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Re: Teaching my neighbor to keep the volume down

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Post by lvturner »

its_ubuntu wrote: post #290
lvturner wrote: post #289

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"Just leave then" Fine, I'll take the bait. I moved here by choice, my "ancestors" have nothing to do with Hong Kong. I also don't wage a war against my neighbours who are simply trying to "enjoy a smoke". I still don't appreciate when my house smells of cannabis when I leave the window open and don't turn on the fans I have in the balcony. My neighbours could turn on a fan to dissipate the smoke, they don't it's inc…

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You make a lot of very strange assumptions about who I am and what I've done with my life.

And you'll note, I don't stop them, nor complain - I merely WISH they were a little more considerate in their partaking of the herb, I'd be less irritated.

Additionally, they don't have "every right" it's entirely illegal here, but I've no interest in calling the police over it - as again, I just wish they were naturally a little more considerate over their use of shared space than having a desire to punish them over it.

Re: Teaching my neighbor to keep the volume down

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Post by QuiEgo »

Having the privilege to live in a house without common walls to a neighbor is the biggest quality of life improvement I've ever had the good fortune to experience.

I'd take a hell of a long commute to the burbs' before I'd go back to dealing with b.s. like this.

Loud music, slashed tires if you called the cops, people smoking weed and cigars and stinking up the whole building, parking space shortages, drunks throwing up in the stiarwells, screaming matches between people in bad relationships, horribly maintained flats and every repair done on the cheap, 4am fire alarms, a rat problem the owners would not put money in to fix properly, the list goes on and on over the 20+ years I lived in rentals.

Re: Teaching my neighbor to keep the volume down

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Post by doctorwho42 »

carey wrote: post #228
WA wrote: post #107

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No smokers in my neighborhood, but people use their goddamn fireplaces too much and it’s kinda impossible to get fresh air in winter evenings and often during the day. Not sure how to train them. And unfortunately, there are too many. Burning wood should be forbidden in residential areas. It’s similar to smoking in restaurants, except you can’t escape them.

The atmosphere above Christchurch, NZ tends to form layers in winter that trap the smoke and make this worse, and new fireplaces have been restricted to clean-burning log burners and dry wood by law. It seemed like the biggest change in air quality in recent years came from the tragic earthquakes in 2010 and 2011 knocking down all the unreinforced-masonry chimneys, though.

Why would anyone burn anything but dry wood in their indoor fireplace...

Re: Teaching my neighbor to keep the volume down

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Post by mancerayder »

marcus_holmes wrote: post #283
mancerayder wrote: post #151

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I can relate to this very much. A city guy, no one could understand my (also) 20 years of complaining about neighbors with loud music, slamming doors, making noise after midnight, etc etc. I lived on top floors, and I even spent a fortune living in a luxury building that was newly built, hoping sound insulation was higher end. The problem is that bass music travels through everything. I suffered from being woken up i…

> - Younger people are less sensitive to noise, go out more, and generally don't understand how distressful it can be When I was younger I lived in a large shared house, constant activity and people coming and going, music always playing, I loved it then. Now I live in a very soundproof apartment, literally never hear anyone else (our neighbours right next door had a party until 4am with loud music, etc. We didn't he…

>It is weird, because this is my reaction to the situation, so I'm responsible for it. A city is not a quiet space, and we can't really expect it to be. But at the same time, the lack of consideration for others is shocking. Walking around playing music on speaker is basically saying to everyone "f*ck you, I'm more important than all of you".

It's the subway/train/restaurant usage of phones to spool Tiktok/IG shorts with the sound on, and other noise, that I find maddeningly annoying.

But everything (in the US at least) is very loud, including restaurants. I don't understand why. It's far less likely to happen in W European capitals. As if Americans are extremely loud and love to be engulfed in constant noise. At least, the US and I'd say much of the Caribbean is like this as well.

Is it because we're old that we're bothered? Have things gotten worse? Did we or It change?

Re: Teaching my neighbor to keep the volume down

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Post by its_ubuntu »

lvturner wrote: post #291
its_ubuntu wrote: post #290

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You make a lot of very strange assumptions about who I am and what I've done with my life. And you'll note, I don't stop them, nor complain - I merely WISH they were a little more considerate in their partaking of the herb, I'd be less irritated. Additionally, they don't have "every right" it's entirely illegal here, but I've no interest in calling the police over it - as again, I just wish they were naturally a litt…

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Re: Teaching my neighbor to keep the volume down

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Post by JoshTriplett »

AlwaysRock wrote: post #248
wingworks wrote: post #148

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I'm sure it depends on demographic/country etc, but I've lived in Apartments where everyone was considerate, no loud neighbours, no smokers. Everyone just peacefully co-existed. (I've also experienced the opposite, and unfortunately, it is more common.)

All it takes is one good neighbor moving out and a bad one moving in next door…

Exactly. 8-9 people out of 10 are just fine. 1-2 out of 10 (likelihood multiplied by the number of shared walls/ceilings/floors you have) are enough to never want to share a wall/ceiling/floor again.

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Post by vineyardmike »

blazers777 wrote: post #227
redbell wrote: post #53

This reminds me of this guy [1] My neighbor is smoking on the balcony, and smoke goes to my home with little kids. I talked with him several times, didn't help. It's his territory, so not much I can do, besides closing the doors. But at least i can use this fake smoke detector with VERY ANNOYING random buzzer. It starts buzzing when i connect to it my iPhone via BLE. Makes it not as relaxing to smoke on the balcony a…

it's impossible to tell who is normal in these stories. for example, the guy can start smoking inside, and it will always smell like smoke. or, the guy can get his own buzzer. i've had oversensitive neighbors sit there and bang on pots all night because fireworks or construction noise. like another comment mentioned, apartments are just built really badly. you can hear anything. which leads to friends of mine complai…

> it's impossible to tell who is normal in these stories

The answer is that everyone thinks they’re the normal one. And everyone generally is normal.

I’ve objectively been a bad neighbor in the past. Early 20s me loved loud music. But late 20s me learned how to be considerate of the music volume.

I’ve also had crazy neighbors. One neighbor of mine complained constantly, immediately after moving in, that the communal laundry area light was left on, and I kept promising to try and do better. Of course, I made plenty of mistakes and often forgot to turn the light off when leaving with a full basket. One day he just took the (low powered LED) bulb away like they were his! Was I the poor neighbor wasting electricity? Was he the psychopath who thought he could forcibly control the entire apartment buildings access to light? It’s all in the story telling.

Re: Teaching my neighbor to keep the volume down

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Post by LoganDark »

deathanatos wrote: post #116

Ugh, this reminds me of a neighbor of a family member. They have a backyard, and sometimes, it is pleasurable to sit, grill, bbq, etc. in a backyard, particularly in the summer months. You know, normal suburban stuff. The neighbor has some sort of device that emits extremely loud, extremely high-pitched (but not ultrasonic; or at least, not exclusively ultrasonic) noise. The family member thinks its some sort of anti…

Those devices are specifically designed to ward off young people. It's not an anti-rodent thing, it's a "get off my lawn" thing.
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