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Comment by ericmcer

19 days ago

It does feel sometimes like you can't escape. I got tired of the nonstop noise and loud cars of a big city and moved to a smaller suburb. Then I learned about Leaf Blowers. If every neighbor has gardeners come at ~7am once every two weeks, the odds are you will wake up to the soothing sound of a 2 stroke Leaf Blower almost every morning!

Car thing is so sad. For some reason people think it’s socially acceptable to blast music from their car at 7am. I can’t tell if they don’t understand they are annoying people, if they don’t care, or they are just a menace

  • Once you interpret it as a mating call, it all starts to make sense in some weird way.

Welcome to the sound of spring/summer/fall in the suburbs. 7am to 6pm, 6 days a week. BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

Most landscaping teams have 2-3 dedicated guys who do nothing but leaf blow the entire time they are at a house. Towns have been largely unsuccessful in curbing this, mostly because demand for landscaping services is so high.