After legal hours. When you can't take it. When the baby is trying to sleep. I haven't lived in an apartment for over twenty years because I can't deal with that kind of stuff.
I don't have a kid, and the legal hours means you spend every minute of the day accompanied by the noise. The legal standard is "you have to be able to sleep". The problem with "when you can't take it' is honestly that it is just sound and I can always just smile and deal with it no matter how long or how annoying it is. I can deal with someone playing a stereo outside my room from sun up to sun down, constant music through my day, I've done it before, it's not like it does any real damage or I absolutely am incapacitated by it. I agree with you, the moment I can not be in an apartment or have the choice to be in a place where stereo's and loud music in general are banned I will be.
I can deal with music noise up to a point. I had a neighbor that would leave his dog in the yard to bark for 10-12 hour stretches, sometimes overnight. That fucking dog would bark loudly every 5-10 minutes. It made me insane. I tried to talk to him about it with civility but he wasn't listening. I got less civil. He was convinced that I was giving him a hard time about his dog because he was a gay guy that liked to cross dress. I couldn't give a fuck about his or anyone elses sexual or sartorial proclivities, I just wanted to not listen to his shitty dog all my waking moments. It was a strange scene, a half made up drag queen, screaming at me about being a bigot while I begged him to just put his fucking dog in at night. I actually considered killing the dog at one point.
I actually considered killing the dog at one point.
Wow. That's desperation. What ended up happening? You move? Neighbor move? Dog run away? That might have been the solution, untie the dog and let it out. Or drive it three towns away, with no tags on.