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It’s interesting that in general everyone on HN loves big city living, but then you have a post about city noise and it’s a thousand posts complaining about urban noise and how you can’t get away from it.

Of course, the key is that you can have both with the right transportation options.

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Cities aren't loud, cars are. Unfortunately, if you live in the states, we've let cars overtake 99.9% of our cities. It's not this way everywhere.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTV-wwszGw8

While I enjoy Not Just Bikes as a channel, it goes a little deep into the "cars are literally the root of every problem there has ever been even accounting for the period before cars existed."

I live in the city. It's loud af, but general traffic is only a small part of it. Essential services like police, ambulance, and fire sirens, and trash collection are massively loud. Then you've got bars blasting music on Fridays. People shouting, laughing, and, in general, existing (often till the wee hours of the morning). They there's the meth-fueled tweakers shouting obscenities. Construction noises. Road work. etc..

Density in general is loud.

I think you're making a mistaken observation there. It's a skewed data set: of course people who like living in cities will talk about policies they'd like to see to make their cities better, and not complain about ways that a suburb or rural community could be better.

I don't live in a suburb so it would be very odd for me to complain about a hypothetical suburb I don't live in, even though I'd have more complaints if I did live in a suburb. Just how HN as a whole talks about making tech jobs better (e.g. this remote work thread, which isn't relevant to most jobs) far more than it does about other jobs: it's just more relevant to the people here, and even if they overall like their tech job, they want it to be better.

> Of course, the key is that you can have both with the right transportation options.

I agree, but even then I'm pretty much done with cities and that benefit would be wasted on me :)

Agreed, it would be nice for a map search that shows the furthest you can get and still be UPS deliverable AND have fast internet ...

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