the £200 price tag.
Others suggested ways to get “petty” revenge on Nicole’s neighbour, especially with Christmas around the corner.
One person said: “My level of petty would be through the roof. I’m thinking the tackiest of tacky Christmas decs in the garden, from now on, park the car on the road instead and chalk hopscotch and drawings all over the driveway.”
Another added: “Print up a list of hobbies and pastimes to give her and suggest her time would be better spent indulging in one of them. Don’t be as snotty as I’d be tempted to be, though. Maybe gentle parent her into it.”
