Anyone else looking forward to winter? Shit sick of my noisy road already..

[Sonicgirl56]

Just a rant really... It seems when the sun comes out on my road 90% of folk decide to power hose, get their gardens done, send their kids out on the trampoline at 7am... Yesterday music was blaring loudly from three different gardens.. I can't sit out the back for a coffee.. Kids constantly knocking for my dc.. I have a strong intolerance for too much noise & the summer sends my senses into overdrive..
I love the winter on my road, the peace & quiet, the dark evenings, the calmness...

What? The kids and I are still wearing coats out! It's bloody cold and I can't wait for summer.

OP it's nearly mid May and still very mild and wet for this time of year. So basically all we have left is June, July and August of summer then it will start to get cooler and darker. This will be the shortest summer ever so hang in there!

There’s been no spring yet, let alone summer. I like the sounds of summer, bees droning, lawn mowers, birds.

I’d like some warmth and sun please and I’d like it to last a long time.

Well, that assumes you have a free choice of where to live. My nearest neighbour is quarter of a mile away, the other side of a small wood. So the noise I get woken by is bloody pigeons and sometimes gulls. And the broadband is pants. Swings and roundabouts, OP.

I understand OP. We have apartments opposite with a big communal space and they give zero fucks about others- including each other. We’ve had to phone the police a couple of times when they’ve decided to set up a massive speaker set underneath a canopy. I wrongly assumed this was a one off, but no, it was because it was August apparently! They used to blare it until 3.30am. Not even joking. But my all time favourite was when they decided to have a paddling pool party at 4:20am. Jumping from a low entrance roof into pool and screaming joyfully. It’s glorious.

I do love spring and summer evenings but very rarely get to enjoy them because we have to keep all doors and windows shut or we can’t even watch tv. Some people are ridiculous. My husband works nights so goes to bed at 7pm - he could kill himself or others on the road from lack of sleep. We have nicely explained this to them- we don’t expect silence at that hour, but after 11pm could the music please be turned down due to work. They told us to fucking do one and get a life.
And the primary aged kids speak to us the same.

I’m with you. I’m in South Wales and it’s warm and sunny here (for a change) so could here my neighbours filling their hot tub yesterday. My estate is a bit rough and it can be very lively here in the summer. Mostly I ignore it but there are times that it grates

I hate summer purely because of neighbour noise too. Not normal garden maintenance noises but there's one house on our terrace with a hot tub. Any nice day is a full day of their music blasting and hearing them having to talk loudly over it to the kids. Talk loudly being them speaking to them like they're shit and the kids screaming back. Now the kids are getting older, they like to use the scooter going back and forth past the front doors which are straight onto the pavement. Back and forth the gravelly scooter sound which then sets my dog off barking. We literally have a park one minute walk away. You'd think people living on a terrace would have the mildest sense of respect for the others but this family has zero self awareness. They're the type to be worse if anyone mentions it too. Rainy days are always welcome now!

It was 18 degrees and sunny in the NW.

Often think l would love to live on an estqte so dd had loads of friends to play with but posts like this put me right off the idea

I want to live where you live.

I stated a thread yesterday on the current horrible weather. It had loads of posts. You must be sitting in a tiny micro climate somewhere in the U.K.

It was 11 degrees and horrible yesterday round me.

SE here and we seem to have had nothing but rain!

Lawn mowing, gardening and power washing are pretty normal for summer as are bbqs and some children noise. I draw the line and kids screaming continually though-that really pisses me off.

Music to my ears!

We're expecting 20 degrees and sunny in the north west today! We're off to the seaside!

For what it's worth OP I'm with you, summer can piss off. I hate being too hot, sweaty, slathered in sunblock and blinded by the brightness. Autumn and winter is much nicer!

This is exactly how I feel! I’d love a house in the middle of nowhere surrounded by fields and nature but I suspect the reality would be different to my utopian dream.

