Do you expect to have peace and quiet in an apartment?

Hi cream, it's impossible to live in an apartment with environment totally quiet and peaceful I think. I stay in the apartment as well when I pay a visit to my son's place in another state. There are lots of inhabitant living in the same tall building. And I could get all kind of noise in different time the whole day, like shouting, quarreling, slamming, karaoke. And there are yet of thousand and one undesirable noises heard every now and then from the huge community This more or less will infect the peacefulness of our daily life Since your neighbor dislike to be disturbed by the disgusting noise, he has to find way to solve the problem, either to get accustomed with the noise he dislikes or to move to another living place with tranquil environment which suits him. I prefer to live in my small single story land house with compound which is some distances away from my neighbors Happy posting.

To a certain extent, no. I've been living in this four-plex for about seven years now. I have a neighbor below me that every so often plays his tv loud sometimes. And another neighbor on the lower cornerside that likes to power up his speakers every once in a while. And they got me, the one who likes to practice on the piano about an hour or so a night...lol About the only time when there isn't a noise around here is when every one goes to work during the day. Then you have peace and quiet to do what you want to do. On days like that, I power up my speakers on my PC and jam...lol But, in conclusion, you are not going to have total peace and quiet in an apartment building.

I meant to say earlier that if these other people expect to have a really quiet place to live then they need to move into a retirement community. They have moved into an apartment complex where there are children and they just so happen to have children in the apartment in the apartment up stairs from them. The fact that there is no carpet on the floor does not help the situation any. I think they will probably ask if they move any where again if there are children in the apartment above them before they move in. lol I mean, it would be my first question if this is something that would bother me.

Is this an older man? If he want's peace and quiet like you said he needs to buy his house or move to somewhere that's picky about the people they rent to and how the complex runs. Like I lived in one that if you smoked you could only smoke outside or in your apt, but not in the hall or in the underground parking. Or you know if he doesn't want to move himself you could always suggest to him some ear plugs!

Before I stayed in an apartment, I already had it in mind that I am not gonna have any peace and quite at all. And yes! I was right. There were so many people in the apartment where I stayed so I asked the landlord to reserve the smallest room for me so I can have it for myself. I was lucky that one tenant left that I was able to have the room for my own. I had my privacy and some peace and quite but not totally. I think its understandable since we cant expect all people to think that way we think and let others have their privacy too.

Sorry - but when you move into an apartment, unfortunately you can hear noise 24 hours a day, seven days a week. I just moved out of an apartment where the walls were so thin, I could hear my neighbors baby kitten meow! So you could imagine all the things I heard. If your neighbor wants a resolution to this problem he should either move into his own home or a retirement community.

Hi Cream no matter what when you live in an apartment you expect some sort of Noise no matter what it is If he wants Peace then he should move somewhere totally alone

i would like it to be quiet..but i always expected the opposite.and usually wasn't disappointed. it's luck of the draw getting quiet places when you're renting.we had one jackass who blasted his stereo bass all day long.

It can never have peace living in an apartment.. haha =D BEcause it's a public sharing area, with a common roof, over everybody staying under it!! IF your neighbour really wants peace, he should move to a house instead, whereby there's nobody upstairs, to disturb him, or neighbours near enough to be banging on their walls, to be heard in his own house.. lol =D I guess that's the price to pay for living there, and it's supposed to build up good rapports among neighbours!!

Your neighbor is living in la la land...

even if you get a house, like we have now, i don't think you or he, for that matter, will never hear a noise from the neighbors. at least here in the neighborhood, we are already friends with everyone, so no matter how noisy their kids or our kids are, we understand each and everyone. i think your neighbor downstairs should look a house at the mountains, in the woods.

Hi cream, I agree with you ...It is not possible to live an apartment and expect everything to go your way.I lived in an apartment for nearly 6 years and one has to put up with a certain amount of noise and disturbances from the top,sides,outside etc;I remember the people living above us moved their furniture almost every night and it was quite disturbing in the beginning,but later we got so used to it that once while we had some guests and the noise started, the guests asked us "whatever is that?" , we had got so used to it. You know it can happen even in your own house, with the neighbors being noisy or the children screaming .We have to put up with it if we want to live amidst people, or else go somewhere far away and live all alone LOL....I think your neighbor is blowing things out of proportion...

