THE BORE
General => The Superdeep Borehole => Topic started by: recursivelyenumerable on November 23, 2008, 07:25:17 PM
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nt because i'm too dejected to type
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must've been something really bad that happened to make it worse than those two.
what kind of place are you looking for?
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???
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Noise. Your first concern is noise.
I live on the bottom floor. The unit above me was apparently vacant for the better part of the year that I have lived here. The people that moved in a few weeks ago.... let's just say that I hate them.
Part of it isn't their fault. I shouldn't be able to hear every footstep they make, but I do. Every last step. But part of the reason I hate them is their fault, because they simply create a bunch of noise and heavy footsteps at off hours. I think they have a dog, too. I can hear them playing with it. My guess is they'll throw something, and it sounds like something with a little weight to it, and the dog will go bounding off, chasing at it, each fast football thudding directly through my ceiling and into my ears. But people should be able to play with their dog, right? Sure. But not at 1 o'clock in the morning. Surely, they have an idea what it must sound like to someone living under them. After all, they have someone also living above them that I assume they hear. And hate.
Oh good. They're playing with the mutt now.
Oh, and then there are the people that live in the unit immediately adjacent to mine. They apparently hate each other. Always yelling, always fighting. I feel like walking over there and patting them on the back for trying to keep it together but advising that ultimately this deal isn't going to work. Best to go their separate ways now before someone gets physically hurt. At least there aren't any children, after all. Hopefully. Anyway, when they're not fighting, they're playing loud music. They had the police called on them once, probably by the people living opposite them on the other side of the building. They were blasting music at midnight on a Thursday, and people were trying to sleep. 12:30, local police were pounding on their door. The music hasn't been as loud since, but they still play it a bit too loud. Turn the bass down, jackholes. Especially after 9 PM.
And now about the outside. Every step up the wooden stairs... I hear. The stupid birds and their incessant chirping... I hear. In the early morning in the spring, it was literally impossible to sleep. Nocturnal insects? They about drove me crazy in September and early October.
I have a fan in my bedroom to try to drown out most of that noise. It works on the birds, works most of the time on the insects, provides a minimal amount of protection against heavy footfalls from above, but sometimes the solution is worse than the problem. Instead of the environmental noise driving me crazy, now it's the stupid fan!
Never live in an apartment made completely of wood. >:(
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yeah, I always go for the top floor, on an end that's preferably only next to one room, not by a door, and not on a busy street (though if I'm high up enough, it's quiet.) Though if that one room is loud, I'm screwed.
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I'm about to sublease my room on Craigslist
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my girlfriend lives under people who fight and have make up sex very loudly every saturday
i live on the top floor of an old hospital. i hear nothing. it's awesome.
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i'd love to hear people having sex. nightly jack material. you are lucky.
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we live on the top floor of an old-ass building. it's definitely good to be on top. the walls in this place are surprisingly thick so we don't hear too much from our neighbours unless they're blasting music or something.
we also live in the fucking middle of the city next to a really busy main street, but our windows face the opposite side of the building towards the historic part of town. it's much quieter that way because the historic part is closed off to vehicles, and our windows face a huge sort of alleyway instead of a main street. so even if there's a parade or a lot of people, we barely hear a thing.
example of one of the views from one of our windows:
(http://media.tumblr.com/yIGLmucgza091zz6Q4bkcG7U_500.jpg)
yes, we get to look at nice old buildings and the cool church steeples. i can't think of a better, less noisy location in the city. we really got lucky.
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(http://media.tumblr.com/yIGLmucgza091zz6Q4bkcG7U_500.jpg)
You and Jarosh should totally dress up as ninjas and go jumping on the rooftops fighting crime. :ninja
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there are some dudes who climb on the rooftops every year to watch the big party/fair that goes on in the city:
(http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1141/1438340360_4b7d901447.jpg)
(http://media.tumblr.com/yIGLmucgzas4wfavRwRSkOri_500.jpg)
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Screw that! That's a long way down.
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Gee cloudwalking I had no idea you lived in Switzerland
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Screw that! That's a long way down.
BUT YOU COULD BE LIKE JUBEI FROM NINJA SCROLL! :ninja :hyper
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I'm looking for a new place right now, but every time I think about all the time and expenses I'll need to incur to buy furniture, kitchen appliances, and a host of other shit, it makes me fucking tired and I want to give up.
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Cool view, Cloud!
I'd never be able to live in an apartment. I'm a pretty quiet person--I walk quietly, I don't turn the TV up very loud, I don't play my music too loud. When people are noisy and inconsiderate it PISSES ME OFF.
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Does she cry?
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Isn't that just another way of saying stalking?
in my case, pretty much
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god no, job hunting is the absolute worst
well in Ohio anyways