Noisy neighbors!

@salonga (27775)
Philippines
February 19, 2009 6:26pm CST
Do you have a noisy neighbor? Well I have one. They used to be not this troublesome. Not until their son grew old enough and learned to drink. Now this family neighbor don't seem to be sleeping most of the night. I'd overhear them most of the time in their drinking spree and loud sing along videoke. Their house is one house across mine but their loudness could be heard all over our bedroom if windows are opened. So even during cold nights, I'd close all the doors and turn on the aircon so I could not hear them. Do you have noisy neighbors too? How do you deal with this problem?
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• Singapore
13 Mar 09
i just moved 4 month ago , my ex house is my mother in law house . my ex neighbor are really noisy and bad. and not only one ! husband and wife argument yelling mid night 2am ,and once i heard my mother in law said ,his husband holding a knight and keep threaten his wife. i call a few time to neighborhood police.yet once the police gone fight come back in 5min . and my another neighbor love to come in to my house without permission . and use to open my window and see what we are doing .and due to the force of opening my window ,the window spoil. early in the morning some older women love to stand at my door step and chat and i am my husband is still sleeping ,and my window spoil can't close it or open,the noise just like in front of my ear talking all the way when i am my husband sleeping. can't stand it !! Now i moved a new home much better peaceful life
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@salonga (27775)
• Philippines
13 Mar 09
Whew what a disturbing environment you once had. It was like a war zone hah! I'm glad you've moved to a better place and hope it will remain in that peaceful state. Thanks for sharing your interesting story! Have a nice day.
• Singapore
13 Mar 09
yap moved to a better place .can also make you relax.All the best
@sid556 (30959)
• United States
20 Feb 09
My neighbors are musicians as well...I ignore it. I live in an apartment and figure it goes with the territory. They are peaceful and that matters most to me. Sounds as if you are in a house??? Well in most places there are noise ordinances. 9;00 is generally the hour when loud noises are not to be tolerated. You could call your local police and issue a complaint. I, personally, would not do that unless it was ridicuously over the top. I would first try to talk to my neighbor and see if we could reach some sort of compromise. My musician neighbor is actually pretty good about things. I don't make a deal about it so when I have felt I needed to ask him to tone it down.....when my daughter was suffering a migraine or I couldn't hear a rare movie I was trying to watch...he turned things down immediatly. I haven't found it to be a problem.
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@sid556 (30959)
• United States
20 Feb 09
Late at nite? you have every right to say something to them. If they refuse to tone it down then call the cops. I'd first try to work it out with them but if they don't listen....oh well....you do what you got to do.
@salonga (27775)
• Philippines
20 Feb 09
Yes a live in a house with a fenced compound but I could still hear the troublesome drunkard neighbors of mine. It's alright to sing and they could aloud as long as they want for as long as it is not during late at night when we are all asleep. I've always been considerate with my neighbors and have tried to maintain good relationship with them.
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@annjilena (5618)
• United States
20 Feb 09
i actually have good neighbors.iam moving and so are they and they asked us if we would considerate moving next door to them when i move i was really shocked a neighbor would ask such a thing.my neighbors are kind and we get a lone really good they watch our home when we are not home and we do the same.i will miss them.
@salonga (27775)
• Philippines
20 Feb 09
I'm glad you don't have the same problem with me. I also have good neighbors like yours but sadly there is one that is really causing this headache. I hope to resolve this issue soon. Thanks for your response!
@Andi21 (85)
• Germany
20 Feb 09
No I haven't any noisy neighbours here in my village where I live to together with my family and my cat in a single family house.
@cream97 (29086)
• United States
22 Sep 10
Hi. salonga. The people who are outside are very noisy at times. I can hear the effects of the loudness all of the way up in my apartment upstairs. My son tells me constantly that he can't sleep because the men outside keeps on talking so loudly. I tell him not to worry about it, because sooner or later we will be moving from out of this apartment complex. The man that lives downstairs with his girlfriend is a complete nut! He will hit his ceiling anytime he hears any noise that comes from our apartment. Heck we can't even walk around with him hearing us walking. He is very disturbed in the mind!
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@salonga (27775)
• Philippines
19 Jul 12
So you seem to be having some problem from inconsiderate neighbors as well. I hope you have gotten rid of them by now. As for me after long time, I finally find peace. My noisy neighbors got tired and have given up on their drinking sessions. So happy am I. I now can sleep peacefully. Thank God.
@skylark35 (384)
• United States
24 Sep 10
I have some good and some bad neighbors some time they can be noisy. I hope you can find a way to solve your problem soon.
