Porteños are used to insane noise levels - in fact, many don't even notice loud radios or barking dogs.
They can carry out one-to-one conversations in a room full of screaming people of all ages, or across a restaurant table seating twenty four. They seem to be able to block off everyone else but the person they are talking to.
They can also sleep peacefully in apartments on streets full of colectivos and cars accelerating wildly or blowing their horns.
Wish I had their noise-tolerance threshold.
They can carry out one-to-one conversations in a room full of screaming people of all ages, or across a restaurant table seating twenty four. They seem to be able to block off everyone else but the person they are talking to.
They can also sleep peacefully in apartments on streets full of colectivos and cars accelerating wildly or blowing their horns.
Wish I had their noise-tolerance threshold.