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.

 

[tomturbomatic]

Sorry Glenn, but what's an FM? What is the difference between pink and white noise? I have a background noise generator that was a survival tool in my former office where the normal tone of conversation at one end was suitable for a stadium or road crew and it had different colors of noise. Thanks.

 

[DADoES]

 
FM = Farm to Market road.

 

[lakewebsterkid]

We live on a fairly quiet street. A majority of the noise comes from my neighbors. One family is stupid loud. Another has very annoying kids that are grown but like singing and screaming. I desire to live in the middle of nowhere once I retire.

 

[askolover]

Me too!  If it weren't for the fact that I don't have a mortgage and don't want another one we'd already be moved out into the country.  David Crockett said that if you can hear your neighbor's dog bark then you are too close.  I don't like being around people...which is why I work nights and do my shopping online and my walmarting in the middle of the night.

 

[vacerator]

Yes Gregg,

same here. It would cost us more to live anywhere else. Savings is priority now for retirement. A little noise is acceptable, and a noise machine or a fan helps.
This summer, out in the country, a woman was killed by a stray bullet from a neighbor practicing shooting. She was sitting in her living room chair.

 

[imperial70]

My neighborhood was quiet until it went through turnover. Now you can hear the young couples making little tax hikes.

 

[superocd]

My neighborhood is quiet, thank God...

It's your typical suburban cul-de-sac. A few families with obedient kids, some retirees, and a couple young couples like my wife and I. There is a train about a mile away but I never hear it all that often. We live near a freeway. There's a bit of trees between our neighborhood and the actual freeway, so it muffles things a bit. Once in a while I actually open the window on cooler nights *if* my wife is not home (she works overnights as a CCU RN). The very soft drone of the traffic is kind of soothing to me, despite me being a light sleeper. My wife doesn't like it as much.

Funny that somebody brought up the topic of screaming foxes. My aunt and uncle live about 70 miles south of where I do in a rural area. The first few months of living there my uncle left on business. My aunt was home alone watching TV (probably a Lifetime movie). She heard the screaming foxes late at night and totally assumed that somebody was being butchered out there by an axe murderer. She had the police out there and everything. They turned up nothing. I could only imagine what kind of a panic she was in until they got there.

That following 4th of July, they had a cookout. Around dusk, my aunt took me aside and asked me to stand across the road to see if I could see in the windows of the house (the whole front of the house is basically all windows on both stories). She wanted to know if some creeping tom or serial killer could see inside. I told her that I could see maybe the upstairs balcony and a general outline of the downstairs and that was standing at the edge of the driveway, which was a good distance from the house. Not long after that, she had custom remote-controlled shades installed, which probably cost them a pretty good penny to buy and install.

This is what Lifetime movies does to ya, lol!

 

[thomasortega]

My lovely (not) neighborhood is extremely quiet.

Except for the police helicopters, planes flying right over my house (and shaking it) every 3 minutes to land at LAX and almost every other day watching a police chase on Facebook with Stu Mundell narrating it and my roof appearing. Oh! Wait! Did i mention the shots?

This video shows an example of how lovely it is to live in 90044. Who doesn't remember 1992?

By the way, I live a couple of blocks away from the infamous Tom's liquor store.

Well, i don't have much to complain, except the front neighbor (i live in the back house) that smokes marijuana right below my bedroom window and the neighbor across the street that makes donuts every day right in front of my driveway with his old mustang. Oh, and the next neighbor that is a SERIOUS hoarder and has a monster fleas infestation in his yard.

What could be better?

 

[revvinkevin]

 

 

I grew up in a greater Los Angeles urban area.  Being we were a long block from a major street and a mile or so from the local freeway, there was distant traffic noise (pink noise?) at most hours, except the early-early morning.  With the exception of the nearby oil refinery "blowing up" 3 times during my childhood (once breaking 2 windows in our house) our neighborhood was not excessively noisy. 

 

The neighborhood I live in now is also generally pretty quiet most of the time, but again traffic noise a few blocks away is often there (loud car or motorcycle, etc).   Also, living on a hill, I find I can here things at distances that you wouldn't hear if on flat land.  We also have the occasional "ghetto-bird" flying over or circling near by.  When you cross the "border" into the next city, the neighborhood unfortunately, degrades more quickly then I'd like.  4th of July is interesting, in that it lasts (fireworks & other noise makers) from the beginning of June to at least mid August.  Oh yeah, New Years Eve is pretty darn noisy as well.  Fortunately such noises don't bother my dog at all, unless it's super loud as if across the street.  Some friends have dogs that COMPLETELY spazz out due to such noises and are literally given a doggy version of valium for the evening. 

 

About 10 years ago I discovered I can't sleep with the windows open (on warm summer nights, etc) not because of extraneous neighborhood noise that you'd think, but because of the crickets!  The noise they make is just enough to prevent me from going into REM sleep (or what ever it's called) and I'm really tired the next day and it took a number of months before I realized that was the problem.  Now if I do sleep with the windows open, I use earplugs!

 

[tolivac]

I don't understand the circumstances in the trucker beating shown in the link-If I were the driver----KEEP GOING-If you run over some of those clowns---no loss.Esp if they were trying to climb onto my truck---KEEP GOING!!!!

 

[thomasortega]

@tolivac

Unfortunately this is part of the American History now and it must never be forgotten, so the newer generations can learn with the mistakes from the past.

That incident happened in 1992, just a couple of blocks from where i live now. (it ended up in this thread because I was talking about my neighborhood)

As an immigrant, I did my homework to learn as much as possible about the local culture and history. I wasn't born here, I wasn't even born in the USA, but after almost three years living here in Los Angeles, I can say I'm an "Angeleno" because that's MY city, that's where I live. Los Angeles, El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora de los Angeles de Porciuncula, La La Land or simply L.A. as some people prefer to call is a magical city, a wonderful place to live but, it also has its dark sides, like everywhere else in the world.

In 1991 Rodney King was brutally beaten by several L.A.P.D. officers after a car chase. It was more than obvious that the officers abused because Mr. King was already handcuffed when the officers started using tasers, pepper sprays, batons and also kicking him. OK, Mr King wasn't exactly an innocent angel, but the police officers must do their job, not use citizens as stress relief punch pags.

An amateur video maker was playing with his video camera and coincidently filmed the action. The video because famous all over the world and nowadays is known as the very first viral video in the world, decades before Youtube, Facebook and Twitter.

To make things much worse, Mr. King was black and the police officers were white.

In 1992 the case was judged in the court.... The judge and the juri were also all white and outrageously, all police officers were considered innocent, even having an irrefutable video evidence they committed several excesses, starting by there is no need to use a taser several times against a man that is already handcuffed and on the ground

Instantly when the veredict was announced, rage motivated protests that started to pop up all over the city. At that point pacific protests but the worse was about to come on the next hour.

Things ran out of control when the L.A.P.D. chief ordered all the police officers to ignore calls and go back to their headquarters. The city of angels turned into City of hell for the next days, with an absurd aftermath: People were killed, hundreds injured, thousands of buildings were destroyed. It showed the worst part of humanity. Martial law had to be declared.

The truck driver's name is Reginald Denny if I'm not mistaked. Mr. Denny had no idea about what was going on when he stopped his truck on a red light. He had no time to react.