To think too many neighbours are utterly selfish?

[everyleafy]

I moved house last year in the hope of finding some peace. My old neighbour had a surround sound system in a small semi and it used to drive me mental listening to the bass on it. Then there was the constant shouting at his family.

Moved to a new semi (would dearly love a detached but I can't afford it) and have a different set of problems. There's another shouty man, a barking dog and they play loud music every weekend. They know the walls are thin, but obviously don't care and just want to do what they want.

On my walks I've noticed a fair few people blaring their music from their houses and I always feel so sorry for their neighbours.

I wonder what things were like in the past, did people used to blare out their wirelesses? I doubt it, I think people are getting more and more selfish.

Our old neighbour sent her husband round to complain that she could hear my phone calls in the kitchen. I pointed out that I was aware his own children were currently crying and screaming in the bathroom. I decided not to mention that in my garden earlier in the week I'd had to suffer a half hour argument between herself and her mother about money. The thing is, noise works both ways, and most complainers are unaware of this.

The past is the 80s? God I must be old! In the 60s and 70s we were brought up to respect other people and to not annoy other people by being inconsiderate.As a result,even tho my neighbours blast me with their muzak regularlyI can't bring myself to do the same. Its all in the upbringing.

Are you able to get insulation on your walls? We got four walls with thermal insulation, lost 4 cm of the room, cost £2000, but no sound from next door and the heating bills went down.

Ours are getting worse! Used to be ok but place isn’t what it used to be! I have two kids both with autism and one with other quite complex medical needs and in my street my attached neighbour is lovely. Next door minds her own mostly but it nosy!

everyone else however isn’t great! I can’t wait to move! We have a lot of parents with the “as long as the kids aren’t bothering me” mentality! They throw them out to play from sun up till sun down and these kids SCREAM for the sake of screaming! I’m not talking about children just playing I mean screaming… it’s two different lots of kids that do it and it really pisses us off! Sends my eldest into meltdown several times a week. It’s difficult to live by.
believe me if I could move to a detached property in the middle of nowhere with only the “noisy farm animals” I would because it’s tough