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Originally Posted by Milkyway
So Abaya, I recommend listening to music to drown out someone else's childrearing. And as far as the previous neighbors go whose kid wasn't as noisy, probably a shyer more average child with smarter less lazy parents.
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Ha! Thanks. Yeah, I do put the radio on pretty often, but sometimes I just need quiet to work. It's really not so much the child-rearing (I can't hear the mom's voice very often--just the child's) as the whining factor... maybe I just haven't been around kids very much, but I have never heard a kid cry or whine so much in my life. This morning at about 7am, she broke into a tantrum above our bedroom (we usually wake up at 8am--lovely), and all I could hear in Icelandic were the words, "I want my toy, I want my TOYYYYYYYY!" on her way out the door.
And yes, the previous neighbors had a very well-behaved, polite little girl, whom I really never heard crying, ever. Her parents were also immigrants (like us), which might not be related, but they seemed even more conscious of keeping a quiet presence and following the rules, keeping things clean, etc. so as not to stand out or make trouble.
A sidenote that also bothers me: the new family upstairs NEVER participates in cleaning the corridor, which is supposed to rotate between apartments every 2 weeks. The building owner was going to start charging each of us 30 bucks a month for a cleaner because the hallway was never clean--no way, I'll just vacuum that damn thing every 2 weeks, it's not worth 30 bucks a month to me.
So yeah, the kid whines and cries a lot, and the parents do not keep up with their responsibility in maintaining the building, and that all just makes me want to give them a swift kick in the ass on some days.