Depends on the neighbour. About 30 years ago I moved into my second flat, a first floor flat, the first weekend before I had even unpacked I was listening to a new CD by Blind melon on a ghetto blaster at a moderate volume when a very loud knock came to the door. It was person who lived below me complaining bitterly and threatening violence to both me and my wife, this continued, for nearly a year, threats of burning us alive, he threatened me a knife point down the street. He was well known as a bit of a psychopath or sociopath perhaps, he had broke both his ex -girlfriends legs, beat up his own father, took two car loads of police to hold him down until they got a straight jacket on him. The police and the council were absolutely hopeless and would do nothing until he actually did something! The firm I worked for was doing a job re-paving Royal Avenue in Belfast and as usual we had five days to do a job which should have taken about 2 weeks so we were starting early and finishing late. Around 5 am the van would pull up for me, the driver would normally wait a minute and I'd be down and off we would go, on the Thursday morning my neighbour came running out in his boxers with a hurling bat and threatened the driver. The driver looked at him, laughed and drove off, he told me not to worry, he'd have a word with his uncle and it would be sorted out. The next week my neighbour was sent to America. That's the last time I had a neighbour, I chosen to live in detached properties since.
