How Do Residents of the Ogden Downtown Stand the Noise?

When in Vegas, I usually stay at the El Cortez. I head for bed about the same time everyone else is just getting started. I try to avoid the "strip view" tower rooms, because the noise from Fremont East is pretty much unbearable. It sounds like what I imagine it would be like to live in a war zone! How do the condominium owners at the Ogden next door deal with that noise, night after night? Are they simply used to it?

Noise is in the ear of the beholder. (Which reminds us of what Anthony Curtis likes to say, "Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder.")

Some people live next to freeways. Others live directly under flight paths. Some live on truck routes where the big rigs roar uphill in low gear and use engine brakes going down. Others live next door to inconsiderate neighbors who blast distorted death metal or booming-bass rap all night long. Nearly 1.7 million people live in Manhattan, where the sounds of car, bus, and truck traffic, construction, sirens, horns, a preponderance of commercial activity, a proximity of restaurants, bars, and clubs, and general hubbub are never-ending. And 15 million live in Mumbai, loudest city in the world, which makes New York sound like a cat purring.

And some unfortunate folks do, indeed, live in war zones.

We reckon that humans are nothing if not adaptable and if the situations call for it, most will eventually become habituated to whatever living challenges they face. And those are people who presumably don't choose those challenges; those who do, for example residents of the Ogden high-rise condo building in downtown Las Vegas, are aware going in that they'll have to deal with central-city cacophony and commotion.

But we also figure that the Ogden, being where it is and nearly brand new, boasts a lot more expensive windows than the El Cortez, whose rooms are at least decades old. Those high-tech high-rise windows no doubt filter out a lot of the unseemly hullabaloo, ambient caterwauling, and indelicate bedlam from East Fremont Street.

How Do Residents of the Ogden Downtown Stand the Noise?

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Derbycity123 Oct-14-2019

Blues Brothers

From the movie The Blues Brothers

Jake - How often does the train go by?

Elwood - So often you will not even notice.

KRock S Oct-14-2019

AirBNB folks

I saw a news story re: homeowners at the Ogden keep trying to find a way to keep units there from being rented out as AirBNBs, which is against their HOA policies. Some of the noise on Fremont is probably being caused by those AirBNB folks...

imthemorgan Oct-14-2019

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Dave Oct-14-2019

Timing is everything.

I stayed in a south facing tower room at the ‘Tez last night and again tonight. 

Yeah, it was noisy, but not bad. I fell asleep about as quick as I do at home - and home is a quiet suburban neighborhood.

O2bnVegas Oct-14-2019

brain thing

Car radio music perfect while driving.  Go home, park car in garage.  Next morning start car...ouch, the damn radio is so loud!  How does that happen?  LOL.

TV on, fall asleep, ah ah ah.  TV suddenly turned off...damn, now I'm awake!  

I still can't take loud music in a restaurant no matter what.  I like to converse with fellow diners without shouting.  Won't be back.

Jackie Oct-14-2019

Othrwise

I've lived in foreign countries, some of which would make you want to instantly regurgitate from the smell as you step off the plane.  A few months later you don't even notice it.

Kevin Lewis Oct-14-2019

The Fremot Street horrible experience

The fitful attempts over the years to turn Fremont Street into a drunken-fool party zone were made with NO consideration of people nearby trying to sleep--in weekly residential hotels or regular hotel-casinos. The El Cortez is untenable as a place to sleep because of Container Park--the noise goes until 3 AM. The Four Queens and all the hotels near it--half the rooms are useless as a place to sleep. I have continually wondered why the nightclubs on Fremont have to broadcast their music to the immediate neighborhood. If I did that, wouldn't I be issued a citation?

And have you ever mistakenly entered one of those noise factories? I mean, the music is so loud that it HURTS. Conversation is impossible. It's unpleasant in the extreme. Yet, gangs of idiots deliberately seek out such environments every night!

I guess that reinforces the point of the answer. Humans are adaptable--that adaptability is the friend of jailers, torturers, and landlords. (And hotel-casinos.)

Llew Oct-14-2019

Noise

True, Kevin, people are adaptable, but only to a point.  As a music educator, every year I would present a lesson focusing on the harm exposure to excessively loud sound can do to your hearing.  And once hearing loss occurs, it can never be recovered.  
Many folks my age - and younger - have suffered permanent hearing loss, mostly from listening to very loud music, either live or recorded.  Earbuds pose an especially heightened threat to hearing.

Jerome Sinkovec Oct-14-2019

Speaker by my window

I was just out to Vegas and went to Four Queens because of the "no resort fee." I get a room facing the FSE, and the noise is huge. Iopen the drapes and see one of the speakers that hang down is right outside my window! I should have known when I got in my room and found they give you earplugs.

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