WHY DO RICH PEOPLE LOVE QUIET?

[Anonymous]

Yeah, sorry, I thought this article was unfair to people who are sensitive to noise.

I am a light sleeper. Noise bothers me. There's nothing racist about that.

Now, would I choose to live at 14th and U and then demand it become quiet? No. But I am in the suburbs and yes I want quiet here.

[Anonymous]

This is a whole article meant to trigger the same angst at gentrification as the “don’t mute dc” campaign. Fk that. Please turn it down and please mute dc.
Your noise pollution or simply being loud to be loud in the middle of a block where there are lots of condos is not a right. There are noise ordinances for a reason. Stfu. It’s low class.

[Anonymous]

I thought the article made a lot of unreasonable leaps. Things are real just because someone makes the assertion.

[Anonymous]

So when I tell my husband to turn the TV down I’m racist? And in college when I asked my white neighbors to be quiet late at night I was also racist? And when the nearby highway drives me crazy because people are driving a million miles an hour, I’m also racist? Oh and also classist I guess.

[Anonymous]

What a stupid question.

[Anonymous]

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

This. 100% This.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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."

This ties in with the thread on throwing balls in pools. The sense of entitlement and lack of consideration people have these days is astounding.

[Anonymous]

Am up to 25k acres at my place in the west. Love the sound of the wind. Love the sound of the waves breaking at my beach house too. Cackling chuckleheads in DC, not so much.

[Anonymous]

To address the inequality, I suggest resurrecting the civil defense sirens. In suburban neighborhoods they could be sounded every 20 to 30 minutes from 7AM until 2AM.

[Anonymous]

I read this and thought LOL. Idk but I am white, UMC (I’m sure she’d say we are rich though), and I do love quiet. I can’t even stand for people around me to have the tv or radio on.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Because poor people can’t afford it?

Nonsense. I’m poor, live in the middle of nowhere, and have all the quiet I want. I hear cows, tractors, a train on occasion if the wind is right, and crickets and katydids in the summer. That’s about it.

Unless I’m shooting in my backyard.

[Anonymous]

Noise gives me a headache

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Noise gives me a headache

Me too. Middle-income headache sufferer here. The author was FOS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So when I tell my husband to turn the TV down I’m racist? And in college when I asked my white neighbors to be quiet late at night I was also racist? And when the nearby highway drives me crazy because people are driving a million miles an hour, I’m also racist? Oh and also classist I guess.

Racist? No. Exhausting? Definitely.

[Anonymous]

People found old tweets from the author griping about noisy people.