i currently live in an apartment and have only lived in apartments for more than three decades. i had noisy neighbors all my life. i usually let it go because it’s people living their lives and it’s fine.

i have once knocked on the door of my neighbors upstairs because their music made it hard for me to actually hear myself talk. turns out they had friends visiting from abroad and they got carried away having fun. they apologized and turned the volume down. believe it or not, we survived that day.

and where i live now there happens to be a noisy kid upstairs who loves jumping around. guess what, it’s a kid, that’s what they do. I’m an adult. saying fuck the planet I’m gonna live in a suburb because hearing other people annoys me is more childish than anything that kid will ever do.