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Originally Posted by BigSteph
I agree. I started this thread to generate discussion to understand the noise from the turnpike. The noise is different day to day -- with some days/nights being very loud and other times remarkably silent.
As usual, this thread has devolved into being lectured by greater minds about our lessor judgement and reasoning.
Most of the time on this forum, I pull my punches and just push away from the keyboard as it serves no purpose to denigrate others and ultimately diminish myself. I live here and work in Leesburg. I've given up on defending Villagers to those people. Some of their criticisms are given life in the words on some of these threads.
By the way, other than the noise and bugs, I kinda like South of 44.
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A perfect cross section of human psychology on display in this thread. when building automation, it always works, until a human gets involved. the human decision making in the limited ability to take ALL variables into account, FOMO, (fear of Missing out) which is alive and very well in the villages for exactly the reasons Stu pointed out, and the transition from working life to retired life. Working life has so many demands that background is seldom (i didn't say never) an issue, and retired life is slower, less demands, and awareness of one own environment gets more attention. . humans are sufficers, trying to get to the sufficient point of our expectations, some do some never do, some can't. and 85% of the respondents said that they were above average drivers. . when in fact there is no way to quantify the answer