Our noisy neighborhood

I may have posted about our residence before but there are many new details.   Our rented room is on the second floor on the end at the right of this picture.    We have a large room with a small fridge and microwave.   The bed is king sized and there's a small wicker table and chairs along with a large wardrobe.  The floors are tile and the bath is good.  We have a small balcony where we can hang out clothing we have washed.  There are inexpensive commercial washers out back along with a clothes line for drying.  The room is air-conditioned but we have a good breeze for most of the day and night and do not need it often..  We bought a small table where I can work but the chairs are too low and I have to sit on three pillows to be at the right height.   The rooms are primarily occupied by single people, a few working and others are students.   The cost is about $11 per day, including utilities.  We could not live any less expensive than this.   We walk about 20 minutes to Macro, the large warehouse type market.  As we got there this morning, Ron said, "this reminds me of Costco or Sam's Club" and the drawback is that many things come in too large a quantity.  You can also have a membership there for cheaper prices.   It is definitely cheap.    We brought a whole weeks' supply of food for $43.00.   (We eat a lot of fruit, vegetables, salads and yes, ice cream, especially for Ron.    Ron takes a sandwich, banana and sweet snack for lunch each day).   The lady at the desk at the market calls the taxi for us after we shop and they bring us to the front of the building and help us unload the bags for less than $2.00, taxi fare.  

The only drawback to our room  is the noise.    The small side street is used all the day and night, which we did not expect.    The traffic is worse at night with many motor scooters, motorcycles, cars and trucks.   At night, they like to rev their engines as they go on the straight stretch of road by the building.   Dogs run wild and packs roam and fight all night.   There's never a dead dog on the streets.  Loud music is always from somewhere around us.   Sometimes, it is in our building but a group of young people in a building across the street stay outside with karaoke performances some nights until after midnight.    The picture above is the rooming house where they live.  I think they need to stay in school or keep their day jobs.   They are poor singers!


Last but not least, we have identified a very loud noise as frogs from the pond, across the street.  The pond is on the left in the picture.  It is a holding pond of some kind for the Water Works Department that is up the street.   It has only been a nuisance for about a week so I have decided there are at least 1 million frogs that have just hatched out in this pond.   You cannot imagine how loud the noise is.  Does anyone know how to go frog gigging?

I don't know how we sleep but I get about 8 hours every night.  Ron sleeps much less but he has always had a sleep problem.   The very loud noises all night do not help whether you sleep well ordinarily or not.    Ron tries to get a little rest at other times because he knows the place comes alive after 8 p.m. each night.  One might think we lived in a night club district to hear the things going on all night.   It gets quiet about the time to get up each morning and there is less traffic on the street all day.    I have a quiet place to work each day.