Does anybody here live alone in a house? (i'm single) Please give me hope!
I just need more space and space AWAY from my neighbors. I'm sick of being stacked on top of eachother. I want to be able to turn the tv up loud and not have somebody complaining. Yes, i've resorted to wearing earphones when watching movies at 7pm since i like them turned up and apparently my neighbor next door who doesn't even own furniture can hear every little thing going on over here because he lives in a world of perpetual silence. He doesn't actually complain to me, he literally stands outside my door talking on the phone SCREAMING "The loudest tv in the entire world! the loudest tv in the entire world!" over and over. The weird part is when i go in my bedroom and close the door, i can't hear it. So how can he?? I think he's psycho. I'm not even going to mention the neighbor below who would crank up "Hot Stuff" at ungodly hours.
And waiting for management to ever get around to fixing something? Forget it! A prime example is we had flooding for a month here with rain every day, a hole formed in my ceiling and even when the rain stopped it took management 4 weeks to fix it. I had bowls everywhere and towels to catch water. I still don't know if it's properly fixed, not until it rains again. I also hate hearing my neighbors take a shower and flush the toilet. I also hate thinking of how many people have sat on tha toilet! My worst fear is what all i would see if i turned a black light on. Apartments just feel like motels.
Neighbors are too close (my biggest hassle) as where in surburbia for the most part, everyone is spaced further apart. I guess being a former military brat i want to feel settled, i want to own my home not be in a constant state of renting. i guess my fear would be something unexpected like losing my job and not having a supplemental income. Maybe i need to sell crack
Anyone here sucking it up in an apt who can relate? I should come up with a top ten list of how my apartment stinks. I should have known something was awry when I moved in and saw blue jays eating eachother in a cannibalistic ritual
Post Edited (07-17-04 18:58)
Susan,
You could always move into a filing cabinet for businessmen and young widows that has foot thick concrete walls that help when the lady next door watches TV after letting her hearing aid go.
All Fight Club references aside, it does sound like your neighbor is fairly obnoxious. My wife and I live in our own home which is luckily pretty far away from our neighbors. Yet, sometimes I do worry that my surround sound system will bother them being as you can hear the bass well away from the home.
That gives me an idea - are there any communities for the deaf? maybe i can get into one of those and turn that mother UP! lol
honestly my neighbor has no furniture so i speculate he has no tv so he lives in total silence over there and can hear everything. Everything except someone who viisits him once in awhile and bangs on his door nonstop for 20 minutes until he wakes his ass up and opens it. But i digress
The advantage of a house is there is more insulation, particularly if you have brick. Generally if you have loudness going on inside the house it's usually only audible if someone is standing outside in their yard, but not from inside their house. At least that was always my experience.
On the other hand I have a friend who just moved into a brand new housing area and her neighborhood is full of young people who drink beer, litter all over the yards and shoot fireworks off every night. They also have parties and cops end up being called.
I just hate being so close to people, there's too much tiptoe-ing you have to do. No loud tv's, no stereo, no parties, no walking loudly, it's like living in a library. the irony is these same people are the ones who usually have teenagers sitting outside in their car with the bass all the way up at all hours.
i live in a apt. susan as long as i could remember and to be honest i do everything i want as if i live in a house (playing tv loud music etc) but of course if someone complains you better talk to the whole neighbor cause they all do the same thing.
as for that guy next door i had a friend who was a girl with same problem. she wasnt noise or anything but the guy would knock for EVERY noise. so she asked me to stay over to see maybe if i answerd the door things would change. and sure enough when i answer the door the dude was shocked as hell and never bother her again. so maybes one of those morons who think since you live alone and a women they complain about everything you do.
"I know I know ive been exposed permeant psychoses..
at least the colors are nice"- Aeon Flux
Post Edited (07-18-04 01:31)
It could be, probably because he knows I wouldn't confront him. In a normal world I would but i'm not doing it with a neighbor who might have anger management issues. A coworker of mine said that she had a neighbor with some kind of noise detector? It would measure sound and he would constantly knock on their door showing them what level it was at.
He never was friendly since day 1, he always gave me mean looks and never spoke or said hello when i did. I hardly ever see anyone there anyways, seems like sometimes weeks go by and fliers pile up on the door and nobody is there. Maybe he's a terrorist ;-)
Psycho neighbors 101
The scary part was I had signed the lease and was preparing to move in. Curious one evening i logged on the net and went to see registered sex offenders. I looked up the city I was moving into and saw about 8. I noticed one was in my zip code, so clicked on it and saw it was on my street. When I pulled up the info I realized that not only was this guy going to be in my complex, but when i pulled up the apartment map that the leasing office gave me..it dawned on me he was going to be my next door freaking neighbor! I called the police to get a current address and spoke with the apartment manager, found out that he was no longer there. she said it's leased to a woman, but i've never seen a woman there. Maybe this guy put her in a deep freezer.
Whether someone is a registered lunatic or not i guess you never really know what kind of person your neighbor is. I like to speculate that apartment is cursed and people go crazy in it. That would be an interesting movie....."Apartment 3430. An evil so terrifying dwells here that whoever moves in never moves out.... alive ."
So i just stare at him through the peephole giving him the finger. He can't see it but it makes me feel better
Post Edited (07-18-04 08:48)
Susan,
You could always follow Rich's advice. Hell I'm sure Mulletman would be willing to stay with you for a while.
Sorry Susan, it had to be done. :o)
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Post Edited (07-18-04 11:48)
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