AIBU?
To ask where you live if you can't hear your neighbours in your garden
SEsofty · 07/08/2015 21:01
I know that everyone is entitled to enjoy their own garden but was really looking forward to a quiet glass of wine in the garden this evening. And all I can hear is children playing all around.
So is it possible to live anywhere, that's not the highlands, and guarantee some peace and quiet
Missdread · 07/08/2015 21:17
I should add to that I live in a naice part of a town, 1980s small estate with tweeting birds and woodland all around. And my children SCREAM (sometimes with glee, sometimes with menace) and make huge amounts of noise whenever they're outside. I CRINGE for my poor neighbours, both elderly couples trying to potter in their gardens with all the racket. They must hate us!!! 
CrapBag · 07/08/2015 21:18
I'd rather that than the noisy drunk adults making a huge racket in my neighbours garden (DS can't sleep in his room because of it) or the frequent group of vandalising bored teenagers we get hanging around at the school near the back of our house. Then they walk around the street making even more noise.
I have a thread about noise and neighbours at the moment 
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Basically you need to live in a field, surrounded by fields to get some peace and quiet. And I'd be too scared of the dark so that wouldn't work for me.
Salmotrutta · 07/08/2015 21:22
I live in a small town in Scotland and we are in a pretty quiet street.
The kids round here are few in number (mine grew up here) and are generally not that noisy anyway.
They cycle round the road on their bikes etc. but they aren't shouting and shrieking.
I didn't allow mine to make a huge racket either when they were in the garden with friends because we had older neighbours.
EgyptianSnow · 07/08/2015 21:26
Only if you are super rich and can buy large land or maybe a village in Cornwall or something.
Summer time is annoying when children live around you but you're lucky you don't live on an estate, I use to and i had kids who use to run down the pathway where my bedroom/living room patio doors were and ndn use to hold barbecues there so I couldn't even have my window open in the heat 
BeaufortBelle · 07/08/2015 21:29
We decided we were tired of hearing other people and living cheek by jowl. We have not yet heard our neighbours in our new home but we, and they, have big gardens. When I sit in my garden, I cannot see my neighbour's houses (flora rather than just space). It's bliss and not that far from London.
.. hard work in Winter though!fourtothedozen · 07/08/2015 21:58
I rarely hear anything from neighbours, never hear kids although I know they live around here- I see them going to school. I live just outside Edinburgh on an estate of around 250 houses, but the houses are spaced well apart and lots of trees around, it's very quiet. It's my first summer here- no-one even seems to have a BBQ although I have seen my neighbours sitting at a garden table having lunch .
missmargot · 07/08/2015 22:08
Rural Warwickshire, farms on every side. We can't see another house from ours and tractors are as noisy as it gets. Our house isn't huge and we could barely afford a flat in London so it can be done easily if you don't mind having to get in the car to get a pint of milk.
OrangeVase · 07/08/2015 22:08
Small London garden. Too small for kids to play in so they go to the park - mine used to too. No parties or loud music - neighbours have occasional drinks /dinners with family but all very civilized.
Live under the Heathrow flight path, (NO to third runway!!) so roaring jets every thirty seconds. Also live 5 yards from the railway so not exactly quiet - but I like it.
YouMakeMyDreams · 07/08/2015 22:08
I do actually live in the Highlands still have plenty kids around but can't honestly say I'd have ever called them noisy though. They tend to roam a bit freer here so no gardens full they go to the park or the field usually.
I'd take the kids playing over that bloody owl though. I remember the first time I heard it hooting away. How lovely thought I. 2 and a half years after moving into this house I could happily throttle it's hooty, screechy neck some nights.
RedDaisyRed · 07/08/2015 22:13
It's luck. I am the one with the children and the other family opposite the children are mostly not there or just about grown up. The other 5 immediately around me detached houses have residents mostly over 80 or certainly over 70. Go further up the road though and you might find a younger family. So very quiet here. I love it. Private road, golf club 2 doors down, wood opposite. (Outer London)
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