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Re:The Thrill of Losing Money by Investing in a Manhattan Re... by tptacek on Saturday September 17, 2016 @07:05PM (#12522998)
Did you ever read Jamie Zawinski's blog about setting up DNA Lounge in SOMA? Neighbors absolutely do care about this stuff, and will make enormous pests of themselves.

For that matter, are you a member of any local social network thingies? I've on NextDoor, whatever that is, for the last few weeks, and I'm surprised to discover that every local business I knew about (and several that I've only now become aware of) are defined primarily by the random, petty (to me) seeming complaints they generate from the neighborhood.

I wouldn't be too quick to jump to the conclusion that complaints like these are "enemy action".

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Re:The Thrill of Losing Money by Investing in a Manhattan Re... by cylinder on Sunday September 18, 2016 @03:27PM (#12526750)
I've been on the other end, with a nearby diner's grease vent getting off-calibrated and thus noisy and basically ruining my life, and the owner and city insisting it's perfectly fine. I'm not alone as people have filed lawsuits over this.
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