TIL about pickleball: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pickleball
In September 2020 one park in the Portland metropolitan area had to institute a ban on pickleball, despite having just installed new pickleball courts five months earlier. Residents nearest to the pickleball courts said they were unable to hold conversations inside their homes due to the noise from the pickleball courts. Despite the ban, the next year people were still making use of the pickleball courts. In June 2021, at a West Linn City Council meeting, one resident said the noise resulted in family gatherings being, "... wrought with discord and physically debilitating stress." Some described the noise as "trauma-inducing".[62] </Excerpt>
I'm picturing boomer wojak playing pickleball. It really is a sport for trolls.
Whinge First.
Whinge Hard.
No Patience.
If you tolerate a bit of noise from them, they're much more likely to tolerate a bit of noise from you, which is win-win all around.
They live in a planned community filled with retirees (many of them former lawyers) with absolutely nothing else to do with their day than plot and scheme over ways to obstruct their able-bodied neighbors who want to get some exercise. It's the perfect sport for them (neighbor-fighting, not pickleball).
The fight is so vicious because the stakes are so small. For years, my folks would just drive past the empty courts on the way out of the development to the neighborhood a few miles away with fewer retired lawyers.
There are 500 houses in the development, two of which don't like that particular fragment of the recreation facility.