Bloody loud kids in the communal pool all day, everyday.

[DavidBowiesNumber1]

We've recently moved into a new house on a small development - 20 houses, at present only 10 sold, of those 10 only 5 of us are permanent residents.
Not in the UK.
Up until about 3 weeks ago everything was peaceful, harmonious, pretty idyllic. Then the "holiday homers" arrived.
Now, out of the 5 nonresident households, 3 have lots of children ranging in ages of about 1 to 13 years old. Approx' 9 children between them but every day there are friends arriving to spend the day (and sometime night) at the pool.
Now I'm all for kids enjoying themselves and its lovely to see them doing something other than sitting indoors in front of a tv/tablet/phone/games console but AIBU in thinking that the parents (who are rarely at the pool) should A) be keeping an eye on them and B) be telling them to hush down a bit?
All we can hear from morning 'til night (up to 12.15am this morning) is the children shouting, screaming, jumping in the pool etc.
It's incredibly hot here (40c+ in the day, never dips below 32c at night) so all doors and windows are open therefore the noise carries everywhere.
If we want to use the pool we have to dodge bombing children/passing li-los/random balls and floats along with said 'DC'.
We would just like to enjoy our downtime and relax. Is that too much to ask?

You lot all sound so incredibly obnoxious, judgemental and miserable to me. So pleased not to live near any of you! In my building we are the only family, most are retired couples, we have a 7,000l paddling pool in the garden and our neighbours are always joking and playing. When I have apologized for the noise, (and four kids aged 3 - 9, they can generate some noise!) they always laugh and say how lovely it is to hear them playing. In 7 years we have never ever had a single complaint

Yep, praise be that you don't live near me either!
I bet there's been plenty if complaints about your kids noise, just not to your face! What elderly person is going to feel comfortable bringing up the issue with loud , entitled people like you seem to be?!

Surely the pool guy has to chlorinate it at night?
Can that not be the excuse?

CurlyWurlyTwirly the pool is supposed to be out of bounds after 9.30pm when he cleans and chlorinates. That night they stopped the noise just before 9.30pm so I presumed the pool guy had told them to get out. The family then had a BBQ, not too much noise. I went to bed around 10.30pm and was woken by them at 11.30pm with all the noise from the pool. Yesterday the pool guy said he was asleep by then so hadn't heard anything (he lives in a cabin just at the site edge, so a fair distance from the pool).

@WendyCope I need to move to Switzerland then! Part of me is looking forward to winter and then at least the screaming summer banshees will be forced back in doors. And no I'm not talking about little kids - I'm talking about people in general - booming music all the time, shouting and screaming (ie conversations - loud ones) at each other in the garden. Etc.

OP UANBU- unfortunately some people have no consideration at all for others.

I know not everyone agrees of course but it's the lack of consideration that gets to me. Noise fine but there has to be a limit regardless of the weather, time of year etc

I'm sorry, but did you buy a place in the Middle East with no knowledge of the culture at all? If so, that was pretty stupid IMHO.

Arabs stay up all night and sleep all day, especially during the summer. Hell, some places still close from 1 till 4 for afternoon naps. If you buy a place in the ME you have to expect that most of your neighbours are Arab and will keep late hours.

Call the police if it bothers you, they're the only people your neighbors will listen to, they won't respect a security guard, pool cleaner or your "community head". But the police will tell you you're in the Middle East and to deal with it.

YABVU, and a bit naïve to assume you can enforce your culture on the wider community in a country that isn't your own.

TheHulksPurplePanties

Wrong. Wrong. Wrong. Wrong. Wrong.

I'm sorry, but did you buy a place in the Middle East with no knowledge of the culture at all? If so, that was pretty stupid IMHO
I never said I was in the ME.

Arabs stay up all night and sleep all day, especially during the summer
Not the ones I've known.

they won't respect a security guard
I never mentioned a security guard.

the police will tell you you're in the Middle East and to deal with it
They won't because I'm not.

YABVU, and a bit naïve to assume you can enforce your culture on the wider community in a country that isn't your own
No assumption, its in the rules.

I never said I was in the ME.

