Semi detached here with thin walls. Don’t like the ndn as they decided that banging on walls and turning their tv up REALLY loud when Ds was a baby would stop him crying
They were complete arseholes! Stress was through the roof as you can imagine.
Ds is now a teenager and is very good, knows not to stomp up and down stairs, knows the walls in this house are rubbish so not to shout too loudly when he’s playing games with his friends on his xbox. We still have the same ndn and mutter polite hellos to them if we have to but I’ll never forget what twats they were! Still, I feel sad that Ds can’t properly ‘play’ in the house for fear of upsetting the ndn, even though they’ve been pretty awful to live next to I still wouldn’t let Ds make excessive noise.
Other than that we do have a lovely big garden but I’d give anything to own a detached property. Wouldn’t care about the outside noise I’d just feel that we could properly live inside. I can hear ndn snore, yawn, hear their microwave, phone ringing but at least they don’t feel the need to object anymore by blasting their tv if they hear us or rather, our crying colicky and reflux baby.
FIL does make me laugh though. He’s always lived remotely, detached cottage in the country. Doesn’t quite understand how neighbours can affect your life to such a stressful degree. He used to say, I know what you mean, we can hear the milk lorry, occasional tractor and some neighbours dog that lived probably a mile away!