I currently rent a two bed mid terraced house from a housing association. The walls are very very thin and the neighbours bathroom is next to my bedroom. I hear everything. Every wee, every fart, every shit, every bum sliding across the bath, every toilet seat slam, every 2am bathroom cleaning. Everything. They wake me up throughout the night banging about, every night. I’d say it’s half them being very inconsiderate (ie slamming doors so loud my floor vibrates and windows rattle) and half the thin walls making me hear regular household noise plus they seem to work shifts so the bathroom is in constant use (baths and showers throughout the night). I haven’t slept through in months despite trying white noise etc. I’ve also tried sleeping with the TV on which works well for me but bothers the neighbours in the house on the other side so I’ve stopped (because we never hear anything from them in the night so I don’t want to cause them sleepless nights!).
I have the chance to move to a two bed flat with the same HA. I wouldn’t have a garden anymore and the floor space is smaller. I was so happy when we got this house too after years of horrible renting situations. I feel stupid giving it up but I’m just so desperate to sleep again and the layout of the flat means the bedrooms won’t be near the bathrooms and I’d only have one neighbour underneath for one of the bedrooms, and the other would be with a neighbour underneath and one next door. But then I could move from the frying pan into the fire! I’m so tired from months of no proper sleep that I’m worried I’ll make the wrong decision. Private renting again is not an option financially and neither is buying.
AIBU to move to the flat? What would you do?