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<Excerpt> When the hard pickleball paddle strikes the hard ball a sharp popping sound can be produced. The constant sound during play has generated conflict between pickleball court owners and other nearby property owners.[60] An intense backlash in many communities has coincided with the rapid rise in popularity of pickleball.[61]

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.

Ugh. My parents' neighborhood is finally emerging from years of legal action for the right to play pickleball on their pickleball courts.

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.

I'm not old or a lawyer but pickleball is kind of annoying. It doesn't mean I also like leaf blowers. Those should be banned. Not sure about pickleball though - I'm with you on the benefits.

You sound incredibly biased. It’s a retirement community, not your parents’ personal gym. If the residents of the community are all upset, maybe it’s your parents that need to find something (or somewhere) better to do.

It actually is my parents' personal gym that we're talking about though. It includes a pool, tennis courts, pickleball courts and an 18 hole golf course. It's in the brochure for the place (which, despite being planned is not a retirement community), and one of its main selling points.

There are 500 houses in the development, two of which don't like that particular fragment of the recreation facility.

Homeowners appear to think anything happening within a mile of their house personally traumatizes them, except for the actual noise issues of car sounds and leafblowers.

Home Owners Associations...

The squeaky wheel gets the grease. Tolerating even the smallest undesired disturbance just encourages your neighbour to ramp it up until you complain.

Whinge First.

Whinge Hard.

No Patience.

This is not a good way to build a good relationship with your neighbours.

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.

I know, but if you get in there first with the authorities, this is a good way to build a relationship where you win and they lose. Some people out there can't possibly bear any other breakdown than that.

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