"Often, I couldn't get to sleep in the evenings and listened for footsteps in the staircase, " she said.

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And for the nights I can't get to sleep, I grab my Sleepsonic pillow and put on some slow jams.

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This is a city where visitors who choose to stay in hotels in more bustling neighborhoods often don't get very much sleep, thanks to late-night revelers on motor scooters.

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"It doesn't get stuck in your head and annoy you but it doesn't lull you to sleep and bore you either, " says Russell Jones, from Condiment Junkie.

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"Sorry, when I don't get much sleep, it's hard to speak in the morning, " he said, coughing.

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"I ended up having to go get pills because I couldn't sleep, so much anxiety, " she says.

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"I get to sleep easily there and I don't have to wake up at some ungodly hour, " she says.

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But generally, he can hop all across the globe at any time, because he doesn't get to your house until you're asleep, and kids go to sleep at different times.

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