In 1994, my wife and I moved into our second apartment in Pierrefonds. We had no kids but we did have two Pugs at the time, they did not bark often nor were they loud in any way.
The front neighbor was a security guard for the Pierrefonds municipality (back then) and his wife was preggo when we moved in, June 1st.
Two days later we received a warning for barking dogs, on a day when the dogs were with me, at work (I worked at a dental lab, which is more like an artisan process than a lab) so when I returned home, with the dogs on a leash, and found the warning I asked the neighbor.
He said it was just a formality, because now that we had a warning, we would receive a ticket if ever the dogs barked.
He was well in his thirties, I was 23. Who was more mature?
But....
A couple weeks later, the douche's wife gave birth to his first (probably retarded) child, and the little fucker kept us up half the nights crying.
Naturally, when we called the municipality to complain, they told us to deal with it ourselves, so that fall, we broke our lease based on the premise that the neighbor was a complete douche, and we moved to another quieter place.
Moral of the story, if you don't like where you live because your lifestyle doesn't suit your fucked up retarded neighbors, move!