We got new next-door neighbors in November. The lady who used to live there was extremely quiet. She had a party once a year in the summer with music in the back yard, but it was always turned off at a reasonable hour.
The new neighbor apparently races. Every once in a while, he finds it necessary to rev his engine loudly and obnoxiously. Thankfully it’s short-lived and generally in the afternoon. But I still don’t want to hear it. I want the quiet lady back…
At least it’s better than our old neighborhood with the bad garage band across the street.
Nope, old city neighborhood of row houses and twins. I share a wall with this neighbor, so when they’re on their front porch, the person sitting closest to my house is, literally, about three feet from my front door.
Thus there’s a certain amount of just ignoring each other for mental privacy.
Hello. In the evenings when I go out on the shady deck in a feeble attempt to find a cool spot to read, the minute my butt hits the deck chair, it sets off some kind of signal to the entire neighborhood to start revving up some kind of machine. Motorcycles. Chainsaws. Every lawnmower in every garage gets an outing. Tubby next door starts up his riding mower. The air is filled with the stench of engines and the noise is indescribable. You can blame me. If I stayed inside, it would be as quiet as the Gobi Desert. I think. Music, oddly, is wallpaper noise to me, if not too loud, and they are good at turning it off by 10 p.m. But it’s the lawnmowers, the leaf blowers, and that idiot on the motor scooter circling the block 20 times in a row…
Most people don’t particularly enjoy hearing another person’s party. I don’t insist that they live like monks, and I don’t even ask them to turn it down during the day. However, I am gonna call the cops when I can hear a party from two blocks over.
Incidentally, I sleep (or try to sleep) during the day. I don’t ever ask people to keep it quiet during that time. I recognize that most people are not night owls. But someone who is blasting the neighborhood at 2 AM is not only disturbing my thinking time, s/he’s probably disturbing the rest of the neighborhood too.
A party doesn’t have to have earsplitting music to be fun. “Don’t be a jerk” is a good guideline for real life, as well as being a rule on this message board.
From douchebag neighbors blaring fucking music to people who keep the tv cranked to an ear splitting roar (visiting my parents always results in a headache).
Don’t even get me started on alarm clocks.
Oh, and why the fuck do we need so many fucking street lights blinding out the night sky?!
Yep, electricity is at the heart of many annouances. If only it weren’t so damned useful. Grrrrrr
Calling the police is for people who don’t listen when you ask first. Doing otherwise is causing unnecessary hostility on their part, assuming the police actually do something other than asking them to quiet down.
There are plenty of perfectly legal ways for them to bother you in the future.
They do knock on the door when called. I’m not about to get out of bed, put on clothes, walk around the block, and knock on doors of people who may not speak English in a known ratty rental house. Sorry, not interested. That’s what taxes are for.
I was with you until the “may not speak English” part. Don’t you know speaking real loud and saying “Please-o turn-o el music-o down-o.” should get through to them?
When we moved into our new house last summer, we were out in the yard and heard an ungodly noise. It turns out a neighbour across the street has The Loudest ATV Known To Mankind. And apparently part of all the terrain that he must race it across is our back alleys. We moved in at the end of August last year, and haven’t had much good weather yet this year, so our fingers are crossed that he only revs that thing up once or twice a year. I swear to God, we thought it was a jet engine or something.
Nice post/username combo.
Can we have yet another thread arguing about asking neighbours to do something versus going straight to the people to enforce the laws that they’re breaking? Please?
What, are you insane? We get woken at midnight by drunken kids blaring dance music, and I’m supposed to feel guilty or somehow compassionate? I’m a shitty neighbor because I want to sleep so I can, you know, go to work at 5am? :mad:
You cannot possibly be serious about this? :dubious:
Last time I called on this house, the PD said, “Oh, we’ve had several calls about that party. They should be there any minute.” At that exact point, it went dead silent. I looked out back, and just saw a haze of flashing red lights. BTW, they arrested a bunch of people on drug and underage drinking charges. So piss off.
There’s these things like headphones that people who work on construction sites wear to cut out industrial noises.
How about getting some* and stopping being such a miserable, grassing fucktard?
You remind me of my upstairs neighbour, who sits up there contemplating his navel in complete silence, and then starts moaning because he can hear my tv.
I’d tell you to go fuck yourself, too.
In fact, it’d be cheaper to supply the moaning bastards with these, than it is to take the noisemakers to court.
Just to clear things up, just what is the line in the sand? The gist of some posts would seem to be headed toward the idea that no noise or music, at any time of day or night, is OK. Is that it? How about loudness? How loud or quiet does it have to be? I have more anger for the assholes who honk the car horn at 4AM rather than knocking on a door, or the no good motherfucker who won’t turn off his car alarmat 3AM. Music during the day I can live with.
Just what IS considered reasonable? If it’s total silence all the time, then those who want that will be disappointed.
I’ve tried asking and sometimes it works but in my experience, it is often the case that those people who are such jerks that they don’t care who hears their music do not take kindly to a polite request to turn down said music
Yes, there are those types out there. My idea was to have them all put on the same housing estates so they can all blast each other into early deafness.
Well, there’s always the legal concept of of quiet enjoyment–I don’t know if it really applies to the area outside of your home, though.
What it comes down to for me is: I should be able to sit in my living room and NOT have to listen to my neighbors’ music, parties, etc. I really doubt they’d want to hear, oh, say, Live at Leeds blasting out of my stereo while they were doing a crossword puzzle or taking a nap, or whatever. That’s what headphones are for–for the person listening to the music turned up to 11.
What kind of home is it if you have to go someplace else in order to have some relative peace and quiet?
Who are you talking to? If it is me, I sure don’t understand. I’m not allowed to sleep peacefully in my own house?? What the fuck is up with you people? :rolleyes:
