The Filipino noise problem

[babel-fish]

Okay now you can afford to retire, you have a pension, investments and some money you have saved for this event. You maybe single or divorced and looking for a wife and you have heard that Filipino girls make very good wives and don’t care about the age thing.

You may of met a girl on the internet, come down here to the Philippines and stayed in a hotel, got married to her and later took her home to the home land. What ever you now decide to retire and buy a property and live in the Philippines.

What you don’t know is there is a noise problem here and its hard to find a quite haven, the number one problem being chickens. The Filipino’s love cock fighting and everywhere is highly populated with cockerels, these cockerels do not follow the general rules maybe because of this dense population. They crow night and day and your new neighbors may have hundreds of them.

The second problem is videoke machines, the Filipino’s love to sing and in fact some bright spark here in the Philippines invented a machine that one but 5 peso’s into for a session of Karaoke. The volume is normal turned up to full power with loads of base and these machines can be found everywhere within a neighborhood.

Problem three is very loud music with the base turn up to its highest level, this is the norm for Filipino home entertainment also its not rare to hear such dreadfully played music on the local transport Jeepney’s or Tricycles or issuing from private transport through out the Philippines.

Problem four is open Baptist type churches that seemed to think one needs to scream shout and sing to God, they can render this awful din up to 11 o’clock at night.

My answer to this problem is to rent and not buy, if I find a noise problem where I live I just up sticks and move to a quieter place. But sometimes new neighbors move in and the place is not so quite, so I move again, knowing it’s a waist of time asking people to turn the noise down. In fact many a foreigner has ended up in a legal wrangle due to noise problems.

So if you have a problem with noise you need to buy a big lot and center your house in the middle have a high wall and screens of tree’s. Some people successfully cut most of the sounds out but unfortunately not all.

Truthfully Filipino’s have no respect for their neighbors when it comes to music and noise and is become part of their culture. If you want to live in Paradise you have to get use to the hell next door.

[Teacher]

Ahhhhhh, this is such a true fact. Neighbors!! I had some that once a month had a party on a Sunday that lasted until 4am Monday morning. God how I hated it. So I moved in the city so much noise you couldn't here any one nosie it became like white nosie. So A little better and those Chickens OH my God. Even in the city every were. Guy's holding chickens in there arms like thier beloved. kind of worried me at first. something you learn to live with.

[Arie]

haha you forgot the bloody televisions on max volume

it seems filipino's hate the quiet

[babel-fish]

The tv can be a good way to screen their noises out, had to do that on many occasions before they drove me mad, lol

[chi town]

I agree it seems a lot noisier in the Phils but from my experience after living in Chicago and Detroit for over forty years then having a few years of vacationing in Hawaii, the Phils seem to be on par with the Aloha State.

In Chicago and Detroit, the windows and doors on our houses were shut tight most of the year. Air conditioning in the summer and heating during the winter and so were our neighbor's. Housing lots were bigger, insulation better, construction of homes more robust. When I went to Honolulu, Hawaii and stayed at a friend's house for three weeks every Christmas season I couldn't believe the noise level. Eveyone has their windows and doors open and lots were a lot smaller, homes a lot closer. Just like the Phils.

I am in a rented home in Piapi now and the biggest problem is dogs. But I try to go with the flow. If they bark late at night, they are also keeping me safe. Or so I like to think. Neighbors are mostly quiet with the occasional karaoke but during the day only and no roosters. Guess it depends where you live, kind of like anywhere else in the world. I had inconsiderate neighbors in the US also.

[babel-fish]

I prefer to rent and up to now its payed of because I have found a haven nice modern appartment on a very large plot, walled plus the swimming pool, its reasonly quiete. I hate to be tied to one place, I can move to anywhere I please in Asia without the worry of being tied to a property and its up keep.

But the fact if you build your own house in a quiete area, your neighbors can change and noisy ones move in its really something I would not want to take a chance on. Yes this problem is not only seen in the Philippines it is a problem in many a paridise, hell is never far away.

[flip_auditor]

Chi-town kicked the fish right in the gut

fish, why are you in the PI if you keep complaining in almost every forum? because you can't afford to live in your own country or maybe nobody cares a nasty old man here in US... US has worse places than PI too.

[babel-fish]

Chi-town kicked the fish right in the gut

fish, why are you in the PI if you keep complaining in almost every forum? because you can't afford to live in your own country or maybe nobody cares a nasty old man here in US... US has worse places than PI too.

Perhaps I care about the Philippines, Perhaps I care about the visiters?

Perhaps you would like to know why I live here?

why-i-like-living-philippines

So what you are really saying that there are no problems here in the Philippines and the visitors here have nothing to worry about. That we must all keep quiet about the problems we see and have had?



I am not american

P.S. I can afford to live in my own country, but my dream was to live on a tropical Island as the dream of many a Filipino is to excape to the streets paved with gold. Believe me there is a great deal wrong with my country as with most and I am open to critism. Seems your not.

[Loki]

Well, I am living in France and I have neighbors who are very noisy. They are low-class people who have neither education nor respect for others (it is not a question of culture I guess). Maybe only in Japan, you will find neighbors who are mostly quiet ....

[Arie]

Originally Posted by Loki

Well, I am living in France and I have neighbors who are very noisy. They are low-class people who have neither education nor respect for others (it is not a question of culture I guess). Maybe only in Japan, you will find neighbors who are mostly quiet ....

Live in Amsterdam and my neighbours are extremly quiet, just make sure you live inbetween pensioners and ppl who have to work so hard to afford the place they are hardly home

a lot is often down to the amount of ppl per square meter I guess