If you live in a middle class area do you ever hear your neighbours argue?

I live in a SW London middle class bubble. Never heard any argument. DH and I are both of Latin heritage (south Europe) and we can
be quite vocal… I recently asked a British school mum if she heard neighbours from my country argue from her house (lots of people from my country around here) and she said yes.
So yes, neighbours do hear you.They just act as if they didn’t.

To me this response is a bit odd beside the first sentence which I agree with.

Why is it an odd question? and… OFFENSIVE??

Please elaborate, I’d really love to hear your thought process…

🤣😂

We had to flee a posh area because of the non-stop shouty arguments. It was all up and down the street.

Furious arguments about whether it was Tuscany or Provence in the summer. Horrible set-tos about the new Head at the prep school. A blazing row between a mum and a daughter over clarinet practice. The lab v retriever wars from no. 55.

The worst, though, was a two-dayer with a husband refusing to pay the increase in the National Trust subscription: “NO, NO, NO! SISSINGHURST IS NOT WORTH IT!”

We live in a quite a mixed area. Our cul de sac is very middle class, all houses self owned.
We back onto a row of social housing and one of the families is very interesting with screaming, hysterical fights and police involved. The rest of them are all quiet and lovely.

It's just better soundproofing!

Never heard neighbours, no matter where we've lived. From a two up two down terrace in a rough area, to our naice neighbourhood now.

I spend many nights awake wondering what our neighbours hear. We're a large family. Today toddler trapped his fingers in a door upon leaving the house and was SCREAMING. Five week old baby was screaming too and two primary age kids arguing over a key ring on the drive. It was stressful and culminated in me shouting 'piss off then you knob!' to DH. I reigned in my language for the kids 🙈 This was followed by him yelling something about me hating him and slamming the front door.
He then took all four of them out whilst I went back to bed with a coffee and silently stewed over it all.
We're a toxic mess now I think about it.

That’s a good point. I canvas the posher end of my road and the richer the family the fewer signs of life. No cooking smells, no sound, no flickering tvs

I live in a nice area. I’ve occasionally heard neighbours arguing. I also hear one neighbour go out into her garden to fart. I feel a little sorry for her, as she obviously goes to great lengths to not fart in front of her BF, but her neighbours hear it regularly.

I'm sure I'm the only one in my lane that shouts 🫢

No.

Although in the past, when I lived elsewhere, I heard lots of arguments. And mums shouting at kids in local shops, on the streets and it makes me sad to this day 😞 Poor kids getting shouted at from very young age.. by parents who couldn't be bothered to parent.

Just editing to add that you get all sorts of people in all sorts of areas. Simply mentioned the shouting at children bit as it's something I still think of often.

Do you hear children practicing musical instruments? I don’t. We all just have enough space and well built enough homes that the sound doesn’t carry.

Ill be watching this thread closely to see if any of my neighbours pop up talking about me 🤣🤣🤣

We live in a road of detached houses so probably wouldn't hear people fighting indoors.

I did once hear an incredibly heated argument between the couple across the road neighbours. They have a young family and it was late at night and it was conducted in hushed tones at the end of their path. It was quiet but it sounded intense.

I live in a naice area now and never hear people argue, although my next door neighbours do communicate mostly through bellowing up and down stairs like Kerry’s mum in This Country which makes us laugh (they’re nice people!).

I definitely heard more shouting and arguing when I lived in a council house and in terraced housing, but it might just be the proximity rather than the class difference.

Pretty quiet around here apart from Dh’s general booming voice! I constantly feel like I’m shushing him (a reminder that he probably needs his ears syringing again!) when the back doors are open or if we are in the garden. Not shouting/arguments though, we don’t have shouty arguments. Tense words sometimes but I grew up in a shouty house and don’t like it and he’s quite laid back and relaxed about stuff so we just don’t really ever get to that point.
Do sometimes hear one side snapping at each other about not leaving the tea to brew long enough 😂
Actually the other side used to have quite loud rows but they separated and he left so not anymore.

4 posh areas over 50 years and literally one in each area- one blazing row every 10 years.
Apart from the murder next door which no one heard.

I live on a council estate, in a council house, and rarely ever hear my neighbours argue.

I once heard some bloke shouting, "Fuck off you cow!" Before zooming off in the car; and I once a woman throwing clothes out of the window to another woman, shouting, ”If you want him, you can have him, love. He's a fucking bastard and you're a slag!" But that's twice in 20 years.

Yes.

Snapped and raised my voice in the drive today over teenager's forgotten lunchbox. Teen argued back - I'm the only person I hear doing this sort of stuff. 😊