Venting about the neighbors

Okay, I have posted about my upstairs neighbors before...in the past they've struck me as okay people, not rude or obnoxious, polite and pleasant to me and my spouse, just sad-sack sellouts to the good ol' lifescript.

In the past month or so, their daughter's tantrums have gotten louder, longer, and more frequent. Ugh. It's never when I'm trying to sleep, but writing is a big hobby of mine, and her screaming, pounding, and wailing has totally messed up my concentration a few times. I put on headphones or earplugs, and that helps. So does the knowledge that, while I may have to live downstairs from them, I will never have to be responsible for THAT.

I focus on the fact that MY home is populated by beings that can control their noise levels (even the cats do, to some extent), and that no one here resorts to shrieking, hitting, and wailing when things don't go well.

I focus on the fact that, while I may have to put up with their kid's meltdowns every now and then, THEY have to live with them...and their aftermath...for keeps.

I focus on the fact that my husband and I were smart enough to see through the parenting scam, go for sterilization, and live a life focused on our relationship without interloping lil cockblockers.

So. This is nothing new under the CF sun, I know. Living near loud kids is something we've all dealt with. Just wanted to vent.

Anyone want to buy a two bedroom condo? Prices here are dirt cheap, and with Yours Truly living downstairs you wouldn't have to worry about Lil Shriekers.

It would take an awful lot of a series of unforeseen and unfortunate events to happen for me to EVER live anywhere in a subdivision or townhouse-apt-condo situation where I'd have to be living right next to breeders again. The last time I endured it for over a decade I honestly thought that, between their litters of kids and incessantly barking dogs, I'd have a nervous breakdown. Living in a remote area like I now do has it's inconveniences and bad points, but I'd take ANYTHING over the bullshit that living next to breeders causes. Noise (mostly the noise), the clutter, kinder crap, kids running in and out of my yard, dogs shitting by the mailbox, kinder crap. makeshift skate board ramps and basketball hoops on the sidewalks, using my lawn as a 50 yard line, balls knocking into windows and doors, tacky holiday shit strung up all over the fucking place, etc.....I don't think I could take again.

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If YOU are the "exception" to what I am saying, then why does my commentary bother you so much?
I don't hate your kids, I HATE YOU!

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randomcfchick
Anyone want to buy a two bedroom condo? Prices here are dirt cheap, and with Yours Truly living downstairs you wouldn't have to worry about Lil Shriekers.

Too bad there's not a housematch.com kind of service. I'm sure the breeders would be incensed that there might be people who would like to avoid living near them, but it would be a way to do an end run around the Fair Housing crap. Dh and I, once our pet population has been lowered, might one day like to live in a condo/TH environment. I know we'd be eligible for the over-55 community, but that's worse in a way. We'd be around people with GRANDKIDS. If you think young breeders are bad, try being around fatuous grandparents. We're of an age for those kind of people to be our contemporaries and it's awful.

I bet a site where messages could be posted: "Hi! We're a young CF couple in age group xx-xx. There's a condo/townhouse/house for sale above/next door to us. Anyone interested in having a like-minded neighbor, check the listing at [website] It has [list amenities]. We'd love to have you as neighbors!" would be popular, even if it did draw a buttload of critics.

I have a bottle of Liquid Ass just in case my neighbor gets too pissy. She's on the first floor across from me and doesn't like for me to walk my dogs on "her" sidewalk. Some time ago she said something like "Excuse me, but my kids play there. I don't want your dogs pooping where my kids play. I don't want them on my sidewalk at all." I'm silent for a moment, I couldn't believe the pissy attitude I had just been handed, when she says, "Hem hem, you're going away now." In the interest of peace, I left. After she took her brats to school, I came back with a bigger dog who left a bigger steaming pile. That was also the day I stopped picking up after my dogs. The day Pissy Moo cleans up her brats' toys and food garbage will be the day I pick up after my dogs. Until then, maintenance cleans up after both of us. At least I give the maintenance guys bottled water.

In all honesty, it's not WHAT she asked, it's HOW she asked. If she had been a little bit nicer about it I would have brought platic bags with me and she would never have seen how big Archer's piles can get. My ultimate point here is that Liquid Ass can work wonders on shitty neighbors.

ETA: In your place I would be pouring Liquid Ass on their front patio every night until they ran screaming.

Could always do what my sister does about her neighbor's screaming hellion: Yell out the window "SHUT THAT FUCKING KID UP!!!"

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marco polo
Could always do what my sister does about her neighbor's screaming hellion: Yell out the window "SHUT THAT FUCKING KID UP!!!"

we need a LIKE button.

My every reason to buy a house with land and fences! Question? is it leagal to electrify your own fence?

Been there done that for sure................with a neighbor with a kid, with neighbor with a dog, I'll yell if they have hogs, I'll yell if they have sprogs............. Out the window, and out the door, In fact I have no qualms at yelling at any breeder duh and whore........

Yea, I know, I always loved Dr. Sues, no matter how psychoticly childcentric the poor ol' guy must have been!

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betteroffwothatcrap
Been there done that for sure................with a neighbor with a kid, with neighbor with a dog, I'll yell if they have hogs, I'll yell if they have sprogs............. Out the window, and out the door, In fact I have no qualms at yelling at any breeder duh and whore........

Yea, I know, I always loved Dr. Sues, no matter how psychoticly childcentric the poor ol' guy must have been!

I'm so effing in love with you, right now.

I do the same thing, you guys. I'm the Crabby Old Man (trapped inside a woman's body) of every neighborhood in which I live.

My spouse and I actually talked about exactly this type of website concept when we were house-hunting. We did the things we could--we walked through the neighborhood in the evening and listened to the ambient noise level, read through the condo rules re: kids/minors, and specifically picked a condo complex that has zero kid amenities--no clubhouse, no playground, and even rules against playing in the parking lot or on the green belts. And we did land a place where there are very few children around as a result. Unfortunately, the few that are around seem to be right over our heads now.

We talked about how a website could make all that legwork so much easier. It could have a search feature for what things you want to avoid, etc. I bet a site like that would be hugely successful. And as long as it's individuals posting their preferences and not management companies, or landlords, it seems like it would be legal.