I have lived on a council estate for 13 years, since just before my first daughter was born. Initially I HATED it. I come from a family where no one has ever had to rely on the local council for housing and was initially a bit horrified to find myself in a situation whereby I had to live on the very estate where i was not allowed to play as a child.
There are very many reasons that i now love where I live and the one I wish to highlight here may be petty but it has played on my mind recently with the hot weather and seeing many posts here regarding the same issue.... noise!
I have just come in after enjoying the summer evening in the garden. I have neighbours to the back of me that happen to be a particularly noisy family. They are a big family and spend a lot of time outside, all year round. It is not just the kids playing, trampoline on concrete, ball bouncing noises, the adults are also particularly loud voice wise and often wind up the children deliberately making quite a hullabaloo. They are reliably loud and noisy. Although myself and my immediate neighbour often share a little giggle or comment at how noisy they are there is actually no grumbling resentment or fury or nasty letters or ringing the police or noise abatement or noise diaries or any kind of problem at all.
I read on here about kids being out to play too early/late, people chatting in their gardens, trampolines, music etc keeping kids awake or ruining the tranquility of summer or some such. I think to myself that I am actually happier just listening to my neighbours noise without feeling obliged to get twisted out of shape at the liberty of it.
People make noise. I have another neighbour who likes to spend hours on the weekend cleaning his car whilst blasting his music out of the bass bins in his boot. No one complains. There are often people out in the street chatting, arguing, singing at all hours yet my kids have never been kept awake or emotionally disturbed by this.
I just feel that although I am secretly a horrendous snob, I am happier living in this state of live and let live than in a world where I have to worry about the volume of my television if the windows are open and what time my children want to go in the garden. Am I wrong or have I just gone over to the dark side?
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MummaEss · 20/07/2013 21:19
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