Is your neighborhood quiet or noisy at night?

[fan-of-fans]

Here my neighborhood is usually quiet at night these days. The only thing that gets noisy sometimes is I will hear ATVs driving on the road that wake me up sometimes in the middle of the night. They're going to the trails nearby probably. There used to be some noisy neighbors down the street, they were having big parties and selling drugs. After they foreclosed on the house, it was torn down and new house built. So all of the neighbors now are quiet.

Only other thing is I will occasionally hear cars with bass going by out on the main road or boat motors at night.

 

[lordkenmore]

Surprisingly noisy, given that I live in the middle of nowhere. Of course, one expects wildlife related noise. For example, last week, during a warm spell when I had windows open well after dark, I heard plenty of frogs.

 

But when I first moved in here, I was really surprised by how much traffic I heard on the street. Then there was the neighbor who (at that time) seemed to love riding his motorcycle at 2 AM.

 

 

 

 

 

[dustin92]

Surprisingly noisy. You can hear cars out on the main street and highway at all hours of the night, and the highway is nearly a mile away. We don't have a lot of traffic on our street, but there is always a few throughout the night, and my bedroom is on the street side. Not too bad but far from silent.

 

[wayupnorth]

All I hear is Loons crying and damn crows at the crack of dawn during the night, but daytime, tons of boats racing by like it was I-95 . But I have not opened and left open any windows yet this year as we refuse to warm up to spring temps and I refuse to have heat on in almost May. I will probably have to put the a/c in next month when the humidity from the south gets here.

 

[jamiel]

We live 4 blocks south of an interstate, so there is a constant low-pitched hum 24 7.

 

[daveamkrayoguy]

I'm glad as far as noise level goes, that it is something where I "don't want to go there"--that is, no need to call the police, or just have to yell at anyone to quiet down...

However, I do not like to have windows open; I don't like what little outside coming in, or what a lot of inside going out...

-- Dave

 

[robbinsandmyers]

I live on the main street in town so during the day its pretty noisy traffic wise. In warm months the motorcycles use it as a drag strip. At night its not too bad other than the cops going by at 80 MPH responding to a call one every 30 seconds when the natives get restless down near the town line a mile away. There is a small tailor shop on the front of the house and Im behind it so it acts as a buffer at night with the traffic noise as its wider than the house. Getting to sleep was rough at first but I use a 1932 R&M 8" fan daily for white noise and its great. Its better than my old place which was in a historical area at pizza ground zero in New Haven but with a noisy upstairs neighbor.

 

[askolover]

I live right behind the hospital so I can hear ambulance sirens all hours of the day or night.  The helipad is only a couple of blocks the other way so I hear choppers coming in or revving up to take off all hours.  The young couple across the street frequently have cars in their driveway with thumping bass stereos blasting.  When I moved here it was an older neighborhood with mostly old people...then most of them died or moved away and now the old houses have become rental houses for younger people and WE are the old people now!  Wish we could move out to the country.  Tony is dying to move to Louisiana...he says New Orleans "calls" to him.....well it must not have my number because it ain't calling me...not to live there anyway!

 

[jmm63]

It's quiet and peaceful out here most of the time and I love it. Just the usual car going by or kids playing during the day, night time is usually very quiet. Except in the summer when a fox mates out in the woods behind us, you haven't lived until you hear that screaming at 3am.

I always lived in the suburbs and enjoyed mostly quiet times. When I first moved to Brooklyn, I couldn't sleep for about 4 months with all the noise at night. Summer was ok with the A/C on but it was terrible if you left a window open. When I moved to NJ 2 years later, I couldn't sleep at night with all the QUIET! Funny how you get used to things.

 

[gizmo]

We live in forest, it is quiet at night.

Our cat Casper and I have developed a routine. About 10.30pm he sits by the door and demands to be taken out. (He is a bird murderer so isn't allowed out without me.)

I carry him around outside for 10 to 15 minutes. He is a very big cat, about 6.7 kg, so we walk till my back and arms ache, then we come inside. We walk by moonlight, listen to the frogs in the dam, and the owls if there are any around. On warm nights, the crickets do their thing, too.
Last night there were two owls calling to each other, one in blackwood trees near the house, the other some distance away. I just love that sound, the closer one louder, the distant one quieter. HOO HOO. Hoo hoo. HOO HOO. Hoo hoo. HOO HOO. Hoo hoo.
Casper loves it too, his head swivels around to each new noise. I take him to different trees and shrubs to smell, too.

I have bad tinnitus (ringing in the ears) and have had for years. So I don't like quiet at night till I get to sleep. I love to listen to the frogs and owls when falling off to sleep, it takes my attention away from the tinnitus.

