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Irate mum hits out at behaviour of neighbour's children - but not everyone agrees

A woman has hit out at her neighbours for being too noisy.

While we can choose where we live, we know we can't choose our neighbours and one woman is getting annoyed at her neighbours for being too loud in their garden.

She took to online forum Mumsnet to seek advice and sympathy but many told her 'suck it up'.

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Keeping anonymous, she explained: "I realise this could be entitlement/snobbery, hence looking for a genuine perspective on whether IABU [I am being unreasonable].

"We live in a quiet, semi-rural steading conversion, so a smallish cluster of houses in converted farm buildings. We’ve lived here for 20 plus years, and it has always been blissfully quiet.

"Two years ago the last working farm building was sold off to someone who converted it, and now they live there - young family in their late 20's with toddlers (we are in our 40's with teenagers).

"The problem is, they are so very loud. Their conversion forms a courtyard, and they just treat the courtyard as another room of the house. They usually have double doors open, TV or music on, shouting from one side to the other.

"It carries right through the area. There is no getting away from it, even going for a walk in the previously quiet fields.

"We have had some respite in the winter when it was cold, but they are back to normal today and I just know it will be like this until autumn.

"Do we just need to suck it up and accept that we have been lucky until now?"

The post quickly gathered hundreds of comments with many saying they have every entitlement to use their garden as they please.

One hit back: "They aren't doing anything wrong. They are living in their property."

Meanwhile another mocked the mum: "You should definitely ask them to stop using their own property, how absolutely vile of them."

"It sucks and I genuinely sympathise but sadly YABU. This is purely because it’s their property and they can use it how they feel. You’d be equally annoyed if they told you how you could/couldn’t behave on your own land", a third said.

A fourth interjected: "They aren’t doing anything wrong but are just a lot noisier than our old neighbour, they have a noisy trampoline and paddling pool is out, the kids shout and scream and they have parties every chance they can. It’s all part and parcel of having neighbours. You just have to suck it up."

"What you’re describing sounds like a family using their property in way they’re perfectly entitled to do. A garden is an extension of the living room for a lot of people", another explained.

But another sympathised: "It does seem that nobody really has any garden etiquette these days. I don't want to hear your conversation, I don't want listen to your music. And I will afford you the same luxury. It's really not difficult. YANBU, but I suspect you'll have to learnt to blur it out."

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