I am split on this one. I grew up in Sunset Park, Brooklyn during the late 60s - 80s, and the sound of salsa, bongos, song, cars, and motorcycles in the summer

I am split on this one. I grew up in Sunset Park, Brooklyn during the late 60s - 80s, and the sound of salsa, bongos, song, cars, and motorcycles in the summer sometimes upset my father especially when it went into the late hours. I loved it, and enjoyed it. It brings goosepimples to me when I hear a similar environment. I used to escape the bad part of the neighborhood, gang and drug violence, on my rooftop with my cheap telescope and light pollution was more of an annoyance to me. I think there are extremes with modified exhausts and cars for just the sake of noise. On the other hand, I ride a motorcycle with stock exhaust, and I sometimes rev it to alert nearby drivers of my presence. I was a motorcycle messenger in the 80s and rode bikes in NYC for years, so I am very savvy about NYC traffic and pitfalls and noise. I still get thrilled when I hear a certain exhaust sound. You can get good windows that block a lot of noise if you want quiet in the city. Turn on the AC, close your windows. Move to the country if you want to keep your windows open all day and listen to birdsong and the wind through the trees (I love that). I compare all this talk about noise and regulations to the time I went to Klagenfurt, Austria in the early 90s, and it was beautiful, but there were fences and signs all over that read, 'Verboten' for keeping off park grass, noise, congregrating, etc. We cut our stay to two days and instead headed early to Italy, because Klagenfurt didn't seem to have any soul. That's my personal bias, and I am sure if you live there, you can find its soul (you don't need a Eurorail pass and border checks anymore). I don't want to ban everything, or limit it to the most sensitive among us. That may lead to adapting to that, and further putting constraints on what's harmful, permissible, and enjoyable to some but not others. I subjectively feel the rise in allergies in our younger children is due to shielding them from foods and experiences and over cleaning our dwellings. We adapt as humans. I may be wrong, but I never met as many people with allergies when I was younger as I do now. In my peer group, where I raised my children all over (rice fields of Indonesia, mountain cabin in NJ on a lake), and outdoors eating everything starting from a young age, they don't have the plethora of allergies as my peers' children do. No nut, gluten, seafood, or other common allergies. My peers who clean incessantly, didn't feed nuts or other various foods to their kids until they were 3 or 5, and similar practices, have children that have multiple allergies. When I invite kids to my children's birthday parties, I need to list all of the 'don'ts' for the party, or buy double. Something is wrong for sure; it's not just anecdotal. Look at this story for both sides of it, and try and see each side's perspective. I try to not jump to trying to stop, regulate, or insulate myself from things before giving them a real chance [1]. [1] https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/austin-car-clubs-gentrification/ https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/austin-car-clubs-... FYI: Living room music/TV is around 76 dB, and the law will have 'robocops' issuing summons like speed cameras do from 76 to 90 decibels per the posted article.