[quote=“dargus”]Oh these lovely neighbours.
Crying babies.
Arguing neighbours.
Loud music.
Orgies.
Karaoke bars.
Gangster fights.
…
Taiwan is such a lovely place.[/quote]
…AND those poor, noisy, stuck-on-the-fucking-balcony-all-day dogs.
If you simply must have a dog, don’t treat it like a cat. Morons!
You can get custom-made silicon earlpugs from your doctor or an ear specialist…even in Taiwan. They put stuff in your ear and three days later voila! Ear plugs only for you!
It’s also a myth that ear plugs damage your ears when you wear them for too long. If anything, the opposite is true. I wore earplugs for 10 years, eight-hour shifts at a sawmill and had my ears tested every six months as required by Workers’ Compensation (the truck would come right on the mill-site), and my hearing was always 100%.
As for noisy neighbors? I would certainly find another place to live if things are that bad. Find a web of narrow alleys and choose a ground floor apartment. No garbage trucks or speaker trucks can fit down there.
Also, the lower your apartment, the less likely you are to pick up traffic and construction noise from elsewhere.
There is a lot of random drive-by Taosim here on Bihu Lu, god’s birthdays and the like, usually on weekends, usually announced by a fusillade of those fireworks that scream like furies, or the ones that are loud enough to set off car alarms. It’s fascinating or annoying by turns, depending on what I’m doing, but it seems altogether more agreeable than what others of you have to put up with.
Oh, then there’s Hell Baby, the little tyke that lives next door and spends most of her day out near the street with the extended family. Poor kid, I’m sure it’s her LOUD LOUD LOUD parents, brother, aunties, Grandma and Great-Grandma that she learns from, and it would probably help if they all stopped smacking her when she cries!
[quote=“wonder”]You can get custom-made silicon earlpugs from your doctor or an ear specialist…even in Taiwan. They put stuff in your ear and three days later voila! Ear plugs only for you!
It’s also a myth that ear plugs damage your ears when you wear them for too long. If anything, the opposite is true. I wore earplugs for 10 years, eight-hour shifts at a sawmill and had my ears tested every six months as required by Workers’ Compensation (the truck would come right on the mill-site), and my hearing was always 100%.[/quote]Silicone swimming earplugs (the mouldable kind) work well and are much, much more effective than the yellow foam kind. More details in this post of mine here:
[forumosa.com/taiwan/viewtopic.ph … 432#375432](Dealing with noise
But as I wear them every night perhaps it would be worth my while to get some custom moulded ones. Are you able to give any more details about who offers this service in TW?
My friend Pierre in Chung-Li had neighbors that beat all of yours.
-started with them blocking his garage with a blue truck. Every time they mentioned it to them the neighbors would apologize poiltely but the next day it’s there again. Finally, they took it up with housing managment and it stopped.
-Bothered by the fact the foreigners had the nerve to want to use their own garage :loco: , the neighbors began ploting against them.
They killed his cat.
He had some friends stay over. So the neighbors trashed their car…broke all windows…etc.
-They drilled a bolt into the outside of his engine casing in a way that when he braked hard the rear brake would catch on the bolt locking it in place. He knew it was them because on that day when he was leaving for work he had a group of neighbors gathered around snickering as he left. He rode straight to a bike shop and told the guy to try and find what they had done. The shop guy didn’t find the bolt. Pierre later forgot about his worries while riding until he braked hard while doing around 100 only to be unable to disengage his rear brake.
And then…? That can’t be the end of the story. Tell us what happened after that… pleeeeease.
That might solve my problems, insignificant as they are, if they would beat all of my neighbors.
He was a pacifist. So, he didn’t do anything back. I personally would have . He choose the hippy way though…and a few months later went back home. So…nothing else happend.
I know this thread is a bit old, but I have to rant somewhere.
The people living one floor below me where hammering in their apartment, every night. Even at 2.30 in the morning weekdays. Because their son wanted to marry and they wanted to get their apartment in shape.
As dad is a big dangerous guy who had been in jail (big means 1.65 without blue slippers) nobody dared to say anything.
But me. I opened the conversation by kicking loudly at this door and shouting a few curses. I thought this will get us right into the violent part and we can skip all the friendly conversation, as we do not speak each others language anyway.
So he called me a stupid foreigner not even speaking his Zongwen stuff and I called him [self-censored], we were just preparing to have a little neighbourly blue sandal fight (I had brown ones though) when my wife arrived and spoiled all the fun.
