Do you live on a noisy street?!

watersoul

I live on a street that's a major route out of the main center, and every Friday/Saturday night there's usually a fight/arguing/drunken behaviour to be watched from my window, often with police involvement. No-one in my street (or any of the central area) lives on ground level so its quite safe and actually very interesting and funny sometimes watching how really terrible people become after drinking too much, with their pointless arguments and silly rows! ...in fact, its far better than TV because its not edited at all, its real!

I started a "channel" last weekend on Youtube, just filming some of the better moments on my mobile phone for anyone else to see - http://youtube.com/tq1media - (tq1 is the start of my zip/postal code area) and I'll add stuff as it wakes me up/disturbs my peace on a weekend. Bit disappointed tonight though, with the moon so full I was expecting loads of material to film and add to the net!
Anyway, I'm interested to know what other Frihosters home streets are like, suburbia/rural/city center madness/whatever???

...oh and just for the record, the only reason I'm not out shaming myself on friday/saturday nights is because I'm a full time student and subsidising my student loan working all weekend nights delivering pizza's for the drunken masses - that however would be another topic! Smile

BLAK

If you want to have better media, I think you should get a better camcorder or microphone so we can actually listen to these people. I ny road it's very quiet. I live 5 minutes walk from High Street but still no one is disturbing me at night. Smile

watersoul

Thanks Blak, I know what you say, but my poor phone was all I had, I'll get a decent digital camera one day but my student money can only go so far! This is only to show a snapshot of my street/area at the moment, January I may be able to upgrade and then it may be good viewing, until then though, money talks you know Sad

Magicman

I live on a somewhat rural road with a main road running parallel to it going the same place so my road is fairly quiet. Considering my house is really far away from the road, there is never enough sound from the road to bother me.
That is an interesting project you've come up with, taping the sounds of your road.

kiranaghor

hmmm i also live on a crowdy road. on daytime im out mostly but in the evening it is so damn noisy that i get irritated. Sometimes at night when im aleep someone goes around blowing horn needlessly and it wakes me up. Its sad and I don't know how to deal with this.

mawfia

Haha, I live in Pensacola, where every morning around 0800 F-18s fly over head for a couple of hours training for air shows. Due to performance requirements the planes never go above 3000 feet and often fly just above the telephone wires. Sometimes they fly so low you can see the pilot in the cockpit!

rheanna

do idiot drivers count? Hate my nieghbors....

LOL, Did the cop say at the end..."Get your own Coffee" roflmao!!!!!!!!!!!!! Might be the jager talking and I'm making my own words up hahahaha...But I'm dying laughing right now over that comment if it was. ROFL

DSGamer3002

Well, my street is pretty laid down (quiet, inactive). From what I know, nobody really makes connections with one another, and the most noise you hear is if the guy across the street from me is whistling, or if his neighbor is using their car garage. (This guy installed a huge car lift in his garage so he can have 3 cars inside. He has 5 cars total though. Razz

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Aless

I live in central London, so nearly every street is noisy and/or busy!

Well, I exaggerate. It's not actually OUR street that's loud, but we live off a decent-sized A road that provides a major throughway from Vauxhall to southeast London (Brixton, Streatham, and similar!), so it's always buzzing with ambulances, police cars and loud motorcycles! Never wakes me up at night, but I do wish our windows were a bit thinker when the pub lets out.

SpellcasterDX

No not really. My street's pretty quiet, even during rush-hour. I guess it's cause it's not really a main street but rather just a street that connects the city. There aren't any/many large business nearby.

hofodomo01

I've moved around 5 times in my life, and I've always been in a semi secluded but really nice and quite neighbourhood. Now, I'm living in an even more remote building, but I got some really loud neighbours instead >_<

hlavco

We live on a cul-de-sac, so for the most part it's so quiet that we get up and look out the window whenever a car comes by. However, the last few years our stupid little wannabe gangster neighbor kid has been having his friends over all day every day, playing outside with music blasting.

I guess it's nice that he plays outside all day instead of staying on the computer all day, though.

BPrice

I live in a smal vilage with 3 pubs on my road which used to be quiet but since the smoking ban its got alot loader because everybody is coming out the front of the pubs to have a smoke that then leads to the normal load drunken behaiver

p.s please no coments on my speling I know it bad.

vineeth

I am living in a small town in India near my medical college... Noise pollution is high even here. I used to seal all my windows during night... Sometimes, I had to move to some other place for a good sleep..

divinitywolf

I'm living in a house with several motorways near by but inside the house its quiet so i can get a good nights sleep.
But when you go outside the house there is a distant roar of trafic constantly but i guess it wouldn't be called "noisy" as such, just background noise.

watersoul

BPrice said:

Nubilosus

I live in a very quiet neighbourhood, it is close to the highway but we have a GREAT sound isolating wall.

rappn

I live on a rather noisy street yes, but ofcourse, im the one that makes all the noise Very Happy

It´s because i have some motorstuffs, like a motorcycle, a moped (with a hole in its exhaustpipe Wink

), the car, and the worst thing is not a motorthing, it´s my speakers, i have like five or six speakers (Big ones) in my room, and i like to play very loud music! So sometimes my neigbours get very pissed of at me, but what the hell...

