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Surely, there must be SOME others here who have experienced annoying neighbours at some point in their life? Aren’t most of us apartment dwellers?
(obviously, some of us may BE annoying neighbours to others, I realize that, while we blast our film music at top volume!).
What can I say, I don’t have any annoying neighbors. Our neighborhood is — fortunately — mostly calm and friendly, lots of younger families. Construction noise, if it’s there, tends to be temporary. There is even a neighborhood Whatsapp group, and we usually have a big summer BBQ get-together, where most of the neighbors from our block come together for some food and drinks, and a sometimes a spontaneous smaller winter get together (which was just now on January 2nd) and some Glühwein. It’s basically a friendly and calm (some might say “boring”, but I like it to be “boring” where I live) neighborhood, where we go about our business… unless we chat about that house down the street which may or may not be inhabited by possible cannibal-serial-killer cultists… who knows.
That sounds incredibly lucky, Nick. I, too, live in calm neighborhood (one of the fanciest in Oslo). That’s one of the main reasons for why I moved in here almost 20 years ago, and why I’ve decided to stay here ever since. But in the last five years or so, it’s been enveloped by heavy noise. Several houses next to me have been completely refurbished, with all the noise that entails, for millions of Norwegian kroner and for months and years at a time. Then there’s a psychotic dog two houses down that barks all the time. And various crazy neighbours in my own building that are seemingly vampires with all their nocturnal actitivies. And now, then, also the guys above me refurbishing heavily. My paradise is being invaded all over the place.
But even when I look back at the previous places I’ve lived, there have been many, many instances of bad neighbours in various shapes and forms. Dozens of examples. Guess I’m just the unlucky one out.
Maybe… I’ve lived in different places over the years, a few times I had jerks for neighbors, but never direct neighbors, so they didn’t affect me in my day to day life all that much.
For 16 years now I have rented a basement apartment. Price has always been nice, I now pay 6000 NOK monthly plus heating, so I have always been lucky with low prices ever since I moved out from home in 2000. A couple in their fifties are the house owners, and they still have a son living at home. He occassionally have some wild parties that irritate me, but other than that the house is quite calm.
Like Thor I live in a wealthy part of my city, and there have been lots of noisy building and refurbishing in my neighborhood earlier, but thankfully not now.
Some years down the line I will probably buy my own apartment, but I have kind of got stuck here, lol.
Ouch, Thor… that sounds really bad – literally! Hope things quiet down a bit for you soon.
Luckily, nothing like that to report here. I live in a six-apartment building, in a suburb some 15 km east of Oslo, and it’s all pretty calm, with well behaved neighbours. The teenage daughters next door (and sometimes the parents) have a party on the weekend from time to time, but it’s usually quiet from around 12 or 1. So, not really a problem.
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