He got really scared when my wife was about to attack him. She is Taiwanese and only 1.58! But she is mean. And dangerous. Don’t tell her I said that.
No fighting, I closed his door with him standing in it, so he peeked through the fence door to us, angry, fustrated, defeated. Hahahaha
We had a good night sleep afterwards.
His wife thinks I am “handsome” though 
Is there any way that we can rent your wife for important fights?
As I posted about this in the “lose your mind” thread. My neighbor ever since I’ve moved in has been nagging me about every thing.
Da Nags
-My air fresher in my kitchen was giving her a headache. Move it.
-My dog is whining.
-I live alone in too big a space.
-A package was accidentally placed in her mail box, so she lectured me about it
-I have too much trash to take out(mind you the SOB slob who lived here before me didn’t clean up shite)
-Has now taken my bills and thrown them in to the trash or just discarded the bill leaving the envelope.
:fume: :fume: :fume:
Keep confronting her - that helps.
If it doesn’t, then move out.
[quote=“Mr He”]Keep confronting her - that helps.
If it doesn’t, then move out.[/quote]
are you suggesting that I confront her? Cause I just moved in a MONTH ago, so I ain’t movin. NOT EVEN AN INCH. :fume:
She has an issue with foreigners.
Being nice may not help, I think.
You should either get your own mailbox, or basically try to catch her in the act. Don’t be mistaken - Taiwanese if submited to crap like that from their neighbors will make a scene under some circumstances, esp. if the offender is a female with no known gangster connections.
neighbors downstairs seem to think use of our floor at 2:00 am constitutes undue noise for them
[quote=“Namahottie”]As I posted about this in the “lose your mind” thread. My neighbor ever since I’ve moved in has been nagging me about every thing.
Da Nags
-My air fresher in my kitchen was giving her a headache. Move it.
-My dog is whining.
-I live alone in too big a space.
-A package was accidentally placed in her mail box, so she lectured me about it
-I have too much trash to take out(mind you the SOB slob who lived here before me didn’t clean up shite)
-Has now taken my bills and thrown them in to the trash or just discarded the bill leaving the envelope.
:fume: :fume: :fume:[/quote]
Where do you and other people run into these type of characters? I would just end of flippin’. But they’re Chinese/Taiwanese, so they know this beforehand and wouldn’t do that to me. Maybe the locals pick on certain types or… I’m confused.
Being nice is most definately not going to cut it. If you want to live there you are going to have to let her know right away you will not put up with her shit.
She is givin you a dressin down for a package in her box…
After 10 sec tell her to call the post department, or tell someone who gives a fuck and walk away.
She is tossin yer bills away: call the police and the post to report mail tampering.
Every time she speaks to you wave your hand like you are brushing off a fly and walk away.
If you give her even the slightest indication that you will tolerate her shit I promise you it will go on forver and get much worse.
Your a dirty white/brown/yellow bastard and it is people like you who ruined her country, she wants to share her misery with you cuz it’s all your fault!
Are you going to try and reason with that? 
I know it is not a nice feeling but you have to set the grounds rules right away.
good luck
Haha, so if you walk after a certain hour they come upstairs to complain about the noise?
Ask them what they suggest you do…or mention the fact the only reason they can hear you walking so loudly is because the building is cheaply made Taiwanese garbage…and that’s nothing to do with you.
[quote=“Namahottie”]As I posted about this in the “lose your mind” thread. My neighbor ever since I’ve moved in has been nagging me about every thing.
Da Nags
-My air fresher in my kitchen was giving her a headache. Move it.
-My dog is whining.
-I live alone in too big a space.
-A package was accidentally placed in her mail box, so she lectured me about it
-I have too much trash to take out(mind you the SOB slob who lived here before me didn’t clean up shite)
-Has now taken my bills and thrown them in to the trash or just discarded the bill leaving the envelope.
:fume: :fume: :fume:[/quote]
Move into an apartment complex where people usually have to pay between 3000NT to 9,000NT a month in maintenance charges. The bad side – you waste the money.
However, I think it is money well spent especially if you end up buying property. It keeps the exterior and common areas of the building clean (if the management company is good – in our case it is), pays for a freezer for garbage disposal, a combination lock mail system, recreation rooms, an apartment manager to deal with problems like the ones you mentioned, and the fee seems to keep out the riff-raff with mental problems – foreigners and locals alike.