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What? That's outrageous... They want to tell you when to close the windows or blinds? Sure, anyone can look in, but they can also look away, right? And about the noise... Pff, honestly I would deliberately let my kids play loudly, neighbors are powerless against children's noise

We see it the same way – and the kids really weren’t loud yesterday. And they are only rarely here, because they’re not ours, but my brother’s. I think it was more us adults talking and laughing that were perceived as disturbing. But oh well... I’m alive.

I hate children’s noise, but I tolerate it. In return, I expect my neighbors to tolerate my extremely loud sports car (which is also started early in the morning) and also my music when I work in the garage.

You have to be tolerant. It doesn’t help if everyone restricts themselves to the max.

A little consideration is often not wrong. But what your neighbors have in their heads, I cannot understand.

They are just used to dead silence because no one lived there before. Certain "emissions" are normal, though, when you have neighbors

They are just used to complete silence because no one lived there before. Certain "emissions" are normal when you have neighbors

Then they have to get used to it quickly because they have neighbors now. And if they don't like it, they have to go inside. Preferably to the basement....

...that my neighbors tolerate my extremely loud sports car (which is also started in the morning) ...

May I ask what you drive? BTW: If my neighbors talked to me like that, they would really get to know me... As long as you adhere to the legal quiet hours (from 10 p.m. on...), they really can’t do anything...

No, they can't do anything to you, but I prefer a good - well, at least tolerable - neighborhood over war.

As I said: next time we will politely but firmly make it clear that we will not allow ourselves to be forbidden from having a conversation, even if it gets louder during a visit, and we will not feel forced to then shut everything down. Especially not when the neighbors themselves could first close their windows. Of course, we will continue to be considerate of the children so they can sleep (during the week we go to bed around that time ourselves). And I will also politely point out that even if you understand EVERY WORD (!!), you can simply tune it out or look away. We don’t look over either (we're just not interested), and if they want to look over, they can - there’s not much exciting to see. But I don’t necessarily want to start a quarrel.