Noisy neighbour in the gated town house

[Gobbler]

On 11/3/2024 at 4:29 PM, Gecko123 said:

The 'give it a few weeks' advice is good advice. There could be some life event which would explain the loud music, and if the problem has popped up out of nowhere, there's a good chance it will stop before too long.

 

A few weeks? That's excessive. 

 

On 11/3/2024 at 2:50 PM, quake said:

Noise is all part of Thailand's culture.

 

Temples are, too.  I never hear loud music at a Wat.

[BangkokReady]

On 11/3/2024 at 2:45 PM, villageidiotY2K said:

why other Thai neighbours don’t tell the <deleted> to stfu and put up with the noisy

 

While Thais appear very tolerant, what they actually are is well aware that some Thais could kill someone for something as insignificant as complaining about noise.

[RocketDog]

20 hours ago, scoutman360 said:

Move. Even if you complain, they will just pretend to help with politeness and smiles. You are the foreigner. You have no power, no rights. I had the same problem. I moved and now live in a beautiful, quiet, neighborhood. 

And if that suddenly changes for you..........?

[Celsius]

People play loud music when they are having sex. Maybe they are mlive or OnlyFans creators?

[quake]

1 hour ago, Gobbler said:

 

A few weeks? That's excessive. 

 

 

Temples are, too.  I never hear loud music at a Wat.

 

Is there some point to your post ?

Never hear loud music from a Wat, what about loud noise  ]]]

 

 

Edited Monday at 12:44 PM by quake

[Gobbler]

1 minute ago, quake said:

Is there some point to your post ?

 

Obviously missed by you.

[quake]

Just now, Gobbler said:

 

Obviously missed by you.

 

Yes please explain your silly post. 

[Gobbler]

1 hour ago, BangkokReady said:

 

While Thais appear very tolerant, what they actually are is well aware that some Thais could kill someone for something as insignificant as complaining about noise.

Welcome to the land of optional thinking.

[Gobbler]

Just now, quake said:

 

Yes please explain your silly post. 

Your innocuous statement assumes that my post is silly. 

 

Prove it.

[georgegeorgia]

2 hours ago, gargamon said:

You're SOL. Excess noise is legally only a problem after a specific time, typically 10:00 pm. 

 

You can move when your lease is up, or leave now and abandon your deposits. Just feel lucky the guy living next to yo doesn't have a chicken. That problem is 3 or 4 am.

Excess noise can be during the day as well depending on the noise 

[quake]

12 minutes ago, Gobbler said:

Your innocuous statement assumes that my post is silly. 

 

Prove it.

 

Ok Gob <deleted>e.

Wat's make plenty of noise every day. the one near me i can hear the chanting on there Pa system at 6 am most mornings.

so that prove your full of it.

Next. Gobbler.

 

Ps, Let alone the fund raising events in the temple grounds that most wat's have.

Yes a very quiet   event. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited Monday at 01:00 PM by quake

[gargamon]

15 minutes ago, Gobbler said:

Your innocuous statement assumes that my post is silly. 

 

Prove it.

Looks like sue is getting a little testy because Trump is going to lose.

[gargamon]

14 minutes ago, georgegeorgia said:

Excess noise can be during the day as well depending on the noise 

It's not noise, it's music. Might be noise to you but that is irrelevant.

[Will B Good]

2 minutes ago, gargamon said:

It's not noise, it's music. Might be noise to you but that is irrelevant.

 

Noise or music or recital or...whatever......they don't have the right (or shouldn't) to expose other people to it.

 

No one needs to play anything so loud that their immediate neighbours can hear it.....no one.

 

Where is the logic, what is the justification for playing something so loudly others are forced to hear it?

[radiochaser]

6 hours ago, gargamon said:

You're SOL. Excess noise is legally only a problem after a specific time, typically 10:00 pm. 

 

You can move when your lease is up, or leave now and abandon your deposits. Just feel lucky the guy living next to yo doesn't have a chicken. That problem is 3 or 4 am.

My ex brother in law in Thailand raises fighting roosters.    As does some of his neighbors.    When the family visits him and we stay overnight,  I sleep through the roosters crowing.   Might be because part of my childhood I lived with my grandmother and she raised chickens.   Her roosters never woke me up either. 

 

Nowadays I wake up to an alarm on my cell phone with an old phone bell ringing tone.  That works.    I tried a rooster alarm one time.   Slept right through it. 

[Gobbler]

8 hours ago, gargamon said:

Looks like sue is getting a little testy because Trump is going to lose.

Welcome to my list. You are in good company.

[gargamon]

5 hours ago, radiochaser said:

My ex brother in law in Thailand raises fighting roosters.    As does some of his neighbors.    When the family visits him and we stay overnight,  I sleep through the roosters crowing.   Might be because part of my childhood I lived with my grandmother and she raised chickens.   Her roosters never woke me up either. 

 

Nowadays I wake up to an alarm on my cell phone with an old phone bell ringing tone.  That works.    I tried a rooster alarm one time.   Slept right through it. 

It must have been so painful to go through all that noise before you became numb to it. Maybe you were unlucky and grew up on a farm and was exposed to the ridiculous noise from birth.

[gargamon]

9 hours ago, Will B Good said:

Noise or music or recital or...whatever......they don't have the right (or shouldn't) to expose other people to it.

