According to research by Halifax Home Insurance, we're just not getting on the way we used to.

The most common problems were excessive noise, rude or intimidating behaviour and the "hijacking" of legal boundaries through illegal building or structural work.

One in five admitted to "serious problems" with their neighbours, the second year of worsening relations after a decade of improvement. Surely not a coincidence that its timing matches the stresses and strains of the economic downturn?

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