Posted on 05/29/2021 8:04:14 PM PDT by fwdude
I’m only airing this on this public forum because I’ve never encountered it to this degree before. Here’s the story: new neighbors moved in about three months ago in my semi rural, large lot residential neighborhood in the outskirts of my large city. I’ve lived here exactly 14 years now, and in that time I’ve experienced a level of quiet peace that most people would envy. The sounds of nature is about as loud as it gets, discounting the occasional Harley or ricer racing down the nearby thoroughfare.
The neighbors are a large family of, shall we say, south-of-the-border derivation, and have had several loud outdoor after-dark parties, complete with the amplified Hispanic loud-bass music in the maddeningly plodding rhythm that we’ve all heard. They also keep a couple of medium to large dogs outside who bark sporadically throughout the night (they are tethered, which is another issue.) They also brought with them at least one rooster, which begins crowing loudly at 4:30 AM each morning. The parties include a lot of loud drunken yelling in Mexican and very loud laughing and conversation. The bedroom wing of my house is adjacent to our shared property line, about 45 feet away. I hear it all.
Before I go on, I want to make it clear that I am one of the biggest live-and-let -live people on earth. I reached out to them when they moved in to introduce myself and let them know who I was. They were standoffish from the start, however.
The last party, about a month ago, went past midnight, and I finally called the police to lodge a complaint. I figured if they somehow were oblivious to the city ordinances against unreasonable noise, and oblivious to the fact that the noise was disturbing a neighbor, they would need to know about it and make a decision. But, here we go again.
I love farm life and animals and can live with the rooster crowing and occasional dog barks, but this is developing into a persistant pattern. Am I being a “Karen” by reporting them? One part of me wants to be tolerant to a fault. The other part of me says that they have absolutely ZERO consideration for the peaceful enjoyment of their neighbors, so screw them.
Anyone with a similar problem?
My wife works hard at it and I really appreciate it.
I have a reasonably stressful job, and the hammock out there with the birds and flowers really help...
Good to hear from you!
Then leave. If those are the sorts that are moving in it won’t get bettet
I was mocking him. He sounded like someone who should be kept up all night.
Places like grocery stores, and restaurants seem exempt, they are not factories. Even the Dentist is now using music, ‘it’s soothing’. You as 1 patient do not count. Not to a person with hearing issues that can leave them deaf. Since we are Seniors concerts are not a issue, those can go to 120 DB or higher. So I use shooting hearing muffs to at least lower the high DB. Music is Tinny now.
I’m having to retrain a nearly 83 yr old husband with Flight Deck hearing loss, to accommodate my different loss He can adjust his better aids. We hear at different frequencies. His days of driving are about over, not taking it well, I don’t use the freeway to dangerous, bad drivers and shooting random people. 1 of us has to be able to drive, rural areas don’t have senior services for medical.
I’d give them some of their own medicine by playing some good ol bluegrass, loudly. Seems many Hispanics don’t much care for it. You could also try placing several large owl decoys facing them at strategic areas of visibility. Just a couple off the top of my head.
I’ll be researching this today. Thank you.
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Ditto! And my compliments to your wife's lovely gardening...
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