To ask if there are quiet places to live that dont involve having to be incredibly rich

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I’m a single parent, not that high an earner, low professional salary.
I could move anywhere (sort of)
does anyone live in a sort of normal house (not a million quid mansion) that doesn’t have neighbour noise?
any tips for where to look?

YABU - no such thing suck it up buttercup
YANBU - there are ways of finding peaceful housing (and I will tell you them)

North Wales

Rural locations are not necessarily quiet! Birds make a lot of noise. Particularly beware if any neighbours have chickens. I was kept awake one night by a cow having an argument with a dog. We also get a traffic jam of combine harvesters outside our bedroom from about 5 a.m. during the summer

I live in a rural village in North Wales, 400k would cover you. I work in Wrexham but lots work in Chester.

Ultimately unless there is a big distance between houses it will depend on individual neighbours.

I live on a quiet road. For the area the houses are expensive but some are at the level you are looking at of 400k. You can still buy houses for under 100k in the town I live in.

It’s all about respectable folk isn’t it and people behaving themselves. My friend moved last year from her house to relocate. Two couples wanted to buy her house, one could proceed immediately so she went with them. She lived on the next road to me, she felt guilty because they planned an outside bar, hot tub and entertainment area. You need money to live on that road and they were obviously going to be noisy.

Pretty much anywhere outside of London. Look at Cheshire, Lincolnshire, Norfolk, Derbyshire, the Fens... Choose a village with or near a train line.

Do you mean a detached house in a peaceful residential location?

That's not really allowed where we live. As I said, lots of older people here. You are also forbidden from making noise between noon and 3pm and from about 8pm until 7am...or on Sundays/public holidays. So no lawnmowers or hedge cutting or loud music, etc.
Children are an exception and are legally allowed to be noisy (nothing excessive and out of the ordinary for children playing, though). That doesn't mean mine keep making a racket but they do play in the garden.

3 bedroom semi-detached house for sale in Middleton Tyas, Richmond, DL10 (rightmove.co.uk)

There are some mad notions on this thread.

Harvesting can start at 4am in the summer and go on for weeks as different crops ripen. The massive beet harvesting machines make a huge din in autumn and winter.

Pheasant shooting…

etc

Different types of noise can irritate people more. I was on holiday on a farm that very sunny week we had. Pheasants were very noisy as were the cows and sheep from early. I found it ok though they woke me.

A rural village, say population less then 1000 in West Oxfordshire. There would be buses

3 beds in our rural village are around 250! 45 minutes from two major cities as well

East coast of Yorkshire, Hornsea is lovely, near to Beverly, 30mins to Hull. Good value property.

www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/160135556

I know how you feel. I yearn to live somewhere quiet. And I yearn for a bit of space. I'm in rural Essex, and it's driving me insane. The building never stops. My local woods have been hacked down to make way for a new estate, a second huge estate has been built at the other end of the village, and now the fields in the centre of the village are going to be built on as well. But no matter how many of these disgusting rabbit hutches they jam on top of one another, we always need more, more, more. When I first moved here, I was woken by bird song. Now I'm woken by the screeching and exploding of souped up boy racer cars.

If I didn't have family commitments, I'd move to rural Scotland. That is the only place on this island where you can have peace and quiet – for now anyway.

Killearn is a lovely quiet village just outside Glasgow. It veers towards the posh and I don’t think any antisocial behabiour would be tolerated! Right in the country, but has a bus every hour to Stirling or Glasgow:

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/160708904#/?channel=RES_BUY

Shropshire. Good links to Brum, Manchester and Liverpool. Lots of lovely houses for your budget.

Worcestershire/Herefordshire area is beautiful and affordable but a car is realistically a necessity - and you'd have to taxi your children around and open up to their mates to avoid them getting bored and drunk/pregnant/arrested up to mischief.

What about something like this?

www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/161206163

I live in Teesdale, in the middle of a town, across from a school. It’s moderately busy(not city busy) at school times and during the day traffic wise, but it is very quiet otherwise. After 4 we rarely hear any noise. My son has moved to a coastal town, on a big estate, he says it’s really peaceful and quiet.

I think it depends. We live in a 13 year old 3 storey terraced house in Cambridgeshire and our sound insulation must be good as we never hear the neighbours (obviously if windows are closed), one of whom also had a baby at some point.

South Cheshire fits your requirements - places like Nantwich, Sandbach, Congleton

Properties like this https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/159890444#/?channel=RES_BUY
As there are many places you could afford a detached house, I wouldn't consider anything else if quiet is a priority.

I'm getting the impression OP actively doesn't want to be remote/middle of nowhere but is wanting to find an area where people are considerate neighbours! I'm in commuter belt land in Kent & now in my 3rd house in various villages and never had any issues with neighbours or know anyone who has. People are polite and pleasant, generally keep themselves to themselves which does make it slightly lacking in community spirit but I just can't imagine ever hearing a full blast stereo or cars revving all day around us.

First house bungalow: heavenly quiet as all the neighbours were old. 2nd house detached mixture of families and older folks all lovely never had any issues with noise - worse you'd get would be a lawn mover or hedge trimmer or church in the background none of which you can complain about. Now living in a bigger village in a semi and I was worried about noise but again, never hear a thing bar neighbours child occasionally in the garden but they are respectful and it's never early or incessant screaming just chit chat/laughter. If he ever cries they take him in and I don't really hear once the doors are closed.

Down side is you're north of £500k for detached or bungalow unless you get a bit further from London or head into East Sussex (worth a look - there are some lovely quiet villages there)

West Yorkshire. Holmfirth area. Gorgeous countryside, peaceful, but still a lovely busy village feel with cafes, bars and restaurants. About an hours drive to Manchester, Sheffield or Leeds.

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/161087528#/?channel=RES_BUY

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/159198950#/?channel=RES_BUY

Lovely, but it's a semi, so when next door is let out as holiday lets and you get people sitting in the garden playing loud music every weekend in the summer, what are you going to do? (I speak as someone who, for 8 long and frustrating years, had an AirBnB next door and had my summers ruined).