<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>grapeskin</author><text>The absolute best thing about leaving the US several years ago is the &lt;i&gt;silence.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;I can go to bed every night knowing some random guy won&amp;#x27;t decide 3 AM on a Wednesday morning is the best day to crank up the bass to max and start a party. I can sleep knowing some old guy isn&amp;#x27;t going to compensate for his masculinity by revving up his modded motorcycle at 4:30 AM everyday. I can sleep knowing people aren&amp;#x27;t going to start screaming and fighting in the middle of the street at 11:30 PM and again at 7 AM, even in a nice neighborhood. I can relax and not have to hear someone blasting the action movies and advertisements from their TV from 6 AM to 10 PM every single day. I can take a bus and not be surrounded by people shouting at someone on speakerphone, and needing to repeat their every statement several times because 5 other people are doing the same thing.&lt;p&gt;And yeah. People who blast music while outside, especially in natural parks, are assholes without exception. I like that I can hike here and it&amp;#x27;s absolute silence, every single time.</text><parent_chain><item><author>tayo42</author><text>I had this &amp;quot;conversation&amp;quot; with my neighbor (it was more like me being yelled at) It kind of blew my mind they didnt care about noise interruptions at all hours and told me its my problem. Like maybe if you got a full night of sleep you wouldn&amp;#x27;t be so angry? I guess this study supports that.&lt;p&gt;The noise in my current apartment is endless, car alarms, screaming and crying kids along with their loud toys, idling cars, the loudest ice cream truck idles for hours for some reason here, rancheras and bass from cars, instruments being practiced, the leaf blowers are horrible. it really sucks. and it feels like no one cares, but it feels so stressful, like physically too.&lt;p&gt;and out doors is being ruined too. mostly by portable music.&lt;p&gt;What i really dont understand is people identifying with being loud. i spent a couple weeks in puerto rico and was surprised that some people seemed to be loud on purpose.</text></item><item><author>shados</author><text>Not only do people not care, they actively push down and belittle people who do. They&amp;#x27;ll say it&amp;#x27;s just something that&amp;#x27;s notmaly and anyone trying to change it should move.&lt;p&gt;Most source of noise pollution wouldnt be that hard to fix. Society just doesn&amp;#x27;t want to.</text></item><item><author>drstewart</author><text>This is one of the things I struggle with the most in life. I feel like most people don&amp;#x27;t seem to care about noise pollution and zero care is put into designing living spaces or cities to minimize it. I&amp;#x27;ve moved into apartments and nearly cried because I realized that there was some noise pollution that wasn&amp;#x27;t apparent when I visited it (e.g. a water boiler that ran constantly at night, road noise during the day, etc) and would have to deal with it for a year.&lt;p&gt;One of the few countries I&amp;#x27;ve been to that takes noise pollution seriously is Switzerland. A beautifully peaceful and quiet country.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Sounding the alarm: How noise hurts the heart (2021)</title><url>https://knowablemagazine.org/article/health-disease/2021/how-noise-pollution-affects-heart-health</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>lom</author><text>I can’t speak about puerto rico, but in another latin american country i’ve spent a lot of time in it’s very common for every small store to have a loudspeaker and blast (imo shitty) music from 10 to 5. That isn’t even bad compared to the many discos right next to each other than play music as loud as possible to not be dwarfed by their neighbor.&lt;p&gt;Whenever I’m in a Western city I’m grateful for how much more quiet it is (relatively anyways), even with greater density and size.</text><parent_chain><item><author>tayo42</author><text>I had this &amp;quot;conversation&amp;quot; with my neighbor (it was more like me being yelled at) It kind of blew my mind they didnt care about noise interruptions at all hours and told me its my problem. Like maybe if you got a full night of sleep you wouldn&amp;#x27;t be so angry? I guess this study supports that.&lt;p&gt;The noise in my current apartment is endless, car alarms, screaming and crying kids along with their loud toys, idling cars, the loudest ice cream truck idles for hours for some reason here, rancheras and bass from cars, instruments being practiced, the leaf blowers are horrible. it really sucks. and it feels like no one cares, but it feels so stressful, like physically too.&lt;p&gt;and out doors is being ruined too. mostly by portable music.&lt;p&gt;What i really dont understand is people identifying with being loud. i spent a couple weeks in puerto rico and was surprised that some people seemed to be loud on purpose.</text></item><item><author>shados</author><text>Not only do people not care, they actively push down and belittle people who do. They&amp;#x27;ll say it&amp;#x27;s just something that&amp;#x27;s notmaly and anyone trying to change it should move.&lt;p&gt;Most source of noise pollution wouldnt be that hard to fix. Society just doesn&amp;#x27;t want to.</text></item><item><author>drstewart</author><text>This is one of the things I struggle with the most in life. I feel like most people don&amp;#x27;t seem to care about noise pollution and zero care is put into designing living spaces or cities to minimize it. I&amp;#x27;ve moved into apartments and nearly cried because I realized that there was some noise pollution that wasn&amp;#x27;t apparent when I visited it (e.g. a water boiler that ran constantly at night, road noise during the day, etc) and would have to deal with it for a year.&lt;p&gt;One of the few countries I&amp;#x27;ve been to that takes noise pollution seriously is Switzerland. A beautifully peaceful and quiet country.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Sounding the alarm: How noise hurts the heart (2021)</title><url>https://knowablemagazine.org/article/health-disease/2021/how-noise-pollution-affects-heart-health</url></story>