How much screaming can you here from your garden

[Monvelo]

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.

That would be me screaming every time I see a spider or a wasp comes near me 😂. I can't help it, but god knows what the neighbours think.

Lots of companionable neighbour noise, chatting, music at a reasonable volume, baby babbling, dog barking, birds tweeting. Very occasionally violent screaming and yelling but it's not often and halfway down the street so it's more nosy interest from me rather than out and out irritation.

Screaming due to an epic water fight going on in next doors garden, so my OH just found our water guns, snuck out and started shooting through the fence and they didn't know where it was coming from 😅 fun times x

I mean I’ve heard one neighbour have an argument on the phone with her husband and tell her 3yo off multiple times for not listening. I’ve heard another neighbour couple argue about secateurs and how she keeps losing them and having to buy new ones.

But they’ve also heard me shout at/towards my 4yo as she wanted to hold the hose to water some very unhappy plants, and directed the stream directly at my phone and kindle on my chair. (I did apologise)

So you know…just normal life. We’re not all perfect all the time 🤷‍♀️

Lady next door retired early this year so as soon as the suns out she’s in the garden blasting the shittest music I’ve ever heard. I’m one more Barry manilow song away from asking her to turn it down

Poor baby. They need reporting for neglect.

Very little noise from kids, given how many live round here. There's a dog that is clearly left outside far too much though, and seems to bark a lot.

Oh l could hear giggles from next door.
Lovely Polish family..
Kids speak English.. they say hello.. bring me sweets from Poland .. the dad has built a chair swing and a slide.
They have a trampoline and pool.
I love hearing them play.
Other neighbours seem to be elderly like me.
I'm lucky.

I have about 8 houses either side of me with no kids under 15. So the only screams are my own kids (having fun, not allowed squealing and not out before 9am or after 10pm). Fields behind us. Cows get a bit rowdy at times. 😁
I do hear kids when they are on break or lunch at local school (5 mins walk away) and summer scheme type things in local churches etc if my windows are open or I'm outside. I find it quite a lovely sound, but glad they aren't directly next door!

None thank the lord. Can only hear the birds singing and sheep bleating. I lived in ex council housing up until I was 17 then moved out to the countryside where I stayed for the next 30 years. I couldn't physically live as close to people as I did as a child.

My mum still lives in our old house and what used to be quite a quiet cul de sac has now almost given my poor mum a nervous breakdown. The newest neighbours scream and fight, have drunken late night parties. Absolutely rage at their small kids. You name it they do it. My poor mum. Yes she's has reported them.

I think I'd end up in prison if I was forced to live next door to them.

We have a family of young kids in one of the houses behind and the little boy is often annoying his sister. So often whiny/screaming from him and about him. But I find one particular dog parking all the time much more annoying.

That made me laugh. My friend has an Alexa and I swear she doesn’t speak to her family anymore as she tells Alexa to do it for her 😀

Yes, I hear shouting and sometimes screaming. It’s annoying but I grin and bear it - unless it turns into a full blown violent domestic which is when I report. Not nice and it has got worse unfortunately.

I live on a very nice cul-de-sac, it’s a council estate but it’s reasonably quiet with just the sound of children playing in the summer (which I love to hear). All the neighbours are respectful and for the last 14 years our summers have been lovely.

Last year my elderly neighbour passed away and we started dreading what we knew would happen. He had a 4 bedroomed house so we knew it would be a large family.
In January a family of 8 moved in, along with their 2 very large staffy dogs and our tranquil haven is no more.
The day starts at around 10am with shouting at the children and each other (it’s a booming shout that you can hear at the end of the street), followed by foul language from both parents and children.
This goes on until around 6pm, then more adults turn up, the smell of cannabis becomes much stronger and so does the sound.

The are not the type of neighbours that you can reason with.

my tranquil haven is no more.

P.S. I know I sound snobby but I’m really not, I’m as common as they come but I also have never screamed out of my bedroom window to my children that “UNLESS YOU MOVE THAT FUCKING BIKE I’M GOING TO BREAK YOUR CUNING NECK”, nor have I ever had a fist fight with my children’s friend because “YOU KNOW THAT THE CUT IS GROUNDED YET YOU STILL KEEP KNOCKING ON MY FUCKING DOOR YOU LITTLE CU*T”

My neighbours son (age 6) screams a lot. Mostly when he is excited or angry but it’s a really high pitched scream like nails on a chalkboard type that goes through me.

His parents never tell him to stop which is even more frustrating.

We are so lucky that neighbours on left never use their garden which is a jungle and neighbour on right is away a lot though theirs is immaculate. Most people in the street are retired or middle aged. A family with school aged kids recently moved into the house whose garden backs on to ours, although there is a lane in between. They installed a trampoline so for a while we could hear the kids shrieking from afar but they seem to have got bored with it already as I haven’t seen or heard them for a while.

Have a pub garden just behind some very tall Leylandii at the bottom of our garden. All quiet at the moment but sometimes the kids are just screaming their heads off. Have toyed with the idea of ringing the pub and telling them to shut the little gits up.

Neighbours have a little girl who has really found her voice, but she’s fine, is nice to hear her.

The screaming we have here is the seagulls, they are off the charts with their noise!!

None where I live ( small village) but we went to a coastal town yesterday and the volume and pitch of talking really hit me. One couple having a screaming argument in the street, a woman in a coffee shop doing that performative talking thing ( yes Legal Enforcement Officer for the Environment Agency who’s a great singer I’m looking at you) and a small child who decided to park herself next to me on the beach and scream in my ear about bashing open a hermit crab shell. To be fair when I said ‘I’m just here, you don’t need to shout’ she did lower her volume by about half but she still insisted I help her on her quest ( which I refused, telling her the crab was better off in its home, but she was undeterred and ran off towards some other unfortunate).

The young girl with the intermittent screaming could be an online gamer getting frustrated when it all goes wrong. Ask me how I know.

Luckily none but lots of bloody yappy dogs.

Is the screaming that bad that you’d risk moving and potentially having worse neighbours? I have a 4 yr old who is very stubborn she will scream for a while if I’ve asked her to have a bath, as a parent I’m embarrassed but there is nothing we can do about it…. Are you a parent yourself?

A couple of neighbours are mowing, occasional tractor driving by - we're rural, and a light aircraft overhead - we're near a small airfield. Standard Sunday

can't remember who said it - Hell is other people

We are surrounded by a churchyard so it's pretty quiet. Except at Halloween, obviously.

Move. You have a basic human right to enjoy your property. I would move to a place of quiet.

I can mostly hear a pin drop in my garden. Most of the garden is in the front. It is far back from the other houses and gets the sun all day, because there is nothing opposite except the school field hedge. I hear the children play at break times. I am last but one at the end of a cul-de-sac.

While it isn't bathed in sun at all times, the sun moves round so there is always a part in the sun. There is a lay by for about 6/7 cars but they are not allowed to park at night.

There is no traffic noise or pollution.

If you are serious about Rightmove, it is all about the location. You can change the house, but you cannot change where it is. There are all sorts of points to consider when choosing a house to buy, but where it is means everything.

If houses are fairly small, terraced or semis, chances are you will have lots of children. If the gardens are not kept well, avoid the area, no matter how cheap the house is.

It could take forever though, because people are waking up to the fact that location is everything when investing in a property to live in yourself.