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@salonga (27775)
• Philippines
19 Jul 12
Oh dear my problem has been solved. I did not do anything to solve it. The nosy neighbors of mine just gave up their vice for whatever reason. God answered my prayers for sure. Now I can sleep without getting disturbed. Thank God!
@PainsOnSlate (21852)
• Canada
24 Dec 15
I am so lucky. When we moved into this house I had a neighbor next door with noisy dogs but didn't know that because they were on their honeymoon and the dogs were somewhere else when we looked at the house. I say I'm lucky because she had three kids who were awful too, yelling swearing and being obnoxious once they got back from the honeymoon. Lucky? Within a couple of months she was divorcing and the house was up for sale. A nice quiet couple bought it and the neighborhood improved by 100%
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@salonga (27775)
• Philippines
24 Dec 15
Lucky? I must say YES!
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@riyasam (16556)
• India
7 Mar 09
my neighbours are quite noiseless during the night,they have kids that make ruckus during the day but thankfully,they sleep at night.one of them have a 6 month old child and i can hear it crying through out the night but it is not much of a bother.
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@salonga (27775)
• Philippines
9 Mar 09
It's good you don't have the same problem as I do. Just last night, they again made a terrible noise and I was not able to sleep again. It's seems that I really have to do drastic step to solve this problems.
@djoyce71 (2511)
• Philippines
21 Feb 09
We have a neighbor at the back of our house. The crying of a 3 year old kid is just so annoying, although we are separated by a high fence we could still hear specially at night. This happens everyday. I don't know why that kid cries a lot and in a very high pitched voice. Sometimes, we find it hard to fall asleep because he cries until late night hours like 11:00 PM or 12 midnight and then cries again at dawn and in a seemingly never ending cry. He is such a problem cry baby. The parents should do something. Their kid might be suffering from something.
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@salonga (27775)
• Philippines
23 Feb 09
It could be irritating to hear disturbing sound during night time when everyone should be asleep. The parent of that baby must do something about their troublesome baby.
@walijo2008 (4644)
• United States
20 Feb 09
Well I feel for you..I don't have neighbors that close, we live out in the country, and my neighbors are a few miles down the road. Can't you call the police on them? I would if they were disturbing my sleep, the police would just come out there and tell them to quiet it down some, that they're disturbing the neighborhood, its worth a try.
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@salonga (27775)
• Philippines
21 Feb 09
I hope I could do that my friend. I have a good relationship with the mother and that hinders me from taking harsh action. I've talked to me mother already and maybe I'd talk again to solve this issue once and for all. Thanks for your advice dear!
@maxilimian (3099)
• Indonesia
13 Mar 09
Once, it was a long years ago ... fyuhh maybe you can call the police about it, because they already annoying people on your neighbourhood ... Well personally i never do it, but people do, and by the time goes by people like this will always have big problems, you can see my ex-neighbour for examples, they already move from the house, and bank has confiscating their house ... now the house is already sold, and have quite occupant neighbour
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@salonga (27775)
• Philippines
14 Mar 09
I hope that noisy neighbor of mine will also leave the place for some reason. I am beginning to hate them for being so inconsiderate. I need a quiet night but most of them they are noisy.
@ronnyb (6113)
• Jamaica
3 Dec 09
Well fortunately for me I dont have a noisy neighbour ,in fact my community is one of the quietest places in my state and that is the way I like it.I dont think I could survive in a noisy community as I am by nature a quiet person myself and especially at nights when I want to sleep i hate to be disturbed
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@salonga (27775)
• Philippines
19 Jul 12
You are blessed to have such a peaceful community. It is very rare to find such kind of quiet neighborhood. Well as of now, I am happy that after 2 years this noisy neighbor has seemed to have changed. I've long been sleeping without getting disturbed. They finally have given up their vice maybe. I hope this is for good.
• Chile
20 Feb 09
communication is the key to solve this problem, you´ll have to achieve some kind of agreement
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@salonga (27775)
• Philippines
21 Feb 09
Well I've already communicated with the mother once but this did not help. I'm contemplating on talking again with her. If nothing still happens, then I may go to the Homeowners Association to file complaint. Thanks for your advice!
• China
22 Nov 09
hi,salonga! I am really sorry for you because I suffered that too.and unfortnately,I tatolly have no idea how to deal with such noisy people.I wish I won't be neighbor with any noisy people anymore. and hope you can figure out your problem soon! have a nice day!
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@salonga (27775)
• Philippines
23 Sep 10
That is problem quite hard to solve. It is always a pleasure to live a peaceful life but with noisy neighbors how could we ever achieve this. Hmm I pray these noisy people will just evaporate.