Maybe your downstairs neighbor is too sensitive to noise.I think it's a kind of illness,some people who have disease with their nerve ofter give us behaviors that we can't understand.It's hard to manage the matter.

We live in an apartment, and I must say I am one of those who prefer it to be quiet too - but we all know it's not going to happen all the time. When my daughter was a baby, I hated all the apartment noise because I didn't want her to wake up from her naps or at night . . . but I had to go with the flow and live with it - and really she didn't wake up for the most part anyway. If someone was being unreasonably noisy, I'd write them a note and stick it on their door. And most of the time the other tenant would understand we had a little one and would TRY to be more quieter - that's all I could ask. Since then we have moved to a better place although it's still not sound proof. I realize I can't do anything during the day . . . but at night if it's reasonably after 10pm, I will call the cops if I have to. I even have the go ahead with our manager and owner who really like us. We live in a college area and when we first got here there were a lot of college kids . . . the owner wanted them sifted out and build this into a family complex, which he did. There were parties, loud music, people talking really loud late at night . . . WE couldn't even get to sleep. I am famous for writing people notes . . . and I did that several times before actually calling the cops. And I also emailed our managers and gave them an official complaint about the noise. Sometimes we have problems with the people below us. Either they have their game system turned up way loud, or the woman is having late night you-know-what and I have to hear her grunts and screeches - and sometimes wall or furniture pounding!! I don't say anything about the grunt thing (how embarrassing) but I will give them a note if their music or game system is too loud - and let them know we have a napping baby up there. And they always understand. I try to be reasonable about noise . . . there's normal everyday noise, and then there's excessive stupid noise. But right now, I am dealing with a 5 year old who thinks she has to scream all the time, so now I think we're the noise makers now. If I see any of our neighbors, I apologize and explain to them what's going on (I'm sure they hear it) and they are all mostly understanding. I also have a baby and of course he cries and I'm sure many people hear it. So it all kind of evens out I guess!!!

Hi there cream. As i must have mentioned a while back in some other post, i DO live in a condo, and while the windows are supposedly sound proof, this doesn't protects me from thy neighbors so i am bound to hear loud music, loud drilling in the walls, loud animals (the dog from below me, or the cat from above when they are home alone) or other sounds (like the extra loud arguing of my neighbor upstairs with her adult daughter). I do think a house would be a better option, but not in my country. Both me and my girlfriend would really love it to move in England and live there in a nice house at the country side if i may say so (like near Trowbridge for example).

I do expect a certain amount of peace and quiet. I have had issues down through the years. Even if you move into a house you can't be certain you will have complete peace. It would be hard to be quiet in an upper apartment. If you walk around much and the building is old it will creek and makes all kinds of noise. Are you planning his demise yet?

No not really. We stayed in an apartment few years back and I always hear loud noises outside our unit... i guess it's expected that the environment would be like that as we are only few meters away from 24 hour convenience store, salon, eatery, etc... i have experienced living at a studio type condominium unit, one bedroom and two bedroom as well... the two bedroom was annoying, big time! why? because it's a condominium however we always hear screams and noises next door. yay! that made us decide to go back to our one bedroom condo unit.. i love our place.. it's peaceful and quiet...

hell0! well, i have never expected to have peace and quiet in an apartment, because I have lived many years in an apartment and know how it really is. even now I live in an apartment and the neighbors above are really crazy and loud people

generally i expect that there is peace and quiet in an apartment, but of course there should be room for once in a while noises e.g. parties, home repairs. also, it depends actually on the neighborhood you are in. it would be unfortunate if one would live in a neighborhood where people seem to not care that they are causing irritation and stress to their neighbors. however that guy you mentioned is a little too much. he should know that he lives in an apartment people have to compromise and be more patient. like what you said, living in an apartment or a condo is very much different from living in your own house. heck sometimes even when you have your own house there is still noise outside (like what i said, neihgbor's home repairs, occasional parties)

For those who stay in apartment which would like to have a peace and quite environment, i dont think is possible. The wall within a units to another units is actually very thin, when some one open up his or her HiFi or home Theater, even different floor , you will surely hear the voice. The apartments is not only you the one who stay, but for all the residents. so noise is un avoidable. Even the noise of a car pass by your apartments, you can always hear it very clearly especially at nights. If want to stay in quiet and peace, please stay in rural area.