I feel Defeated

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I used to wear my trouser pockets inside-out when I was a child because the disharmony between the sensation of the material that the pockets were made from and the material that the trousers were made from against my skin was an experience I still can't describe to this day. I was also very particular about socks as the sensation of the surplus material at the end of the toe inside the sock could easily make paying attention to anything else (and walking) impossible.

I only tell you this because... t.b.h. I'm not sure why I'm telling you that, to emphasize that I'm not unsympathetic maybe. Anyway, I see your options breakdown thusly;

A) Persuade the neighbors to turn the bass down at least at certain times of the day and / or certain days of the week. I am totally unqualified to offer advice with persuading people.

B) Advice as per previous post which I now realize is unsatisfactory.

C) Speak to your estate agent about your problems, there may be some simple changes you could make to your property yourselves, like painting the rooms a neutral colour that would raise the potential value of your property enough that you could resell at enough profit to cover the costs of moving in there in the first place.

D) Get a landscape gardener in to form hills to act as baffles to deflect low frequency sounds away from your property, Plant trees to absorb higher frequency noise. Although this would have the same side-effect risk profile as the privacy fence suggestion below.

Also "Put up a privacy fence around your property. " isn't always good advice if you're in a neighborhood watch type area. In Freakonomics an analysis of crime data was reported that indicated that the majority of house burglaries are committed somewhere between the perps house and the perps place of work. Basically if your house has something valuable looking that can be seen through a window and enough cover to break in un-noticed and has criminals passing it every day then your house is significantly more likely to be burgled. Pretty obvious really. A "privacy fence" sounds good but it provides a relative degree of "privacy" to anyone who is behind it. Home owner and burglar alike. And if someone wants to "case the joint" all they have to do is hand out a load of bogus flyers inviting people to donate some clothes or whatever to charity. The response rate will be predictably small and they'll get the chance to case lots of houses.

Anyway, good luck, I hope you're able to work something out.

B.

Just wanted to say that although I have no helpful suggestions, I totally sympathize with you. I'm stranded in a neighborhood that echoes to the sound of bass-boosted throbbing so much that I'm surprised none of our windows have broken. Most of the drivers of such cars are rather intimidating to me and I've encountered hostility when politely asking them to turn it down or go somewhere more public, like a parking lot, to enjoy their stereos. We put up a fence and got some dogs, so nobody cuts across my yard anymore, but when they did, it felt like a violation. Some teenage guys bought some popsicles from the ice-cream truck (another chronic source of noise pollution) and dropped the wrappers in the middle of my lawn Also, we woke up one morning to find a bullet hole in our back windshield and our front windshield totally gone! We're in a strange situation as regards the house, long story, but we're saving our pennies to move out of state soon.