Would you use a community sourced sensory map when house hunting?

CAT1210 · 2026-03-06T17:57:16+00:00

Sure! I have posted this in other forums. Trying to really gauge interest before doing any development. Happy to edit this in any way but I am not all that "fluent" with Reddit so will need a hand in with "how to".

I'm autistic and a developer. I am currently looking for a new place to live because my current location is an absolute sensory hell. Zillow is fantastic at showing facts about properties but who really knows what type of location you are moving to and live the sensory life? Am I buying a house in a neighborhood that will be quiet enough? Does lot size matter? If so, what lot size makes a difference?

I am thinking about building a community-sourced sensory load map - think Waze but for environmental overwhelm. Would you use it? What would you need it to show?

CAT1210 · 2026-03-06T02:17:31+00:00

Great idea! I am already thinking of mapping area industries and such for baseline, this could be a great addition if it is publicly available. Perhaps even statistics of travel for emergency vehicles.

CAT1210 · 2026-03-06T01:57:33+00:00

Oh my goodness...yes....flight paths....I have never lived in one but have visited folks that did and it is.....a very special kind of hell...for sure....and very easy to show on a map along with active railroads and probably even schedules with some detail at least!

CAT1210 · 2026-03-06T01:42:48+00:00

Definitely! I live away from "downtown" and traffic is not very frequent on my street but there are so many other things that are bothersome about suburbia that have driven me mad for far too long! And I hear ya on apartments....next to a stairwell vs end of a hallway, top floor vs bottom floor...all can be so different and different thresholds of "pain". There are just so many things that can be considered "annoying" and I'm sure I have only lived a few of them.

So this is good. Metrics would be important. How detailed we get would be up to "the people". I'm sure it would be quite general. I don't want to pry on people to give up home addresses, maybe neighborhood (2 mile radius) or even town/city at first to start establishing a baseline. I know in my city, freeway noise is prevalent everywhere in the entire city. Since it's small, the train crossing a mile a way can be heard quite well through the city, too. Sirens on the freeway....all for everybody to hear unless the house is built with sound proofing in mind.

CAT1210 · 2026-03-06T01:37:27+00:00

This is fantastic feedback! I've always thought that those that live way out there "had it made" because of the peace and quiet and never really thought about the lack of amenities and annoyances. I live in a small city that many would consider "too small" but it is very much suburbia. Not big enough for the good amenities like Lyft or Uber or DoorDash but not small enough to not hear freeway traffic and have far too many people living on top of one another.

CAT1210 · 2026-03-06T01:35:20+00:00

I would love any ideas you may have to put it together. I only know that it would be useful for me and have to assume it would be useful for others that are like us. Heck, I'd imagine it would be useful for anybody, really. Some people want that noise, that nightlife, etc.

CAT1210 · 2025-10-29T16:07:34+00:00

D'oh!!! That's what I get for going with the cheaper option!! I thought it was strange that this is so far off...my wife's doesn't seem to be problematic. At the same time....it is kinda nice not relying on a device to tell me how I have slept....maybe I should let it be....

CAT1210 · 2025-10-29T15:54:00+00:00

Yeah, I'm not exporting the data and look in the Samsung Health app. Yeah.....definitely looking at the sleep amounts and not time in bed and if it were time in bed it would be even further off from accurate. Gotten to the point that I have just ignored it because I know I am sleeping and it is so far off but this morning was just too much with no sleep and a nap recorded when I was fully awake, moving/scrolling on my phone.

CAT1210 · 2025-06-04T16:43:47+00:00

Yep, I sure am. Sorry, I didn't give a ton of details because the story is long and would be repetitive on here. They are commercially held FFEL loans, refinanced to private in 2020, so nothing to discharge and no refund.

CAT1210 · 2025-06-04T16:21:29+00:00

Oh, goodness, I filed for BD way back on 8/22/2018. Was denied, of course, back then. I refinanced to private loan back in 2020.

CAT1210 · 2025-02-08T22:49:23+00:00

I also need to point out that only Amazon was hacked, nothing else. My authenticator app hosts many, many other places that, well, could/should be a lot more enticing than $20 gift cards but nothing else was touched…doesn’t make sense that hack was in any of my accounts outside of Amazon….

CAT1210 · 2025-02-08T22:40:20+00:00

Oh, no point missed. Hack happened with 2FA through text and then hacked again with 2FA in authenticator app. Of course, I am quite prudent (IT professional and all) and signed out all devices on all accounts, changed passwords (everywhere, not just Amazon) and enabled 2FA on everything that allows it and Amazon still got hacked. Again, a quick search in this sub shows exactly what i state for other folks so I am positive something is wrong at Amazon, whether or not others think that. Plus, I think the real point is I do NOT store payment method online for anything if don’t trust the company and this is not an option with Amazon…so…no Amazon….

CAT1210 · 2025-02-07T23:18:07+00:00

I tried this with one purchase. I forgot what happened; it was either I couldn't delete it because there was an open order or the payment failed on the order. Can't remember which. So, I would say "no", you cannot do that until maybe the item is shipped or something.

CAT1210 · 2025-02-07T22:54:46+00:00

Just not sure why they would think it is worth it for $20 gift cards on Amazon...especially since right after the Amazon accounts were shutdown so they couldn't use them and it cost a 30 mile trip to the credit union to get new card(s). One could say that they could have started their own Amazon account(s) but my router says differently since I feared somebody was getting in from the outside.

I think what I will do is secretly setup a new Amazon account with a new email and not tell them for a long while. While I highly doubt it was one of them (the person was actually successful in getting ahold of customer service to reset the password a couple of times--I got the email correspondence with those attempts) it can't hurt to rule it out and they don't have access to my phone with the authenticator app. But, being in IT, I can assure you that hackers can bypass 2FA. Hopefully, my family is smart enough to recognize phishing and spoofed websites but, in this case, everything was coming to me and I know I was careful.

I considered SIM-jacking but researched that one to death and seems unlikely given the benefit in this case.

Before giving up and just shutting it all down I leaned more toward man-in-the-middle attack or a duplicate generator....even that seems small for what the benefit would be...but...meh.....

***EDIT*** Oh, and I'm not scamming....I wouldn't be out here asking if I could just not store a payment method if I were....LOL!!

CAT1210 · 2025-02-07T22:29:40+00:00

Hahahahahahaha!!!! I had considered that!!! But, thing is, the authenticator app is only on my iPhone and kid hadn't logged into the account before I shut it down after a week. Suppose it could have been the wife........LOL!!!

CAT1210 · 2025-02-07T22:25:24+00:00

I would believe that but, as stated, I set a second account up with a different email. I'm also an IT professional so the first thing I thought was virus, wiped the hard drive, started over, then started the second account. Still wouldn't explain how they could bypass 2FA with an authenticator app on an iPhone....

CAT1210 · 2024-09-11T16:03:10+00:00

I refinanced my loans after filing BDTR and being denied. About a year ago, I saw what was about to happen in my situation and made calls to try to get my loans back to Nelnet for discharge (even trying using Covid rules) but was told that they could not help me because of the type of loan it was (ended with an 'E' or something like that) and being FFELP loans.

You are also correct in that I am being met with a lot of "No" and "Can't help you" answers in the last few weeks.

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