suburbs are the worst.

Natural noises have a rhythm that doesn’t stress us out and wake us. Methodical.

A busy road can mostly start to blend into white noise. Unless it’s absolute sociopaths honking in residential neighborhoods.

Suburbs though have leaf blowers that your asshole neighbor uses 2 hours before it’s legal to use it.

That noise is inconsistent, and it is the worst sound. Some people just suck though.

>> Natural noises have a rhythm that doesn’t stress us out and wake us.

Florida. Key West. Protected bird species. The parking lot roosters. Nothing methodical about them.

I don't enjoy absolute silence at all, quietness for me is low intensity natural background noise. Shuffling of leaves, birds, crickets, wind through trees' canopy, a stream of water, all of that is very much soothing (and wanted) noise for me.

I've been around a few suburbs in the USA and they aren't quiet to my ears, they sound dead for a lack of a better word. Dead with the odd noise from a car's engine and tyres (usually a pickup truck), lawn mower, leaf blower rushing through it.

Absolute silence is not even natural, it gives me the creeps when I'm in a deafening silent ambient.

Suburbs are bad in terms of noise. The biggest sources of noise I heard were (gas-powered) lawnmowers, the weekly garbage trucks, snow plows, car traffic, and air conditioners.

For me it's leaf blowers. For years there was a lawn crew that would run a leafblower outside during a regular conference call I had and I would have to stop what I was saying while the guy went by a quarter mile away from me.