AIBU to wish that there was dedicated housing for quiet people?

I'm on another thread about sounds we can hear from the garden - seems we can all tolerate different sounds, depending!

The problem with noisy neighbours is that it seems so personal and as though they don't take your existence into consideration. I'm a city-dweller in a small garden flat with quiet neighbours but I have traffic sounds, helicopters, and people going about their daily business to contend with and find this no problem.

There are no lawns to be mowed, trampolines, garden fences, strimmers, power washers, hot tubs, etc - these I would find very irritating.

Detached.

I came on here to say that it's a great idea but vulnerable to abuse, like the quiet carriage. Then I saw that someone already has!

The problem is this though: in theory, you could live in a quiet place now, if you had all the money in the world. You could afford to buy a house with thick walls and loads of space around it and the sort of well heeled neighbours that won't put up with anti social behaviour and have ways of making it stop, and the reason why you probably haven't done this already is that you're not a millionaire.

Unfortunately if you guaranteed quiet in an ordinary modest house, it would become just as expensive because so many people are driven mad by noise. I honestly believe that "normal noise" is close to intolerable to a huge number of people but no one is socially empowered to do anything about it.

I don't mind children playing out but I REALLY hate doof doof doof in summer. Bass from someone's barbecue 8 houses away taking over my house for a whole day. It makes me absolutely miserable but it's just a family party with people behaving completely normally in the hours of daylight and there is fuck all I can do about it.

I would like

Guaranteed hours of quiet, enforced by law and convention. You can stand anything (almost) if you know if / when it will stop.
You need a professional licence to buy stereo equipment that goes over a certain range (your house and garden). It can be confiscated.
This applies to cars too.
Idling cars and motorbikes get fined. (by whom? you can't even report rapes and burglaries. I freely admit none of this is possible)
A culture where it is possible to just ask people to stop and we are allowed to admit this is driving us MAD without looking like weirdos
Workmen aren't allowed to set up their stupid loud stereos when they go to work outside on a house and dominate the neighbourhood

If there were neighbourhoods like this as standard I think what you would get is most people getting what they want some of the time. And if you want more "liveliness" than that, then certain neighbourhoods are "noise zones" - make them the exception

Adult only apartment complexes and housing estates are my dream.

I can’t stand kids and am always happy to pay premium to avoid them!

Brilliant idea!

I totally get this and I'm not autistic. It definitely seems worse as I've got older!

I was just saying this to my husband this morning. I've only lived in my new house for 3 months but I hate it so much with all the constant noise from the road, people and bloody dogs barking constantly. I'm just waiting till I can put the house on the market and get the hell out of here.

The problem would be that one person's quiet might still be another's inconsiderate level of noise. But eliminating even just the screaming and obviously excessive noise would be an improvement!

I agree. We are semi detached and the previous neighbours were so noisy. Then they were replaced by normal people. We hear them occasionally but they don’t live their entire lives at full volume like their predecessors did.

In theory yes but I know parents who use the quiet coach on trains in the hope that it helps their noisy kids be quiet (it never works).

I would absolutely love it though. Sick to death of kids screaming and kicking footballs all over the place outside my house when there’s an enormous park 3 minutes away.

I agree. I've had to spend all my savings and mortgaged myself up to the eyeballs on buying a detached property as I almost had a breakdown living in an attached house with inconsiderate neighbours. (Also autistic)

Can I come?

Sogn me up!

Oh yes please .

I'm very quiet and considerate as a neighbour but some don't give a monkeys who they disturb .

Sounds like a brilliant idea!