As a homeowner, I have less rights to live in peace than if I lived in an apartment. As a homeowner, if you have a problem with your neighbor (loud music etc) you are told by the police that they can only tell them to stop what they are doing and that's it. If you live in an apartment, the landlord will give them about 3 chances and then they can evict them. I had apartment neighbors that were very loud and the manager evicted them after 3 complaints (not just by me).
It seems to me that when some people move into houses they lose all the manners their mothers taught them. They think that their loud music doesn't penetrate their walls and if they do, they don't care. They don't care if their driveway looks like a trash bin because they fail to pick up their newspapers (when they are not on vacation). My generation (late babyboomers) have become self-centered, rude and crude. Our parents did not raise us like this! We set the examples for our children!