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I have been doing the exact opposite of this strategy for some time now. Going to bed at 5am. Those 6 hours of coding between 11pm and 5am are some of the quietest you will ever experience in Toronto where I live at least.

If I woke up at 5am, I would bHORNe consHORNtaHORNntly distrubeHORNNNNNNNNd.

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The noise pollution in Toronto is obscene and I am thinking I should move somewhere else. I live by the Gardiner, and I also code at night, it is bliss, there are virtually no cars on the road. No noisy neighbours or horns or traffic or street cars.

Wow, was just thinking I should move to SV the other day due to lack of a hacker community and look at this, two relevant Torontonian comments!

Agreed, noise pollution is horrific. I don't have a problem at all with new york's latest "fine for honking" tariff: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/25/nyc-taxi-drivers-to...

Is the noise there so bad that noise-cancelling headphones wouldn't help? You can get a pretty good pair from Bose for $200-300. It might be a steep investment at first, but if it improvements your working conditions and you use them for a few years...

They might help, as earplugs do, but then I have to work with something on my head the entire time...

There is just something about an 18 wheeler's honk that is next to impossible to cancel out, unfortunately. It literally rumbles the ground beneath my feet.

I'm a modern day Beethoven.

Can't agree with you more. I used to live looking north up Church and between 3-5AM there wasn't a single car - it would get actually creepy. Day time I had helicopters landing beside me, phone calls, horns, construction (!!!) etc.

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