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[quote=Anonymous]I live in the H Street NE corridor in DC. I am somewhat ambivalent on this issue -- I accept that living in a city means I experience noises that I might not in the burbs or countryside, but I also have experienced truly annoying noise that I think merits complaining (i.e. unacceptable music or construction noise levels at weird hours or on otherwise quiet residential streets). I don't blame people for complaining about certain kinds of noise, even in the city.

The thing that I don't understand is people who complain about normal/typical noise from businesses that were there before they moved in. I live several blocks off H Street and virtually never hear noise from the commercial corridor except maybe during H Street Festival (which I'm likely to be at anyway!). But we know people in the neighborhood who moved to houses right of H Street and complain constantly about noise from rooftop bars, performance venues, and sometimes rowdy crowds in the street. I don't get it! If you don't want to hear noise from a rooftop bar, just don't move across the alley from a rooftop bar? Real estate in the neighborhood is very expensive so it's not like the people complaining (who are all newcomers who moved after prices went up) can't afford to live elsewhere. They chose these homes, right next to commercial businesses, and now they want... what, exactly? For those businesses to close? To force them to spend $$$ they may not have on noise control so that the row home 50 ft away can be totally silent? It's such a bizarre expectation.

Those are the only gentrifiers I don't really understand. Presumably they bought near these businesses because they like being near the amenities they offer? So why then complain about the typical noise these businesses create? It's just an irrational entitlement I don't understand.[/quote]

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