My home is always quiet because I don‘t live in the city or the burbs. I could see how the quiet would be disconcerting if you’re not used to it though.
It used to be, but over the past 40+ years since I moved into my apartment, the population has increased, they built a YMHA directly across the street and the kids' play area is at the same level as my bedroom window, so I hear the kids screaming and yelling whenever I'm home during the week. Several people have cars with ridiculously loud engines and one that backfires all the way down the street. I'm a block away from a high school and when it lets out at 4 PM, it's as though they let the animals at the zoo out of their cages. That's why I love staying up late at night - by midnight, it's much quieter.
Depends what you call noise. My home is surrounded by the songs of cicadas, crickets and birds.
Occasionally I can hear a car passing on the nearest road, half a kilometre away.
The odd jet rumbles the sky, 25% fewer than normal. We're not directly under the flight path - maybe about 20 k's from the northbound, 60 from the southbound.
My husband, just back from the local town of Murwillumbah, tells me it is still well populated.
My uni had to shut down yesterday due to a confirmed case of Covid19. That's close enough that I'm keeping a sharp eye on the latest local developments.
The airport is a few miles away so I enjoy the roar of takeoffs and landings, often ambulances with sirens blaring are heading for the hospital three blocks away, during the week the playground at the Montessori school next door provides a backdrop of screaming toddlers and a few months ago construction began next door on a multi-unit apartment building that should take two years to complete. Because my building is well constructed and on a quiet street, none of this bothers me, but when I list it out, it sounds awful.
It is generally quiet in our immediate neighborhood, but we have airplane traffic and a railroad track in the distance. I can hear a train now. It depends on the time of day.
It's very nice and quiet here. Sometimes people get loud over at the pool but that's not bothersome; they go home by 9ish. Most around here are home with lights out by 11.
I could say it's one of the enjoyable unintended consequences of coronavirus with people scared stiff paranoid. Usually this old 4 decker house is buzzing with kids and other punks.
This post was edited by CosmicWunderkind at April 19, 2020 1:47 PM MDT
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