• Sauerkraut
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    5 months ago

    You have never been to a car centric city? Cars are loud af. Noise pollution from cars is so bad that studies have been able to link living next to higher traffic roads with poorer health outcomes

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      5 months ago

      I’ve visited NY and Chicago, but I guess my digs were nice enough not to notice. And I used to live 75 minutes (assuming no traffic lol) from DC—far enough away that I didn’t have to deal with that kind of thing. Just like maybe some highway noise from far away.

      I did once have a townhouse that had a rail track in the back yard, but I know what I was getting in that case. It was only noisy when there was a train.

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        5 months ago

        Interesting, I’d guess that you are better than average at tuning traffic noises out then. I am probably worse than average myself as traffic would constantly wake me up when I lived downtown.