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How much screaming can you here from your garden

136 replies

Monvelo · 20/06/2025 15:46

The sun's out. Understandably that means doors and windows are open and people are in their gardens. Unfortunately around here that seems to mean screaming. Yesterday it was a mum and son who are 'known' in the area, screaming at each other, calling each other names and swearing. Today it's been mainly a young girl screaming on and off all day, I don't mean crying I mean rage type temper screaming, like in a tantrum, but it's been happening intermittently all day long. It has driven me to Rightmove today. Is this normal where you are? Can you hear screaming from other houses in your garden?

Can't correct spelling mistake in title which will now irritate me forever.

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YourAmplePlumPoster · 20/06/2025 15:48

Screaming in restaurants is what annoys me the most. And that's not even the children.

TheBig50 · 20/06/2025 15:49

It's all quiet here.

Ineedpeaceandquiet · 20/06/2025 15:49

Noah come in for lunch.
Cue for Noah to start screaming 😢

TizerorFizz · 20/06/2025 15:50

No. We aren’t close to oiks though.

InfiniteArmyofOctopi · 20/06/2025 15:50

I'm working in the back office with the window and door open and all I can hear is the faint sound of cars and birds it is remarkably quiet. This morning I could hear next doors grandchildren but they weren't screaming just playing, and a dog a few doors up.

Nagginthenag · 20/06/2025 15:51

None - I realise how lucky we are, especially living on an estate with lots of children. Excessive noise drives me demented.

GCAcademic · 20/06/2025 15:51

Yep. Very small, very rural village. But screaming. It triggers my CPTSD.

Glowinglights · 20/06/2025 15:51

No screaming here - no primary aged children in our street which helps 😁

Moveoverdarlin · 20/06/2025 15:52

None. Birds tweeting. Helicopter in the distance. We are rural though and it’s fucking bliss. No neighbours at all.

donkey86 · 20/06/2025 15:52

It depends on if the teenager two doors down is home or with his dad. If he’s home, then a LOT. When he’s away, blissful quiet.

Tiredofwhataboutery · 20/06/2025 15:52

Loads of sheep who keep bleating away. Does that count?

CaptainMyCaptain · 20/06/2025 15:52

I can usyally hear children playing but not screaming.

tumblingdowntherabbithole · 20/06/2025 15:52

None. Our back door is wide open and we live on a street of hundreds of terraced houses - all we can hear is the odd car, the occasional dog barking and the odd bit of chatter or noise from the neighbours kids.

We might occasionally hear the odd drunken row on a weekend evening but honestly, it's nothing major and never causes any issues.

MiddleAgedDread · 20/06/2025 15:53

The only thing screaming here is a magpie!!

Elbowpatch · 20/06/2025 15:54

Absolutely none. The nearest house with any children must be a mile and and an half away.

Mingenious · 20/06/2025 15:54

None, but I can hear my neighbour next door working from home, my husband working from his office and my absolute cunt of a neighbour playing music in his garden.

Spectre8 · 20/06/2025 15:54

Next door banging round in her kitchen all day, so cupboards banging shut, pots and pan noise then came the inevitable...ALEXAAAAAAAAA

Queue some podcast coming on, then a 2hr conversation on speaker phone all this.

What I have learnt is Alexa is rubbish as it never does what she says so she has to repeatedly ask.

I just closed my windows and door and stuck a fan on cos it was irritating.

How can one person make so much bloody noise 🙄

BeamMeUpCountMeIn · 20/06/2025 15:55

I can hear a bit of shouting and squealing from kids in the street.
I'll probably get a football in my garden at some point, but I don't care because that's the price I pay for living where I do. Kids should be outside tearing around in summer.

CrotchetyQuaver · 20/06/2025 15:56

All quiet here, but TBH as few neighbours as possible with a few metres between the houses was a priority for me, we compromised on other things like house size to get it. So I'm in a row of bungalows/houses, no neighbours front or back.

LimeLime · 20/06/2025 15:59

All quiet right now, but there is a woman who is a childminder whose garden backs on to ours and her little darlings can shriek and scream as well as anyone. When we moved in I thought it was a granny with exceptionally loud grandchildren but somehow they never seemed to grow up over the last 30 years. I'm hoping she might retire soon. As the gardens are communal she must have very tolerant neighbours to allow that racket to carry on in their back green.

ThesecondLEM · 20/06/2025 15:59

I can hear the children a few doors up, my girls are grown now. I often enjoy listening to them play but it can get irritating. The downsides of living in a terrace, I would never dream of saying anything

justasking111 · 20/06/2025 16:01

At times neighbours kids. Most of it from the local primary school in the summer I know when break times and lunch times are. I like listening to children having fun though.

BeamMeUpCountMeIn · 20/06/2025 16:07

Kids break times and sports days are the best noises.

justkeepswimingswiming · 20/06/2025 16:08

none can just hear music & the smell of BBQ ☺️

yeesh · 20/06/2025 16:10

None, some birds and the occasional car