WHY DO RICH PEOPLE LOVE QUIET?

[Anonymous]

Because it’s fking awesome? Is enjoying quiet racist?

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2022/09/let-brooklyn-be-loud/670600/

[Anonymous]

Is that why you are screaming?

[Anonymous]

Yeah I’m rich and I like DCUM post titles to be quieter than yours

[Anonymous]

I am thankfully paywalled from that article. What a load of cr*p. I'm sympathetic to the argument that city life is noisy but noise pollution is a real thing. I'm sure that this oh-so-woke article is fixated on colorful street musicians, and not on things like idling trucks, broken HVACs, and screeching motorcycles that can make city life very stressful for the people who don't have a choice to just up and "move to the suburbs."

[Anonymous]

Because that means no one is asking me for money

[Anonymous]

So they can listen better to all the crazy voices in their own head?

[Anonymous]

Culture clash? Poor/urban people are just more used to noise and are much less bothered by it.

I actually live in Brooklyn and am on the board of my coop. The expectations of the "old crowd" vs the "new crowd" in our building are drastically different with respect to noise and other inconveniences caused by many people living in a close proximity.

[Anonymous]

I spent part of my childhood in Paris apartments, and noise was a terrible thing to deal with. My mother had an argument with the people upstairs, who would walk in high heels and play electric guitar at 11pm. She was continually on the hunt for buildings with noise-reduction construction, and eventually found one, where thank goodness she isn't bothered anymore. Paris has a lot of motorbikes that can wake you up from a deep sleep at any hour of the night, so my parents invested in triple-pane windows and they're much better than the double-pane they used to have.

However all these things come with a price. The lower-income population can't afford to live in specially-built and triple-pane-windowed places. I am a very big fan of quiet ordinances!!!

[Anonymous]

Because quiet is less stressful. And less stress leads to bette health and longer life. And yes there is farm life our there thats quiet but its still stressful unless you're rich.

[Anonymous]

I am far from rich and am a fan of the sound of silence.

At the same time, I’m a fan of the author of this article’s book, Olga Dies Dreaming.

[Anonymous]

I expected better of the Atlantic. The author doesn't realize she's the counterpoint to the people who insist on lower than normal volume. There are a couple of quotes from the article below that I think are particularly insipid. They are yet another example that just because you graduate from an Ivy League school doesn't mean that you're really educated. I also thought the author might have been on the younger side - nope, she's 45 - because these musings are more common in someone who hasn't matured enough to respect how their actions impact others. What mature person can't recognize why 'lifestyle choices' would generate more noise complaints than the noise of street maintenance and reversing trucks? Drivel.


"The city started going after boom boxes, car stereos, and nightclubs. These were certainly noisy, but were they nuisances? Not to the people who enjoyed them."


"I find many city noises nerve-racking and annoying: jackhammers doing street maintenance, the beeping of reversing trucks, cars honking for no good reason. Yet these noises account for a small minority of all noise complaints. Nearly 60 percent of recent grievances center on what I’d consider lifestyle choices: music and parties and people talking loudly. But one person’s loud is another person’s expression of joy."

[Anonymous]

Another stupid DCUM post…

[Anonymous]

Because poor people can’t afford it?

[Anonymous]

Yeah, I live in a loud part of dc and I’m just tired of ll the noise— from endless construction to drag racing and terrible music pouring out of passing cars and loud fights between drunk people. It’s stressful and not nice. I love the noise from birds and the buzz of insects, which we still have even though we’re in the city. I appreciate the quiet and the cool shade of fancy dc neighborhoods and associate both with wealth and privilege. We downtown folk should advocate for more peace and quiet for ourselves as well as more trees and green space, I know some people are— I applaud their efforts and sign their petitions. I don’t know why and can’t understand a very vocal minority that want to keep downtown loud, inhospitable to working families with bedtimes and dangerous for pedestrians, especially young children, seniors and people with disabilities— of all colors and incomes. It honestly doesn’t speak well of our values. Also if you’re going to blast music, get better taste.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Another stupid DCUM post…

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