Is it possible for five family members to stay quiet in an apartment?  

Hello sachin welcome to mylot...you are very right about what you said in this case. lol
Keep posting dear but try to make your response longer so you will get something for it. Try to make it 2 lines or more. Happy mylotting dear.

You live in a different part of the world. Here in the US if she or her husband had went out and gotten in the middle of what was going on or tried to stop them from fighting then the fight would have been turned on them! That is why many times even the police do not get involved in "domestic violence cases" they wind up being the victim!
I'd have hate to have heard from my friends husband today that I would not hear from her again for a week or more or worse yet not at all because she was killed because of going to see what was going on downstairs.
This is the sad truth of what happens here! Also, it is sad that many people do not feel they can get involved in what is going on around them. Or even try to help out.

You reprimand my friend in your sly way and think you are doing something good or oh so smart...when in fact you are not. You are just showing how much you do not know of how things work in this country.
I am sorry that I am coming down on you for this, but I am so tired of people saying things to be hurtful to others when they do not have all of the facts!

He is not single and he has a lady friend that he is staying with. I am not sure if both of them pay rent or just her alone. We can't help where we live at. We have to live where we can afford until things change financially. Believe me if we could have it our way, we would live in a house. In fact that is what my husband has always wanted for us before we even got married. We are not trying to make noise on purpose around this man. My kids are young and not adults. So it is expected and acceptable to hear noise. An apartment is not a house. There is a little boy that lives with them. I don't know if that is his real son or not. I do know that he is hardly at the house. Even when the lady goes to work, I think that she takes him with her. That is very strange to me. He should have the right to be a father to this child, whether he helped create him or not. But I don't get into this matter, because this is none of my business to. What I am saying here is, if he has a child that is very young, he should know that a child will want to play and make noise. This little boy is very quiet and he is the only child. It makes perfect sense, he don't know how to be a father. He does not have any patience, which will mess him up in the long run. The woman that he is staying with is pregnant now, and I want to see how he can handle the newborn baby when it is born. This baby will be making noise and crying. If he has such a short temper now, imagine how it will be for him after the baby is born.

I myself live in a mobile home for a couple of reasons. 1. we can't afford a house, 2. we refuse to live in an apartment.. though around here apartments are more expensive than trailers. However a trailer offers most of the same comforts as a home, as in I don't have neighbors above or below me... and I'm allowed my cats here, which I wouldn't be allowed to have them in an apartment.

When we do visit someone in an apartment though I make sure my kids understand that our friends have neighbors who we might disturb if we make too much noise, so we must walk softly and speak in our indoor voices.

I don't mean to offend you, but from your post it appears to me as if you're not really taking this guy's feelings into consideration. Sure maybe you find him rather uptight, but from an outsider's point of view it seems like he should be entitled to peace and quiet in his own home.

Alas, this is the dilemma with apartments, or anywhere you live really. You can't choose who moves in next door, or upstairs....

Hi, CynicalStephen. That is how it was for us too. When we first moved in we had nothing but complaints of two issues. One, water was leaking onto the downstairs neighbors ceiling. The second one was the noise issue. I am glad that I am not the only person that had to went through this. I felt not wanted too, like we did not belong here. I think that it is sad for a neighbor to make a newcomer resident feel that way.

<3 I don't talk to any of my neighbors anymore :/ We just ignore each other... There are people who live down from us who are much more noisier. They always par-tey. But I don't complain :) Well actually , I've complained once...or rather swore really loudly out the window... It's not that bad though. i think ur neighbor needs to be more resilient. Learn to put up with some kids upstairs running around. after all , kids will be kids :)