Sorry. They do have the right to play music louder than you like. There are generally time restrictions where they can't do it after 10pm for example.

[radiochaser]

4 minutes ago, gargamon said:

It must have been so painful to go through all that noise before you became numb to it. Maybe you were unlucky and grew up on a farm and was exposed to the ridiculous noise from birth.

No, it wasn't painful at all, unless it was when  effed up and grandma made me get a switch from the switch tree!  I don't consider spending part of my childhood on a farm unlucky at all.  I was also lucky enough to have lived in three different countries and several different U.S. states before I was 14 years old too.   

 

As to becoming numb to noises, in Vietnam I grew to ignore and sleep through the sound of outgoing mortar rounds being fired by our base mortar team.  But I would wake up immediately when I heard impacting rounds from enemy mortars.   Different sounds and different reactions.   

 

No one slept through the sound of 8 inch or 175 mm guns firing though!!!  We not only heard them firing, we could feel them firing too!

[kwonitoy]

15 hours ago, Keeps said:

Wow! That must have been a right PITA. If you can't even get a family of BIB to sort it out or even care then what hope have you got?

 

I notice that you used the past tense - DID live there....

 

I moved back to Canada and built a new house backing onto a ravine/protected reserve.

The only thing I hear is the coyotes howling sometime, a natural sound that makes me smile.

[Will B Good]

4 hours ago, gargamon said:

Sorry. They do have the right to play music louder than you like. There are generally time restrictions where they can't do it after 10pm for example.

 

One, I doubt that very much.....please prove me wrong with a link.....two, regardless of having the 'right' it is still unacceptable to expose your neighbours unnecessarily to your noise/music........why would you?...what purpose does it serve?

[gargamon]

8 minutes ago, Will B Good said:

 

One, I doubt that very much.....please prove me wrong with a link.....two, regardless of having the 'right' it is still unacceptable to expose your neighbours unnecessarily to your noise/music........why would you?...what purpose does it serve?

Do you realize you're in Thailand?

[Will B Good]

2 minutes ago, gargamon said:

Do you realize you're in Thailand?

 

I can easily tell from the noise.....yes.

[proton]

House opposite had the speakers outside where they spend most of their time, music every night. Mrs asked them to turn it down. Great loss of face how dare we, but they took them in and never spoke to us again, not even a nod, so it's worth asking.

 

[Will B Good]

Just now, proton said:

House opposite had the speakers outside where they spend most of their time, music every night. Mrs asked them to turn it down. Great loss of face how dare we, but they took them in and never spoke to us again, not even a nod, so it's worth asking.

 

 

Result....well done Mrs P.

[jaideedave]

19 hours ago, villageidiotY2K said:

thanks for yall advices.

i understood some comments such as sucking up to them for their mercy for their uncivilized or just savage or inconsiderate acts such as playing excessively loud music, loud motorcycle, dogs barking everywhere etc.

i guess its not just in thailand, but seems to encounter more here. 

 

Building a car garage or some metal works or small restaurants, dogs barking all day in a residential area seems to be the norm and accepetd here

With these kind of people around me and its community, i dont think i will get no where even if i complain to the village management or bringing a bag of fruit to them begging for their mercy as "its the land of smile thai culture"

most likely I will get further harassment Or being a target of a gossip in the village which I will be uncomfortable for getting unwanted attention and my car tyres may get slashed

 

it was a costly lesson, but i learned that i cant stay in a gated community (townhouse or house)

I just moved to this village around 3 days ago and I will move back to a condo. 

oh dear jesus 

 

vi,  I agree with you.  Condo? I moved from my house in the moo ban of 17 years because they built an Air bnb pool villa next door. Then the 3am pool parties started. I moved to a condo and it is (was) very quiet with a strong no ABNB policy. Last week a Ruskie couple moved in next door.

Never a peep until they come back drunk about midnight and the fight begins.She's a screamer and door slammer.After about an hour or so they pass out.

Unfortunately we share the same bedroom wall so Ive got a front row seat.It <deleted> up my sleep and I struggle to get back into the slumber zone.

Be very fussy which condo you select.

You just never know who will be your neighbour.

 

[Gecko123]

4 hours ago, proton said:

House opposite had the speakers outside where they spend most of their time, music every night. Mrs asked them to turn it down. Great loss of face how dare we, but they took them in and never spoke to us again, not even a nod, so it's worth asking.

 

 

See, a kilo or two of mangosteen or sara fruit would probably have solved the loss of face problem. Turns it into a humble request instead of a demand coming from a control freak. People scoff at the suggestion of offering a gift to defuse the tension, but it works. 

Edited 17 hours ago by Gecko123

[rwill]

Don't worry about it.  Eventually your hearing will be damaged and it won't sound as loud.

[Pdavies99]

Go and buy a few snakes, maybe a tarantula or two, chuck them in his garden a few times, buy a doll and stick a load of pins in it, throw that in his garden.

 

Use psychology!

[kevozman1]

I will be honest, Thailand may not be for you, and probably most Tropical regions also. It's not for everyone. The noise aspect of Thailand goes well with me. Thais generally have a good level of being considerate whilst letting people live. I gel well with them in this way and have done for a long time.. apart from the dogs situation. I don't dogs running at me when I haven't entered your property, make some effort to control them. But it's not that big of a deal either.