Well, you really should complain about the noise. It may not be your neighbor’s fault. Go to an apartment with poured concrete floors next time. As to keeping the kid cooped up instead of letting him run around the yard, that’s the parents’ choice. It’s not something to pit. I’ve a feeling you already voiced your opinions about this to other neighbors (how else would you have known about the family upstairs?)
My point is, neighbors who’re too close talk too much about you.
I would like them if all my neighbors were people like her. Since I’m not an annoying neighbor, I’m cool with my neighbors not liking annoying neighbors.
You obviously didn’t bother to read the OP, or the rest of the thread. I have complained about the noise twice now. I know about the family upstairs because they’re directly overhead of my apartment and I’m the one that is being subjected to all of the noise they make, not because some other neighbor told me about them. As to what I “know” about them, as I said very clearly it was based on the noise evidence, when the car is gone and so on, for all I know they’re training a circus troop up there. I didn’t go around gathering intel on these people by gossiping to the neighbors as you’re imagining. Their car is parked directly in front of my window, so I see it when it leaves and comes back. Since they live overhead and make their comings and goings just as noisy as they possibly can, it’s impossible not to know when they leave and when they’re home. The only thing I know about them for sure, I know from the leasing agent when I complained about the noise again today, not the neighbors.
As to what was said between my same floor neighbors and I, the impetus of our first conversation on the subject was several months ago, and because of one of the toddler’s all-nighters where I wasn’t the only one hearing all the noise at 2am. It’s not as if I went around knocking on doors complaining about them. We happened to cross paths out on the landing getting the circulars, and all of us were like “did you hear all of that last night? wth?”. That is the point at which they were telling me “we rarely hear anything from our upstairs neighbors”. You imagined a scenario, based on your own bias, which didn’t actually happen here.
I find your building strange. But then I’m used to solid reinforced concrete. I lived in a flat where there was a gym directly over me (basketball court, exercise machines, etc.) No noise even during peak gym hours.
I wish. And yes, part of the problem is crappy construction. But I’m with MsWhatsit, as inconsiderate as Mr. and Mrs. Elephant are… A. The kid is getting the worst end of this no matter how annoying this is for me. In fact, I may just take her suggestion and call CPS. I can understand why it’s happening, and I can escape, the toddler doesn’t and can’t. B. It’s just worse right now because I have to be home during the day thanks to the shutdown. C. It could be worse, it could be like the drug dealer who lived in the condo next to mine, that had visitors with booming bass systems in their cars popping in and out every 15 minutes during “peak business times”. It took my fellow condo owners and I a year to get rid of the guy and many meetings with the Anchorage PD drug task force. Now that was really fun (not).
I find her building unfortunately commonplace from back in my apartment living days - they don’t always put a lot of money into apartment construction.