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Originally Posted by JManc
I love New York but it is noisy. SF is fairly quiet in comparison which to me is a good thing even if it doesn't sacrifice density and street activity. You're never far from a commercial area but more often than not, you don't have to live above it like a lot of New York.
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NYC's noisiness is mostly confined to the major arterials, though. If you're not on a major arterial it will typically be relatively quiet. Most of Manhattan's numbered streets will be fairly quiet between avenues, unless you're in Midtown or on a crosstown route. There are a few commercial areas on non-arterial streets, but that's the exception rather than the rule. I think the vast majority of this is in Manhattan below Houston Street.
SF does have major arterials that are mostly residential (
for example), which is not very common in NYC. That does give SF a more "spaced out" feeling than NYC, IMO.
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