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by bell-cot 374 days ago
(2022)

And popular on HN: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

From my own experience (Michigan, not New York), I'd say this is as much about children and younger men liking noise as it is about the rich liking quiet. Plus quite a few older folks, with failing hearing, find some formerly-inoffensive types of noise unpleasant.

And either way (favoring noise, or quiet) is often an assertion of individual importance and group identity. Babies don't cry because they lack money.