I want to have fun, while they sit on their ass and whine about all my loud stuffs Razz

So, yes i live on a noisy street! Laughing

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DoctorBeaver

I live in a lovely quiet little village near the Cotswold hills. Ah, the peace and quiet! Very Happy

Blaster

Me i live on a fairly quite street. Its a little side street of a more busy street. But watching the fights and all out of your window must get pretty entertaining. Smile

Bagpipe

I did. Noisy street, railway close by, argueing neigbours - it made me sick.
I live in a small house in a forest now, all by my self. No man-made noise. It's heaven...

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Donutey

I live in a suburban area where the street pretty quiet. The only exception to this is that our street is straight and about a quarter mile long, so we get people drag racing down it sometimes late at night. (I now understand why developers so often make streets curvy in new subdivisions these days).

max2500

Our street has been quiet since we moved in, but recently theres been some trouble. And some annoying people moved in a few doors up, always arguing n fighting with each other etc

everyone in the street tho has just started phoning the police any time they kick off, hopefully they'll get evicted soon enough lol

Cant wait till i have enough money to afford me own place n move away from here now.

rappn

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Kaisonic

I live about 2.5 miles from the suburb that's the furthest away from the nearest city, so I'm about 10 miles out from the two nearest cities (it's like a math problem - I'm the point lying on a straight line between two cities where the point is farthest it can be from both cities). So I'm pretty much undisturbed at night. Pretty much no noise, except for the occasional distant neighbor dog and the distant sound of cars passing on the nearby (ish) highway.

Futile

I just recently moved to a new apartment complex that is half way between my day job and night job. There were mixed reviews online about the complex about 50 - 50 good or bad. A lot of the bad was a lot of partying and noise going on until all hours of the night. I have been there a month and a half and have not heard or seen anything that could be consued as noisy. I hear my upstairs neighbor bumping around ocassionally but that is to be expected and accepted, the curse of living on the bottom floor. So I guess my answer to the original post question is no.

Molle

I live on the countryside. Not in a village... it's to few people to call it a village. But I like it here, quite and peacefull. Around 10 cars drives pass my house everyday. Not much, ey?

friuser

fortunately i also live in a quiet neighborhood and it's in the city but it's more suburbs. Fortunately there are very strict laws about noise pollution but than there has to be when you are live in new york city. Check your local laws and if you file enough reports, i'm sure the fines will give you some peace and quiet at your neighborhood. Probably more difficult in your situation but well worth it in helping you have more footage!

Tatsumaru

My street is not very noisy, but I can clearly hear cars and loud-mouthed people pass by in the evening... it's annoying when I'm trying to sleep, but it's ignoreable. Our neighbors often throw parties which are the most annoying thing ever haha (horrible music).

rappn

bigdan

Nope! I live on a very quiet country road in rural Australia. All I can hear are all the insects and animals scurrying around outside.

Tumbleweed

Azmo

Yes I do, I live in central stockholm so it's kinda noisy... the price you have to pay! =)

plus900

i live on a main road i get woke up evry night

standready

The only noise I have is from my neighbor's college age kid and some friends that think they are rock stars in the garage. Everything turned all the way. Can't even hear my TV with my house closed up. Police won't do anything because it is not after 11pm.
The really bad part of it all it that they, how to put this nicely, SUCK! No rhythm. As one of my other neighbor's eight old said "My sister (2 years old) can play better than they do.".

tikitait

Yep I live in a noisy/busy area.

I live about 200 yeards from a Pub, its on the edge of a main road and our street.

On a Thursday, Friday, Saturday and sometimes a Sunday the amount of people that go past fighting, smashing glasses etc is unreal.

This summer (if you can call it that) we had the window open and it was about 3am, heard two women going at it, (as in shouting), they were partners having a domestic!
They were stood right underneath our window so we could hear everything! After 30 mins or so I told em to go somewhere else, you know all nicey nicey at first. They still went on so after about an hour i called the police sayin it sounded like they were going to kill each other.
3 mins later, police arrive, blue lights n everything, they soon left lol

driftingfe3s

Not really a noisy street, but I have noisy neighbors. Sometimes I'll hear the neighbors yelling at each other in the middle of the night or very early in the morning. It's very annoying because my window is close to theirs. Also my other neighbor has this dog that at times wont stop barking for minutes on end when I'm trying to sleep. Luckily it doesnt happen too often.

djcaution

I live right next to a fire department so there's constantly firetrucks blaring their sirens as they leave on calls, but I don't even hear them anymore I'm so used to it.