We have a tin roof, the rain on the roof sounds great, too.

 

[vacerator]

Quiet mostly.

My neighbor has a Harley Davidson, but is usually not running it after 9 p.m. The occasional barking dog.
We have a noise curfew of 10 p.m. I hear the occasional car boom box when young people come home at 2 or 3 a.m. Typical suburban noises. Our windows have thick double glazing.

 

[Ultramatic]

 

 

New York City, need I say more? Because I live in a high rise complex on super blocks, there is a lot of space between buildings, about a quarter of a mile. This makes a canyon effect. Sirens on emergency vehicles, horns and the elevated train from far away are amplified. Helicopters and the occasional ship horn are also present. We're also directly under the glide path to La Guardia airport, but thankfully aircraft pass so high above us you don't hear a thing. Most of the time, you just hear the far off drone of traffic.  It quiets down considerably in the evening, and some evenings it can get eerily quiet. If it snows, then there is utter silence. Falling snow acts like sound proofing. Now that it is spring, around 5am the birds get into a chirping frenzy. During the day, you hear many of them sing about among the trees. We also have falcons, they rarely make a sound, but when they do, it's unmistakable. Plus the occasional obnoxious seagull. We have double, insulated windows, when they're closed, you don't hear a thing.

 

[blackstone]

I live near the center of a medium-size city, Springfield Mass, at a relatively busy intersection. It is close to 2 major hospitals, and less than a mile from both fire and police headquarters. Needless to say, there is a lot of traffic noise, including sirens and motorcycles. I'm used to it; doesn't bother me. It is a convenient location to live.

What does grind my gears is when neighbors crank up the music in the evening and into the night. Intolerable, even with the windows closed. Calls to police are only a temporary solution. One night last year, it lasted until 6:00 am. I have a good mind to fill up the snowblower with gas, and let 'er rip at 7:00 am until the gas tank is empty.

The only frustrating thing about police sirens is the fact that Springfield has scrambled the police scanner frequencies. Now, when I hear all the cars zooming by, I don't know what is going on.

 

[cornutt]

When I lived in Florida, the bedroom windows in my apartment opened onto an alley. Across the alley was a bar. A bunch of noise. A particular irritant was that the bar backs would dump beer bottles from the upstairs bar off the fire escape into the dumpster below. And every few months ago I'd have to call the cops because of a fight in the alley.

 

[tolivac]

The car booming stereos is becoming a problem in my area on Saturdays---Sometimes during the day-trying to sleep-and then at night.Calls to the police or sheriff do no good--"Its out of the town limits--nothing we can do"or when you call the police they say call the sheriff dept-you call the sheriff and they say call the police.Guess me and neighbors are going to have to call the county comissioners or something.Car sound systems are nice-but you DON'T NEED to turn the woofer up all the way-and its BAD for your hearing!!!

 

[mrsalvo]

It can be both in our neighborhood, we live outside a suburb, it depends on how much rail traffic Union Pacific Railroad sends our way on any given night. If the wind is blowing in our direction and / or foggy conditions, those trains can sound like they are passing in our front yard. We live about a mile from the southern US mainline, so about every 30 minutes or less they come barreling through horns blowing constantly. Sometimes there's a banging noise associated with them. Dogs next door can bark through the night. And of course our chime clock every 15 minutes. I'm used to a lot of it, except the trains on a foggy night.

Barry

 

[tolivac]

I have a RR track not to far from my house-its a private spur owned by PCS Phosphate.The trains don't bother me.Southbound trains are either empty or carrying fill dirt.Northbound carry phosphates or phosphoric acid.No problems with any of these.The Northbound cars can go all the way top 'Jersey!They are carried by another RR.

 

[abcomatic]

Very quiet 24 hrs. a day here.

 

[circlew]

Although it's quiet most of the night, one of the neighbors around the corner starts his very noisy older (90's) Dodge truck about 5:30 AM most mornings. It's worse in cold weather as he lets it warm up for at least 10 mins. before leaving. The truck was quiet the first week he had it, but he just had to put a noisy exhaust on it, just like every other vehicle he's had. His stupid Honda Civic was just as loud. Before that he had an old Chevy Silverado that he made loud.

It used to be noisier when the house across the street was occupied by a young couple that would get into fights. Several times I was awoken by the two of them screaming and cussing at each other. Their house and surroundings were also a mess, so I was glad when they moved.

The only other night noises are an occasional neighbor dog barking, a cat fight, choo-choo's (trains), or woo-woo's (fire trucks, ambulances or police cars).