To think if normal, everyday neighbourly noise annoys you....

[ManicUnicorn]

Then you should go and live in a field in the middle of nowhere?

We have a family who live directly over the back of us, mother father and two kids. The parents literally whinge and complain about everything. They've fallen out with both sets of next door neighbours, not sure what for but they don't speak and haven't done for some time.

Not content with that they also seem intent on pissing everyone who doesn't even live on their street, namely us and out nearby neighbours. Just off the top of my head they've complained about numerous barking dogs, despite having dogs that bark themselves, demanded that two large conifer trees were cut down because the birds that nested in it were waking them up, DIY work done at during the day, lawnmowers etc.

The latest is a whinges are about my next door neighbour security light shining on their windows and my other next door neighbours making the most of the evening by sitting out chatting quietly. The husband stuck his head out the window and yelled at them to shut up! They weren't even being noisy!

I just think if everyday, normal stuff annoys you so much then maybe living in such close proximity to others isn't for you? Either that or their just sad fucks with nothing else going on in their little lives.The complaing about the singing birds was especially stupid. I mean how can you stop sodding birds tweeting for god's sake?

This is a nice area, everyone looks out for each other and they really are bloody spoiling it!

Security lights are never reasonable unless you are running a prison. There should be more laws about them.
People performing their lives is making everywhere more noisy and stupid.
I'm saving up to live in a field.

Sounds like loads of people would love to live in the middle of nowhere! I'm also saving up to live in a field. Although I've learned from bitter experience that you also have to buy all the surrounding fields too, otherwise some twunt will come along and plonk down a new housing estate right next to your back fence.

Mine is going to be a massive field on a cliff. House exactly central. Field is surrounded by massive evergreens. That should do it.

I agree that the noise is worse if you don't like the people making it. I don't mind noise from one side but the other side are wankers so anything they do annoys me.

I currently live in remote, rural Sweden. Don't move here. There's currently a war going on between a murder of invading crows and the incumbent magpies. You would not believe the noise. I'll see if I can catch it.

The Sound of Silence which we have to endure all bloody day.

OP I agree with most of your points but you are wrong on the security light. Badly set up lights can be the bane of an entire area unless you have a bb gun

Just want to say I am sitting in the garden with the only sounds to be heard being the bell ringers practising at the local church and some birds chirruping, bliss!

That sounds like bliss! I love the sound if church bells ringing!

How could you complain about birds tweeting?!?! Depends on the birds. Next door has magpies nesting in their tree - I can imagine some people not finding that pleasant. And I have wood pigeons dancing at the top of my chimney - sound reverberates all the way down. I much preferred the jackdaws who preceded them!

I live in a semi rural location.

Birdsong and the odd lawnmower is about the only noise. Owls at night. No children in nearest gardens.
No sheep, no tractors.
I hardly hear any cars at night.
Space between houses, Neighbours are very quiet.

It's Bliss.

I pretty much live in a field in the middle of no where. In bed early with an ear infection and my husband (dairy farmer) has just moved the cows to the field right beside the bedroom. They're friendly big sods but just wish they would clear off with the mooing

Visualising wood pigeons doing Strictly Come Dancing routines on your roof Meredinto

Ah Mimpi I live in a city and have had to deal with Magpie/Crow wars I feel your pain

What annoys me is neighbours who don’t care about the noise they inflict. Yes buy a new puppy but don’t then leave it all alone 3 days later for a week with people just popping in to feed it. Not fair on the puppy (with its ongoing abandonment issues) and all your neighbours.

Also don’t send your kids to sit on neighbours wall, while you watch them out of your window screaming their heads off.

I want to live on a remote island by the sea but am scared of seagulls

YANBU op this is exactly why I live in the country with only one neighbour surrounded by fields but I was brought up rurally and when I lived in the village along from that it was in a cul de sac and after 6 years I couldn’t take it anymore, nosy people, the pervy neighbour who would talk about inappropriate stuff if he collared you, feral kids who would ride their bike into your car and not care, there was even a young couple who would stand out the front of their house knocking 10 bells out of each other - this was the last straw really as well as no real privacy.

So now I hear exactly nothing at all apart from the odd cow or sheep or tractor going past and my only irritation is my neighbours stinking wood burner thing that is on every single day even just now when it’s been late 20s in temps and it stinks my washing out

I really don’t mind a bit of neighbour noise. Constant dog bark can grind a bit. Neighbours garden music, chatting, kids happiness actually I quite enjoy.

I did grow up in a house in the middle of nowhere which was quite isolating as a child.

I love wind chimes and I have a giant one in the garden... the only person whos ever complained about it is my own dad when he came to stay who actually went out in the night to dismantle it because it pissed him off so much!
Ive since put it back up.... its directly under my bedroom and I sleep with the window open yet it never wakes me so I doubt its any bother for the neighbours.... but I guess its the type of sound that is marmite like, in that it will wind some people right up but others wont notice it at all or find it relaxing

Living here, I have rapidly gone off small yappy dogs. No one seems to have just one. They have hoards so when one starts, they all go off. In total between neighbours, there are 11 yappy small dogs. They bark at feck all, more so when their owners are home than when they are out. As soon as one pops it's clogs, they buy another.
And to think we used to worry about keeping our voices down if we were outside with visitors.
No more.

Oooooh windchimes... There's an idea.....

We’ve got some new neighbours, arrived in April, have so far complained about next door’s cockerel, our local farmer haymaking and caravans having the presumption to drive up the lane to the farm that has six summer pitches.
I don’t think they’ll be staying long

I live in a small block of council flats, a Chinese lady lives in the flat above me & I hear her shagging at least once a day, she doesn't attempt to keep it quiet, everything can be heard from the bed springs creaking, the headboard banging on the wall, her screaming, I hear the lot. I'm beginning to think she does it professionally from the number of calls she has mostly at weekends, the door intercom is outside my window & it's usually her door number I hear, I'm sure she had a threesome last week, there was definitely a pair of male voices While the bed springs were squeaking & the headboard was banging. I don't very often see her but but she looks very meek & mild, not like the screamer I hear.

There's normal existing noise and arsehole noise. I had one flat where i could hear every single thing upstairs, I could hear his bodily functions, every conversation, even the sound of a can opening! Annoying but normal noise. I hated him for the arseholery- loud, angry, shouted phone calls at 3am, stomping up and down up and down, like he was doing circuits of the flat all night. I never complained though, he scared me and it was all normalish noise just a hell of a lot of it!

My dream buy, my lottery win buy, is a detached house. No shared walls would be amazing! Right now I'm in an upstairs flat and I'm so careful, I hate worrying I'm being annoying! Downstairs has off-handedly mentioned hearing me day to day and I hate feeling like I a bother. And the arseholes who live on my roof- I'll complain to any agency I could, bloody seagulls stomping up and down. They seem to have a meeting here every morning before heading off to shit on tourists and steal chips. Oh and living near a shop, seems every couple of hours someone chains a dog up outside who barks for the length of the trip. Doesn't bother the owner, they are happy shopping away, but all I hear is bark bark. Most fun of course when there are 2 or more dogs howling away!

Detached house. Win lottery, buy house, put up walls, maybe a moat. Anti-seagull artillery on the roof. Maybe sharks for any cold-callers.