New Yorkers Gripe Most About These Neighborhood Problems

NEW YORK — Rearranging furniture at midnight. Pungent smells from failed culinary experiments. The endless sounds of enthusiastic affection. These are examples of some reasons for New Yorkers' frequent complaints about their obnoxious neighbors, a recent poll found.

The Chicago marketing firm Digital Third Coast determined the nation's "most annoying" urban centers based on a survey of 2,500 people in the 24 biggest U.S. cities. The poll, conducted on behalf of the home-improvement website ImproveNet, also analyzed where common gripes popped up most often.

New Yorkers can be thankful they don't live in Dallas, which the survey shows is America's most annoying city. The Big Apple isn't far behind at No. 6, ranking below Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Austin and Miami.

But New York is the worst in the nation when it comes to three complaints: loud indoor movement, the smell of cooking and storage in common areas. The city also claimed the No. 2 spot in three other categories, including loud sex, loud home-improvement work and overflowing or misplaced garbage or recycling, the poll found.

Just over half of the people surveyed said they've confronted a neighbor, with face-to-face named as the preferred method. New Yorkers were the eighth-most likely to take up a confrt while San Antonio residents were deemed the most confrontational, the poll found.

See the full list of the nation's most annoying cities below. Check out the full poll results to see what else Americans complain about.

1. Dallas
2. Miami
3. Austin
4. Philadelphia
5. Los Angeles
6. New York
7. San Francisco
8. Chicago
9. Houston
10. San Diego
11. San Jose
12. Phoenix
13. Columbus
14. San Antonio
15. Detroit
16. Nashville
17. Indianapolis
18. Boston
19. Las Vegas
20. Denver
21. Seattle
22. Atlanta
23. Portland
24. Minneapolis

(Lead image: New York City is a hotspot for overflowing or misplaced trash or recycling, a poll found. Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)