I grew up in the suburbs and only wound up in the city due to financial circumstance (which is also why I live in a run-down neighbourhood). It's been quite an adjustment, and the noise has been the biggest part of that.
But I got way more BOOM-THUMPA-THUMPA-BOOM car stereos (at all %$^@ing hours) and noisy trucks and buses than gunshots. And sometimes too-loud conversations on the sidewalk (when I've got my windows closed and the folks on the sidewalk are louder in my second-floor bedroom than the television in the same room with me, I start to wonder about loud people). When I do hear gunshots, they're usually far enough away that I can't judge the distance or direction well. (Of course, the fact that I can apply the word "usually" there at all says something, but I'm only talking about a few times a year, I think.)
Since moving here, I've come to understand and even actually appreciate some of the things that real cityfolk like about living in a city. But as much as I've adapted, I'm really still a child of the suburbs at heart.
he noise I mostly have to put up with is railroad being nearby. I can here the clackty-clack of the wheels. The other night I was forced awake by the train whistle. I don't know why they continue to blow that darn whistle when there is no traffic that can cross the tracks now. I didn't dare go back to sleep, I knew I would have a nightmare.
I have a neighbor who comes home with the BOOM-THUMPA-THUMPA-BOOM coming out of his car. Someday I'm going to scream at him! I don't want to hear his ranchero music blaring out at my sensitive ears. If I want to listen to music, I'll pick my own, thank you!
Well, hopefully, you'll get back on your feet and can move to a better area soon.
If you live near a fully de-certified crossing you should send a letter to the railroad (don't know where you are for that knowledge), and there are 2 others who i know would deal with that but the name is not coming to me. I think one would be NTSB. Usually there are wayside sinage that indicate crossing ahead and that is what indicated to the engineer to sound 'grade crossing'. The railway should eventually remove the signs and put road orders into effect until all engineers who 'know' that there is a crossing there are retrained.
Funny that because I grew up in an affluent area but with train tracks not very far away. In the dead of night you could hear the trains go through. I grew up with that for the first 12 years of my life. Later on, I lived across the street from a train crossing and it took a while to get used to the train whistle in the middle of the night. But it was the only real noise that late even in the small college town set deep in the mountains of Virginia. Here in the city though with the noise, the gunshots - I sometimes wonder if my neighborhood isn't just as bad for that as D'Glenn's with the murder on the corner and robberies at gunpoint frequently right in front of my house - all the people and the faster pace that seems to go with city life compared to the suburbs, much less the rural setting I lived in for so many years, the train just a few blocks away is one of my few comforts, deep in the night when even this city succumbs to sleep...
I lived in Montgomery when I was going to school, but in Patrick when I was home with my parents and later when I was married. On the farm there were no lights for miles, just starlight. The only noise at night were the frogs and crickets. It was an extremely hard adjustment moving here.
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But I got way more BOOM-THUMPA-THUMPA-BOOM car stereos (at all %$^@ing hours) and noisy trucks and buses than gunshots. And sometimes too-loud conversations on the sidewalk (when I've got my windows closed and the folks on the sidewalk are louder in my second-floor bedroom than the television in the same room with me, I start to wonder about loud people). When I do hear gunshots, they're usually far enough away that I can't judge the distance or direction well. (Of course, the fact that I can apply the word "usually" there at all says something, but I'm only talking about a few times a year, I think.)
Since moving here, I've come to understand and even actually appreciate some of the things that real cityfolk like about living in a city. But as much as I've adapted, I'm really still a child of the suburbs at heart.
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I have a neighbor who comes home with the BOOM-THUMPA-THUMPA-BOOM coming out of his car. Someday I'm going to scream at him! I don't want to hear his ranchero music blaring out at my sensitive ears. If I want to listen to music, I'll pick my own, thank you!
Well, hopefully, you'll get back on your feet and can move to a better area soon.
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good luck.
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