Living in apartment and windows open during summer... (income, yard)

[EscapeCalifornia]

Apartment living sucks and it's a big part of the reason I'm planning on leaving the state to be able to afford decent housing without shared walls.

[VLWH]

Originally Posted by EscapeCalifornia

Apartment living sucks and it's a big part of the reason I'm planning on leaving the state to be able to afford decent housing without shared walls.

I hear yah..... good luck.

[majoun]

City-Data does seem to have a real anti-apartment and pro-SFR bias. I personally tend to prefer apartments and condos to SFRs generally speaking, although I'd obviously rather be in an SFR in a better spot than an apartment in a worse spot. There are good and bad in both.

[Latchkey Kid]

I used to live next to the laundry room, and that was a huge problem. So if you move in the future, make sure you don't end up next to one.

[Latchkey Kid]

Originally Posted by ehcsrop

I think apt living was conceived before the population became so diverse. No, don't laugh at me. Think of the NY neighborhoods that were mostly Italian or Irish after WWI. They must have gotten along a bit better than we do today. )

Nah, apartment living was a pain before WWII. But I think the invention of the TV and stereo have created more noise polution since that time. I find heavy bass particularly troubling in the last decade or so, earplugs don't work against the heavy vibration. The fad for wood floors does nothing for noise control either.

[Twinkle Toes]

Originally Posted by jackie100

I guess I'm lucky then.. It doesn't smell like an ashtray... I can hear people laughing though... I can ALWAYS hear children playing outside in the courtyard (it's not just one particular neighbor's child, it's like ALL of them, ALL of the neighbors kids, a whole herd of em'). There's a bunch of them. They are always loud and screaming and laughing or something..

Sometimes I can even hear kids (they look like they are 11 or 12) skateboarding etc. It's probably worse because they are in summer session right now.



This is a completely different topic! This is not about THOSE neighbors, these are about hearing any neighbor etc.. not just them... About hearing other tenants in general when living in a complex.

Wow! Imagine that ... she hears kids playing outside in the daytime! Kids skateboarding! What is this world coming to? Everyone's just gone crazy!!!

[jackie100]

Originally Posted by Twinkle Toes

Wow! Imagine that ... she hears kids playing outside in the daytime! Kids skateboarding! What is this world coming to? Everyone's just gone crazy!!!

Because it's illegal for kids to skateboard in the complex. I am sure there are laws against that and I think there is some stipulation about that in the apartment lease. One time I saw a cop talking to a bunch of really young looking kids (they looked like they were 10) on the street outside for skateboarding so it's against the law. But sometimes I can hear these kids inside the complex (not on the street) but in the courtyard and such.

The complex I lived in before didn't have kids playing outside, at least none that I could hear at all. I preferred it that way. The sound of loud kids really irritates me. Everytime I hear them I shut my window and put on music to drown out their loud playing/screaming/shrieking whatever it is that they are doing.

I didn't think of that before I moved in here... I didn't think that a disadvantage of the courtyard would be kids playing etc. The last apartment was not really kid friendly, except for the pool area but I could't hear the kids from there so I didn't care... It was more of a luxury apartment and the outside area was more like of a driveway with constant cars going in and out so kids wouldn't play there... I much preferred that place.

[Twinkle Toes]

Originally Posted by jackie100

Because it's illegal for kids to skateboard in the complex. I am sure there are laws against that and I think there is some stipulation about that in the apartment lease. One time I saw a cop talking to a bunch of really young looking kids (they looked like they were 10) on the street outside for skateboarding so it's against the law. But sometimes I can hear these kids inside the complex (not on the street) but in the courtyard and such.

The complex I lived in before didn't have kids playing outside, at least none that I could hear at all. I preferred it that way. The sound of loud kids really irritates me. Everytime I hear them I shut my window and put on music to drown out their loud playing/screaming/shrieking whatever it is that they are doing.

I didn't think of that before I moved in here... I didn't think that a disadvantage of the courtyard would be kids playing etc. The last apartment was not really kid friendly, except for the pool area but I could't hear the kids from there so I didn't care... It was more of a luxury apartment and the outside area was more like of a driveway with constant cars going in and out so kids wouldn't play there... I much preferred that place.

Then maybe you should move back there. You sound like a really uptight, sourpuss old lady. Maybe you haven't realized it yet, but there are other people living on this planet - and they all have lives!

[jackie100]

Originally Posted by Twinkle Toes

Then maybe you should move back there. You sound like a really uptight, sourpuss old lady. Maybe you haven't realized it yet, but there are other people living on this planet - and they all have lives!

I'm not old at all. I am actually rather young. I have always been uptight tho, I will give you that. Even in my teens I never partied, drank, went out etc. I always preferred quietness over loudness and yes I have always been sort of uptight.

[Twinkle Toes]

Originally Posted by jackie100

I'm not old at all. I am actually rather young. I have always been uptight tho, I will give you that. Even in my teens I never partied, drank, went out etc. I always preferred quietness over loudness and yes I have always been sort of uptight.

Maybe you should just relax a little. I don't like a lot of noise either, but cut the kids some slack - they're KIDS.