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[GoneOffShore]

291. You'd best not move to Northern Liberties in Philadelphia.

On a quiet night in the residential neighborhood I inhabit any or all of the following, plus a few more:
Two or three times a night (more on the weekends) motorcycles with straight pipes going from Center City to North Philly or Fishtown.
Every 20 minutes a bus stopping to pick up or discharge passengers and an automated announcement of the route number and destination.
Three drunken girls walking below our bedroom window arguing around 2AM.
The trumpet playing roller skater.
The loud party on the roof deck THREE BLOCKS AWAY that goes until 3AM.
The bagpiper who decides to do a medley of Scottish favorites around 11P lasting until 1A and is impossible to pinpoint.
The sound of PGW or the water department digging up the street two over because there's a gas leak or a water main break.
Hip hop, rock and roll or techno or a drum circle from the park up the street until midnight.
Plus ambulances, police sirens, fire engines.

Was in a beach house last weekend with the windows wide open - the sound of the waves and the bugs kept me up all night and then when I got to sleep at 4A the birds started at 4:45A - If I'd had a shotgun, I'd have had robin pie for lunch.

But at least I don't live in Florida, have no aversion to earplugs and shut my triple glazed windows and turn on the air conditioner.

Ah, but you did make that choice to move there didn't you? In much the same way I made a choice to live in the big, bad city.

I long for the sound of an emergency generator - it would drown out all the other stuff.