Why is the world so damned loud?

I just want to run out into the middle of the woods to get some quiet.

Seems louder than it used to be, more power tools, electronics, and crowded. I was born on a farm and you'd hear more nature sounds than anything, and it was not common to see a plane flying over either. Living in an air force flight path now, and can hear the traffic a couple blocks away where there's an intersection.

fun4us2b · M

Tell me about it - Instead of sweeping my neighbor who must have a clean driveway uses an electric leaf blower consonantly to keep it clean, he even uses it to blow pollen off his dumb sports car - then he starts that up and you can hear the loud exhausts 2 blocks away - what a meatball - glad I moved to a fancy neighborhood...

SW-User

@fun4us2b: Grrrr! That kind of thing is precisely what I am talking about! Glad you got out of there!

fun4us2b · M

@Meowsolini: No! The fancy neighborhood is where I live, next to the noisy meatball! He also, never brings his garbage pails in from the front of his house, which is bizarre, and the village never cited him. We should have stayed in funky town...