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> The absolute noise and other issue is much lower, the city is designed and built so poorly it can't handle it My experience of Somerville has been very diffe
by jefftk 7y ago
> The absolute noise and other issue is much lower, the city is designed and built so poorly it can't handle it
My experience of Somerville has been very different from yours: I've never been woken up by noise coming in from the street, and I've lived in two very typical wood-frame houses (first a triple-decker in East Somerville, now a two-family near Davis).
But it's also worth separating "what should you build a house out of to avoid noise infiltration" and "what sort of neighborhood densities can you have with low levels of ambient outdoor noise".
- shados 7y agoI mean, just the noise from the events in Davis Square can be heard from half a mile away, so most decibel meters would flag that as "pretty loud".
- jefftk 7y agoI'm within a half mile of Davis and don't remember ever hearing an event there from my house? Maybe Honk?
- shados 7y agoJust the typical music events (not the small solo musicians but when there is an actual show) they hold every now and then, or when the flea market gets pretty crazy can definitely make it hard to watch TV even with windows closed in my experience.