Noisy neighbours, any experiences?

[Catecholamine Cowboy]

Something I've been fortunate not to have experienced extensively, but something that can be a complete nightmare when finding oneself in the wrong place.

Experiences?

They say humans are resourceful and adaptive, but I could never fathom how anyone could simply become accustomed to a noisy home environment or disruptive neighbours.

Places like a college dorm or student accommodation is an exception as typically everyone is up partying together, but for regular working people, some idiot neighbour that insists on playing music too loud or bouncing a basketball in their apartment or whatever other crap noisy neighbours get up to?

I know it's not uncommon, but managing those situations, has anyone here actually done so successfully?

 

[MsDiz]

When I was in uni our house was pretty quiet but the house next to us was not.

We spoke to them face to face and they didn’t listen.

Their windows were all smashed mysteriously by someone and it was deep winter… they were very quiet after that happened.

Who knows who did it??

It was Belfast though… it has a rep and every surname has an association. They knew ours.

 

[thujone]

apartment living just sucks, especially the low-rent types i'm used to. sooner or later i always seem to end up with a nuisance neighbour.

some people you can't negotiate with, they're just self-absorbed and think their right to enjoy their hole trumps everyone else's.

i think i have at most one more move left in me before i'm ready to get a house just to not have to share walls with anyone