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the second time they complained that, once again, the couple was yelling and banging on the walls, one was home alone. And since she didn't have a tendency to yell at thin air, much less bang on the walls, the neighbor's complaint was completely unjustified. They never did figure out why all of a sudden these people who were so noisy themselves were determined to cause problems for them. The couple never did a thing to the nieighbors and they had no reason to come after them. They highly suspected the neighbors did not like the couple simply because they were a young couple living in a community that was mainly occupied by older people.

One morning they started hearing noises coming from the neighbor's condo again...but this time those noises were much, much louder. It was to the point that the couple was ready to go knock on their door and ask them to keep it down. However, when they looked out the front door they saw a moving van and people coming in and out of the condo, carrying boxes upon boxes, as well as furniture and other belongings. To the couple's great surprise and joy, the neighbors were moving out of their condo. After they'd been gone for a week, it was so peaceful for them to no longer have to hear people stomping around above their heads. They never did find out why the neighbors moved out, and though they doubted it had anything to do with them, they still felt like they had been rewarded for putting up with their hypocritical neighbors for all those months without stooping to the neighbor's level.

This is one real life example of someone being wrongly accused of being a noisy neighbor.

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