I too am totally intolerant of noise from neighbours. I used to live on a modern estate and absolutely loathed it. The constant noise from the kids next door, screaming and hooting. Kids up and down the street on bikes or skateboards. Summer was absolutely horrendous when trampolines and pools were out in the gardens. You had no peace or privacy.

I now live on an estate of bungalows so primarily older people. They’re still noisy though, albeit in a different way! There’s always someone mowing the grass or strimming or doing DIY so banging about. Honestly, you rarely get any peace and quiet.

Long story short - if I am ever able to move, it will be away from an estate/urban living.

Yes! I wish for it to rain. I have a small play area in front of the house and the kids come there and scream on the top of their lungs. The noise goes straight to my head and I get migraines. I find it so annoying on why they scream. They also kick footballs straight to the metal fence multiple times in succession to make a MF huge clanking metallic sound. I HATE it

Ha your thread title made me laugh, couldn’t agree more.

Hate the warm weather and people sounds and shit bbq smells. Lawnmowers, diy, music etc can all fuck off.

flower smells, bees buzzing, that’s all okay!

Much prefer the winter months. Or rain. Keeps the fuckers behind their doors

I live in a similar area OP, so I know your pain. But I accept we chose to live in an area where there would be lots of families, and the associated noise and 'weekend' activities (grass cutting, car washing, kids playing etc). We live where we do so our DC can be close enough to walk to (a good) school and grow up living near all their friends, so I accept that means compromise on peace and tranquility.
As an aside, I hope you're not one of those parents who sends their kids out to play at others' houses because you don't like the noise but don't mind making it someone else's problem and never let's them play at their own home with their friends.

Just maybe the OP can't afford to do that?

No this sounds very much like my estate, there's a huge park at the end of the estate which opened last year & it's a hotbed for antisocial behaviour. Great facility for younger kids during the day but after 8 it's a no go area unfortunately for all the reasons you mentioned. Fortunately out house is situated a bit away but we can still hear the teens & older groups on their way down & coming back after midnight..

@Sunnycornwallanddevon I would move if I could afford to, unfortunately I am stuck in between houses , all around me in close proximity. Would love to live in a field

I live in the countryside too it is surprisingly noisy. There is a river 100m away and it’s loud after the rain. The sheep are also loud at lambing time. The owls screech at night, the dawn chorus is a mess. There was a sweet cuckoo desperately competing with a weird chittering sounding bird this morning and lots of songbirds. We have swallows who nest in the eaves so when their babies hatch it’s endless cheeping.

It doesn’t bother me, I quite like lying in bed half asleep listening to the world wake up around me . It can drive you bonkers if you are not used to it though.

Op I love the summer but I totally get what you mean. My neighbours have young kids who seem to be in the garden from dawn till dusk during the warmer months. This wouldn't be problem but they don't seem to actually play, they spend every waking moment screaming, shouting, fighting and throwing tantrums. If they are not doing that they have the big swimming pool out and invite what seems to be half the town round to play in it again very noisily and taking up all the parking in the street. Another neighbour has a sex pond that she likes to drunkenly frequent at all hours of the night with lots of different people! It's just constant noise and chaos!

Could be worse. Could be your neighbours calling their kids cunts, shit music and cannabis from multiple houses.

Id Love some gardening noise!

I feel your pain. New neighbours have 14 year old daughter who can't just listen quietly to music, it has to be furniture-vibrating-to-bass volume and tells her mother to f off when told to turn it down.

Across the road a few houses down (their garden backs onto ours) is a family who play music LOOOOOOUDLY most weekends for the last 4 weeks in the garden. It starts about 10 and goes onto 2am plus as they light fires. The police won't do anything as apparently it's a council job. The council take complaints but are yet to stop them or even have a word despite complaints coming from a lot of the block on this road and the road they live on. You cannot escape it in any room of the house even with double glazing it's that loud. I could even still hear it though admittedly faintly, when I went to the local shop 3 blocks down last week.