On 1/23/2015 10:22 AM, Dave Smith wrote:
> On 2015-01-23 12:38 AM, sf wrote:
>
>>> The joys of living in the country. We have neighbours with chickens and
>>> are often awaken in the morning by the crowing of the roosters. It
>>> wouldn't be so bad if we had also been awaken by coyotes once or twice a
>>> night.
>>
>> People talk about the quiet of country living and they are wrong! The
>> country is too noisy for me! Frogs croaking all night, birds chirping
>> all day and I hate the animals that start making noise just before
>> dawn. Can't forget the bugs that bite. UGH. City life is so much
>> quieter and no biting bugs (unless some idiot has standing water
>> somewhere).
>>
>
>
> If you were to measure the ambient sound level in the country and the
> city the latter would be much higher. There is so much coming from so
> many directions that we become habituated to it. When you live on a
> busy city street you barely notice the sound of the traffic. When you
> live on a quiet country road you can hear a car coming for a mile or more.

I *always* know when a car just pulled into my driveway or drove past on
the street. There isn't much traffic here.

The sound of birds chirping and critters (even bugs and frogs) waking up
in the wee hours doesn't bother me a bit. Roosters might, BTDT when I
first moved to my apartment in the "country" in Cordova. There was a
guy with free range chickens living just down the road.

You do become acclaimated to the sounds around you. I have jets flying
over, sometimes several times a day, a couple of times a month. They're
from MCAS (Marine Corps Air Station, Beaufort, SC). I really don't
notice them. I sure know when a car just pulled into the driveway.

I like it when I can open the windows and hear the sound of the birds
that sing in the night, the peepers (frogs) and crickets chirping.

Jill