Translations:Quiet Hours/6/en

Sound also travels in ways that are hard to predict from inside a room. Bass frequencies pass through structure rather than air, stairwells amplify voices, and courtyards can carry a conversation across an entire block. People often report that the noise they were reported for was not the noise they thought they were making.

| Social=Quiet hours sit at an awkward intersection of privacy and visibility. A host may value discretion about who visits and when, while noise is precisely the thing that makes those visits legible to everyone nearby. Community discussion frequently returns to this tension: the desire to live freely at home, and the awareness that a building is a shared environment where anonymity is partial at best.