'[They] rev their sports car engine at 2AM': 20+ Loud and messy neighbors who are hard to live around

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Remy Millisky • Writer and Editor
Oct 15, 2023 11:00 AM EDT

It's totally fine when you blast loud music to rock out, but the moment your neighbor does it, they're the worst neighbor ever. Crazy how that works. 

These people were asked to share the behaviors that their neighbors do that they dislike, and people had a wide variety of answers! There were a few common answers that came up over and over, however. One was the dog people. Dog people, we know you love your pampered pups, but some of them bark all day long. Nonstop. They really miss you when you're gone for eight hours a day, and they'll bark for the full eight hours just to prove it. That'll drive the entire neighborhood crazy for sure, especially if you can't tell whose dogs are being so loud. At least if it's your next door neighbor, you can confront them. But if you're in an apartment complex, the noise may never stop.

Other people said that they dislike their neighbors making noise. From revving loud cars at 2AM to blasting music at top volume, these people aren't thinking about anyone besides themselves. 

Check out all these excellent and thought-provoking answers below. Then, these people shared the funniest rules they've ever heard of, like one school that implemented a "three-day suspension if anyone sang Gwen Stefani's "Sweet Escape".

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    Dog - 'They think it's fine that their dogs bark excessively and have done so for over 3 years' Tommy
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    Rectangle - What do the neighbors do that you don't like? ?
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    Font - Exciting_Pop_1252- Not be silent. I know it's unreasonable, but any sound at all coming through a wall goes straight to the pl ed-off center of my brain.
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    Smile - jeophys152 Let their dogs run around the neighborhood
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    Font - IHaventTheFoggiest47. Go to work and let their dogs bark all. fi day. I'm talking non-stop for 7-8 hours continuously. Multiple people have complained, but she does nothing. Infuriating. If you have dogs and let them bark for long periods of time - you're an as
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    Font - Traduction PourVous They have a camera that announces that it's recording to everything that passes by their house, and it's so loud that you can hear it on the other side of my house when you're inside :-)
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    Font - Comprehensive Cake463. We have a neighbor who is always buildings, he has 6 out buildings And now he is building an addition on his house -pound pound pound, cut metal pound pound every minute of every day
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    Font - Wffl817 Rev their sports car engine at 2am. Makes me wanna go and slash their tires
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    Font - Environmental Menu336 he just moved, but i just had one who's favorite past time was screaming at whatever video game he was losing. hope he has an awful life <3
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    Dress - Imalibra13 Being nosy af
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    Font - indelady Shoot fireworks all year long. Any holiday, football game,whenever. Luckily,our dog isn't bothered, but d it's 2 am and I have to work in the morning.
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    Font - Global_VanillaPumper. They think its fine that their dogs bark excessively and have done so for over 3 years. Train them. My God.
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    Font - LowBudgetViking Not especially fond of them throwing their bags of dog p in my back yard after they take them for a walk. I live next to a HOA and it's one woman who's the head of it that keeps doing it. Members of the HOA have come to me and told me they see her doing it. I've watched her do it several times myself.
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    Font - frightofthenavigator. they live in squalor. junked cars, broken household appliances and trash littering their unkempt property.
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    Font - Beautiful_Cake_7924. Talk to me any time they're out and I just want to quickly hang the washing out. Few more doors down, they blast S music, sing to s music, scream and swear at their kids while the kids scream and shout back. I love summer
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    Font - Warren_Puffitt Put out open cans of cat food for the feral cats. She has an indoor cat, and she believes that she is doing cats a favor by feeding the ones that roam loose, aren't vaccinated, carry diseases and parasites, and kill birds. I got animal control to put traps on the boundary with my property, and she hates my guts because I am a heartless cat assassin. It was fun watching the animal control officer (part of
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    Font - the Sheriffs Office) go and do battle with her after she got caught tampering with the traps and releasing a cat and a possum. She swears just as loudly at them as she does at me. There hasn't been a feral cat spotted around here now for a year or more.
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    Font - RitaSaluki Put the trash cans dead smack in front of the car that's parked on the street in front of his house on trash day.
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    Gesture - Communicate by yelling, using very loud lawn equipment from 7am to 9pm.
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    Font - [deleted] My neighbor's on both sides are retired and the are constantly mowing their lawns. They mow every day, and all day long on the weekends. They will take breaks for food, or a drink, but it is literally all day on sat and Sunday. Whenever we have a cookout, or outdoor party, our friends always jokingly take bets on who will be mowing for the whole party. Sometimes when I'm feeling snarky I will
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    Font - call out to them: "Hey, I think you missed a spot over there." but they don't get that I'm being sarcastic. I asked them to stop once while I was having a party, and they did for like 20 minutes, but went right back to it after the break.
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    Font - massierva My neighbors put up evil wind chimes the noise on a windy night is incredible.
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    Gesture - T Ohfisheye Singing their lungs out at 12 am :0 on a weekday
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    Font - Pack a shared porch with their friends/family
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    Font - Infinite-Condition41. Have opinions about what I do on my side of the fence. Well, they can have opinions. It really annoys me when they share those opinions with me.
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    Font - TIS EntertainmentOk9916. 8am start doors. We live in a duplex separated by her car port. Slams the door to her home, seems like she opens and slams shut every car door twice and the d slamming all garbage can lid on one of those big Toters. However, she is awesome and I don't think she's aware of it, so we just brush it under the rug to keep peace because she's really cool otherwise.
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