Is you neighborhood or place you live quiet or noisy at night?

[fan-of-fans]

I was thinking about this. My neighborhood thankfully these days is very quiet at night. I rarely hear anything, in fact, I doubt cars even go down my street after 10 PM probably, few after 8 or 9. Contrast this to when one house used to sell drugs and have parties until early morning regularly. I don't even hear ATVs going to the woods nearby or cars with thumping bass out on the main road like I used to.

Now if I go outside, and listen closely I hear the hum of the cars on the highway, but that's it. Once in a while I can hear a boat motor on the water. Winter time seems to let sounds carry more, I sometimes hear train whistles when it's cold, yet the tracks are several miles away.

I also rarely wake up at night like I used to.

 

[turquoisedude]

Mercifully both houses are in quiet areas.  Our main residence used to be in downtown Montreal and it was very noisy. It got so bad the city wound up putting up signs to remind the party animals that they were in a residential zone and to refrain from screaming in the streets...

The house in Ogden is surrounded by woods and the nearest neighbours are nearly a mile away.   Coyotes are the only thing we hear howling at night!

 

[passatdoc]

Very quiet. On a golf course.

 

[justjunque]

Pretty quiet

We too can hear the occasional train, even though they're pretty far from us too.
Plenty of nighttime bug/frog sounds In the warm weather.
Whatever season foxes mate in, we sometimes hear them doing their scream that they do.
That can be startling in the middle of the night! But I like critters, so I kind of like hearing them.
One time, woke up in the middle of the night to an owl hooting.
That was cool, but I haven't heard it since.

Barry

 

[wayupnorth]

From Labor Day until the next Memorial Day, this lake is a nice, quiet ghost town. Summer it is absolutely not quiet as it seems everyone of the fair weather people has noisy boats, fireworks and screaming parties.

 

[parunner58]

Quiet both day and night. Suprisingly I am only 30 minutes SW of Walt Disney World to. The only noise during the day are lawn mowers or the delivery and trash trucks.

 

[jamiel]

Relatively noisy--we have I-696 about 5 blocks away, which makes a low background hum (as it's underground--). Scarcely notice it, though.

 

[Ultramatic]

Pretty quiet.

 

 

An occasional siren from an emergency vehicles or the far off rumble from the elevated train. Once in a blue moon a helicopter overhead. The later it gets, the quieter it gets.

 

[iowabear]

I live next to a municipal pool, so like WayUpNorth it's like two different places.  Noisy for 3 months in the summer (pool PA system, kids screeching, car stereos) and peaceful the rest of the year.

 

I have never minded the summer noise, I get used to it and seeing all  the hot dads at the pool is a nice bonus.

 

Before all the new security lights and cams went up people used to climb the fence at night and skinny dip! 

 

[countryford]

Considering we now have 3 neighbors and we are all out in the middle of nowhere, it is pretty quiet. However we are less than a mile away from the main highway, so outside, we do hear a slight rumble from the passing traffic. Inside you would never know.

 

[dartman]

I'm off the main street about 10 blocks, the house had new double pane windows, siding, roof, and great insulation for when it was built so with the windows closed even with neighbors 20 feet away on both sides its pretty quiet at night. You hear some cars occasionally and a noisy Harley a neighbor a few houses down but I'm happy and I sleep well enough. One night a crazy guy shot hus girlfriend, crashed his getaway car a few houses down, and the cops broke into our gate thinking he might be in our backyard hiding. I woke up that morning to a wide open gate with the lock cut and laying on the ground. Neither of us woke up and I had no clue what had happened in my backyard. The neighbor finally told me when I showed him my destroyed lock and complained somebody broke into my back yard so I guess it's pretty quiet or we both sleep like the dead. I know it's nice not to hear everything that happens outside like I clearly could at my old rental.

 

[tomturbomatic]

I have idiot neighbors, not all, but some, who think nothing of letting dogs bark all night. I also have window air conditioners that blot out all of that and  double pane windows which help also.  In the winter when the air conditioner is bundled up, I run my Vornado fan on the second from the lowest speed and don't hear anything.  When I go outside, I can hear the hum from the beltway and, occasionally, sirens and train whistles, but when I am outside, I am not trying to sleep. I do notice, after a big snow which is a great silencer anyway, that the hum from the beltway is absent.

 

[norgeway]

Almost Silent!

On Friday nights you can hear the high school football games and interstate 40 in the distance, but overall very quiet.

 

[easy]

Like wearing ear muffs

I had insulation blown into all the exterior walls of my house to save energy.

It's amazing how much noise it blocks out.

 

[blackstone]

Thank You for the Opportunity to Repost My Facebook Comment:

Two next-door neighbors moved out this month. These are the people who liked to have loud parties late into the night. So, for now anyway, no more loud, thumping, blasting music lasting until 3:00. No more drunken arguments outside my bedroom window. (Even when they had "conversations", their voices were to the level of yelling.) No more car doors slamming. When I walk the dog in the backyard in the morning, I don't have any bottles to throw back over the fence.

It is so peaceful now. I can leave the windows open at night, and get regular sleep. I can hear the lonesome wail of the train horns, a half-mile away. Too late in the year to hear crickets, although I have heard a few. Sure, there are still a few cars with radios, and excessively loud motorcycles, but they fade into the distance when the red light changes green.

Only thing preventing absolute peace and quiet is tinnitus.

Some people spend fortunes to retire to a cabin in the woods. I only have to wait until neighbors move out.

 

[tolivac]

For me--Saturday nights especially-the "boom" cars that gather at the WalMart parking lot.Last week some dope there was playing the music so loud I could hear the words of the song in my driveway!complaining to the police,sheriff,WalMart does no good.They ARE in violation of noise ordinances and creating a disturbance-both illegal here.

 

[mrsalvo]

We live on the outskirts of the subrurbs in San Antonio Texas, it use to be very quiet but now the population has exploded around us and it can be noisy at night with dogs barking all night, the boom of the cars and traffic. Union Pacific Railroad is another matter, the main southern trancontinental mainline a little less than a mile away. When weather conditions are just right the trains sound like they are right across the street, horns are loud. Sometimes they run every 20 minutes. I don't want to live close to a railroad anymore if I ever move again.

Barry

 

[askolover]

Right behind the hospital and beside the police department so I hear sirens and helicopters at all hours of the day and night...but only if I'm paying attention.  I guess I'm used to it after 20 years.  Oh, and then there's the train tracks a stone's throw from here too.

 

[DADoES]

 
A busy FM runs along front of my property.  Traffic slacks at night (until early-hrs work travel begins) but there's still the occasional vehicle passing at all hrs, including a few trucks.  It has become part of the normal background noise after 13+ years.  A bark-fest may happen among the dogs in the area but I don't much hear that inside.  I always run a fan of some type, we had window units in my childhood home so the white/pink noise is required.