Our next door neighbours are a retired Irish couple who really look after us. They bring our dustbin in once its been emptied, take in our post if it won't fit through our letterbox and have even scared off burglars. They seem to really care and want to look out for us. It's great and makes you feel so much more secure.

Mowed my lawn, laid a new drive, even loaned me a corkscrew for a late night party he wasn't attending.

When the woman next door stopped playing Sinead O'Connor's "Nothing Compares 2 U" at Glastonbury volume until 2am every night after her husband walked out on her. Bliss when it stopped!

I have met most of my neighbours in the last year and we've all met at parties hosted locally which is great and now we meet for drinks most weeks. It's nice as we live centrally and so can pop out for drinks easily and having a network of locals to drink with makes going out more fun.

The neighbourhood watch scheme set up for my road! I know it sounds geeky and old fashioned but we were mostly young couples concerned about security and parking and it gave me a good sense of community even in zone 2 London!

When we first moved in they bought us flowers and at Christmas they dropped round some chocolates. Thought that was nice as the hours we work we never really see each other. Must have only met three times and twice of those times was to receive the chocs and flowers!

We had bad neighbours for a while (pre-ASBO). They were filthy, noisy and loved working on cars/motorbikes in our drive. Their children weren't toilet trained, neither were their pets.

Have neighbours that think it is o.k. to have parties until 6 in the morning (no joke, and it is so loud there is no room in our small flat to escape into) they have ruined countless weekends and bank holidays - no-one seems to be able to help and I am really fed up of it; also have a young baby now, so it is even more stressful.

The first week in a new home, one of my neighbours appeared every time I emerged from the front door. It turned out that he was a Neighbourhood Watch representative clocking my movements for his log! Not a great way to make your new neighbours feel welcome

We lived below a horrible, po-faced retired couple. The worst thing was that we lived relatively quietly yet they had the grand-children round and practiced the organ for church so it felt like the ceiling was falling in. When we left we had planned to draw something rude on their back lawn (using boiling water) but we never got round to it. Shame...

Next door neighbour used to put her baby's nappies down the toilet, the main draincover was in our back garden & every time the nappies blocked the drain we had to pay to get it cleared! We moved when she got pregnant again.............