We all know that if you live in a city, you put up with noise. (Unlike the couple we saw on a recent episode of HGTV's House Hunters, who, moving from Pittsburg to SF, were taken aback by the noise. They ended up buying a townhouse in Glen Park.) If you were to guess which San Francisco neighborhoods are the noisiest, what would you say?
According to the updated San Francisco Noise Map, the Tenderloin, Chinatown, and SoMa.
Via: Curbed SF
Image: SF Department of Public Health
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Comments (8)
Suzanne Whang is the best.
But the hairstylist on that show hates her guts.
I'd be interested in knowing where in PittsburgH they used to live... Downtown vs. South Side Flats vs. Plum? Noise is relative, buses and theatre or bars and shops or lawn tractors and horses?
Tenderloin is the noisiest?
Probably from the gunshots & crack addicts screaming at their pimps...
It's the traffic. My neighborhood -- Hayes Valley -- is much noisier now that the Octavia Boulevard is in full effect.
I'm with you JefferyK. I live right on Octavia and the noise has been the only thing that really bothers me about the neighborhood.
On a related note, I'd like to strangle the consultants that put together the noise map. It's not possible to zoom in to see the difference between Octavia vs. Laguna vs. Gough.
People are loud in the Castro, thanks (I assume) to the lively bar scene. Our neighbors play club music as if they are living in a dance club. I also have never overheard such violent arguments as I have in the Castro. We've had to call the police before. I also once lived on 14th st between Dolores and Guerrero where the homeless ride their can and bottle filled shopping carts down the hill and fire trucks, sirens blaring, use it as a main thoroughfare.
NORTH BEACH...a drunken party ever night, under your window, and the number of Fire truck sirens down Columbus...
crazy.
It seems weird that Ocean Ave is so noisy. At first I thought it was just because of the streetcar, but it's still noisier than Taraval and Judah. Any ideas?