Just like with family, you can’t choose your neighbors (at least, that is the case with most places). When moving someplace new or having a house or apartment near you change the occupancy, it’s often a case of praying the people who live near you are decent and hoping for the best. Otherwise great living situations are easily ruined by living near others who seem to have their top priority be making your nightmares come true. Even those who are more mildly inconvenient, entitled, or impolite can put a real dampener on your day-to-day life. It certainly doesn’t make for a peaceful home.

Perhaps one of the most common complaints that people make about their neighbors is that they are noisy. While a certain level of disruption is inevitable when you are in close vicinity with one another, some individuals seem to do everything in their power to push those boundaries. It isn’t pleasant to deal with, and it can leave some feeling they have no choice but to use unorthodox methods to make it stop.