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Jan 05, 2013, 05:45 PM
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Member Since: Nov 2002
Location: Mid World
Posts: 18,097
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Owl, the quiet is one of the many reasons I live out in the boonies. I used to live in the city. Heck, I grew up in the suburbs around Detroit and Chicago. The non-stop nosie of the city made me nuts. I never got used to it.
I like my music loud some times too. I'll turn my radio up loud enough to make my ears bleed when it's a good tune.  But I don't force it on other people.
I understand the tradition of making loud noise at midnight on New Year's as a way to ward off the bad spirits for the new year. I might not like the noise, but I understand it and can prepare for it. But loud music all day and half the night was a bit much!
My heart goes out to you having to live surrounded by the noise of the city.
As for your former neighbors who yelled at the TV when they watched football. I think that's a sports thing. My mom used to yell at the TV when she watched football and baseball. It was funny to hear my otherwise nice, polite mother making comments about the ump's ancestory when she watched games.
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