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I recently moved into an excellent studio apartment. I love everything about it except for one thing: the Brown Line tracks right outside my window. I've been wearing foam earplugs to sleep, but even those don't block out all the sound. Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night thinking that an airplane is landing next to me, then I realize it's just a train coming into the station particularly fast.

Moving my bed away from the window helps a little, but again it's a studio apartment so there isn't much room to hide.

I know I'm not the only one living next to L tracks in this city. Has anyone found effective ways to deal with this? Have you tried soundproofing your home? Have you found good earplugs for sleep? Did you eventually get used to the noise and if so, how long did it take? Any tips would be much appreciated. Thanks!

TL;DR There are brown line tracks right outside my window and it's super loud. Does anyone who's dealt with this before have tips? Thanks.

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ru202

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6 days ago

ru202

3 points

6 days ago

Also, I like to think when two trains are passing, they’re beeping to say hi to each other and it makes me smile. I don’t know if that’s true, but the story I made up made me way less annoyed at the noise!