[drcube]

I can sleep at Burning Man with ear splitting sound camps blaring mere feet from my tent. It's called earplugs, they work well and they're very cheap. I've used them to equal success at home on the Fourth of July, too. It simply isn't a big deal. Let Cletus light firecrackers and work on his car in his own drive way. Who the hell are you to tell him otherwise? Go live in an HOA if you want to tell your neighbors how they can and can't behave on their own property.

[kelnos]

Just because something works for you, it doesn't mean it works for everyone else, or that everyone else would even find it tolerable.

I have a lot of difficulty falling asleep (exacerbated by even the most comfortable of earplugs), and a decent amount of difficulty staying asleep once I do. It is absolutely not unreasonable to expect that people adhere to low noise levels at night. If you want to stay in a place where people are exploding things outside your house, knock yourself out. You are certainly in the minority.

[alexnewman]

It is unreasonable. People comply with the law which set these noise levels, and you'll find is your not ganna be happy

[bradknowles]

There are those of us for whom 32db NRR earplugs are a necessity when sleeping in a normal house in a normal neighborhood, where we don't have such extremes of noise coming from the outside world.

We would be completely unable to survive in the world that you so casually dismiss.

I would encourage you to be very careful in choosing the kind of world that would be turned into your own personal hell.

[xamuel]

>Go live in an HOA if you want to tell your neighbors how they can and can't behave on their own property.

Err, right, that's pretty much what I said in my post. Please don't run to legislators and banning HOAs.

[zxcmx]

Wait 'til they wake up your baby and toddler at OMG o'clock. At this point you value how considerate your neighbours are, because confrontation or police calls are inevitable if you don't have a good relationship with them.

Or your could tell your partner to stick earplugs in the baby's ears and see what happens...