Neighbours

[Kayla55]

What is your relationship with your neighbours?
Does your family make more noise than usual, do neighbours ever overhear the results of a meltdown?
If you have kids do you have to paint walls when you move, and do you think you loose more deposit than average?

Just trying to decide about rental statistics and autism

 

[Tired]

I'm living alone in a rented room in a building, and I have headphones, so I rarely do loud sounds. I know that one my neighbor is some old lady, because I had to talk to her so that she allowed me to connect to do something I need in order to get internet in my apartment, and thankfully she agreed, so I think she's kind. She has 1 small deaf dog and it barks often, she also often has her daughter bring her kids so they yell and laugh etc and I can hear all that. From another side lives some old couple with their own small barking dog, but I don't know them. From top I have a person who sometimes falls asleep in the night to watching loud tv, so I can hear that as well.
So I am surrounded by pretty loud people, but I'm sure it's not them being loud, it's walls in this building being very thin. I'm sure they can hear me laughing, when I talk with someone on a video call. They can also, I'm sure, hear me cry sometimes. But so far no one came or called a police on me, which is fine I guess

 

[Rocco]

My neighbors are mostly quiet. There is an old man that has established a friendship with me, which I quite enjoy. We sit and talk sometimes while he drinks beer and I have coffee or soda. I check on him through the week to make sure he is ok and alive still. Sometimes he makes me amazing meals.

The neighbor above me fell asleep in his tub with the water running last week, that flooded my bathroom and part of my bedroom. Most of my other neighbors don’t communicate with each other or me, aside from an occasional hello or brief small talk.

I have not painted the walls when I moved, as typically my walls are covered in my paintings and protected.

Luckily my walls are thick and most sound does not travel. My ex girlfriend was a little loud when she was angry or having an episode, I’m sure some of the neighbors heard her once in a while.

I play a lot of music but usually turn the bass down so as not to disturb the folks around me.

 

[Judge]

I pretty much gave up any serious use of my audio system years ago. But in turn my immediate neighbors (all in single-units) are relatively quiet. I suspect if multi-occupancy unit was adjacent to my own single-unit that I'd be rather unhappy with a predictably noisy family.

The building across from mine I generally don't hear but is all multi-occupancy units with multiple noisy families with kids of all ages facing south. But my unit only faces the opposite direction to the north, so it isn't an issue unless I go outside and hear them.

Seems to me if you are renting a single-person unit, to make sure all the ones adjacent to your unit is also the same. Though there's never any guarantee of how much noise a single renter may make. It's always a crapshoot in terms of whether or not a neighbor cares about being considerate, as well as how long they remain your neighbor. I guess I've been very fortunate in that respect, as my existing neighbors have been around for a long time.

 

[Outdated]

Both of my immediate neighbours are alcoholics with anger management issues. Both of them have learned that their hot tempers are no match to mine when I get riled up so they've learned to leave me alone. One learned a lot more quickly than the other, the slow learner is now on his final warning and the rental management people are just looking for an excuse to evict him.

 

[Kayla55]

Gosh, it hasn't happened for a while but lost my temper the other day and was yelling at my son. I think the neighbours heard but I'm lucky here they seem busy and not so noisy in my business

 

[Aspychata]

In my last rental, the door of the unit next to me was slammed all thru the late eving, making me wonder what foot traffic comes and goes late at nite, and it was in a tourist area. The apartment before that, the family ran their clothes dryer at 2:30 am. and they slammed the dryer door pretty hard. Then a family moved in above and did Zumba at 12:00 am. Between the dryer and the endless Zumba class , l did move out. About 1/2 year later, the same dryer had too much lint, caught fire, and burned the building with 24 apartments l use to live in. That apartment came with the creepy maintenance guy who stared too much at me, made me very uncomfortable. The maintenance guy wasn't cleaning dryer vents l guess.

 

[Dendrite]

I live in an apartment building currently. I very much have a preference of keeping to myself as much as possible, given my difficulties with communicating with others and my tendency to not get involved with other people. As a result I don't really "know" anybody who lives in the other apartments near mine, aside from occasionally passing them in the corridors between apartments. My neighbours are mostly quiet at present (though sometimes I hear louder music or TV sounds) so I feel pretty fortunate in that. I'm generally very quiet myself, I will often have my headphones on anyway and generally don't make much noise, though I do sporadically verbally stim quite loudly so I've been conscious of that.

 

[Mary Terry]

I live in a rural area so I rarely hear or even see neighbors. The nearest one is about a mile away. The only times I get upset about neighbors' noise is when they shoot fireworks or guns. I tolerate the neighbor whose roosters and guinea hens make a lot of noise because at least those are natural, daytime, animal noises and not someone's blaring music or drunken parties.

 

[Shamar]

What is your relationship with your neighbours?
Does your family make more noise than usual, do neighbours ever overhear the results of a meltdown?
If you have kids do you have to paint walls when you move, and do you think you loose more deposit than average?

Just trying to decide about rental statistics and autism

We have almost no contact with neighbors, only two exceptions. Two houses down is a really nice old Vietnamese man. I sometimes help him with house projects he can't handle himself, and he gives us stuff from his garden. The other exception is the neighbors across the street, who I see when walking the dog. They give him treats and he demands I take him there so he can be fussed on.