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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? >

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. >

what? I can't hear you over this ringing sound ! >

"Doc, I think I got tinnitus."
-"Can you describe the symptoms?"
"Ugh...Homer is a fat guy, and Marge has blue hair?" >

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 >

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. >


“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. >

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

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 >

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. >

The dog IS stupid. If it had any sense it would realize that squirrel or person next door is nothing to worry about and that it's bothering people yapping about it. I agree the owner is the one legally accountable because it owns it and because they DO realize all this, but I'm not one to make allowances and tolerance for the dog's stupidity either. In fact, that's a large part of what makes the noise annoying, knowing how stupid the dog is. I can't respect the flapping of gums from a 2¢ idiot. >

Paragraphs bro >

I give people around me proper leeway I feel. A big party somewhere in the neighborhood that runs until 2am on a weekend? That's fine. I understand. It doesn't happen all that often. But you can tell by the decor that it's a wedding or a graduation in June when it does happen. It's fine. Someone has on their radio in the afternoon on a weekend but not loud enough to hear inside my house? Yeah that's fine too. 
Blaring your hooptie car stereo, car doors open with your rumbling bass that I can hear all the loose parts of your car vibrating to the 'music' that's nothing but thumps and clicks at 1am? I'm calling the cops if that crap keeps up from more than 10 minutes. And I have. And it solves the problem. That's happened about 4 or 5 times over the years. Usually some scum friend of some temporary scum neighbor parked in the street. >

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

It's the 6am lawn mowing on a Sunday that gets me. For fucks sake. Completely unnecessary. >

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 >

To the noisy one? Joined. It's a terrace of 4, I'm the end one. >

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. >

Depends on where you live. Me living here in NYC or “the city that never sleeps” it’s almost impossible to not hear some sound, crickets over here be sounding like they have megaphones at night. >

My husband is that loud person. I'm really not, but I don't mind his loudness.
However, when we've moved places, he always tests out where and how loud he can be before it affects those around us. The last few years we have lived in the country, but we still have kind of close neighbors. But, we have a basement and so he can be super loud, and even us in the house can barely hear it.
Basically, people should be somewhat considerate of others, no matter the circumstances lol
Edit: just some grammar >

I have never understood what’s the point of making noise that can be heard by your neighbours. I don’t mean things like lawn mowing or cutting wood in your backyard but things like loud music or letting your kids scream bloody murder? There’s absolutely no excuse for that. These people are full of themselves and do not care about anyone else. No one has ever complained about their neighbours being too quiet >

I understand.
Most inconsiderate neighbor we have is a Baptist Church. No kidding. They are LOUD! >

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” >

lol the words “expect” and “quiet” together >

It’s one thing when it’s the dog above ur apartment but I’ve never been bothered by a dog barking in the neighborhood or next door lol >

Our town’s Facebook page gets quite volatile during the 4th of July, lol >

I have neighbors that are just loud people but they all go to bed early for the most part. I also have a husky neighbor on the left side, one behind the the back fence and a Labrador mix across the street and then there's my mostly quiet Sam(see profile pic for dog tax). Husky next door is a pretty quiet little girl, only whines when she has to stay in the backyard when her people are out or the front yard. Boyo behind the back fence is a drama llama and his dad has recently gotten a later shift at work that he rides his Harley to on non rainy days. Drama llama doesn't like this. He tells the whole world at 1 am. If Lab mix lady's folks aren't home, this sets her off, which  in turns sets off my Sam because Jaz is his bestie and she's fussing. All this noise caused by one guy who doesn't take his truck to work... >

What you are describing is illegal basically everywhere in the US.  Only designated areas with permits can be loud at night.  That’s why most concert venues are in commercial or industrial areas. >

Bad neighbors are the worst! 😖 >

Yeah I know the feels. I used to live in a relatively “quiet” neighborhood when I was a kid. It was directly in a flight path for landing planes, so whenever the planes passed they were LOUD. So loud you had to stop the conversation you were having with the person next to you or pause whatever video you’re watching or put subtitles on. But we understood where we lived and it was just the way it was.
Other than that (lol if you could get passed that) the neighborhood was pretty peaceful and quiet. But over the years it’s just been going downhill. People would ride their ATVs and loud cars up and down the block during the day. Just back and forth for hours. We had neighbors who lived right next door and would throw these huge loud parties to like 3 or 4 AM for almost any reason. My 2 year old is having a birthday? Let’s throw a huge party till 4 AM with vulgar music and 200 of our closest friends! I doubt the 2 year old helped plan that. We would come home in the evenings to their house full to bursting with people, food littering the whole neighborhood and people sitting on our stoop (mind you, our houses were not conjoined in any way. These are two separate buildings separated by a driveway so there is no confusion where you are relative to the party).
I moved out when I was old enough and had the money, but I always hear my parents still complaining about it. >

If you react like this your whole life, it’s gonna be a pretty shit one. >

Because the person with club level music has a very active social life and a bunch of friends, whereas you seem like an antisocial hermit who hates fun.
Just my opinion.