Sometimes I hear the people upstairs and then I think. “Wait. Hold on. I don’t live in an apartment complex anymore. Wtf is in the attic”.
Flipping racoons.
I started making more noise after my neighbors clearly did not realize that the quiet they enjoyed from my apartment was out of deliberate consideration on my part, and not a mutual experience. I started with normal sounds like coughing or laughing or playing some music, but after that didn’t work, I started to make noises they would be embarrassed to ask me about. It somewhat worked at reducing their noise levels. I knew they heard me because they stopped making eye contact. But they were also awful people so that was fine with me.
Thankfully they moved and I now have a quiet neighbor who gets to enjoy my silence. Occasionally they’ll get a little noise from me to remind them that the wall between my bedroom and their main room is very thin, but I haven’t had to escalate it like with the last people, for which I am grateful. My other neighbors are a very quiet elderly couple and I love them, but our shared wall is substantially thicker, which is partly why I love them.
I would never interpret an uptick in noise from my neighbors as a message. I’m autistic and very unperceptive in this dimension so it may well just be me, but I think I’d start worrying about someone if they told me they thought that their neighbor coughing or laughing more audibly than usual was an attempt at communication.
Even the other sounds… maybe you got a new sex toy or developed an embarrassing medical condition. I’d just assume you’re doing your thing, not trying to weird me out.
i remember living in the top floor of an apartment and the people below me were so loud sometimes. I never actually seen who they were but damned if I didn’t know names and how they stomped when they were upset
I hear my neighbors yell from time to time but our kids are like 2 weeks apart in age and… We get it. We don’t do it, but we totally get it. And they tell me they don’t hear me singing in a silly voice when they must certainly do, and is perhaps embarrassing on the other end of the spectrum, lol.
You’ve just unlocked the Empathy skill tree, congrats!
I wish my neighbors acted like they knew other people lived here…
Too late, I think the entire neighborhood might already know us as “Oh, it’s THAT family that always have arguments in the house”
The thing is, we’re East Asian so this just further reinforce their “Asian strict parenting” stereotype in their minds 💀
(or perhaps nobody cares that much since they’ve already expected this much yelling due to that stereotype)
I remember living with a gf a long time ago. we were looking at new apartments and saw a review for our current one. this one review in particular mentioned our unit specifically and went something along these lines.
Place is great. pool is nice and clean, tenants are nice and mostly quiet and the rent is affordable.
to the couple in A1, everyone can hear you screaming. we get it. you like to fuck. also, please stop fucking in your living room with the blinds open, we can see you.
jokes on them, we were into that shit 🤣
You know the walls are too thin when, after sex, you hear your neighbor light up.
She’s moaning. I’m groaning. Neighbor is coughing.
You know the walls are too thin when, after sex, you hear your neighbor light up.
I have a question about this conceot actually
So I grew up in terraced houses from the 1900s or earlier, stone walls. Unfortunately, i could hear my parents talking, arguing and boinking from my room - but the last one only seemed to be a thing when i was a teenager. I could also hear the old guy next door walking around, telephoning and opening drawers.
But i was lucky enough to only have single guys who lived alone either side of me the entire time. So I wonder: do most people in terraces and apartments have to hear their neighbours having sex? Is that like a normal part of childhood? Other kids seemed to know about sex before me so I figure that might be part of it.
Or did my childhood home just have bad acoustics + insulation?
I never really noticed, but I might have just been lucky. I heard sex in the same house, though. /shudder
SMELL you light up… and smile.
Do you also play hide 'n seek by closing your eyes to hide?
Lol, I thought the walls were more noise-isolating…
unfortunately, Bose did not make these walls
Like I don’t hear neighbors often unless I really put my ears close to the wall outlet and hear their tv on the other side…
The only time I heard it when the parent was yelling at their kid next door…
