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I spent a few years living in the international district (Chinatown, Japantown, Little Saigon) and people would set off fireworks and firecrackers in the neighborhood for days or even a couple of weeks after New Year's. And then again on Chinese New Year's. And there's also this group that likes to go and bang on drums while marching around the neighborhood at those times. It was awful and it made my dogs so stressed out.

Now that I live in a mostly Vietnamese neighborhood outside of the international district, I only hear fireworks on New Year's Eve and Chinese New Year's. It's great not having to worry about whether or not I should drug my dogs for days on end.

I personally enjoy fireworks displays, but I don't think they should be allowed by unlicensed people at their own homes.

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[–] j4k3@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

I live near the coast in an area where people light them off year round. Drunk with fireworks should result in summary executions, but otherwise whatever. We occasionally get someone at 1am+ lighting off the biggest they can buy for an hour or more. Those people should f off, the rest... whatever IMO. If you're setting off car alarms, you're a problem. There are always people around you working night shifts and this is a tax on them, so act like Karma is real.

[–] HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com 2 points 5 months ago

chicago has a big chinatown and a small china town. big china town has big streets and the parade and everyone is aware of the parade and dragon dancing and such but little china town. Its a cramped neighborhood with narrow streets and people move in and out often and man. every year. people would be parked and once the big explosive at the top of the chain would go it would cause like at least 3 car alarms to go off.

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

A better way to phrase it then is you consider lack of fireworks the best thing about a Vietnamese neighborhood then.

I'll have days/weeks of fireworks and gunshots, already have on the days before.

[–] Drusas@fedia.io 1 points 5 months ago

It's really mostly the Chinese population who does the fireworks in the city here. But our Chinatown and Japantown are pretty intertwined and that's where I lived, so it was very noisy.