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Started 4 years ago by WildmanDan
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WildmanDan
W. Hubbard/Vic Village
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Well, first, I had to deal with a stupid jack hammer outside of the Burgundy Room starting at around 6:00 am Saturday morning just so those idiots could be done by noon. Don't want to irritate the businesses but to hell with the sleeping residents. But to show businesses get the same shaft, with the long drawn out way they have been doing construction and of protecting/shoring it up in the meantime is inept. When the latest heavy downpours happened, Bodega's basement got flooded due to the torn up area on High Street nearby, screwing up many of the kegs and lines they had down there for their beers.

Posted 4 years ago #
Walker
The KLD / Downtown
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I didn't think people lived in the Short North for the quietness factor?
:lol:

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WildmanDan
W. Hubbard/Vic Village
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We don't, but we would like at least a little compromise on a weekend. I mean come on, Saturday Morning at 6 am? To show how much people agree, I actually had work stopped on I-670 Cap work for a day because they the city that ordered it didn't realize they had issued an order to work from 10 pm to 6 am to work on High Street with flood lights and jack hammers.

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Walker
The KLD / Downtown
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I dunno... if it's not construction, it's busses or ambulances or helicopters or trains or traffic or neighbors or garbage trucks or something. I've been woken up by all of the above at some point in time, and while it's all annoying, I really have no one to blame but myself for choosing to live in an urban area.
;)

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Coremodels
Really close to Explorer's Club.
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LOL...I feel your pain Dan, as my bedroom used to be right above the parking lot for AAA party rental. Although it wasn't construction, it was "BEEP BEEP BEEP" starting at 5:30 every day, loud (and bad) music, and swearing and fights.

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bayrea
Dublin, Oh
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Speaking of the loud BEEP BEEP BEEP. Is Columbus the only place that has those comically large trash barrells everywhere?? I don't have a picture but you know what I am talking about. Every other city has regular trash pick up on the curb, but we have these huge plastic trash cans in the alley. It doesn't really bother me, but it does result in lots of BEEP BEEP BEEPing in the early moring hours as the garbage trucks try to navigate the small alleys in my neighborhood.

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gsmittynd
Downtown
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WildmanDan wrote Well, first, I had to deal with a stupid jack hammer outside of the Burgundy Room starting at around 6:00 am Saturday morning just so those idiots could be done by noon. Don't want to irritate the businesses but to hell with the sleeping residents. But to show businesses get the same shaft, with the long drawn out way they have been doing construction and of protecting/shoring it up in the meantime is inept. When the latest heavy downpours happened, Bodega's basement got flooded due to the torn up area on High Street nearby, screwing up many of the kegs and lines they had down there for their beers.
Hey they have to do improvements sometime, unless you want your neighborhood to look like the Short North circa 1970. Do you think the street are silent in NYC or Chicago at 6 am? YOU chose to live in an urban setting---deal with it. I am sure the city at least put some thought in the construction schedule and 6 am on Saturday was the scenario that affected the fewest people. Besides what are you doing staying up so late on Fridays these days anyway now that Little Brothers is closed?

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Paul
Vancouver, BC
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Ease off, Smitt.
I think we all want to see improvements to our urban area, and everyone hates getting woken up or having to invest in a $.99 pair of earplugs.
He's just reflecting the general American sentiment of wanting to have one's cake and eat it, too.
The simple solution I believe you're searching for, Dan, is to move to the suburbs where it is quiet. Problem solved. 8)
At my current place I've been woken up to people being arrested in front of my house, fights, the ubiquitous garbage truck BEEP BEEP, lots of construction on the waterline in front of my house, my neighbors techno 'rave' music, and crazy people banging on my door. That's all part of urban living, though. When I lived in Westerville things were nice and quiet, yet boring.

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Coremodels
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LOL...I had a serious "crazy people knocking on the door" thing for the last 3 months. I tried to be the nice guy with my "homeless recycling program", where I put all cans and bottles in a giant tupperware tub, when full set by door, homeless people take and recycle them for money.
Great in theory, but here's the thing (and who'd have guessed)...homeless people are really considerate! and I don't think it was emptied once without them knocking and asking if they could.
crazy.
Anyways, put a sign on it "take the cans, leave the tub" and hasn't been a problem since.

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