• India
1 Sep 10
Hello salonga I had a noisy neighbor, a bad person no doubt, quarrelsome, he will always play music at abnormal high volume till late night, i along with others requested him several times, it was of no use, lastly we brought some loud speakers, noisy music cassettes and played them, pointing the speaker at his home..it worked, he could realized his fault.. Thanks for sharing. Welcome always. Cheers. Professor
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@salonga (27775)
• Philippines
19 Jul 12
Hahaha! So you gave that bad neighbor the same dose of medicine and it was effective. That gave me a good laugh indeed! Well I am glad that I did not have to do that same thing with my noisy neighbors. They have voluntarily given up their drinking sprees. I've not been hearing their noisy drinking sessions for many months now. Thank God!
@academic2 (7000)
• Uganda
20 Feb 09
I have a very noisy neighbor who seems to have every body behave like a gong! His home is so nosy, the Roosters he has makes the loudest noise in the morning, he barks at his children like a lion and when it gets to the car he has, quite always it has an engine problem and everymorning we are woken up by a noisy engine. I have complained to a local authority without any success!
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@salonga (27775)
• Philippines
21 Feb 09
My goodness, by the way you described it, I agree that your is really a very noisy neighbor. How sad that your complaint was not deal with accordingly. I hope you can solve that problem soon as I wish mine be solved too.
@checapricorn (16061)
• United States
20 Feb 09
[i]Hi salonga, We don't have here but when I was renting with my sister and friends back in my Country, we use to deal with this situation and it was not easy! We complain a lot but there was no improvement so we just tried to live with it and close our doors and windows but still we can hear them! It was terrible! [/i]
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@salonga (27775)
• Philippines
21 Feb 09
Yes it was not easy my dear. The aircon does help but when it is already in the middle of the night, the noise they create still get inside my room. It is really very annoying. I am glad you now have a peaceful environment unlike mine.
• India
20 Feb 09
Yes, my Neighbours is very very noice. Specially there children is very like a horror in noice. whole day they making unwanted noices and irritating to us. They always crying and doing dirty shouty noice, and we not sleeping well bcoz of worst noice. Sometimes fighting also create heavy noice. This means different types of noice is irritating from neighbour.
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@salonga (27775)
• Philippines
21 Feb 09
So you are also being troubled by your neighbors. I am not alone really! Well, crying children could be very irritating but I think during the night they will be asleep already and your noise problem is solved unlike me when it is during the night where this troublesome guys are doing their noises.
@agrant10 (1476)
• United States
20 Feb 09
I do have neighbors but our houses are really spaced apart, however I just watched Judge David Young yesterday on my luch time and they had a incident like this. The neighbors had a cat that had a medical condition. The cat would walk into the wall and make other kind of distrubing noises. So their neighbors brought them to court. Judge Daivd Young made the cat owners pay I think it was about $250.00 to the other neighbors for them to buy some headphones so that they would not have to listen to the noise.
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@salonga (27775)
• Philippines
21 Feb 09
Ha!ha!ha! Thanks for sharing that quite amusing story. But in my case, I don't think I should ever go to court if I'd be given just a headphone. I don't deserve sleeping with headphone. My neighbors do their noise in the middle of the night. I can tolerate cats as they have no intellect like human beings anyway.
• China
20 Feb 09
hello..talking about the noisy neighbors i really have the same feeling with you. my neighbor always turns the music loudly and forced us to liten with him.several times this drives me madly even want to kill them... i also dropped a topic here to seek some good ways to solve this problem, some advised me to talk to them with polite, perhaps this would also do some help to you...
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@salonga (27775)
• Philippines
21 Feb 09
Oh that is annoying! But please don't kill! Ha!ha!ha! I know that you don't mean that though. It seems your problem with your neighbors is too serious already. Well I understand you my dear as I am also in the same situation.
• Philippines
20 Feb 09
Just don't mind them, we always have a noisy and nosy neighbors where ever we are. I too have a lot of noisy neighbors here, but what to do, i don't speak their language, i can't tell them you keep your noise down or low. I have been into places where everybody is talking too. I guess i have to get use of this and pretend that they are not existing by doing something else like what you did, turning the AC on. Back home we have drinking and out of tune singing neighbors and they party till 1 or 2am not minding other neighbors already sleeping. So i guess we just have to get our string of patient longer than the usual.
@salonga (27775)
• Philippines
21 Feb 09
I wish I could stretch my patience even more. It's too irritating when you can hear loud out of tune singing till dawn. It's hard for people like us who need good sleep as we have to wake up early for the office.