Cicadas are so noisy in South Carolina that residents are calling the police

Re:Cicadas are so noisy in South Carolina that residents are... by hi-v-rocknroll on Tuesday April 23, 2024 @08:59PM (#40139235)

Southern newbies, I guess. I remember my grandmother's magnolia and pecan trees in N TX summer some years, the cicadas were deafening.

Here in an urban-residential boundary area, I have the problem of large crickets getting into my apartment (they're fairly quiet) and downstairs dogs so loud I can hear them barking at all hours day and night through a supposedly solid concrete floor. Of the latter, of course the immature kidult neighbors don't notice and don't care how rude they are having untrained, inappropriate breeds of dogs (plural). They just let their dogs relieve themselves immediately outside the front door of the building.

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Re:Cicadas are so noisy in South Carolina that residents are... by lukevp on Tuesday April 23, 2024 @09:08PM (#40139275)

Sounds like you live in San Marcos, TX. Lots of crickets there and college kids.

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Re:Cicadas are so noisy in South Carolina that residents are... by hi-v-rocknroll on Wednesday April 24, 2024 @08:19PM (#40151637)

Close. ATX near downtown in a slapped-together gentrification high-rise. :D

My mom lives around the corner from there though. I was sad when the geniuses at Earth Burger decided to reimagine themselves as a salad kale? burger? bowl shop. The owner has some absurd grand vision but fails to realize Texas fast food requires a giant sign visible from I-35, consistency, and listening to customers.

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Re:Cicadas are so noisy in South Carolina that residents are... by amatecha on Tuesday April 23, 2024 @09:41PM (#40139490)

Yeah, sharing a building with strangers... never again, as long as I can afford not to. It had its upsides, but wow. The amount of just ever-present noise was such a harm to my psyche, like some kind of slow torture over years. No matter what you do, all windows and doors closed. Just so not for me.

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Re:Cicadas are so noisy in South Carolina that residents are... by hi-v-rocknroll on Wednesday April 24, 2024 @08:28PM (#40151706)

I purposely went from an apartment complex with ~30% Airbnbs, ~40% alcoholic rager kidult residents, and ~10% people who let their dogs relieve themselves in the hallways and in the pool to the end of the hall on the top floor with concrete floors of a new building. Apparently, that was insufficient.

Perhaps leased apartments in the style of invite-only co-op NYC buildings where the security guards actually lift a finger now and then would be an improvement.

At least it won't be my problem anymore in about 2 months because I'm out of this popcorn stand.

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