RE: My downstairs neighbor is a monster from the pit of hell.
Oh god, noisy neighbours are the worst! In my very first appartment, we had an upstairs neighbour who would bang on furniture (or maybe even just throw them across the room) and run, screaming through the hallways. She must have been crazy! I even called the cops a few times. Nothing was being done about it though, no matter how much I complained.
The next appartment held a downstairs neighbour. This guy always had friends over straight into the night, on work days. I could almost hear what was being said and oh my god, how much the laughter annoyed me. Other times, when his girlfriend was there, they would sleep together and she was not the quiet type. Great to hear in my bedroom, right above theirs!
After those horrors, I promised myself I would never live in an appartment building again. I bought myself a corner house and I've had the best sleep, ever since.
Late reaction, I know... couldn't help myself!
Ahaha, it's ok to be late.
Still, it sounds like you're the sort of person who gets annoyed by noises easily, so it'd probably be you who ends up going insane and banging anytime someone tries to have fun.
Or you would, but you seem perfectly sane because you moved out, and now have a nice life. Good job making a sane choice. I wish my neighbor would...
Oh yes, I'm a very light sleeper, so any noise wakes me up. I understand living in an appartment building, you hear people around you. I just find it very rude that people don't take this into consideration in the middle of the night. I would think a proper neighbour would tone it down a bit. I understand the occasional late night during the weekend, but almost every night, on week days? That's just plain rude.
Anyways, I was forced to wear earplugs most nights, which really hurt my ears. It was an impossible situation, so moving out seemed like the only thing I could do to keep my sanity and actually get some sleep.
From experience I can tell you how horrible you can feel when you're experiencing too much noise, too often. You get stressed out and feel hopeless. It's a horrible situation to be stuck in. Maybe your neighbour doesn't have the option or funds to move out :-(
No, she started banging the first day we moved in.
She's been completely insane and mean from day one, so ehhh.
I can't really let it go. If she doesn't have the funds to move out, she'll have to live on the streets, and I'd prefer that. She's deliberately caused me lots of pain, so I don't really have any mercy for her.
Oh gosh, yeah that sounds very unreasonable. Did she know you just moved in? Well I guess she must have...
To be fair, it seems like she's the one causing most of the noise disturbances in this case, so I can completely understand your stance on this. It's quite a horrible thing when you can't relax in your own home. I was very disapointed the first time, finding out that hardly anything could be done about this. I found that, in the end, the person who wants peace and quiet basically loses and will have to move to a new home to find it.
The same thing happened to a friend of mine. Her upstairs neighbour deliberately made lots of noise and bad smells to basically force her out. The annoying thing here was that he was a minority and so when she complained, they just called her a racist. She eventually moved out and back to her parents.