Neighbour mocking me?

I'd rather be too loud than a passive aggressive wanker.

It sounds to me like a way to let you know you are being very loud, but without being confrontational.

Having lived in an old house, the chimneys in every room were the cause of noise transference.

Yeah, I'd just shout FUCK OFF as loud as possible.

Your neighbour sounds like a nob.

True that tolerance is important and that hearing attached neighbours some of the time is normal, but this happens when OP and her partner are shouting up and downstairs, and surely there is no need for that. I've never lived anywhere where I can hear what my neighbours are saying.

Not much of an answer.☹️

My DGP's lived in a Victorian terraced and could (and often did) talk to the neighbours through the party walls as they were just plaster partitions.

When I lived in my house up until last May (I downsized to a flat then), it was a semi-detached and I never heard my neighbours on the attached side. I could hear the French doors and back door opening and closing sometimes, but never heard their voices indoors, even when their children lived there. They were lively, happy people, I knew them reasonably well but voices did not come through the adjoining walls, even upstairs. If there was work being done, drilling, banging etc, obviously I could hear that but it wasn't loud.

I can only assume, op, you and your husband have loud voices.

It probably is a noise issue but I absolutely hate these passive aggressive hints! The neighbour should have the courtesy to have a polite word not behave like a teenager!

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Upmarket suburb for medics and academics at the new university and new nearby hospital. Elaborate flourishes in the architecture, enormous gardens. Not cheap housing stock. Neighbours still very audible. Not a Wagner fan, other than The Flying Dutchman, and scratchy records of the Ring cycle played very loudly on the other side of the wall wouldn't endear him to anyone.

I'd just repeat the sentence again and see if they say it again. Then do it again until they give up first. You can have a bit of fun with it, like a verbal who-blinks-first.

Professionals with notions?

Wagner's music is "nasty"???

To be fair, OP has admitted they are shouting!

Shouting up and down the stairs has always been banned in my homes. If anyone shouts up or down, they will be ignored unless it’s “Fire!” Or equivalent emergency. Kids soon got the hang of it.

They trying to get across to you that you and your husband are bloody loud and inconsiderate

We live in a semi and are pretty loud but so are the neighbours we are joined to so we all get on quite well! We only tend to hear them when we are being very quiet (rare) but then I can hear every word of their conversations. Can also hear the teenage lad playing video games wih his mates til early hours as his bedroom is joined to ours but I've got used to it and it no longer bothers me. So I don't agree with some pp who say you have to be very loud to be heard by neighbours. Ours don't have to be shouting for us to hear them.

You are shouting at your dh from downstairs. If you do this often you bother the neighbours. But they are weird going about it in this way. I would have knocked on your door and politely asked you not to shout and also asked if you were bothered by us in any way. I don't blame you for keeping on shouting since they dealt with it in this passive agressive way. Next time shout to your husband to tell him you just had the doctor who told you it was extremely contagious the illness you have. When you see neighbours smile and walk towards them for a friendly chat:).

You are being too loud. They are repeating what you have said so that you will realize you are too loud and tone it down.
If a neighbour can make out the actual words you are saying then you're too loud. It's as simple as that.
When my neighbour has friends round I can sometimes hear voices or laughing but not the actual words they are saying.

You’re probably being too loud but he is also being a dick. Why not discuss it? Do you hear him any other time? (Not just when he’s clearly mocking you).
I had the unfortunate experience of living in some low quality attached housing too. It was a new build and the joining walls must have been made of paper. Could hear the neighbours using the loo (and I don’t mean the flush) and when they had sex we could literally hear their bits slapping against each other 🤮

Mine was built in 1863 (in a well-heeled suburb for professionals with notions), and I can still hear my neighbour playing his nasty Wagner recordings.

Take on board that you're being too loud, OP, and you're neighbours are tired of it, and not dealing with it as tactfully as they might.

I actually disagree with pp in that I think hearing your neighbours a handful of times a day is par for the course in terraced housing, your neighbours need to get over themselves (unless you're having whole convos shouting up and down stairs of course).

I hear my own neighbours on both sides practically every day but that's the nature of this sort of housing.

Yeah, mine was built in 1889. I can't hear low tone quiet conversations but anything else I can hear very very clearly. You're being too loud.

YOU'RE BEING TOO LOUD, FELICIA!

You’re too loud.

Perhaps something with paper thin walls where you can hear the old dear next door shouting up the stairs to her old man ....'What are you talking about?'.

Stop yelling . Problem solved. On a separate note it’s rude to yell all over the house. Stop doing it and your neighbour won’t be mocking you as a way of saying stop yelling. Do you not have any consideration for your yelling when you live in a terraced house? I’m with your neighbour on this one.