minisoufka

Are police interested in this kind of stuff? I mean - if I complained about the neighbours partying at night?
We were kept awake most of the night (second time this week), even after I told them to turn the music off (which they did, but kept on shouting etc.). I was fuming but couldn't really use any tangible threat. Would the police actualy come and sort it?

bimchick

I doubt the police would do anything. Your lucky if the police come when there's a robbery...

expat_wannabe07

Noise pollution just doesn't seem to be an issue here. Our neighbours have 5 dogs (4 jack russells & a doberman) that bark all the time and frequently wake me during the night. Also a neighbour that has the TV turned up SO loud.....over the weekend was until the early hours of the morning. I tell my husband (bajan) we should complain......he just laughs at me.

So i can sympathise with you, but can't offer a solution i'm afraid....apart from ear plugs, that is.

minisoufka

Thanks girls, at least I won't make a fool of myself threatening them with police who wouldn't come anyway



PS. Why am I not surprised at what you've written?

Sunniebgi

Sometimes it doesn't pay to call the police even in the US, or anywhere else, when it comes to people keeping you up at night. If it gets to bad, you could call your closest police station and ask what you should do about it and at least see what they say.

There is a church in the village behind our house that when it gets rocking.. well it gets rocking.. lucky for us, they know when to quit..

minisoufka

If they keep me up at night again, I will make sure I put my stereo on full at 6am

zanne

I suggest earplugs...in our locale we have Karaoke, at least 4 Churches with various meeting schedules, a neighbor boy that awakes at 5:00am to play the recorder, a semi-adult neighbor who thinks he is going to win Barbados Idol, and to top it all off 8 barking dogs surrounding our house (there used to be 9 dogs until one met with an unfortunate accident.)

There is always Carl Moore's Society For a Quieter Barbados:

http://www.nationnews.com/story/344185038018261.php

They are at it as we speak, drums, piano, vocals...SPEAKERS!!!

YankeeGirl

Hi Zanne,it sounds like you live in my building here in NYC.LOL! I moved back to the city (from Queens)because I missed the convience but I forgot about the constant horn blowing! Right now I am listening to my downstairs neighbors music and vaccum. My next door neighbor has his plasma mounted to the common wall so I'm listening to that as well.Tomorrow it's gonna be cold, rainy and noisy. I miss the beach,the sunshine, and the laid back vibe and can't wait to move to beautiful BIM! BTW, the superintendent just told me the noise I'm hearing is actually a sander (not a vaccum) because my neighbor is working on his hardwood floors. Sorry about the long reply,I just wanted to share some of my frustrations with living in NYC which is why I'm in the process of trying to move to a place where I know I'll be happier.

zanne

LOL we are ex-NY'ers...this racket makes NYC look like a cow farm in the countryside-- I have experienced subway tunnel drills, garbage trucks, fireworks, frat boys, nightclubs, bodegas...none get close.

Oops...I forgot to mention gunshots back in the day in Alphabet City...which is now the East Village.

YankeeGirl

Oh jeez. I thought NYC was the loudest city in the world and I've lived in Sicily.LOL!

NonBritish

There's a simple electronic device - white noise generator. When you turn it on, a wide interference wave is created which makes all loudspeakers within a sertain range scream. It helped we with my ex-neighbour few years ago...

fionamw

Brilliant!

NonBritish

U R welcomed 2 use any other of my knowledge & Xperience!

fionamw

thanks....mind you we've no near neighbours where we are now, but I'd kill for one of those thingies when you're on the beach and some loud family turns up and then to add insult to injury switches on a transistor within 8ft....which happens too much for my liking.

NonBritish

One can easily find a tiny portable WNG!