Yeah, it getting mildly crazy at times. The city decided a few years back that they needed ten thousand people living downtown to entice the growth of businesses, so the housing complexes, conversion of old warehouses over to apartment and condos have rapidly been expanding, but so has the noise pollution that comes attached to that, along with increase in crime. There was a guy today saying he got shot in the foot walking to his truck after work downtown. He does DJ jobs at night down there, and of course he has to park blocks away to park because we have a "tiny" downtown where I don't know how they even find a place to park. He's walking past a group hanging out down there when bullets start flying. He said he didn't expect that to happen as they weren't arguing or anything like that. He said he didn't realize he'd actually got shot in the foot, it was painful he said as he struggled as fast as he could to get to his truck. When he looked at it, he thought he might have got glazed by a bullet but as he drove he started feeling weak, faint like, next thing he knew he passed out and hit a pole. It wasn't until he got to the hospital and they told him he had a bullet in his foot. I use to take my (old) dog down to the river at night, I didn't think anything of walking down there, stopping to talk to the guys fishing, I wouldn't consider doing that anymore despite how nice it is down there now, too many with nothing to do just hanging out, their not fishing, going to the bars, which are expensive, or anything like that, just hanging out. Now a new outdoor amphitheater opened, and I can hear that all the way to my house, about a mile, maybe a little over, and about half mile down the road they will be opening a open air soccer stadium. Along with 8000 screaming fans into the night air, police helicopters buzzing around, police sirens, ambulance, fire trucks, if the amphitheater, convention center, and the indoor stadium have stuff going on, it will be a matrix of noise pollution, add in the mix of race cars who'll take advantage of the cops being too busy buzzing up and down the highway racing, look like I'll be back to wearing ear plugs in no time. About ten, fifteen years ago there was a drive by shooting a couple blocks over, unusual type of thing back then, but a neighbor said to the reporter, I've been here twenty years, and it use to be all you heard at night were crickets. I thought to myself, "that's what's missing, the crickets", they use to drive me crazy when I was working days and had to go to bed early at night. There was one in particular I tried several times to sneak out there and get him, he was my sworn enemy. Every time I opened the door, he'd or she, would stop. Anyway, I went out and bought a bunch of crickets. The lady said, you know they aren't going to stay in your yard, I told her I was aware of that but if just one manages to hang out, I'll be happy. Then my son and grand kids who lived further out started collecting them for me and right around middle of June into July they start singing like music to my ears. I guess it's one of those things you don't miss until you don't have it anymore.