To think a great big semi or detached house must be SO lovely?!

[NeverYouMind123]

Terraced here. It's okay most of the time but I dream of living in a house with no fucking neighbour noise whatsoever. These walls are so thin I can hear the microwave next door. I dream of buying a semi detached in a few years with hallways next to each other separating the living rooms or when I'm really feeling ambitious I dream of a detached house, which must be the mother of all awesomeness. I know there is still 'area noise' but I'm not really a garden person so kids playing outside and lawnmowers etc don't phase me so much. But oh to wake up with no 'house noise' and to know I can sit in the lounge or lie in bed and have PURE SILENCE all day and not hear a dog bark or a door slam or an argument or a television. Is it as great as I think it is?

We went from a detached, to a semi to another detached. Will NEVER have a semi or terrace again. It is bliss not being able to hear every single noise from next door.

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Haven't rtht so sorry if this has been said but honestly I think it's more about your neighbours than your house. We lived in a semi until recently and the hallway was on the outside so the living areas were touching but we rarely heard them. We bought detached this time but that was more about me worrying about us disturbing others with 3 kids. However our last house was on a busy road so the garden was noisy and we moved to a quiet village this time so the outside space is blissfully quiet.

We moved from a semi to a mid terrace and now in a detached. I haven’t noticed any difference in noise levels. Either we have a high tolerance for noise or always had very quiet neighbours.

Used to live in a mid terraced house where we heard everything the neighbours did on both sides. We knew when they got up, went to bed, had sex, what tv programmes they watched, we listened to all their loud music along with them, and heard every word of their frequent arguments. It was like actually living with them with just a sheet of cardboard in between us. No doubt they heard us too, but we did at least try to not be loud, whereas they didn't. It was horrible. We couldn't sleep because of hearing them and their friends yelling and running around and their tv blasting in the bedroom half the night. We put up with it for years and grew to actually hate the neighbours. Eventually we managed to move to a much better house. It's still a terrace but ours is at the end. It's a different style of house though and must be built differently because we don't hear our neighbours and we've had several different ones during 20 years. Now we have peace and we can sit in silence and sleep. I really feel for you because we know what it's like.

It doesn’t have to be a detached or semi. I live in a very old terraced cottage with thick stone walls. I never hear my neighbours. I have 2 young children who can be very noisy at times. I felt bad one day and asked my neighbours if they were too loud. They said they had never ever heard them!

After I left home aged 18, about 100 years ago, I lived in rented bedsits, then flat shares, then rented studio flats, then bought a flat, then a semi-detached house and now a cottage in the middle of nowhere, with total silence, a forest, a beach and dark skies with amazing stars.
After all those years in manky bedsits etc, I look back at my progress with a kind of quiet pleasure, which makes me very grateful to be where I ended up.

Since all this mess I have never been so grateful to just have a garden! I Think it must be so hard to be in a flat with no outdoor space in this beautiful weather. I am very lucky to live in a detached though and definitely don’t miss hearing my next door sneezing at night

We sold our flat and bought our detached house about 16 years ago. If we had bought a semi we would have an extra bedroom, living room, ensuite and off road parking BUT I am so happy not to have other people's noise it's worth a smaller home for that ❤️

I live in a detached on a "normal" street and it is nice but I used to live in one with the closest neighbours about half a mile away. THAT was bliss.

I literally could make any noise at all, wander around in the garden starkers if I wanted, play music etc and know that no one could see or hear me.

I aspire to live somewhere like that again.

I live in a flat and dream of owning a barn conversion in the countryside with land and NO NEIGHBOURS

That's us! Built in the middle of a big field no near neighbours, no road noise it's heaven! I grew up in Central London WC2 where it's never quiet so appreciate it even more.

I’m quite like the idea of a detached. But I live in central London and it’s the going to happen unless I have a spare £4m in my neighbourhood. The terraces don’t go for much less than £1.5m.
But give me a terrace in London over a detached in Surrey any day of the week.

We feel blessed to live in the countryside with a garden, it’s taken years and years of hard work, moving a lot , and going without holidays etc heavy borrowing.
Downside is we are surrounded this year by bloody oilseed rape we are all suffering with
Mega hay fever, oh and the owl wakes us all night!!!
My kids miss there friends in the normal world and there’s no bus , but won’t swap
Till the repo the place

I’m detached, with large garden
Today I’ve heard all my neighbours lose it with their kids! You can’t hear anything inside the houses, but if all windows/doors opened or everyone in their gardens, you can still hear.
And don’t be fooled into thinking if you have a big house, everything else falls into place. There’s still lots of things that are crap

We have lots of space as 6 bed detached. Actually I am appreciating our garden most at the moment. It is so peaceful and I can hear the birds singing without car noise in background. We still have clutter though. I dream of no clutter.

I live in a ‘staggered terrace’ house and the layout is asymmetrical meaning our lounge is next to their hallway, and the bedroom is not next to anything, and we can barely hear anything from our neighbours either side. We moved house due to a noisy neighbour, so this is important to us. What it HASN’T liberated us from are the redneck inhabitants of 3 doors away playing music till all hours and ‘smoking blaze’, in which Her Majesty’s Constabulary appear to be uninterested.

Yes in a detached and wouldn’t change back. Lived in a flat the neighbour above did night shifts so would come in early hours and blare his music waking me up at 5am every morning was so annoying! We can also make lots of noise too without worrying about anyone else

Its lovely. No immediate neighbours, sheep and lambs bleating, cuckoo calling, songbird..... kids roam free. Shit mobile signal, snowed in when its really heavy, howling wind.

But id never change it. Im lucky and think of those stuck with no garden etc.

@devlesko - We are musicians and entertainers so always someone practising or teaching from 9am - 8pm. Our neighbours are brilliant, not sure what we'd have done with neighbours who don't like noise.

God, you're my idea of a nightmare.

I love it and have always appreciated it, particularly with noisy dcs.

I struggle with noise from nearby rooms when we stay in hotels - I'm so unused to it.

Lived in a bed sit, one bed flat, two bed flat now 4 bed detached with big garden. In lockdown it’s been bliss having the space and quiet. My sympathies really do go out to parents with young kids who live in flats, it must be so hard. Must b so tough esp if u don’t have a garden.

Having lived in a flat then a terraced then a semi d and now a detached house in the country but neighbours other the fence drive us mad we have just bought a field in past in laws and can’t wait to get started there is no other house on the road and kids can’t wait no move neighbours dog shitting on our footpaths 🤢

I live in an old 1930's semi.

I've lived in flats and terraced and this is easily the best house I've lived in... so nice and quiet.

Definitely something to aspire to.