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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=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?[/quote]

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?[/quote]

But shouldn't folks just avoid the reggaeton blasts by not moving into Williamsburg and similar neighborhoods in the first place? I think of it similarly to farms and recently arrived rural residents. We grew up down wind of a couple of chicken and pig farms. Not always the most pleasant, but they had been farming there as long as my dad had grown up on the street where we lived. No one thought much about it. Slowly folks started buying land, building homes, then demanding that the smell stop. Are these folks really supposed to stop farming because the new residents' olfactory nerves are offended? Nah, I don't think so. It is what it is. [/quote]

Your analogy is flawed.  It would be more correct to expect noise when you move into an apartment above a nightclub.  You would expect loud music and rowdy clubs at all hours of the night if you were to move above it.  I would not expect continuous loud music in the middle of the night when moving to a neighborhood, even in the midst of a city.  [/quote]

But that is how some neighborhoods roll and have for decades. People congregate on stoops, street corners, etc. Someone connects to a wifi speaker and the night gets started. I don't want to live in a neighborhood like that, so I search accordingly when moving. If that is how the neighbors socialize, why do newcomers get more of a say? [/quote]

Because newcomers do not come one at a time.  They come in bunches and pretty fast end of being either the majority or a large percentage.  When that happens they control.  Time there does not mean anything.[/quote]

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