| Noisy neighbours at Central Park in Mountain View |
Its 5am my time, and I've been awake since 3am. Not from choice though -- its the downstairs neighbours waking us up yet again. They're shift workers you see, and must either sleep with construction hearing protection on, or be deaf. Either way, they seem to think its ok to stand outside our apartment at shout at each other at 2am, or slam doors at all hours, or listen to music so loud it vibrates stuff in our apartment basically all night.
We've asked them nicely to turn it down (we used to get on quite well with them at first). We've asked the complex to please do something. We even rung the complex security folk when its happening, and asked for some peace. Its really done nothing to help -- they perhaps turn the music down for 30 minutes until security leaves, and then turn it right back on again.
So, we've run out of ideas, apart from ending the lease early (which will cost an unknown amount of money), and moving somewhere else. We're so serious about doing that that I have started looking around Craigslist already.
Perhaps the floor between apartments is too thin, because the bathroom fans this neighbour leaves on for literally days at a time also vibrates things in the apartment, but either way I think Central Park has pretty much failed to provide us with a livable apartment. We don't want a lot, just some peace after 10pm like the complex rules say we should get.
Grumpy.
posted at: 05:08 | path: /travel/usa/california/mountainview | permanent link to this entry
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Daniel Born
Just stopped by here for the first time after purchasing your book (can't wait to spend some time reading it, just had time to read the Intro so far).
I understand what you are going through in your apartment complex. We've lived some similar experiences in the past and it can be aggravating to say the least. I have very little sympathy for people who have no respect for others. We lived in a building where our neighbour above us was a single guy until he met a new girlfriend... Figured he hadn't gotten any for a long time because they would spend entire weekends "in bed" (and not sleeping ;). Imagine having your parents over for sunday dinner when these guys are going at it "full tilt" pretty much right above us! the sounds were pretty clear as to what was happening up there!! :-O
The guy (& friend) finally moved out and we quickly moved into that appartment (top floor) after fumigating the place! so that we didn't have anyone above us anymore... So if you think noisy people below you are bad, pray you don't get noisy people above you!!
We're currently living in a housing complex with small lot sizes so we are very close to the neighbours which all have dogs (and don't seem to mind letting them bark 24/7). Next year we're having a house built in the suburbs. Did I mention our lot size will be 30,000 sq. ft.? :-)
Happiness is being as far as you can from the neighbours!
Daniel