New peeps to a home get into a frenzy the first few years of ownership.

Fixing, cleaning, changing. It may die off.

Really good windows are the bomb as stated. You probably have good windows given the coin you have invested. If decent/marginal but older, may be an option.

Give your neighbors battery-powered leaf blowers for Christmas. Easier than moving.

In my experience, battery-powered leaf blowers neither suck nor blow. They just kind of wheeze asthmatically for a few minutes before going silent.

When all my leaves are done, it's a several-hour job with a gas-powered blower, and I usually have limited time to get it done between work, storms, and nightfall. No way am I going to spend hours waiting for batteries to recharge.

I wasn't aware. I have a battery-powered lawn mower and it works great. I have a human-powered leaf "blower", AKA broom.

I hear you. Fifty yards east of here it's all fields. The farmer tills, plants, harvests - none of that bothers me. I grew up on a farm and I understand, they are making a living. They hunt deer near here and I can hear it. My attitude is the more they harvest the fewer there are to ravage my garden. It would be great to have a SMALL dairy next door. I grew up on a dairy farm. Cow poop is the smell of money to me. I guess I'm a bit of an elitist. Cow poo and hog poo OK. Suburbanite leaf blowers - arghh!

I agree I hate it when I'm trying to relax in my 2.5 acre suburban/rural lot and can't stand all the commotion. We need a new pandemic.

$100,000 will get you about 300 acres spotted with lakes in the UP of Michigan.

Hope you like snow.

Been there done that ! My wife and I moved to Marietta GA. about 7 years ago . We looked at a LOT of houses until we came up with what we thought would be our home heading into retirement . It was in an established neighborhood that was quiet and of mixed age groups and ethnicity .

All was good until a little over 2 years ago when neighbor to one side decides to rent his house out . Several years of noise , stupidity and evictions made up our minds to sell and move ! This was NOT in our financial plan for retirement but we got lucky and sold in a hot market , made a good chunk of change and found a home on 2.5 acres in the middle of no where .

Where we live now there are a total of 9 houses including ours , all on 2 acres plus . It is stone cold quiet ALL of the time . That is exactly how we like it . :D Life is too short to put up with BS :( You can never change/control your neighbors so a buffer zone is needed .

Could be worse. Could be some fulla with an old Porsche. Always messing with it. Did I mention loud! AND if he's not up fixin' der porsche he's on the blimin interweb talking about it.

Not true in all cases, it depends on the type of hearing loss.

A person can lose definition, and it results in those different wavelengths getting merged into a stronger signal. This makes "noise" even louder.

If I don't want to hear "noise", I put in my in-ear speakers and plug it into a portable music playing device and listen to what I like. Noise be gone.

wdfifteen,

My older brother went thru exactly what you are experiencing now. He loved his neighborhood, neighbors, etc, then it started changing and some people moved out, and others moved in. He even spent a ton of money adding onto his house (3 story addition including the basement).

He ended up getting a house in a gated community across the street from a small Christian College and next the limited access neighborhood my house is in. There were only two lots in the gated community that hadn't been built yet and they backed up to my property. He bought a house across the street from those two, talked his father-in-law into buying one of the lots, and another company stockholder into buying the other. They put a gate in my back fence that goes to their gated community so we have like a commune going on.

Some of the things they really like is the Neighborhod association maintains everything except for the house itself. And they alway do the lawns on a Thursday during working hours.

Because he had to go thru and make a few changes to his current house before he sold it, he decided to make all he changes they wanted before moving into the new one. And yes there plan is to be drug out by their feet on this one.

The only thing I didn't think was smart is that it is a two story house. But the upstairs is the two guest bedrooms each with their own bath and a sitting room so guests can have their own space. So at least him and his wife don't have to worry about stairs. Everything else is on the ground floor including master suite and an office for both him and his wife.

I plan on moving up there when I retire. Most of my wife's family is already there.

I have a funny feeling that wasn't the purpose of the sign, Peter.....:D

I can walk to the best surf break in this part of Florida in about 15 minutes from my house. There's no commercial development allowed in this section of the barrier island. Closest store is about 1 mile away.

I have a vacant lot behind me, neighbors I hardly ever see in front and to one side of me, and a couple on the other side whom I see almost daily - he is fine but she smokes, drinks, and has a Phyllis Diller laugh that you can hear a block away.

I guess things could be worse!

there is a reason it is that cheap...

snow is very good for noise, it muffles a lot of ambient sound. SmileWavy