to want my next-door-but-one neighbours to STOP SHOUTING??

[coastgirl]

Ok, this is a small neighbour moan compared to some people on here, but every nice day it's the same. Our next-door neighbours are lovely, but the family next to them spend the whole day outside in the garden and of that, 90% is spent YELLING at each other. They're not arguing, it's just that any conversation people would have at a normal level is conducted at 300 decibels. If someone can't hear you from the end of the garden, move closer! Don't shout louder! All the people who live around them hate them, but thankfully we think they're moving soon

YANBU
Our next door neighbour conducts his exceedingly dull business at very high volume and I have grown to despise him. I think he must be deaf as he seems totally impervious to the insults we shout through the wall when he has woken us/the baby at 1am with his smoke alarm/yelling/"music".
The worst is when he is in the garden with his equally moronic family and friends, the most boring conversations ever (45 minutes saying "ooh isn't it hot? Mam, I was just saying to Anne, isn't it hot?" "Oh yes love, it's hot. Ever so hot. Isn't it Jeff?" etc etc bloody etc) conducted at a pitch which drowns out our telly if we have the window open and makes sitting in our garden a trial to be endured.
The woman next door but one on the other side swears at her husband in the garden, but that's quite entertaining so I don't mind as much.

Oh, I should say our other next door neighbours spend loads of time in their garden, have mates round, etc, but don't disturb us at all - you can just hear the sounds of people enjoying themselves, laughter etc. We're not U, but our twat of a neighbour is just SO BLOODY LOUD.

YANBU.

A friend and I went to a fairly local beach yesterday - one with a field attached for parking/ ball games/ BBQ etc. Very busy place with lots of laughter/ dc's making friends etc.

I got there at 11am and set up in the field, at the back away from everyone and waited for friend who was coming middayish.

20 minutes after I arrived a family (mum/dad/ their DD's and dh's and their dc's). Well peace and quiet was no longer. They parked 10 m's from me when there was a whole field and proceeded to tell J & R at top volume to get some suncream on, get their crocs on, come here, have a photo. I also know stories of C's 'stage fright' when trying to pee in front of others.

We did not sit by them on the beach.

NU at all. I feel for you.

We're surrounded by gardens and hear lots of lovely neighbour sounds - kids playing, people chatting, music etc - but there's one set of neighbours that drives us mad.

All conversation conducted at maximum decibel shout (esp the dad) and footballs kicked hard at our fence whenever they're playing out there. Ba-DOOM, ba-DOOM, ba-DOOM! Drives me crazy but I don't want to be a killjoy. It does take the shine off summer in the garden, though...

You're probably not being unreasonable but spare a thought for those of us who shout as a normal part of conversation married to people who whisper.

Actually, I don't shout. I'm just emphatic . He, otoh, speaks as if I have the hearing of a bat, causing me to shout: 'WHAT?' and 'STOP MUMBLING' and 'TAKE YOUR HAND AWAY FROM YOUR MOUTH' which makes me feel like his mum.

The shouting gene is passed directly through the female line in my family with my mother, sister and I conversing normally and the male members of our family wincing.

In fact they are very judgemental and passive aggressive. I'm thinking of setting up a support group for people like me.

Oryx I get the Ba-DOOM Ba-DOOM of a football kicked hard at a fence all summer long too. It's awful and they seem to come out to do it the minute we sit down to eat. No noise from other 6 gardens that all back on to each other along the row, just these inconsiderate tossers.

Claire - it's horrible, isn't it?! I do think some people are unaware of how loud they are but others are just plain inconsiderate and don't care how they affect other people. Sorry you're living with the football thing, too - I feel your pain!

UPDATE!

They were dismantling their koi pond at the bottom of their garden so I was living in hope that this would mean they were moving...no such luck.

They have, of course, put in a pool. Complete with manically shrieking children being egged on by manically shrieking adults. I mean the children are literally screaming as though they're being murdered, repeatedly, for minutes on end.

I don't mind hearing children playing, but this is of course above and beyond that and all at a noise level similar to what you might experience at a space shuttle launch. Joy!

YANBU, I am sitting in my front room and can hear every word the neighbours are yelling at each other in the back garden, they conduct their whole lives at full volume and they drive me batty.

The worst thing is that these aren't even next door! When my actual next door neighbours are out, I can hear them talking, but only in that low murmur way. You can't make out actual words, so I know it's not the layout of the gardens or anything. So the next-door-but-one crew must be making LOADS of noise in comparison.

Down with shouters!

YANBU! The walls in the terrace I live on are ridiculously thin... I can hear next door's alarm clock, so imagine what it's like when they have a full blown row...

I have this, there is a woman three/four doors up, she is out in the garden with her toddlers (I think) every morning from 9am.

All you ever here is Josh don't do that, Josh go to your room, this is constant the whole time they are in the garden, we aren't talking normal talking she shouts constantly, if that is not bad enough this morning the had play flutes, constant from 9am till 12pm!