Could we just have a little quiet?

[Ruth n Jersey]

I am so tired of noise. We live in a rural area. A mountain in the distance in front of the house. Neighbors are an acre or two apart. We started out with 5 homes now maybe 30.
You would think it couldn't be all that noisy and probably some places are much worse but all day long someone is cutting the grass,trimming, blowing,noisy kids in swimming pools with boom boxes blasting.
I am guilty of ;mowing and trimming also but some noises could be avoided. Do you really need the boom box in the pool? Would you drown without it? Can't a car be washed properly without the music?
Last night was the limit. My neighbors bought a contraption 6 times bigger than a regular TV and plopped it by their pool. It projected movies on the big screen with speakers that would put NASA to shame. They paddled around in the pool while watching the movie.
I admit it wasn't blasting but I'm very sensitive to noise. One of my many hang ups I guess but it did keep me awake until about 12 midnight.
I found this photo of my grandpa cutting the grass in the 30s. I remember the sound it made,almost soothing. He still used it for a long time when
I was a kid. He hand clipped the whole yard.
I guess it isn't feasible to use these anymore but I miss the quiet.
I just had to vent. What will be next?

 

[PopsnTuff]

Those neighbors are exhibiting 'so glad to be outta the house syndrome' for sure Ruth! Sorry to hear about their extreme noisy behavior...time to seriously comtemplate buying earplugs, any kind will work....and calling the law, remaining a concerned citizen over the phone and stating the loud music, etc. will get their attention....I had to do this a few times and the neighbors definitely toned it down.

All I hear is lawnmowers going every single day and dogs barking.....night time is pretty quiet tho.....except for the fireworks that have already started last month....they go off randomly....summer is always way nosier than any other season....one of the reasons I dislike it.

 

[MarciKS]

They do the same thing here. Just yesterday the landlord after 3 yrs had to put some fencing up because the neighbor run up and down the alley all day and night on 4 wheelers to the point where I wanna go out and knock them off of it and choke the crap out of them. Between that and everyone using this alley next to the house as a through street and their outdoor visits where they have to shout at each other and the stereos thumping through my house and vibrating the damned windows and you can hear them before you can see them. Then there's the mowing and banging and hammering and sirens and omg! I have anxiety and all this racket along with all the racket at work is making me insane.

 

[MarciKS]

I forgot about all the dogs. Holy Crap.

 

[Ruthanne]

We used the same lawn mower or rather my dad did. When I was in my twenties my husband and I managed the lawn where we rented for a reduced rent and we used one of those mowers. I would get a work out every time I used it.

I know what you mean about noises, I am sensitive to them, too. It doesn't help I live in an apt. bldg. where the walls are as thin as paper and you hear almost everything someone does, it can get annoying. I am glad that most in the bldg. are quiet. But the lady that lives next door to me sometimes has this loud mouthed friend over who talks quite loudly and screams and screeches and howls and it actually scares me when I hear it. I am so glad she hasn't been here in some days now.

As for other noises, I hear construction work, ambulances, police cars, neighbors yacking loudly outside, mowers, car music blasting, kids yelling, motorcycles racing up the street very loudly--I had my windows open tonight and heard it all and am just tired now. I so appreciate the time when it gets quiet out there.

If it gets bad noise-wise I shut my windows. I also have a few fans I turn on to drown out noises heard inside the apt. bldg. I find the sound of the fan to be soothing.

 

[MarciKS]

Yeah my neighbor lady hollers at her company and whoever she's on the phone with so loud I can here her jabbering over here on my side of the duplex. She slams, bangs, thumps and bumps everything she has over there to the point I wanna tear my hair out. I'm cool till she wakes me at 2 or 3 in the morning and I gotta work. Then I get mad and bang on the wall and yell at her to knock it off. It's the only way I can get her to quiet down. People are so inconsiderate.

 

[applecruncher]

Friends were telling me a few yrs ago that their neighbor's grandkids inherited their house, and all their visitors arrive on loud motorcycles. Three, four at a time. Grrr.

 

[MarciKS]

There's a family on the other side of the alley with a Harley but they rarely ride it.

