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.

YY about drug dealers, Kerala.

Our last downstairs neighbour was dealing.

I have zero sympathy for people who peddle this shit, I really, really do.

People who do usually never had to live near or with one.

Semi-detached houses too.

In fact, the only place where you can play music loudly after 11pm is in a detached house in the middle of 12acres of land.

Haven't got one? TURN IT DOWN THEN!!!!!!! This includes your car with the windows open on the way home from the club where you've been deafened. Fuckwits.

(However, I would make an exception for a few parties a year. As long as they gave me warning - and preferably invited me too.)

If they hadn't stamped down on free parties, house parties would be less of a common occurance.

People have a right to peace and people have a right to party. Fields in the middle of nowhere are the way to go (with owners permission, of course) ...shame it's a culture that's received so much stick.

BB, you have every right so long as you give sufficient notice to neighbours, according to environmental health. Your tenancy agreement might differ though and in that case, I'm not sure which rule over-rides the other?

No to parties in the middle of fields.Do you realise how much sound carries in the countryside? We have been kept awake by parties a mile away before.

Guinea fowl are the birds of beelzebub.An old neighbour of ours had one,until someone ran it over by accident,to the great relief of a lot of us.Barking dogs drive me to distraction too.How can their owners not realise how annoying they are?

Dogs in general really have no place in the ecosystem anymore.

Don't get me started on them, we'll be here all night!

BB, sorry, I followed the vein the thread took regarding tenancies and ineffective landlords without thinking! I've invited neighbours before now.

101, yes I do, I lived there for most of my life (and had cockerels ) and I do think it's more ideal than in urban areas in the sense that less people are likely to be affected.

I worked on a yard once where the peacocks were the loudest creatures above all else. I'll never forget that amazing sound they can make!

Peacocks are honking, too. They are lovely to see from a distance, especially during mating season when they spread their tails and shiver them. And I really like the white ones.

But they pong.

There was a cockrel in the village where we last lived and I learned the hard way that those things crow all bloody day and half the 'night' in summer as well.

I loathe dogs.

There is a labrador puppy in the house opposite. All weekend high pitched yappy yappy yap.

There is what can only be descibed as fucking Kujo down the road, really low pitched woofs all damn day WOOOO WOOOO WOOOO.

Our house is really peaceful - we live in the middle of a city howeveer next to a cemeteary so is incredibly quiet. Apart from bloody dogs.

Kill 'em all. I just want some peace.

My neighbour had 4 cockerels once.I din't realise til she told me.I thought it was just one persistant one.They didn't bother me though.

We used to live next door but one to 2 yappy little bastards who barked continually from 7am til 10pm every day.When we moved,I checked out our new house for noisy neighbour dogs,but all was quiet-until the week we moved in.We heard a huge racket one evening,and it turned out that the woman opposite ran a dog agility club in her field,several nights a week.Cue a dozen very excitable dogs barking for hours.I could have wept.I'd seen lots of little jumps and thought that they were for a very small pony.
Thankfully she ran off with another man very soon after we moved in,and moved her agility club elsewhere.There is a God!

Now,her husband has a collie he keeps chained up outside and it can bark for hours.The man opposite says it needs a bullet and I tend to agree.

Believe me, I'd rather listen to a hundred animals than music, parties, blaring TVs, games consoles and arguments.

I really and truly would.

Yes, at least the animals aren't doing it to be inconsiderate. We were kept awake by a loud party on a Sunday night a few weeks back: just before my son did exams. I was furious.