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No worries, I appreciate you sharing your experience! I feel like I'd get the same distractions everywhere in suburbia (and I am in suburban Palo Alto): consta
by legerdemain 6y ago
No worries, I appreciate you sharing your experience!
I feel like I'd get the same distractions everywhere in suburbia (and I am in suburban Palo Alto): constant delivery vans rumbling into the yard, lawn care teams with gas-powered leaf blowers at my apartment, adjacent apartment, across the road, people who idle their pickup trucks under my windows day and night, a Roto-Rooter van that shows up to the neighbors over and over, people who shout obscenities out the window while playing COD at night, the neighbor with an outdoor punching bag, and so on.
I find even an office with an open floorplan far more peaceful and quiet. I'll take the first opportunity I can, responsibly, take to work from an office or coworking space.
By comparison, 2008 was barely a blip on the radar for me. Stressful, but I wasn't crawling up the walls the way I feel I am now.
- codezero 6y agoIt's amazing how wildly different all of us are, and how we all try to build systems we can all use despite that :) I am lucky in Sunnyvale - I think. Way less residential noisy stuff - and the area is mostly families and is surprisingly quiet that definitely helps a lot. In an office, just given my role, I can never get away from people long enough to focus. 2008 was mostly a blip for me too - had a brief pay hit and less certainty on a job, but wasn't too scary. I feel very much for folks like you and everyone out there who's feeling the pangs of this state of the world - hang in there!