 

[C'est Moi]

I am so tired of noise. We live in a rural area. A mountain in the distance in front of the house. Neighbors are an acre or two apart. We started out with 5 homes now maybe 30.
You would think it couldn't be all that noisy and probably some places are much worse but all day long someone is cutting the grass,trimming, blowing,noisy kids in swimming pools with boom boxes blasting.
I am guilty of ;mowing and trimming also but some noises could be avoided. Do you really need the boom box in the pool? Would you drown without it? Can't a car be washed properly without the music?
Last night was the limit. My neighbors bought a contraption 6 times bigger than a regular TV and plopped it by their pool. It projected movies on the big screen with speakers that would put NASA to shame. They paddled around in the pool while watching the movie.
I admit it wasn't blasting but I'm very sensitive to noise. One of my many hang ups I guess but it did keep me awake until about 12 midnight.
I found this photo of my grandpa cutting the grass in the 30s. I remember the sound it made,almost soothing. He still used it for a long time when
I was a kid. He hand clipped the whole yard.
I guess it isn't feasible to use these anymore but I miss the quiet.
I just had to vent. What will be next? View attachment 108778

I can't get over him mowing in dress clothes and a tie!!

We live on a cul-de-sac on a river, so the summer noises make me crazy(er). Speed boats, jet skis, drunks yelling and blasting music on the river and at the boat ramp; 4-wheelers up and down the street... ugh. Then all the mowing, edging, power-washing, etc. Neighbors to the side and back also have pools and we get to enjoy their music while on our patio/pool.

 

[Rosemarie]

I do sympathise with you. We do live in a very noisy world. It seems most people can't function without music thumping in the background.

 

[win231]

Teehee. You guys with normal or better-than-normal hearing should appreciate how noise bothers you.
I'm half deaf since birth & it ain't getting better with age. Plus I have severe tinnitus & it's really bad when it's quiet; that's when I get to hear a loud, low-pitch generator and several high-pitch sounds in perfect harmony.
A few months ago, my neighbor apologized for his dog that barks frequently. I told him I LOVE noise & I can't stand quiet & I asked him if he could make his dog bark more.

 

[win231]

We used the same lawn mower or rather my dad did. When I was in my twenties my husband and I managed the lawn where we rented for a reduced rent and we used one of those mowers. I would get a work out every time I used it.

I know what you mean about noises, I am sensitive to them, too. It doesn't help I live in an apt. bldg. where the walls are as thin as paper and you hear almost everything someone does, it can get annoying. I am glad that most in the bldg. are quiet. But the lady that lives next door to me sometimes has this loud mouthed friend over who talks quite loudly and screams and screeches and howls and it actually scares me when I hear it. I am so glad she hasn't been here in some days now.

As for other noises, I hear construction work, ambulances, police cars, neighbors yacking loudly outside, mowers, car music blasting, kids yelling, motorcycles racing up the street very loudly--I had my windows open tonight and heard it all and am just tired now. I so appreciate the time when it gets quiet out there.

If it gets bad noise-wise I shut my windows. I also have a few fans I turn on to drown out noises heard inside the apt. bldg. I find the sound of the fan to be soothing.

If you can hear everything your neighbors do, perhaps you should leave some oil on their front porch with a note: "Please use this on your bed springs."

 

[Ruthanne]

If you can hear everything your neighbors do, perhaps you should leave some oil on their front porch with a note: "Please use this on your bed springs."

I live in an apartment building and her apartment door is right next to mine and she lives in a studio one room.

 

[Ruthanne]

Teehee. You guys with normal or better-than-normal hearing should appreciate how noise bothers you.
I'm half deaf since birth & it ain't getting better with age. Plus I have severe tinnitus & it's really bad when it's quiet; that's when I get to hear a loud, low-pitch generator and several high-pitch sounds in perfect harmony.
A few months ago, my neighbor apologized for his dog that barks frequently. I told him I LOVE noise & I can't stand quiet & I asked him if he could make his dog bark more.

I have tinnitus too and my hearing isn't as good as it used to be and the sounds I was referring to are Extremely Loud.

