If you live in a terraced house, how much do you hear your neighbours?

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I am fed up of living in a terraced house but can't afford to move to a detached.

We don't hear from one side at all.
The other side I can hear all day...from about 6am, screaming children (I know kids make noise, I have them too), crashing about, the dog barks all day, weekends can include a lot of banging...I don't know if I am becoming less tolerant of it or what but is this the norm for a terraced house? MIL lives in one and I can never hear her neighbours.

We had a house sitter in a while ago and they were shocked by the level of noise from that side (I did warn them so they could try and mask some of the noise so it does not unsettled our own dog, mainly the barking, as there is only so much the poor lad can take).

I know that with terraces come neighbour noise and they will be able to hear us sometimes as well (hopefully not 6am!) but what is the general experience?

Also not a new build house with thin walls. I will also clarify that the children are not babies crying, which of course I'd understand.

When we were in a post war ex council terrace we could hear quite a lot. One one side had a quiet neighbour who we never heard apart from her grandchildren who visited every weekend and could hear them screaming and screaming and running down the stairs all day long. On the other side heard very little apart from for about 6 months they were sleep training their baby by basically leaving him to scream for hours at night his room wasn’t even the one next to our bedroom and could still hear him.

Have now moved to another terrace but it’s a 1930s one and is much quieter. Family with young kids next door on one side. Hear very little unless one of them is having a proper screaming tantrum and even then you can’t hear much. Other side is couple in their 50s. Hear literally nothing from that side. They say they can hear my kids occasionally quite faintly if they are being loud (but apparently they like the sound of kids so it doesn’t bother them) my boys are pretty loud so I’m quite glad we seem to have thick walls!!