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> squeaks that are physically painful

Those may be covered under loud noise regulations, if the official measuring machinery has the cutoff frequency set high enough (no reason why not).



In my experience those regulations are only ever used to shut down parties with loud music. If it's any sort of industrial or non-obvious noise, good luck getting people to care about it. I have bad memories of complaining in an online community about the extremely loud safety beeps from construction vehicles operating next to my home and being told I was a monster because I must want children/workers to die - and that was a sound whose mere existence didn't need to be explained.


Yeah, maybe. But the hassle of trying to convince the town this house is in - which isn't my town - to do something about it is significantly more difficult than just riding my bike around the place.




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