To think that playing loud music in a flat EVER after 11PM should be punishable by INSTANT eviction?!

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because after 19 years of living in them I'm getting a bit fed up of the groundhog day that is a fuckwit, discourteous neighbour in every single place we've lived.

Is it that hard to suss out?! When you live in a flat, loud music disturbs other people.

Get wireless headphones.

Or turn it off!

As for 'They're drunk' as an excuse, so? I was drunk every night for the better part of a few years and still realised that no one wants to hear my damn music.

FFS.

I agree, TheCrack!

Isn't it enraging, how many of us have had or have our lives blighted by selfish twunts?

Yanbu.

I lived next to a guy who had all-nighters constantly. It was awful.

Selfish bastards.

We are in a semi detatched house and have had 3 lots of neighbours buy the house in the 8 years we've been here. EVERY set of people have blared their music up...the second lot had to be the worst as they would turn their blaring music off at whatever ridiculous hour it was only to have a blazing row and then turn it on again. Oh to win the lottery and live in a detatched house!

Fucking hell, were people always this bloody inconsiderate and selfish?

Do you recall problems like this from your childhood?

Difference is, in the US, Riven, if and when you call the police about a problem like this most of the time they will definitely do somethign about it. They will not tell the people to turn the music down and then the people just turn it back up. Because if the cops have to come out twice they won't be happy and someone will probably go to jail.

In apartments, people get evicted quite readily for this. I know, I had 4 people evicted over the course of several years and worked for several property managers for large corporations (mostly that's who owns apartments there, rather than BTL landlords).

Here, they just do fuck all about it.

YABCompletelyandutterlyR!!!!!

YABU not on after midnight though.

This is why I don't live in a flat any more.

I still hate you for the noise, Mark. And Jolyon.

Anthrax Island is the perfect solution.

I wish we didn't have to live in a flat anymore, either.

YANBU

It made my life a misery in the last 2 places we lived in (music from other houses, loud music played from cars parked in the street, dogs barking).

I'm so sensitive to any music noise now, I dread it when I hear noise in the street - the fear that someone new has moved in who is like this, and having no control over it.

I'm glad to see I'm not alone! It actually gives me panic/anxiety attacks now.

That's the worst thing about noise though in that once you get a sensitivity you tend to listen for every disturbance and become so aware of any noise that it can invoke anxiety. I can remember lying awake, waiting for the neighbours to return and the noise to start, jumping at every sound, my heart racing and being so tense that you never, ever, really relax.

It is a shitter and those senseless, inconsiderate bastards should spend time your shoes feeling how truely crap it is.

Fucktards the lot of them.

I'd love to join in this thread but cant hear you above my loud music

Reading this thread has made me really appreciate our current house. We are semi d and our neighbours are the best, their dd was our babysitter and they give us stuff off their allotment. I will dread the day they sell up and move on. So I will promise not to moan about damp patches and various minor house niggles in future, coz you have all truly reminded me of the sheer misery of cucking, funting (don't give a FF) arse wipe, noisy neighbours. @TheSecondComing and for your Xmas Day that just makes me want to weep. These people steal something from us everytime they behave like this their sheer lack of empathy stuns me.

On a lighter note even the rich and famous living in their Hollywood mansions get these problems. I am thinking Of Ozzy Osbourne here (if anyone saw it on TV} when he was so incensed by the people next door and their loud after hours parties he lobbed a great big rotting ham on the bone into their compound
the sound of breaking glass was sheer poetry.

I'll tell you what is probably worse than noise.

It is bonfires, when you like near chuffing Susannah York, who has a massive garden and a penchant for burning wet leaves at the bottom, so it billows into all the flats nearby, which then stink for days and give children asthma attacks.

I'll tell you what is probably worse than noise.

It is bonfires, when you live near chuffing Susannah York, who has a massive garden and a penchant for burning wet leaves at the bottom, so it billows into all the flats nearby, which then stink for days and give children asthma attacks.

So sorry that you are having to deal with shite like this Expat. Was hoping that when you got your flat you could have a bit of good fortune.

I am so with you on the noise however in our case it's NOISY BASTARD BARKING DOGS. For god sake we live next to a graveyard, you think it would be peaceful .

Hope everything works out for you with your property in Colorado. And re Paolo Nutini.

My parents used to have NOISY BASTARD COCKERELS to contend with. Should be put with the dogs IMO.

The worst thing we ever had was next door's guinea fowl. THey make a noise just before dawn which is like a really squeaky gate being opened and closed, opened and closed, opened and closed.

I don't notice it any more. I think it's easier when it's animals because you know it's just the way they are and not done out of malice or sheer bloody bad manners.

I feel your pain you have my sympathy. In our last place we had awful neighbours - it decimates your quality of life. You can't relax in your own space because you are waiting for the next disruption. So sad as it was a lovely street the house next door was 4 flats, 3 flats we did not hear a peep out of any of them but sadly the bottom flat was rented out to lowlife scum. Their antics included:

• gangsta rap
• loud drunken arguments outside our bedroom window in the middle of the night
• big agressive staffordshire type dogs that they didnt keep under control and frequently leapt our fence and shat in our garden
• drug dealing so unsavoury characters coming and going
• parties in the summer all evening every evening (none of them worked)
• every conversation conducted at shouting level. Of course loud arguments well into the house
• smoking skank in the garden so my washing on the line came in smelling like a drugs den
• worst of all they had a toddler who we never saw or heard much of

Surely anyone with more than 3 genuine complaints about their behaviour should be required to go and live on an estate with other such people so decent folk can be left in peace.

Still when you do get somewhere quiet and peaceful you damn well appreciate it.

If people in flats want to have a party they should hire a hall to do it in. End of. Flats are not compatible with noisy parties. Leases almost always prohibit it, and for good reason. It's like raping someone's private space, being a noise nusiance when they are trying to sleep.

'YABU if you include one party a year ... [I am about to have one!] '

Hire a hall.

Having a loud party in a flat is just rude, rude, rude.