Run out of lives!
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@Craig-36 We live in a 30-year-old apartment with no soundproofing.
We are very close to each other, so they hear me whenever I teach online.
They then say bad things about me. For example, when I teach from 7:00 pm to 7:25 pm, they say things like, "Why is this unqualified teacher still teaching classes?", "I don't understand what you're teaching.", "Why do some students and parents believe the teacher?"
(My translation is from Taiwanese; they don't understand English.)
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@Yi-9 you mean like these mean neighbours are talking/shouting through your walls?
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@Yi-9 I think you should move or call the building manager.
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@Yi-9 Jeez, I complain about the gardeners using the strimmer outside when I'm teaching or neighbours doing construction work! Peril of living in an adjoining building. Not rich enough to afford a standalone house :(
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@Alistair I was just using a petrol strimmer this afternoon, stupidly loud, what a coincidence
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@Craig-36 Yeah surely electric ones have improved enough to be a better alternative, maybe not yet?
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Yes, these two neighbors are close to me. There are only six tiles between us (each tile is 40 cm), and we both can hear each other through the walls. We are living on one beautiful but very crowded island—Formosa. Actually, the areas of Taipei and New Taipei City are really small. Take mine, for example; the district where I live is only 19.74 km² (7.62 sq mi) and has a population of 421,248 people (February 2023)—data from Wikipedia. I was considering moving to the east side of Taiwan, such as Hualien, with Nana. However, the truth is that every new apartment in Taiwan is also very expensive. In most parts of Taiwan (even outside high-standard areas), if we want to buy a new apartment, we need to prepare at least 10 million NTD (334,079.44 USD). Most importantly, a new place won't guarantee nice neighbors, right? Thus, what I can do for my family members is to focus on self-protection. Today, when I go out with my fur kid, I always bring my smartphone and bodycam when we pass by the mean neighbor's door because before today when they heard the sound of footsteps, they would start cursing.
Now I know they don't understand English, so I try to communicate with my students in English or typing with them.
Even when I communicate with my family members, I intentionally turn on the TV loudly to cover.
Hope after I change the room with my young brother next week, the situations will get improved! 🙏👩👧💕
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@Yi-9 dont understand the attached photo
I'm gonna put it like this as this is what I would do:
A) if ya dogs barking, sort it out
B) if ya neighbours making it up, either call the landlord/building management or get your biggest cousin to come say hello to that neighbour
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@Craig-36 I believe she's showing you the 6 tiles (each 40cm length) between her and her neighbors.
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@Anurag I'm wondering why there is a closet with an umbrella hanging from it in the stairwell.
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@Gavin-0 probably not a closet, typically you hang umbrellas off the gate in front of your actual door, although the photo doesn't give us the angle to confirm it, i'm just assuming from memory
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@Anurag for what, we can't hear or not hear anything
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@Craig-36 apparently to show you visually, her proximity to her neighbors
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@Anurag and none of us are any wiser apart from 'my dog didnt do anything'
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Terminated because of ... noise? If that's the case, a solid pair of noise-cancelling headphones like the ones below should cancel most if not all background noise (Sony XM6):
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@Alan-68 X.X
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Yes, the photo shows the distance between my apartment and my neighbor's. In Taiwanese culture, we are used to changing into indoor shoes when entering the door of our house. So it's a shoe cabinet, like this one.
And I do wear a headset when teaching online so I hear students' and my own sound most of the time. However, as we know, there are still some breaks when we are not teaching.
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@Enid wish you all the best. Thank you for the kind message to (and about) the community.
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@Yi-9 Hope you can get on ok today with your classes and find some kind of solution to your stress asap.
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@Matthew-A Thank you, Matthew! We are people living in dynamic environments, and no one can predict everything precisely. However, as responsible instructors, we still need to do our best to remove as many barriers as possible. This is what I am trying to do now.
🙏👭🐾
