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I don't believe in the "bring cookies and cake" or whatever crap to neighbors in an apartment. I wouldn't want anyone to do that to me. i am not interested.
You meet your neighbors in passing with waves, hello's or goodbyes. The ones you become friendly with and like, will just happen naturally.....
Just because people are neighbors doesn't mean they have to be friends.
Who are you to judge what others perceive is too noisy for them as invalid?
It's like people judging others with diseases and telling them, oh it can't be that bad, suck it up!
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Originally Posted by DrEarth
Nice try, but not even close.
Actually, ValueAddedWorker is spot on. Numerous studies have shown that peoples' perception of noise varies greatly. It is why you get people who do things like blast their music and then look utterly confused when someone asks them to turn it down. That is why you, DrEarth, can live above a nightclub and be fine while someone else would not. It isn't necessarily because that someone else is too sensitive to noise, it is that they perceive the noise differently. On top of that, a lot of people who like things like loud music have some degree of hearing loss, which exacerbates the matter.
Living in noisy setting can cause a variety of adverse health effects. (In a very simplified nutshell, if other people's noise is bothering you, it is causing a stress reaction in your body, triggering things like loss of concentration and higher blood pressure. For instance, if you are a student, you probably won't do as well on tests. If you are pregnant, you are more likely to have a low weight baby.) I do agree that some people are a little ridiculous about expecting silence in a rental, but I also think I've seen a lot of perfectly valid noise complaints here. Bottom line is, if your neighbor is breaking the noise clause in their lease, you have every right to complain. It isn't your fault if your noisy neighbor would be better suited to someplace with better noise-proofing. If your landlord doesn't want to do anything about it, then move when you can.
Playing nice with your neighbor might work, it might not. I've definitely seen it not work, so it isn't necessarily a tried and true method. Again, as I have said before, some people are weird, so you have to be careful.
I am curious about non-music noise, weird, seemingly unnatural and unnecessary thumps that leave one wondering, "What on earth are they doing up there?!" As you might have guessed, I am talking about an upstairs neighbor. Seriously, I wonder if they are wrestling, building something, drunk or on drugs and arbitrarily tossing objects around, or...what? I have had this issue with several neighbors over the years. Some, I think, smack the wall every once in a while to relieve stress. Others seem to be in a standing position, stumbling around their apartments-- for hours. Why don't they just sit down or go out for a walk? These are small studio apartments, so it's not like there is an awful lot of space to walk around in. Any thoughts? What on earth are these people doing? What causes bumps and thumps for two or more hours straight?
I am curious about non-music noise, weird, seemingly unnatural and unnecessary thumps that leave one wondering, "What on earth are they doing up there?!" As you might have guessed, I am talking about an upstairs neighbor. Seriously, I wonder if they are wrestling, building something, drunk or on drugs and arbitrarily tossing objects around, or...what? I have had this issue with several neighbors over the years. Some, I think, smack the wall every once in a while to relieve stress. Others seem to be in a standing position, stumbling around their apartments-- for hours. Why don't they just sit down or go out for a walk? These are small studio apartments, so it's not like there is an awful lot of space to walk around in. Any thoughts? What on earth are these people doing? What causes bumps and thumps for two or more hours straight?
these are my sentiments exactly. my old neighbor above me (before they moved) would LITERALLY stand in one place and rock back and forth creaking the floor boards then run into the kitchen.
I was home ill during one day with a debilitating migraine headache and in my kitchen could hear every instrument and lyric to Elton John and Kiki Dee singing...it was the other roommate. Good lord. These apartmments were almost sound proof so you can just imagine the decible level. To hear it all the way in the back of my apartment in the bedroom was just unacceptable.
The little twit who gave me the dorm lecture, got his three 3 a.m visits from the sherrif's office and consequently was evicted.
Sounds like he repeatedly would go breakin' your heart...until he got evicted.
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