Noise-canceling headphones.OP, invest in some earplugs or move. Those are your options. And stop wasting your time crying about excessive noise. You live in an apartment. Noise comes with that. Did you really expect there to be no noise from neighboring apartments?
According to nwlce, noise canceling headphones do not “seem to fit any description of enjoyment.”Noise-canceling headphones.
Better than having to study in one's car, though...According to nwlce, noise canceling headphones do not “seem to fit any description of enjoyment.”
One would think so, at least.Better than having to study in one's car, though...
I was thinking OP may enjoy spending a day wrangling Mom w/incessant questions, interspersed with three hounds going insane over the deer out back.I have a set of headphones that I use for working from home, since the software I use to take calls remotely works better with a headset of some kind. They are NOT advertised as noise-cancelling. And they're not, admittedly. But they reduce the noise enough so that if my husband comes by and asks me a question I have to take them off to hear him clearly. They cost under $20 and they're comfortable enough so that I forget that I'm wearing them until I either have to leave my desk or see myself on camera in a Zoom meeting. If a set of actual noise-cancelling headphones is an unacceptable response then it seems to me that the OP is looking for things to complain about. Particularly since on the audio clips that "prove" his case, I heard less noise than I hear sitting in my own home (which is a single-family dwelling) with the windows open.
The noise from an apartment next door to you often can be worse than the noise from an apartment above you. You probably won’t hear the next door neighbor’s footfalls but you probably will be able to hear the neighbor’s voices when raised.Really, if utter peace and quiet was so important to OP, getting an apartment with no one above would have been the best choice. I think OP would still find reasons to complain though.
I would invite nwlce to spend one night in my home to show her what REAL noise is ... if I didn’t think it would lead to her calling the local police. Haha.I was thinking OP may enjoy spending a day wrangling Mom w/incessant questions, interspersed with three hounds going insane over the deer out back.
Preface: My cats have to live in my room because my daughter's dogs want to eat them. They try to escape at every turn.I was thinking OP may enjoy spending a day wrangling Mom w/incessant questions, interspersed with three hounds going insane over the deer out back.