These are always difficult situations and they can escalate to serious shit. I'm not suggesting you're over-sensitive, but when something a neighbour does disturbs us, it's very easy to fixate on the annoyance, for that to become an obsession and then every trivial thing they do totally pisses us off.
Maybe your new neighbours are self-centred, half-deaf, inconsiderate dickheads the weight of baby elephants who insist on wearing combat boots at home. But it's also possible they simply don't know that the sound insulation in the building they share with you is crap and they're disturbing you. An awful lot of people are oblivious to such possibilities, not because they don't care who they bother, but because they're basically not very smart.
I know it's an outlandish idea, but perhaps you could go knock on their door to introduce yourself and mention, in a very polite and apologetic way (even though it seems you have nothing to apologise for) that it seems there's no floor/ceiling sound insulation, they might want to bear in mind that you can hear them talking, and you hope they'll let you know if you do anything to disturb their peace.
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These are always difficult situations and they can escalate to serious shit. I'm not suggesting you're over-sensitive, but when something a neighbour does disturbs us, it's very easy to fixate on the annoyance, for that to become an obsession and then every trivial thing they do totally pisses us off.
Maybe your new neighbours are self-centred, half-deaf, inconsiderate dickheads the weight of baby elephants who insist on wearing combat boots at home. But it's also possible they simply don't know that the sound insulation in the building they share with you is crap and they're disturbing you. An awful lot of people are oblivious to such possibilities, not because they don't care who they bother, but because they're basically not very smart.
I know it's an outlandish idea, but perhaps you could go knock on their door to introduce yourself and mention, in a very polite and apologetic way (even though it seems you have nothing to apologise for) that it seems there's no floor/ceiling sound insulation, they might want to bear in mind that you can hear them talking, and you hope they'll let you know if you do anything to disturb their peace.