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There's no businesses around me but someone is always using power tools outside day in day out.  I expect they are running a business from their home.  I don't mind hobbyists but it does get annoying.
Was gonna disagree, but those people sound like assholes >

I live behind an amphitheater that has concerts all summer long and those concerts are not even as loud as these parties. >

I had the same problem with the same kinds of awful neigjbors and neither the cops or property managers did a damn thing about it. The cops would show up an hour or two after the complaint and said "turn the music down" and the neighbors would just turn it back up 5 mins after they drove away. 
I don't even get why having music that loud can be any sort of appealing. It hurts. It makes it hard to hear each other. It lowers the sound quality of the songs. So why. WHY.
I guess we are, not necessarily bad guys, but the odd ones out by being bothered by this. Or everyone's been so horribly shaped by oppression they don't care how uncomfortable they are in their own home. >

Musician here. Turning music up loud doesn't degrade song quality. Either the songs are shit quality to begin with, so being loud makes all of that noticeable, or, the speakers and system is being overloaded. It is the speakers clipping that lowers the quality.
TL;DR The volume control will never directly affect the quality of a recording. It's either a bad recording, or an overloaded system.
Could be either these days, probably a combined effort of both things. People don't understand audio, and it really shows. Not a dig at you, personally. But if you wanna play music loud, you should really learn how it works first. The only thing worse than loud music, is shitty quality loud music.
Sincerely, someone who loves good quality, loud music, but also appreciates quiet enjoyment of my house. If I want loud, I go bush for the weekend with 15,000-30,000 watts of amps, subs and speakers, and a hundred odd mates. We get to have our fun, and our neighbours still like, well, tolerate us. >

Hear hear hear!!
Louder for the people at the back ! >

The people in the back, AND those with tinnitus. >

I avoid loud people. 
The louder someone is, the less they have to say. 
I may be wrong, but it almost seems like the louder you are, the dumber you are. >

how do you avoid the people who live nextdoor to you? >


“if you want peace and quiet then you should move to the country”.

Fuck those people. If they want to be that loud, they can move to the country. >

There’s a 40 something year old guy who lives with his mom in my condo complex and he parks outside right outside my room and even though I’m on the second floor, every day he roars in on his motorcycle and leaves like 30 seconds later.. he starts around 730-8am and does this every few hours til the middle of the night.. sometimes more than every few hours… it is soooo loud, drives me crazy (I work from home) and I’m convinced he’s a drug dealer. Wtf >

this is a rant about your neighbors, not an unpopular opinion >

The paradox of it is that one person can say “it’s my neighborhood, I want it quiet” while the other can say “it’s my neighborhood, I want to enjoy a party” >

If you can, you just gotta be very careful where you choose to live. >

I especially agree where it concerns barking dogs. That noise is absolutely suicide inducing.
Also it's funny, move to the country and if it's noisy people will say "that's the country for you. That's how it is here--don't like it, move."
So, which is it, move to the country for quiet, or move to the country and expect a lot of noise? As you said, why don't noisy people just shut up and shut their stupid dogs up while they're at it?
In fact, I think more than one complaint about a barking dog and it should be seized, and the owners should be banned from owning another one for 5 yrs. >

The dog isn't stupid. The owners are.
If a dog is barking all day, it's because its owners are not doing the right things. It's not the dog's fault it has wankers for humans.
EDIT: Same with babies. Not the baby's fault they're crying - they literally can't do anything else to ask for help. >

rich people have a secret sound barrier around their house, so they don’t have to worry about this kind of crap.
it’s called distance >

Agreed. Right now it's 10.07pm and next doors 9 year old has just started screaming to be heard over the bass of the mother's music. Last night I lay in bed listening to said 9 year old playing fortnite until 2am when I finally fell asleep, all the while shouting and swearing over his mic. An hour ago someone slammed the front door so loud that my drying rack (on the sink) jumped and 2 glasses fell off and smashed on the floor. That one gave me a heart attack lol.
The worst thing is, even though they're terrible neighbours and the only house next to me, I still find myself keeping my household noise to an absolute minimum after 8pm. A couple of people have suggested blasting some kind of noise early in the morning when they're presumably asleep (since the voices and banging often go on til 4/5am), but that'd make me as bad as them wouldn't it. I can't bring myself to be an asshole like them. >

How close is your house >

lol the words “expect” and “quiet” together