@B3, I know what you mean about thumping music and nearby lawnmowers. It is the regularity that can make it more of a disturbance too. It is good you can 'select to hear' (or not) some nuisance noise, I suppose. Smoke gets everywhere once it is nearby, it can really encroach!
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@Fire, that sounds disturbing. I don't think you need to be under a direct flight path to be affected either. I hope they are not circling for hours...
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@ViewAhead, oh dear, a decade...it sounds as though the reversing lorries dwarf the sound of the building work, so it must be bad. Certain sound ranges have been found to be more troublesome, I understand and everyone is a bit different. Would you say the beeping noise stands out to you because it is sort of higher-pitched than the other sounds? I can well believe the sound carries that far.
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OH's cottage in Norfolk is in a small village and our neighbours are elderly, like us. There are tractors but they don't bother me. Hardly any planes, sometimes the Red Arrows on their way to a display but that's fun. The worst thing is the wild cockerel when he sits on the fence and crows in the morning.
My house in Dordogne is on the edge of a hamlet on a road but it isn't very noisy, tractors again. Sometimes motorbikes at the weekend. Neighbours are over 100m away. No planes.
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@Fire, that sounds disturbing. I don't think you need to be under a direct flight path to be affected either. I hope they are not circling for hours...
Tbh, I try to tune it out these days. At night and first thing in the morning the planes go over every 40 seconds and I hear them, despite double glazing. We do get police helicopters circling for hours at 3am, as we live on a "country lines" territory and gangs are always fighting. We see air ambulances land a few streets away, which always raises a lump to the throat. Motorbikes zoom about all night, lapping the block and tearing up the park near by.
Engine/motor noise is a plague, in my opinion, and badly affects so many people's health.
I am aware that a "move to the country" does not promise anything quieter, necessarily, as bikes, racer boys, power tools and bangers plague people there too, but I do (still) fantasise about a place where all there is to be hear is wind, storm and birdsong.
We are entering our local fireworks season, that goes on from now until early Feb. A wedding party had a full scale display of their own last week from 2.30 am to 3am on the hill above us. It must have cost many thousands. The park is entirely surrounded by housing and sometime I get wakened and lie there calculating how many thousand people are distrurbed by the idiocy. It doesn't help to get me back to sleep.
Lucky you B-L. We are near a private aerodrome with sone very loud private planes flying over head. Then comes the Spitfire occasionally which is an amazing site which puts them all to shame and then makes it all worth while. I often wonder what the noise was like when a squadron took to the air.
@Emerion, yes I have noticed that some gardens never have any laundry airing outside. It is not possible to see some boundaries, due to tall trees, but I would estimate that near me, only about 25 % air laundry outside but probably 40% have bonfires and barbecues, unfortunately.
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@Plantminded, there is something about building work noise and vibrations that gets everywhere, including indoors. I have noticed that here too: once one house has some renovation work done, it is a bit like a chain-reaction, with other houses waiting in the wings for their moment of transformation...and it always seems to be so much worse during the nicer weather! That is true about builders and their radios. I sometimes think they are trying in vain to cover their noise, but the result is often just a worse cacophony...
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@ViewAhead, oh dear, a decade...it sounds as though the reversing lorries dwarf the sound of the building work, so it must be bad. Certain sound ranges have been found to be more troublesome, I understand and everyone is a bit different. Would you say the beeping noise stands out to you because it is sort of higher-pitched than the other sounds? I can well believe the sound carries that far.
Yes, it is the pitch, I think. Plus, even with all doors and windows closed you can still hear it, whereas the rumbling of the building machinery doesn't seem to intrude so badly.
A few more yrs to go yet too. They spent 7 yrs converting a disused hospital site (buildings and grounds) within earshot and are now building dozens of homes on a piece of land stretching in an arc round where I live, the nearest part being about 50m away. Hey ho! We need the housing.
Our ex neighbour, a guy we both hated because of his flagrant disregard for planning regulations and tree protection orders, had invested in industrial grade patio vacuum cleaners and lawnmowers, which he operated noisily whenever he felt like it. And he had a fancy burglar alarm that sounded like an air raid siren, not only regularly and noisily tested but prone to go off in the night, or all afternoon. Thankfully, he has moved away, and the new neighbours are very considerate. The house is about 30 yards away according to Google. Our house is in a big plot, over an acre, so most neighbours are well away. The village is very quiet too, so even the sound of traffic tends to make us look up to see who is coming up the road. There does seem to be regular chain saw use during daylight hours, but the garden blowers are the most annoying. The local school is half a mile away, and if the wind is in the right direction, we can hear the kids out in the playground! We are not too far from the local airport, although not under the approach flight path, but I love planes, so not an annoyance for me. The owls are pretty noisy at night though!
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My house in Dordogne is on the edge of a hamlet on a road but it isn't very noisy, tractors again. Sometimes motorbikes at the weekend. Neighbours are over 100m away.
No planes.
Our house is in a big plot, over an acre, so most neighbours are well away. The village is very quiet too, so even the sound of traffic tends to make us look up to see who is coming up the road. There does seem to be regular chain saw use during daylight hours, but the garden blowers are the most annoying.
The local school is half a mile away, and if the wind is in the right direction, we can hear the kids out in the playground!
We are not too far from the local airport, although not under the approach flight path, but I love planes, so not an annoyance for me.
The owls are pretty noisy at night though!