 

[peramangkelder]

I am so tired of noise. We live in a rural area. A mountain in the distance in front of the house. Neighbors are an acre or two apart. We started out with 5 homes now maybe 30.
You would think it couldn't be all that noisy and probably some places are much worse but all day long someone is cutting the grass,trimming, blowing,noisy kids in swimming pools with boom boxes blasting.
I am guilty of ;mowing and trimming also but some noises could be avoided. Do you really need the boom box in the pool? Would you drown without it? Can't a car be washed properly without the music?
Last night was the limit. My neighbors bought a contraption 6 times bigger than a regular TV and plopped it by their pool. It projected movies on the big screen with speakers that would put NASA to shame. They paddled around in the pool while watching the movie.
I admit it wasn't blasting but I'm very sensitive to noise. One of my many hang ups I guess but it did keep me awake until about 12 midnight.
I found this photo of my grandpa cutting the grass in the 30s. I remember the sound it made,almost soothing. He still used it for a long time when
I was a kid. He hand clipped the whole yard.
I guess it isn't feasible to use these anymore but I miss the quiet.
I just had to vent. What will be next? View attachment 108778

@Ruth n Jersey I know exactly what you mean
When my 2nd huz and I married we moved to a couple of acres because we were so tired of the continual noise
of 3 houses built right up to our fenceline. Every time anyone used their blower vacuum our TV lost it's signal altogether
Every time they sneezed we said 'Bless You' and the continual parties sounded like they were in our house
Where we are now there is about 100 metres (bit over 100 yards) on 2 sides between us and 2 neighbours
We are a corner house so only have 2 'actual' neighbours
Gosh I remember the push mowers too....made a lovely job of the lawn

 

[katlupe]

When I was planning my move two years ago from my home in the middle of the state forest to a downtown apartment I was worried about the noise. But it is not bad here. Our maintenance man did start mowing the lawn here at 8 o'clock on Friday. I was up so it didn't bother me so much on the second floor but I wonder about the apartments on the first floor. Right by their windows. Then the garbage truck comes at 6 to empty the dumpster and makes such a lot of noise right near the apartment on that corner of the building. I like quiet too and for the most part it is quiet except for an occasional siren.

 

[LindaB]

I am so tired of noise. We live in a rural area. A mountain in the distance in front of the house. Neighbors are an acre or two apart. We started out with 5 homes now maybe 30.
You would think it couldn't be all that noisy and probably some places are much worse but all day long someone is cutting the grass,trimming, blowing,noisy kids in swimming pools with boom boxes blasting.
I am guilty of ;mowing and trimming also but some noises could be avoided. Do you really need the boom box in the pool? Would you drown without it? Can't a car be washed properly without the music?
Last night was the limit. My neighbors bought a contraption 6 times bigger than a regular TV and plopped it by their pool. It projected movies on the big screen with speakers that would put NASA to shame. They paddled around in the pool while watching the movie.
I admit it wasn't blasting but I'm very sensitive to noise. One of my many hang ups I guess but it did keep me awake until about 12 midnight.
I found this photo of my grandpa cutting the grass in the 30s. I remember the sound it made,almost soothing. He still used it for a long time when
I was a kid. He hand clipped the whole yard.
I guess it isn't feasible to use these anymore but I miss the quiet.
I just had to vent. What will be next? View attachment 108778

OMG, you sound like my 92 year old dad, who passed last year. It must just be age that finally makes us overly sensitive to daily living.

 

[MarciKS]

Not just age LindaB. I have real bad anxiety and it's one of the symptoms. Noise sensitivity. But when people are being outright inconsiderate (which seems to be the norm anymore) and keeping people from sleeping that's bs.

 

[Aneeda72]

Well, I am the odd person out. I love noise. I grew up next to a freeway, later in life train tracks. Got used to noise. Then one of the small strokes I had damaged the nerve in my ear, and I lost my regular hearing for a while.

But my brain, since I couldn’t hear out of that ear, replaces no sound with sound. Mostly a cow bell sound, and loud humming, almost lost my mind. The nerve repaired to a certain extent, the ear hurts all the time. I can hear, but the humming sound remains. If it’s quiet the humming drives me insane.

I have to have noise to override the humming. I love noise. . When I’m in an apartment the tv is on 24/7, but I tried to keep it down. Sorry for the rest of you though.

 

[Don M.]

"Noise" is part of life....one would have to move to the middle of Alaska to avoid it. However, I can understand the nuisance factor when neighbors get too rambunctious. We, too, live in a rural area, and we sure don't miss the noise of the constant traffic and sirens, etc., that we had in the city. One of our younger neighbors is a Harley Davidson fan, and he has several friends that come by regularly on theirs....but the occasional rumble of some Harleys is probably the worst thing we have....no big deal.

