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[quote=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.

[i]"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."[/i][/quote]

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