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I'm in Boston, it's not loud. I took a quick skim through their methodology and each tactic seems sensible, but taken together they miss the mark. I don't doub

I'm in Boston, it's not loud. I took a quick skim through their methodology and each tactic seems sensible, but taken together they miss the mark. I don't doubt that they're measuring something real. Maybe it's frequency of siren's (be they hospital or police cars), but to jump to "world's loudest cities" is a claim that the research doesn't hold up. All along the emerald necklace[0] are quiet spots. The city is old so tons of streets have relatively slow traffic. Makes me doubt everything else. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emerald_Necklace https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emerald_Necklace

elliotec 3y ago
Completely agree. Boston proper is an absolute ghost town outside of office hours, and is basically silent even then while everyone is working. That plus Vienna at the top makes me throw this whole thing as useless.
- ghc 3y ago
  Only parts of the financial district are that way. In my experience the rest of the neighborhoods in Boston proper are annoyingly loud compared to other cities I've lived in (except NY, of course). I had an office on Newbury street that was an absolute nightmare to work in from about 6pm every night due to shoppers and restaurant patrons, and an office in DTX where I always wished the windows were way thicker due to the constant noise from crowds, buskers, etc. A few blocks away from that office, in Chinatown, I basically lived in an office where it was just constant noise from all the chinatown gate crowd even at 1 in the morning. And most of the last 20 years I've spent living in Mission Hill, Back Bay, Fort Point, South End, South Boston. All of them were lot louder than, say, Midtown Atlanta. South Boston in particular has both constant airport noise and a weird obsession with rooftop parties and fireworks, much to the detriment of my young kids' sleep.

elliotec 3y ago

Completely agree. Boston proper is an absolute ghost town outside of office hours, and is basically silent even then while everyone is working. That plus Vienna at the top makes me throw this whole thing as useless.

ghc 3y ago
Only parts of the financial district are that way. In my experience the rest of the neighborhoods in Boston proper are annoyingly loud compared to other cities I've lived in (except NY, of course). I had an office on Newbury street that was an absolute nightmare to work in from about 6pm every night due to shoppers and restaurant patrons, and an office in DTX where I always wished the windows were way thicker due to the constant noise from crowds, buskers, etc. A few blocks away from that office, in Chinatown, I basically lived in an office where it was just constant noise from all the chinatown gate crowd even at 1 in the morning. And most of the last 20 years I've spent living in Mission Hill, Back Bay, Fort Point, South End, South Boston. All of them were lot louder than, say, Midtown Atlanta. South Boston in particular has both constant airport noise and a weird obsession with rooftop parties and fireworks, much to the detriment of my young kids' sleep.