ExplicitRyan

I used to live right on Jane & Trethewey which is a main interesection in Toronto. From my 5 story high balcony I could see so much and it's a bad neighborhood so you see fights no matter what day it is as long as it's past 9:00

Aiz

I used to live in one of the quietest areas in MD, >< It was great except it was a small house and there was a horse stable nearby that is pretty most of the time while gets a bit stinky when the wind blows the wrong way.

We just bought a new house recently. It’s many times bigger than our original one, and no stinky stables. But…because the houses in our original neighborhood are all at least 10 yrs old and very very expensive so it’s not possible to get a new house that really is worth the money. So we moved a bit off into one of the more urban parts. It’s not as bad as some parts like Silver Spring or anything, but it was still sorta a shock when people walk by talking and laughing very loudly (and probably drunk) at like 2am -___-;

Then there’s the train. We chose the house also because it’s so close to a train station that would enable me to commute to school very conveniently. But, the train horn blasts in the middle of the night are a pain. *sighs* I miss my old neighborhood and the quietness >__<

nilsmo

I don't... a car passes by maybe once every 5 minutes... My cousin in Sweden lives in a suburb with really empty streets - you can see just a car or two every hour.

eku53ru

I would not call the street on which I live too noisy, but it does have its share of commotion. Normally on weekends, my next-door neighbors have a barbecue, and this translates to not only a bunch of fumes pouring into my backyard, but a lot of noise coming from the other side of the fence, too. It gets especially unnerving when the kids start shooting things with their BB guns; they do not seem to realize or care that things are flying in my backyard (of course, my backyard's too messy to recover things easily).

Also, the neighbors I have across the street normally do a garage-band thing on the weekends, too. They're not that bad at singing, but they're not that great, either. The level of noise they make isn't very helpful when it comes down to spending time on my homework. Lately, however, they have been toned down from how loud they were before; I'm guessing someone ratted them out for being disruptive.

Other than that, the neighbors I have down the block have a habit of setting off fireworks around major holidays, such as the Fourth of July or Memorial Day. This also applies to people who do the same thing in the courtyard behind the church (which is behind my house). I remember one night where they set off fireworks at two in the morning, and that led to a lot of expletives being exchanged from my drowsy, irritated neighbors.

Fake

Very nice and quiet street. Like ppl are okie with us. No one bothers us. We dont bother each other. WHen i pull up, i already have the music low and dont push on the gas, so the exhuast is pretty quite too.

D'Artagnan

Fantastic topic, i would like to see such places =)...

i live in a place where noise is absolutely not a problem, i think the invese is true...
I live in the country side of a country side city of santa catarina, south brazil ... yes i live in the countryside of the countryside Razz

, so you could forgive my strange english...

there's very little movement around here, it's a quiet place... two or three cars passing at max in a hour, some children playing, some birds singing... tedious

the nice thing is that here's one of the few places where you can sleep with your window opened...

Afaceinthematrix

I live on a very quiet street. Nobody comes down this street. On Halloween I was at home passing out candy and only 4 kids came by. I watched hundreds of kids just walk past my street (it's a cul-de-sac) and not come down this way. So the few kids that did got a lot of candy.

tijn01

I am living in a nice quiet street..... at least that is what we thought when we moved into our house. A couple days after we moved in, it turned out that the people across the road love to give parties, very noisy parties. Luckily it doesn't occur to often, but when it does, it is an absolute pain in the #ss

ashish2005

I live in a small street. The street is so small that I think it's only about 6-8 feet wide. So there are not many vehicles passing through my street (only a few bikes). But there are lots and lots of fights in the street which make the street noisy. Specially during the night many drunkards pass through my street because there are many local alchohol shops in my street. So you get picture how my street is.

dez_trukshun

I live in New York city. I love New York, but yea, pretty much every street I go to is noisy. No exceptions. Even at like 2 am if I open my apartment window, I'll hear people playing LOUD music from their car, and a few smashings of glass bottles. It specially doesn't help in my case, because I live right opposite the local High School. I would love to change my home, but I'm so used to it after 12 years, and its even a bigger headache to relocate within the city. Its torture every night, waking up every 45 minutes to a car alarm that goes off, or something or the other happens. Im just surprised to say that I still haven't been woken up by a gunshot Razz

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volotao

I live in a noisy street, to be more precise, a highway. There is noise all day and night. An strong accoustic treatment is necessary to be quit inside home. But this noise is not as bad as the electric transformer noise I have in front of my apartment. The sound is almost inaudible, but in high frequency and constant. It seems like my television or something electronic is on.

The best to do is to move to a quiet off-town house... maybe in the forest. I dream one day I should do it.

