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Seriously Doropfiz, I know you mean well in your posts but there's being considerate and then there's letting everyone walk all over you.
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Exactly ... living in close quarters, you have to accept that you will hear and perhaps even smell your neighbors. Sure, I am annoyed regularly by them, but that comes with the package of living in an apartment in the middle of the city...give and take people, otherwise move to the middle of nowhere, where I am sure some pesky wildlife will annoy you too.
There have been two times in my 20 years of living in flats where I have had to kindly request quiet from my neighbor:
1) Allowing their hyperactive two year old to run around, scream and play above us at 4 AM on a Sunday morning, regularly. I left a note with a toy for the child and chocolates for them...hardly happened again.
2) The neigbor below us was a nurse who left her home for her shift at 3 AM...we had those old school metal outside window blinds that hadn't been serviced for 20+ years and it woke us up in our deep sleep every AM. I kindly requested that she not do this with a bottle of wine and it never happened again.
I have only received one noise complaint ever and I'm still bitter about it. Had a small party in my current flat and she ran the door bell at exactly 10 PM on a Friday night. (Meanwhile I have to listen to her interesting sex life on the reg.) Now anytime I have a party, I leave her wine or chocolates with a note days in advance and she hasn't complained about it since.