Flat-dwellers - would I have been the same?

[beetlejuice73]

We live in a conversion flat in a building full of DINKIES. We ourselves were young, free and single when we moved in, then shortly afterwards found ourselves about to become parents. We've lived abroad for most of DD's life so far, but moved back before Christmas, and it's not easy. The downstairs neighbour complains constantly about crying in the night, and about our footsteps when we get up to deal with the baby.
Usually the prams live in the car, but one day a week, and on other rare occasions, a pram will stay in the communal hallway for a short while. There have now been complaints about this too, though I don't know who from.
I wonder if we would have been just as indignant a couple of years ago, before parenthood, or whether we really are living in the midst of a bunch of selfish, NIMBY idiots. My DD will be funding their pensions!

I can hear my upstairs neighbours shagging and they are 2 single blokes as well so always rolling in at 3am with assorted giggling bints. Also they fancy themselves as DJs, he said he was thinking of soundproofing because of his 'decks', I hadn't the heart to tell him I could hear all his nocturnal activities. I don't think they're really that bad, it's just it sounds so loud down here. Beetlejuice, so many people seem to have this problem - am sure if we were upstairs we'd get complained about too. Conversion flats are usually really badly soundproofed. and agree about floorboards and/or laminate, makes it a lot worse. But if you live in a downstairs flat, you do have to accept that there will be noise from above and be sensible about it.

Still, our neighbours now are better than the last lot, who used to have epic (but inarticulate) arguments with lots of sobbing and shouted mobile phone conversations, then make up noisily. On one occasion I yelled out of an open window "why don't you get on with it and split up for good and give us all a break". Never spoke to them again after that

double income, no kids

Mind you, in our house, we hear our very nice neighbours having heart-rending shouting matches, real hammer and tongs stuff

Aah, I see, thank you!!!!!! So most of our frinds are dinkys. Grrrrrr. They looks at DS like he's the shit on their shoes when he rearranges their books/DVDS.

They're dinkies all right

"They looks at DS"

I have been living in Somerset faaaaar too long

Considering how many people here are disturbed by loud shagging, I will in future put to my neighbour the argument that in the interests of keeping the baby asleep, we now have very quiet sex. So she can't complain on that front.

perhaps point out where babies actually come from as well

isn't it funny..living in london i hate how rude and generally uncaring most people are, thinking oh its so much nicer back up north, yet when i go to my mums in yorkshire and hear how her hairdresser heard from her daughter who heard from her best friend that we have such a lovely pram , it scares me - who are these people who know me !? heeeheee

sorry - i keep straying off topic or taking so long to post i reply way after the previous one i read so it sounds irrelewvant..
thats baby brain for you, i guess.