WHY DO RICH PEOPLE LOVE QUIET?

[Anonymous]

I think there is truth to the article.

Since I come from the group that is portrayed as valuing quiet (not rich, but UMC/white), it is a matter of consideration.

People's loud music or arguments are imposed on everyone around them. If I am reading or hiking or having a picnic, I don't necessarily want to hear their hollering or blaring car speakers. The author sees that as me restricting his joy/identity.

Different perspectives, but one has the backing of our society's laws/rules, at least at this point.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:New neighbors just moved in next door, they are from some far flung part of Md, Hagerstown I think, anyway they let their dog out at 11 every night and it barks, and every morning at like 7, and it barks.

I don’t get it, this is Nova, we don’t do that here, it’s so quiet, you very rarely ever hear a dog bark. I hate the sound of barking dogs. Absolutely hate it.

There are zero barky dogs in my neighborhood. I’m not sure what they don’t get. It’s not that kind of neighborhood.

You live in VA and you consider MD a far flung part of the world??

[Anonymous]

I once heard a researcher talk about the sleep deprivation among poor people in India's cities, due to the noise surrounding them (and the cramped surroundings). She said it probably contributes to poor health in many ways.

I thought that was an interesting and unique perspective.

[Anonymous]

It's a stupid premise that isn't true.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s an IQ thing. Low IQ = likes to make a lot of stupid noise for no reason because they have nothing else going on up in there. High IQ = prefers silence which allows them to concentrate on intellectual musings.

I love quiet/prefer silence and that’s the stupidest shite I’ve read all day.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think there is truth to the article.

Since I come from the group that is portrayed as valuing quiet (not rich, but UMC/white), it is a matter of consideration.

People's loud music or arguments are imposed on everyone around them. If I am reading or hiking or having a picnic, I don't necessarily want to hear their hollering or blaring car speakers. The author sees that as me restricting his joy/identity.

Different perspectives, but one has the backing of our society's laws/rules, at least at this point.

I grew up in the rural midwest where the nearest neighbor is at least half a mile away. No one I grew up with was anything more than MC (by midwestern standards, not DCUM). Most of us appreciate the quiet of the country. I've been in the DC area for over 25 years and still dislike being able to hear traffic. When I retire, I'll be moving back to the country.

[Anonymous]

If you work with kids, your ears are still thrumming at day’s end. I don’t need other people’s noise; I need calm to think for the next day.
Didn’t understand that at all when I was a child.

Assuming your noise is a joy to everyone else is selfish.

[Anonymous]

Gonzalez was interviewed just a bit ago on WNYC about her article - https://www.wnyc.org/story/wealth-and-silence. Perhaps I am misremembering, but I think she was a little less broad in her on-air comments, discerning between constant noise v an occasional celebration. As a city dweller, it did prompt me to consider her observations, though I gotta say that Sunday-Thursday night seems off limits for at-home revelry given possible school and work demands.

Wasn't there an incident some years ago in Chevy Chase with a Sunday night BD party and a DJ?

[Anonymous]

I am back in another big city in the midwest, but the noise I HATED the most in DC were the emergency sirens and the air horns! I get that there is a lot of traffic to warn people about, but dear lord the sirens and horns do not have to be that loud. In DC, when any intersection is approached, there goes the air horns. They don't do that here. Simply sirens, and they are at a reasonable volume.

There were times in DC where I would be at an intersection and literally jump when the air horns were blasted. I'm lucky I didn't lift my foot off the brake and cause an accident myself.

[Anonymous]

Poor people are insanely loud and annoying. They use speakerphone in public (which is just sociopathic) and seem to always be screaming at one another. I value peace and quiet because it restores sanity. I’m not sure the upthread poster is wrong about a correlation between loudness and low IQ.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So here is what the author is missing -- one person's fun noise is another person's hell. Do you have the right to put neighbors in hell? Not really.

You have an absurdly charmed life and don't know what "hell" is.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you work with kids, your ears are still thrumming at day’s end. I don’t need other people’s noise; I need calm to think for the next day.
Didn’t understand that at all when I was a child.

Assuming your noise is a joy to everyone else is selfish.

Expecting your neighbors in a place you CHOSE to live near others to live like they're in a library so they don't offend your delicate sensibilities is peak snowflake behavior. Cope.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Gonzalez was interviewed just a bit ago on WNYC about her article - https://www.wnyc.org/story/wealth-and-silence. Perhaps I am misremembering, but I think she was a little less broad in her on-air comments, discerning between constant noise v an occasional celebration. As a city dweller, it did prompt me to consider her observations, though I gotta say that Sunday-Thursday night seems off limits for at-home revelry given possible school and work demands.

Wasn't there an incident some years ago in Chevy Chase with a Sunday night BD party and a DJ?

Upton Sinclair:
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.”

Look at most of Xochitel’s writing. See a pattern? Is she peddling grievance to a culture that clicks on stories, and pay in views, that love hot button issues right now like gentrification and social injustice?

I could tell by the title that she was going to btch about how essentially hoity toity rich gentrifying caucasoids are too uptight and don’t like the rich culture and rhythm of a vibrant noisy city etc. when in actuality not everyone wants to hear reggaeton blasting out of windows when they walk down the street in Williamsburg. Our culture in recent years has just gone off the deep end selling stories of complaint. At some point will we all just fall apart from being unable to cope with life?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you work with kids, your ears are still thrumming at day’s end. I don’t need other people’s noise; I need calm to think for the next day.
Didn’t understand that at all when I was a child.

Assuming your noise is a joy to everyone else is selfish.

Expecting your neighbors in a place you CHOSE to live near others to live like they're in a library so they don't offend your delicate sensibilities is peak snowflake behavior. Cope.

No one expects to live in a library, so you can chill out on the hyperbole.

Most folks just don’t need a big azz apeaker blasting gogo on Florida avenue to blast that music endlessly all day and night. Some people need sleep. Even those rich jerks who bought a condo across the street. Are you arguing it’s cultural to be incredibly loud? That’s racist.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you work with kids, your ears are still thrumming at day’s end. I don’t need other people’s noise; I need calm to think for the next day.
Didn’t understand that at all when I was a child.

Assuming your noise is a joy to everyone else is selfish.

Expecting your neighbors in a place you CHOSE to live near others to live like they're in a library so they don't offend your delicate sensibilities is peak snowflake behavior. Cope.

Oh my. Sorry you are so disturbed by someone sharing their experience. Libraries are far from quiet in our world, and that is not a complaint.