It's so quiet here that sometimes, at night, we can hear a dog barking a mile or more away.

 

[Judycat]

Same thing where I live. Kids on dirt bikes are the worst. The clock is ticking for them however. They go by on one wheel at incredible speed.

Usually when it's finally quiet, someone has to fire up a gigantic mower, a chainsaw, or a piece of heavy machinery.

 

[Ruth n Jersey]

I do have a hearing problem and take my aids out when the noise really gets to me. This really doesn't help much. There are tones I can still hear without my aids and unfortunately they are the thumping from what they call music today and the mowers which are so loud to begin with.
When I work outside I like to have my aids in to listen to the birds and on occasion a "good" neighbor will stop by and chat.
It just doesn't seem right that I have to remove my aids for a little peace and quiet and take a sleeping pills to fall asleep because of the noise from the pools.
I have considered calling the police but do realize this problem I have has a lot to do with my own anxiety issues. My hubby can sleep through any of it.
I often wonder if it stems from my childhood. I was an only child and came from a very quiet family. In the 50s life was naturally more quiet than today. I worked in hospitals and nursing homes, which is another quiet environment.
I have tried ear plugs and find they do reduce the noise level but not enough.
I'm sorry many of you have the same problem. I guess it is the way of the world.

 

[LindaB]

Not just age LindaB. I have real bad anxiety and it's one of the symptoms. Noise sensitivity. But when people are being outright inconsiderate (which seems to be the norm anymore) and keeping people from sleeping that's bs.

Sorry to hear of your anxiety. I think you would have to live in the middle of nowhere to escape it. Everyone's life/sleep cycle is different and when you're younger I don't think you are considering that when you are having a party or friends in your backyard pool.
Believe it or not, I have a similar problem in my very own home. My husband gets up at all hours of the night and Lord knows what he does but our bedroom backs up to the kitchen and believe me, he doesn't think about the noise he's making in there...coffee, cupboards open, shut, microwave, etc . I'm sure he's not thing about the noise he's making. He's just going about his own routine. He thinks everybody should be up, lol.

 

[Em in Ohio]

I do have a hearing problem and take my aids out when the noise really gets to me. This really doesn't help much. There are tones I can still hear without my aids and unfortunately they are the thumping from what they call music today and the mowers which are so loud to begin with.
When I work outside I like to have my aids in to listen to the birds and on occasion a "good" neighbor will stop by and chat.
It just doesn't seem right that I have to remove my aids for a little peace and quiet and take a sleeping pills to fall asleep because of the noise from the pools.
I have considered calling the police but do realize this problem I have has a lot to do with my own anxiety issues. My hubby can sleep through any of it.
I often wonder if it stems from my childhood. I was an only child and came from a very quiet family. In the 50s life was naturally more quiet than today. I worked in hospitals and nursing homes, which is another quiet environment.
I have tried ear plugs and find they do reduce the noise level but not enough.
I'm sorry many of you have the same problem. I guess it is the way of the world.

I was also raised in a super-quiet household and have never been very tolerant of noise. I don't use 'background' music, unless it is classical motivation when working on big inside projects.

What annoys me most is the revving of engines from an at-home mechanics place three houses from here. He rebuilds race engines and they gun them from there to here. The other annoyance is at the beach - The lake used to be a place for quiet contemplation. Now, it's packed with motor boats and they rent jet skis - no silence, no solace.

It seems like there is some force driving a lot of folks to be as loud and obnoxious as they can be - perhaps, even competitive to see who can be the loudest.

I understand the need for yard care and I don't begrudge dogs for doing what they do, but these other things definitely stress me out.

I think I will order ear-plugs, as suggested here.

 

[Don M.]

Today, we have had more noise than we've had in months. The neighbor across the road has some large Cedar trees that are getting too close to the overhead power lines. So, the power company sent out a crew to take them down, and their chainsaws and their "mulcher" have been going strong for the past 3 or 4 hours. But, our windows are closed, so it is just some moderate background noise, and if it prevents having a power outage in the future, the noise is well worth it. It looks like they are just about done, so soon we will be back to just the chirping of the birds.