Zug Zug

Unfortunately I live in an apartment complex. And like most apartment complex you can hear everything your neighbor says and does. During the daytime it's very noisy with all the kids running around...one girl ALWAYS has to scream her head off whether she's hurt or just having fun. At night it's actually quiet....besides my upstairs neighbor playing music at the top volume and mosh-pitting around his room. It gets rather annoying. Oh and every once in awhile we'll get people who like to drink at our bar-b-que area....who don't live in the apartment complex-I LOVE calling the cops on them. Very Happy

missdixy

Not really. Back at home I used to live on a semi busy street for a neighborhood street, but now that I am away at college it's not busy here at all. I mean, sure I am near the expressway but the street my building is actually on is peaceful. Almost creepily peaceful....

thejam

Here in Shanghai, you just can't find any quiet places. Most Chinese wake up arround 5AM, and start to do cooking, cleaning and watch TV. these are the noises inside my building.
The noises outside are worse .. way worse.. Most constructionsites never stop. tons of people work 24/7, and there is no limitation on soundvolume. Ow and there is a construction going on everywhere you go in Shnaghai. ( i think they are allready building 12 new subwaylines on this very moment)
The traffic is very bad to, plus they love to hunk here whenever they can.. yeah i guess Shanghai is for the insomnia peeps

Davidgr1200

I live in a cul-de-sac in a suburb so we don't get any traffic going past. The only noise we get here is from the neighbour who plays music at high volume at night. Unfortunately he has poor taste and only plays bad music :(

meet in rio

My university dominates the town, so there's no shortage of rowdy students, but I live a mile or two out from the centre, so I never really get noise outside my window. It's a pain cycling home after a night out, though.

Arnie

Zombie

I live next to a highway, my bedroom is about 10-15 feet from the road. I find the noise comforting, and it's very difficult for me to sleep in a quiet setting.

J-Evil

Nope. It's usually pretty quiet around here. but if anyone makes the noise, it's my younger siblings when they're running around out there chasing eachother with sticks Rolling Eyes

MYP415

My street is quiet for the most part other than the kids that go outside and play

missdixy

yomomma1

Na, I live on A quiet Street, Try to avoid living or even going near the City, Because it is very noisy, and well their is nothing to do their, at all. And Living quietly Is just the kind of person I am, I'd rather live in a house than a small apartment.

dimg

i live on a pretty noisy street, but its mostly because its in a bad neighborhood. I believe some rapper put it best when he said "i go to sleep to gun shots and wake up to sirens"

windrei

Before age 22, i lived in the urban area in an appartment. It's very noisy from day to night due to the building was near a bus terminal. There are always buses passing by. i could heard the noise even my appartment was in 16th floor..... now i live in the sub urban area. It's so quite at night, even in day time. Although it's a bit far away from my working place, i prefer here more.

However, i am going to move to a new flat 2 weeks later. i am going to live on an island. The feeling will be so good.

Srs2388

when i come beatin tha block down my street is loud Cool

If you know what im mean...

theem

How do you comeup with such kinda questions ? lolz Laughing

well.. ye4ah i live on a very bussy and noisy road .

filet

luckily and grateful that i live in a peaceful neighbourhood...great garden and playground right in front of my house

the noisy part i guess when big dogs bark

gladius

I live so far from my neighboors, cause I live on a farm... Its so quiet!

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russel26

im living the noisy street but ..im not noisy... Laughing

Migz

I dont live on a noisy street, i am the noisy street Very Happy

im playing music all the time! But i live right next to a main road but i dont get disturbed much. Only thing i do get disturbed by is drunks and busses.

skygaia

I don't like noisy. so I've lived at very calm street.
Some people think living near downtown or main street is very convinient and it feels alive.... but I don't think so.. Wink

jegeskave

Yes I do, i live in a very quiet and peacefull street;)

nbeerbower

I don't live on a busy street (although there has been a lot of construction lately), but behind my house (and backyard) we have the busiest road in all of town. Razz

It doesn't bother me at all. But the construction on there sometimes can get really annoying.

tijn01

Our street used to be very noisy. Mostly because of a duplex across the road, where some party-animals lived. Last week they had a party and then the house burn down. It was very dramatic, and I felt really sorry for them. (no one was hurt in the fire)
But the thing i can't get over is how much more quiet our street is now. I hadn't realised just how much noise they were making until they were gone.
Still, I would prefer they hadn't lost everything in the house fire! Although apparently some other neighbours have said that they deserved it - nobody deserves to loose everything.

j_f_k

hhmm not as unlucky as you and can sleep at nights.

The bugbear about my street is that although its 'residential' its an ideal 'rat run' so we get far more traffic than we should and because they're rat runners they invariable speed etc.

Also there are always people around 24 hours although I have to say v rarely trouble.