Is it quiet where you are? ( nature noise not included! )

[Mycatsbigtoe]

I’m in Scotland and live in a new build estate with houses everywhere. The neighbours behind us are almost constantly in their garden, which is fine, but the noise of their loud voices can be relentless as well as their dog barking for long periods of time. . I don’t mind birds or natural noises ( although I don’t like dogs barking ). It makes me not use my back garden much.

I’ve always said to myself that one day when the kids grow up, I’ll move somewhere quiet. My question is, is that realistic or will there always be the sound of people or cars if you’ve not the money to buy an island or huge estate! Even when I’ve been on holiday on a Hebridean island in a cottage, I could often hear dogs barking.

Rural West Wales. Sitting in the garden and can only hear the birds, the breeze in the trees and an occasional car going along the nearby road. Oh, and the rabbit scuffling around in the garden sometimes, though she's quite old now, so she tends to just sit in patches of sun and snooze.

I'm on the edge of a small town. There's a road outside my estate and there's a steady flow of cars and tractors going up and down the road. Occasionally there's a boy racer with loud music playing. I can also hear the sound of birdsong. An aeroplane has just gone by overhead and it's getting fainter now.

Our street is pretty quiet during the day & there’s never any traffic. I’m just listening now & can only hear birds tweeting.

We occasionally get some anti social behaviour (drunk people being loud/arguing) at the weekends because of the pubs a 10 min walk away, but it’s just in passing.

It is now my husband has finished with his chainsaw.

Always quiet here apart from the occasional angle grinder or chainsaw.
It's an older persons bungalow estate which I love as the neighbours are never noisy.
Just the birds and sometimes some road noise in the distance. I am grateful for the quiet especially at night.

Lovely and peaceful here in semi- rural central Scotland. Birds tweeting, and that’s about it I’m delighted to say…. Enjoying a quiet Sunday

It's generally very quiet where I am - just outside Belfast. I can hear occasional traffic from the through road, but just a distant hum, rather than anything intrusive. One of my neighbours has 3 dogs and I rarely hear a peep out of them. Maybe the odd snuffle or woof if they hear me hanging out the washing. They are the world's quietest dogs. On the other side we have a couple whose children have long flown the nest and they have - ahem - hobbies that keep them out of the house a fair bit. I love how quiet it is here, without actually being in the arsehole of nowhere.

I’m envious of all the quieter places. Sometimes it seems that a peaceful place to live is unrealistic these days. Hearing all your descriptions, gives me hope that I’ll experience the same one day!

I live in a south west Suburb of London, very residential and all I can usually hear is traffic

Air and road traffic

I live on our farm and the only thing I could hear when I watered the garden half an hour ago,was the wind in the trees,the birds and sheep.

Mind you,we have a pen of 30 cade lambs 30ft from the house,and I couldn't tell you if they are noisy at the minute,as I'm so used to hearing them,that I zone them out. They are put in there to be weaned from the automatic milk feeder and they let us know that they aren't happy about it,often all night long.

Quiet here too, small village in the SE. Just church bells and birds although the dawn chorus can be exhausting 🥴

Very quite here, we’re only a 30 minute walk from the centre of Stockholm, but I’m sat in the garden and all I can hear is deer, so I’m guessing its mating season.

we live on a busy estate road halfway up a hill with really good views over our town and beyond.

hiwever it’s noisy. Kids screaming in the back gardens, people mowing, playing music.
could hear the kings of Leon concert playing from town.
right now at midnight. It’s quiet, faint traffic noise from the bypass and that’s it

It's always very quiet on my road.
It consists of a dozen detached bungalows, six on either side of the road and none of the owners, except for me and my DH are under 70+ so there's no kids around.
It's lovely and peaceful.

I’ve not read the whole thread but I’m English and have moved to rural Scotland (from rural England) and I found the peace and quiet in Scotland is so much greater than in England. This is hardly surprising and we have a significantly less people here 70 per square km as opposed to 434 per square km in England and the vast majority of people live in i the Central Belt 4 million out of a population of approx 5.5 million. We are the sparsest population place in the UK. I’m not saying OP that you don’t experience noise I’m sure you do but I do think it would be fairly easy for you to find somewhere peaceful in Scotland.
Mist English people I meet living in Scotland (admitted not are Glasgow and Edinburgh) comment on how much much quieter it is here than in England.
Finallt as I’m sure you are aware property prices in beautiful rural areas in Scotland are often significantly cheaper than their equivalent in England.

I live in a flat. One side is the road so cars, noise blah blah. The other side is nature only. You know how you achieve this? Social housing with lots of part owners who bully anyone who tries to let their children play outside. Pah.

I live on a row of terraced houses in a small city. Traffic free street as it’s a lane bollarded off (garages nearby). Cost under £300k.

It’s amazingly quiet, even though I’m mid terrace. I go outside and hear birds singing. Sometimes my neighbours quietly chatting (they’re mostly older than me). Feel very lucky as I’ve lived places with alarms going off, neighbours partying, helicopters, sirens before and it does make a difference to your mental peace.

Oh yes! 1000ft above sea level, half a mile from the “main road” which is unclassified. 4 miles from my workplace and supermarket etc. i can see the sea, loads of mountains.

one fabulous playground

Edge of a large town, close to main road but also close to countryside. Right now I can hear the rooks, a wren and not much else, but even during the day at weekends it's pretty peaceful. Family area on 1960s estate - lots of trees. Neighbours either side are pretty quiet but there's a set opposite who have a particularly whiny and noisy child. Someone else has a yappy dog but it doesn't go on for too long.

It's a complete contrast to my last place, where both sets of immediate neighbours used to play music in the garden at weekends, leaving me stuck in the middle and rendering my garden pretty much unusable. There was also relentless DIY until all hours, and I never knew when they would start blasting music indoors. That was in a tiny rural village. Part of me would love to live somewhere with no neighbours one day, but I like the convenience of where I am, my neighbours are nice here and we do each other's watering!

I'm in a small town in Scotland. I live on a pretty main road so have traffic noise regularly - including lorries and tractors! But not very many close neighbours so not much people noise. Lots of crows about here though, that's probably the most annoying noise!