Colorful Garden Chat Picture Thread

I use Bose QC35 in the garden via Bluetooth and phone with Spotify ;-)

Let's be honest: apparently you two have never spent an evening together. Why not? In the first years, there was back and forth with invitations here. Or the men spontaneously going for a beer! So, putting aside the noises and noise levels and whispered decibels. What's going on with you? If you don't do something quickly about "good neighborliness," everything will harden even more. Then you'll shut up at the end of the season and move out again next year. You have to pull yourselves together a bit. A single-family house and a new development is a community with countless individuals. You don't have to be friends, but getting to know each other and exchanging quirks helps immensely. I think it was already missed during the construction phase? I also think you are somewhat more reserved than your neighbors?

Actually, you are largely misjudging the relationship. We have already entrusted them with a key, we also meet with them privately behind the house, even twice next month. We help each other where we can. We do have a good neighborly relationship, in fact. Precisely BECAUSE of that, I don't want to come across as too aggressive. On the point of music, we apparently have a completely different understanding of what is annoyingly loud. It's not about the volume itself but the constant blasting of the bass line. Anyone who's ever heard a neighbor's TV through a thin-walled rental apartment knows what I mean. And in this matter, the law is on my side, but the neighbor doesn't understand it "nicely." And that's my problem. He is also already conducting second-instance court proceedings with other people because he doesn't get that he is not right.

.... We basically already have a good neighborly relationship. ...

... And in this matter, the law is on my side, but the neighbor doesn’t understand it "amicably." And that is my problem. He is also already conducting second-instance court proceedings with other people because he doesn’t realize that he is not right.

Doesn’t that contradict itself? .... ....

Doesn't that contradict itself? .... ....

Not that I know of? I can basically get along well with someone but still not agree with everything that person does?

In fact, you mostly estimate the ratio incorrectly.

That's great then. I always appreciate it when it is NOT like that. I also want to challenge what is not mentioned. Ultimately, we also had Corona, when contacts were not so easy to maintain.

And in this matter, the law is on my side, but the neighbor "in a good way" does not get it. And that is my problem. He is also already conducting court hearings in second instance with other people because he doesn't realize that he is not right.

If you are not mistaken there – about being right. Even in spa towns, everyday noises must be tolerated.

Your mentioned hypersensitivity and the concession to it ultimately lead to him not doing anything significantly inappropriate when he listens to music at room volume, which anyone can perceive as everyday noise.

If you’re not mistaken there – about being right. Even in spa resorts you have to tolerate everyday noises.

I do tolerate everyday noises. I do not tolerate a bass-heavy outdoor speaker with horrible music on a Sunday. There are already various comparable cases that were tried in court where judges held the same view. I even read about a ruling where it wasn’t about the sound level itself, because the judge was of the opinion that using a loudspeaker on the terrace in a residential area is not part of the usual property use. That would also align with the fact that, apart from one party, no one else in the whole neighborhood does that.

I use Bose QC35 in the garden via Bluetooth and phone with Spotify ;-)

I have the little brother with a cable. :) Maybe I’ll upgrade to the QC35 someday.