You said you live in a predominately Muslim country. Of the one's that hit 40+ this time of year you're either in the Middle East, Turkey or North Africa. Either way, they all have "night owl" cultures.

And compound rules are always loosely enforced. Again, call the cops if it bothers you that much, but YABU to move their in the first place if you didn't understand the culture.

@WendyCope completely relate on neighbours leaving their dogs to balk at all times of the day or night and thinking its fine. It’s always those small yappy ones as well and to me their high pitched balks are way more irritating. We have a neighbour that never so much as calls the dogs in when their clawing af the fence (multiple yappy dogs) and making a racket setting off other neighbours dogs. We also have another neighbour who has loud parties and the adults like to turn this into a street party and make so much noise. I have a 16 month old that has to be up early and I don’t get enough sleep at the best of times; their children are grown so they literally don’t care. I believe what goes around comes around though and maybe when they’re older they will have some noisy neighbours and it’ll deserve them right!

TheHulksPurplePanties I understand the culture perfectly well, thank you very much. Ignorance is ignorance in any culture.

Ignorance is ignorance in any culture.

Certainly seems to be the case. Can't imagine moving into a small compound of holiday homes, in a place where the weather is that extreme during the day and kids can't really play outside all day long, and expecting people to not act like they're on holiday....

TheHulksPurplePanties Op isn’t saying kids can’t play in be pool whilst acting like they’re on vacation though is she? She’s saying that there needs to be supervision and the noise levels to be appropriate so that everybody on the complex can have a good time. It’s extremely poor form for one ignorant loud family to monopolise the entire complex isn’t it!?!

But it's not one family, it's 3 families. And it's absolutely foolish to expect children to be quiet in a pool and not have to: dodge bombing children/passing li-los/random balls and floats along with said 'DC'.

You're in a holiday home compound, you can't expect perfect quiet and kids not to have fun in the pool.

I'm sure there are plenty of "elderly" compounds with no young families she could have bought in.

You're in a holiday home compound No we are not. Please if you can't be arsed to RTWT then at least read my posts before offering your judgemental opinion

You're in a holiday home compound No we are not

5 out of 10 of the homes are used for holidays only, hence holiday home compounds.

YABU.

Get used to it or move, because the other 10 are probably going to be similar.

5 of the houses were bought as holiday/2nd homes. That DOES NOT make it a holiday home compound.

I'm assuming you think the behavior the other night is perfectly acceptable? Thank goodness you won't be one of my neighbours.

I'm assuming you think the behavior the other night is perfectly acceptable?

I think they're behaving like people on vacation in a hot country. So yes. Perfectly acceptable.

Is everyone else in the compound bitching or just you?

@DavidBowiesNumber1
I really hope that you are just venting on here and aren't normally this agreeable.

As well as admitting you suppressed your son, here are a few of the things you have said on this thread so far.

I'm absolutely dreading getting kids on the same side as us, every time people come and look at that house I'm as unneighbourghly as can be, hahaha

I can feign concern for the little buggers instead of coming across like a child hating spoilsport. If I try hard enough

there's a language barrier that I need to overcome and not just resort to a loud "Shut Up, FFS" like last night. It worked then though

You really do come across as someone who is quite bitter and does not like children at all. Full stop. (Unless they are being suppressed into complete silence and being seen and not heard).

I think they're behaving like people on vacation in a hot country. So yes. Perfectly acceptable In that case, I'm done.

Id tell my kids to quieten down if they were using a communal pool ,our trampoline in the garden can get a big rowdy and I always tell the kids to be considerate of our neighbours when they are out there and they listen .

Unless they are being suppressed into complete silence and being seen and not heard When did I write that?

Agreeable? Oops. Typo. I obviously meant unagreeable.

ichifanny Exactly what I would do/have done. Perfectly normal to me, obviously not to the selfish, entitled, ignorant, inconsiderate others though

I think it is quite clear that is my little summary (although I did reflect your wording. You did use 'suppress' and 'seems and not heard').

Quite amusing that you are using the words ignorant, selfish, entitled and inconsiderate. That is exactly how I feel you are behaving. I would also add unneighbourly and horrid, with a massive lack of community spirit.

Hardly neighbour of the year.

Why thank you!