One woman has revealed day-to-day life has become “unbearable” as her neighbour has started “living” on his balcony. She is thinking about writing a note but people had other suggestions
Having good or bad neighbours can often make a huge difference to your life, and woman has revealed day-to-day life has become “unbearable at the moment” because of one of hers.
She took to Reddit to explain how her neighbour has been “living” on his balcony and how it’s affecting her life too. Sharing on the site she said: “I moved to the upper floor of an old two-story apartment building two months ago. At first, everything seemed fine, but then a man in his 50s moved into the unit below me. He lives alone. From the very first day, he started making noise, but I tolerated it, thinking it was just the usual moving-in chaos.
“A few days later, he bought new furniture for his balcony and basically started living out there. He sits on the balcony in his underwear only, chain smoking, watches reels with the speaker on, and making long video calls. Sometimes these video calls even happen after midnight.
“I think he speaks a Slavic language, so he probably assumes no one around understands him and feels no need to lower his voice. But his endless noisy balcony lifestyle is completely disrupting my daily life and causing me stress. Both my living room and bedroom are directly above his balcony, and even with the windows closed, it sounds like he’s literally inside my apartment when he talks. I tried to tolerate it by using headphones or turning on the TV, but recently, things got worse.”
Continuing she added: “For the past few days around 4am, he has started smoking on the balcony while constantly clearing his throat and spitting loudly non-stop. He does this during the day as well, but at night, the sound is unbearable and wakes me up. He really spits every 5 seconds. It’s disturbing noise wakes me up each time and also it’s also very disgusting.”
The woman said that she ‘doesn’t want to confront’ her neighbour as he ‘doesn’t seem like a very considerate person’. She also hasn’t spoken to the apartment manager as she said they ‘probably won’t care’.
Instead, she’s thinking of leaving a note on his door. She added: ” If that doesn’t work I have nothing to do I guess. I am feeling exhausted and have to go to work with only 3 hours sleep due to him. How adults can be that much unconsidered and self centred?!”
The post certainly struck a chord with people on Reddit, as it attracted more than 1,000 upvotes and hundreds of comments.
One person suggested: “Would it disrupt his video calls if you played loud music on your balcony every time he started one?”
Another person replied to this comment: “It works…I had a neighbour outside my first floor condo that would pace back and forth smoking and chatting on their phone every night, but it was exponentially worse when the weather was nice and of course everyone’s window was open.
“Then I decided to put my 150w tower speaker to the open window and serenade them with ZEPPELIN’S Immigrant Song at full volume until they went back inside their unit across the common green space. They ceased their phone calls for good after the second time I employed this tactic, before Plant finished his opening viking war cries and ‘We come from the land of ice and snow…’.”
Another had another idea, writing: “Even better, record the noise. Then, play it for him on a loop, loudly. Especially the loud phone calls post midnight. And all the spitting. Keep playing it, and play it for the landlord. Ask landlord if he is allowed to smoke on premises.”
Someone else also offered: “Hang some bird feeders outside your windows,” as another agreed: “I was thinking birds were the solution.”
A third chimed in: “They have feeders that will clip to balcony railing. And squirrels just love bird food and make quite a mess below!”
The post comes after another woman recently admitted she was ‘living in fear’ as her neighbour said she was ‘too noisy’ – even when she just went to the toilet.
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