To be fed up with loud talking

[Ihearyounow]

I know I am being a total misery but would this drive you up the wall as well?
I live next to a young family, nice people, no issues with them...except. They talk SO loudly and are constantly in the garden. I know every aspect of their business, down to if they are going to try for a baby, every tiny detail. I don't want to know these things but I do like to sit in my own garden sometimes and it is unavoidable. To be fair to them,they are not shouting angrily, they all just have loud voices! Does anyone else have this? Other side I have kids who splash about in a pool all summer and I quite like to hear them enjoying themselves but the constant TAALKING....

Totally with you, it drives me insane!

Ear plugs or listen to an audiobook on ear buds.

I have a neighbour like this too. At the moment she seems to be out a lot but a normal summer is just yak yak yak. She even talks on her phone like a bloody Apprentice hopeful.

My neighbors insist on playing music in the garden without headphones - I'm very tempted to counter it with some very screechy Wagner!

Our neighbours next door but one, rented their house out for a year, and their new tenants sounded so loud and aggressive, that I actually ran out into the garden, thinking there was a huge fight going on! 🙈🤣

Turned out they were a lovely family, but omg their natural speaking volume was so loud.

Oh sympathies to you.

Our neighbours (parents and adult son (40yrs old) cannot make a cup of tea without it being loudly announced and then disintegration into a loud row. They cannot have a conversation without 'challenging' the other.

Today the row whilst making a cup of tea is adult son has used all the milk on his third bowl of Cereal. He says he's took another bottle out of the freezer, mother says it won't defrost in the dark garage in time the cup of tea she wants now. Scream, scream, scream at each other.

They all come outside to talk on their phones (speakerphone so we can hear all the conversation). Then announce all the neighbours are eavesdropping. 🙄

They don't know their own volume. They do constant commentary on everything they do. Our neighbours across the road say they can hear them.

I should think myself lucky then, they are not arguing. You could see some of it as performance parenting but with no audience, everything is announced. I'm not retired but wfh and can hear through the window if I have it open or through the garden if I pop out at lunchtime. I wish we could have allocated timeslots

Phones on loudspeaker too so we can all hear that their friends and relatives are doing as well

My nextdoor neighbour in my old house had the nickname "Foghorn". He was a bit deaf from years of loud bangs in the military, and as a result everything he said was INCREDIBLY LOUD!

Aside from that, he's a really nice guy, who likes a joke, so after I'd gotten to know him a bit and we'd shared a few beers, I started slipping questions in about things I shouldn't know.

"Oh, hows your hernia?"
"Is your Mum enjoying Australia?"
"I hear your cousins marriage isn't going well"

At first, nothing. Then some odd looks. After a while, "Christ, my wifes a bit of a blabbermouth".

And then a month in "Are you fucking stalking me or something? How do you know all this stuff?"

He got no quieter after that, but I did get the occasional "Did you catch that Bobbo?" after a particularly juicy bit of information.

I hear you, our previous neighbours just seemed to live their entire lives at full volume.