Urban Noise Complaints
The cluster focuses on debates about noise pollution in residential and urban environments, including complaints about neighbors, construction, vehicles, and music, versus arguments that such noise is inevitable in community living.
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this. same problem with noise pollution, but worse as you can't close your ears
They can be loud and annoying for the neighbour.
Noise complaints are “no reason”?
if noise deters others and means i can buy a condo, cool beans. i’ll get some earplugs.
You seem to think the issue is noise, but have you considered noise might just be the most noticeable symptom of general city living? i.e. having much less personal space, nature, privacy, and free time to spend in them?
Exactly: the sound isn't a problem for you (the riders), but it's a big problem for the people that live around you.
I hear my neighbors all the time. They start up their cars, play basketball in the street, play music in their garage workshop, etc. There are myriad sounds that happen all day long when you live around other people. If you require silence then you choose not to live in a community.
Nope! The only noise in my neighborhood that sometimes annoys me is loud music, but I like people to be able to enjoy themselves.
I live in a 20million+ city in China (we call 2million a village). Everything is concrete and overbuilt (walls, floors are thick); so noise for the units around you is fine. However, outside is another story: I've had many sleepless nights with construction outside, and delivery trucks with backup warning sounds...ugh. Right now is dance-in-the-square time, and I can hear whatever music the old ladies are dancing to pretty clearly!
Not from a noise pollution perspective :)