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The Sound of Silence: A Noise Map of the U.S.

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Post by genewitch »

Inityx wrote: post #66
tayo42 wrote: post #54

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I dont get why police dont take quality of life crimes more seriously like that. Like if you have a noise problem there is no reason to call the police, they won't show up. What are we paying them for? To write up documents for crimes that happen after the fact?

It's because the police serve the interests of the owning class, and so prioritize things such as corporate property damage and the ability for workers to get to their jobs.

Note that loud exhaust is not an issue in more affluent neighborhoods...

I've been told the number of people driving with loud exhaust is a function of how close you are to the nearest meth house. This is after adjusting the data for level of travel a given road or nearby road

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Post by 0x38B »

> across the country

I guess Alaska didn’t make the cut.

The woods and their quiet are never far away here. While cross country skiing, I often stop to listen to the wind and take in the mountains. After living in a metropolis where noise was a constant, I appreciate the peace and calm of nature, far from cars and planes and other human noise-makers.

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Post by KirillPanov »

hattmall wrote: post #62
KirillPanov wrote: post #52

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I tell people the exact same thing to keep them from moving here. It works! ;)

That's what I found strange honestly. I don't know why but I always thought the west coast was great weather. But it sucks. Only southern California had ok weather, but even then the beaches weren't great and the water was cold in summer. The farther North it was like borderline miserable weather. I guess the weather comparison trope is based on New York and places that it snows a lot, but so much of the US has a far…

Depends on what kind of weather you like.

Where I am it never ever gets hot and it gets below freezing maybe two or three nights a year. When it's warm it's never humid (dry summers) and the only time it's humid is when it rains, which happens pretty much all winter. I kinda like that. Nights are cool (55F or below) every night, even in the middle of summer, which makes for comfortable sleeping.

The main downside IMO is the short days in the winter, but that's really latitude rather than weather.

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Post by ngngngng »

booleandilemma wrote: post #37
tothrowaway wrote: post #15

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The cars, trucks and motorcycles with booming exhaust pipes are insufferable. I despise hearing them revving by. I feel like I'm crazy for how much it bothers me. But then I read a story about a man shooting a driver who was just revving up and down his street, so I'm not alone. I spent a week in Helsinki, and was blown away by how quiet it was despite being far more dense than my city.

I had to move because of the motorcycles. I literally couldn’t take it anymore. Too many nights being woken up at 2am. Those people don’t care about anyone but themselves.

Same here. We lived in a grid system suburb where the roads next to us were used all hours of the day by cars. There was a constant stream of illegally modified trucks screaming past us and waking us up all hours of the night.

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Post by anigbrowl »

mc32 wrote: post #34
twiddling wrote: post #21

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"Loud pipes save lives" ugh

Yeah, especially at 11:30 at night as they loudly rev their bikes with a grin at. every. damned. stop. sign. Really, do they have to? They can't just give it a little throttle to get it moving, they have to open it all the way unsettling the whole neighborhood with the exhaust noise when it's otherwise quiet and there are few cars?

They kinda do. About 30% of people only feel they're winning when they see someone else worse off (even at cost to themselves), so the knowledge that they're annoying people actively gives them life.

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Post by f35throwaway »

My house is pretty quiet, except on occasion a jet or two flies overhead at around 1000 feet. They used to fly the FA-18, but have recently transitioned to the F-35. I believe, from personal experience, that the F-35 is quite a bit louder. I've seen inconsistent reports on the web though.

They're doing construction on a bunch of new houses closer to the base. The planes fly lower than 1000 feet there. Part of the new development's area is deemed uninhabitable because of the bases noise study. So they put commercial developments (restaurants, shops, etc.) in that area.

I don't want to sound like a NIMBY, and I think building housing is more important, but it was interesting seeing how sound studies and regulation works. Also looking to see if the future residents will be complaining about the noise.

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Post by Fatnino »

MerelyMortal wrote: post #28
lotsofpulp wrote: post #24

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If I was a cop, I would make it my sole mission to ticket each and every one all day long.

It would be especially sweet if it was a motorcycle cop writing those tickets. Though if I were a cop, I wouldn't want to be a motorcycle cop because they have a higher fatality rate. As a motorcyclist, I'm firmly in the camp about quiet, stock pipes. If I was dictator, I would impound and destroy any vehicle that was too loud.

Also any that have too bright headlights. Crush directly into a cube. And then fine the owner if he doesn't move his cube.

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Post by mdp2021 »

lettergram wrote: post #27

I think it’s important to differentiate (as this website does) the human made noise from the natural. I love being in the woods / fields / lakes. Fishing, hunting, hiking, etc. when you’re out there for a while you realize how much noise there really is. I wish everyone could / would take a few days a month and just spend it in the the natural world. I feel revived after spending a day or two listening to the leaves…

> [Natural] noise ... I love [it ...] out there [...] you realize how much noise there really is

It's because you are healthy. After an indigestion of artificial noise, even natural noise becomes an issue, unbearable. If you "break" after the "artificial" (more, "unnatural"), you will be compromised for the natural.

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