Noisy kids/noisy neighbors

[*LabLoverKEB*]

Oh, I'm sorry Kristen! I sometimes know how you feel!
When I was a kid, my parents would constantly remind me and my sister or any friends we had over that "We have neighbors!!"

[Cataholic]

I can't stand noisy anyone! Kids, adults, dogs, music, whatever. I have a general noise intolerance. I will never forget the live band practices in the house next door before and after J was born. M-W-F, from 4-7 or even 8 sometimes. I was so stressed by it all. I couldn't sit in my house with my windows opened. Horrible, horrible situation. I remember calling the police (after talking to the neighbors at length about it). I remember the 'boy' justifying his position of practicing there, rather than elsewhere, "my parents are the only ones that allow it". Ya think?

He has grown up (mildly) and out, lives in CA most of the time, with a wife and kids here, and I never hear practices anymore.

[kitten645]

I completely understand and sympathize I've been getting really annoyed lately and have been meaning to post about the exact same thing. I think you are completely in your rights to say something if the girls are that old! I haven't complained but that's because the kids here are 5-7 and it just sometimes joyful screaming from the pool area. However, there are times when it's SCREAMING for 5-6 hours a day! One of the other tenants finally screamed out their window "SHUT THE F* UP!" which I thought was a bit harsh but justified! LOL!
I am fortunate that we have large fountains here that create "white noise" so it drowns out hearing other people. That water sound constantly is sometimes irritating as well. It's just part of living in an apartment.
I do want to write some simple rules about apartment life. Like: Don't slam doors! Our apartments are ATTACHED and crap falls off my walls! Don't talk on your cell phone under my window after 9PM. You might as well be sitting on my bed! Don't smoke outside my screen door! (an apartment complex got sued over that one nearby..secondhand smoke hazards!)
I've heard these are very effective. Might be worth it if you have trouble every summer. http://www.bose.com/controller?url=/...ones/index.jsp

Claudia

[Kirsten]

LOL when I first moved to Eugene I lived underneath a guy who was very good with the laides. Since our bedroom was directly under his we got a very good idea of exactly how good he was! He never got offended when we told him to try to tone it down later in the evenings but his lady friends always seemed to be annoyed lol.

OMG!! LOL Well, your complaints made Mr. Bombastic probably more pround than ashamed!

When I was a kid, my parents would constantly remind me and my sister or any friends we had over that "We have neighbors!!"

Well, unfortunately, things have changed a lot since we were young!

I can't stand noisy anyone! Kids, adults, dogs, music, whatever. I have a general noise intolerance. I will never forget the live band practices in the house next door before and after J was born. M-W-F, from 4-7 or even 8 sometimes. I was so stressed by it all. I couldn't sit in my house with my windows opened. Horrible, horrible situation

That sounds just awful!! That situation would have driven me mad!!!

Last night, I heard someone in the neighborhood playing the drums!! I have no idea where it came from, and who of my neighbors got a new toy, but if this continues, I will find out and call the police, if necessary!! It was already midnight when the noise stopped, and it wasn't even a weekend! How rude and reckless can some people be?!

However, there are times when it's SCREAMING for 5-6 hours a day! One of the other tenants finally screamed out their window "SHUT THE F* UP!" which I thought was a bit harsh but justified! LOL!

Same here, and believe me, there are times when I'm very close to yelling something out of the window. But there are rules in Germany that you have no right to complain about noisy children, no matter how loud they are, or how late it is.

Kirsten

[Cinder & Smoke]

But there are rules in Germany that you have no right to complain about noisy children,
no matter how loud they are, or how late it is.

WHAT??


Good Grief - that's kinda hard to swallow!

[Kirsten]

WHAT??


Good Grief - that's kinda hard to swallow!

It's true. Sometimes cases like that are brought to court, but the judges are always on the childrens' side. Noise caused by children has always to be tolerated by others, and you have no right to complain. Quite the contrary, you even have to careful to mention that the kids' noise is bothering you, 'cause you'll be quickly labelled as a child hater.

Kirsten

[pomtzu]

It's true. Sometimes cases like that are brought to court, but the judges are always on the childrens' side. Noise caused by children has always to be tolerated by others, and you have no right to complain. Quite the contrary, you even have to careful to mention that the kids' noise is bothering you, 'cause you'll be quickly labelled as a child hater.

Kirsten

So are you allowed to complain about noisy adults? If you are, it seems that something is wrong with the picture as a whole. How are kids to learn that excessive noise won't be tolerated when they become adults, if they aren't taught that is how they should conduct themselves as children???