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And after the facts, speak frankly with the neighbors. That doesn’t mean you have to insult them, but clearly communicate what bothers you. They obviously don’t understand throwing cotton balls. Tell them how it affects you – that you don’t go out at all on weekends. Maybe then you can reach a compromise that there is no music on Sundays. I believe they are not even aware of the extent. If you bottle everything up inside, eventually it will explode and a joint solution will no longer be possible. You have to confront it. Speak appreciatively but clearly. Send “I” messages. Write down the points beforehand. Or if you want, write a letter.

Good luck!

Let's be honest: apparently you guys have never spent an evening together. Why not? There was some back and forth with invitations in the first years. Or the men spontaneously going out for a beer! So, leaving aside the noises and the whisper-quiet decibels. What's going on with you? If you don't do something about "good neighborliness" quickly, everything will only become more entrenched. Then you'll shut up at the end of the season and move out again next year. You have to pull yourself together sometimes. A single-family house and a new development is a community with dozens of individuals. You don't have to be friends, but getting to know each other and sharing quirks helps a lot. It seems to me that this was already missed during the construction phase? It also seems to me that you are a bit more withdrawn than your neighbors?

If you are a square, then also at 8:15 PM for Tatort ;)

Sunday is peaceful all day long. There is no need to wait for special times to officially be able to.

Sunday is quiet all day long anyway. There is no need to wait for specific times to be able to become "official"

You can of course report your noise disturbances all day long, but then you will get an entry in the big book at the station ;) And aside from diplomatic finesse: there are many other ways to make yourself unpopular in the whole area. I'm going down to the basement now to laugh! … oops: I don't have a basement at all :oops:

Neighbors can be so annoying…..chain-link fence.

On the topic "invite them so they can hear it themselves" a little anecdote:

In the last apartment, there were eco-friendly people living above us. They basically always walked barefoot. Stomp, stomp all day long above my head. We went the route, invited them. When she was upstairs shredding fruit in the Thermomix (everyone knows how loud that is), he said: oh you can really hear that when she walks. We said: yes, it’s annoying, pretty loud and often unbearable. He said: strange, you don’t hear the Thermomix at all. We said: exactly, now you see how loud she stomps. Nothing happened afterward and I almost moved out. Then they moved out. A nice woman with 2 kids moved in, I sensed trouble. However, you didn’t hear anything from her. So much about that.

Confrontation has never made anything better, especially not in the neighborhood. Maybe it's different in the village, where people sometimes do some grinding on Sundays or the youth work on their mopeds and ride around the block 10 times. It's just normal and everyone is relaxed.