In the loud zones, they felt more Zen when the pollution was higher than average.
He lived his life like he made his pictures, with all the knobs turned up to 11 and all the needles flicking deep into the red zone: loud, unbelievably over-the-top film-making, enormous wealth and success, an incredible arc to his life from North Shields to the top of the Hollywood heap, and fond remembrances from his peers.
Instead, some cities have increased their opposition to the company as Airbnb hosts have violated local housing laws by illegally renting out their properties and turned quiet residential areas into loud, tourist-filled zones.
But calls for independence have been growing louder during the euro zone debt crisis.
The message from the euro zone should be loud and clear: if lawmakers don't put their house in order, markets eventually will do it for them.
Police patrolled Zone A with loud hailers on Saturday evening, and volunteers knocked on doors in public housing areas with offers of transport, but many residents were refusing to leave.
But when South Korea turned on its propaganda loud speakers at the Demilitarized Zone that separates the countries in response to North Korea's mines maiming two South Korean soldiers, North Korea rushed to the negotiating table.
Turns out it's really hard to monetize a company that makes big, loud robots built for war zones.
Thirty minutes in, he had rolled into a furiously intense improvisational zone, hammering faster and louder.
The drumbeat from the right to not only cut off aid, but indeed force Greece out of the euro zone, has grown ever louder.
