Where do you go that's quiet?

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As the title says, looking for ideas that aren't full of PEOPLE.

Shops, roads, trains, swimming pools are all full of noise and people.

Where do you go for peace and quiet?

Walks across the fields ... my own home where I have my own room known as the library!

Oh I like the sound of private libraries very civilised.

The beach, even in summer there are bits few people go to and in winter it's largely empty.

The utility room.

I think this is why I'm a bit of a homebody. It's all just too overstimulating especially at this time of year.

Home. I am lucky enough to have a swimming pool and live in a country where the weather is good enough to use it so I can chill by the pool with my book in peace, the kind of thing I used to have to pay $$$ for,

Walks
my office
stay up late at night to have quiet time on my own

I need quiet time after being in my local library (I work there). There is always something going on - craft and chat groups, story time for babies and toddlers, groups of home educated children etc - so it is incredibly noisy most of the time.

The sea
Local garden ..with paths and tress and water features

Are you in UK? That sounds heavenly. If you can drink tea there too I want to live where you live.

I live in the centre of a capital city but I can always find quiet streets to walk along. Otherwise along the river or in a park. Also go to the library which is busy but quiet.

Top of a big hill

Oh, @HarpQuartet I do feel for you!

Have you investigated all your local galleries and museums? They often have either the odd study room or a disregarded upper gallery that’s hardly used.

(God, this reminds me of when I was a trainee in my former profession and going through an unspeakably horrible relationship break up. I would be sent to a specific library to do some research but found it impossible to concentrate and would just poke around the building. Eventually stumbled upon an unused top floor that no staff ever visited. I used to disappear up there for days for some uninterrupted weeping. And return to the office with absolutely no useful information.)

I'm an introvert who craves space and silence. Unfortunately, that's increasingly hard to find. My local woods have been hacked down to make way for a new estate, and a second massive estate is being built at the other end of the village. Now we've been told the fields in the centre of the village are going to be built on as well. The country lanes are clogged with traffic (some of them are as congested as motorways) and the main road into town is going to have 500 new homes built along it. That road is choked with traffic now, so what the hell will happen when another 500 cars are added? Anyone out there who lives in a city and thinks they're going to retire to the country is deluded. By the time you retire, there won't be any country.

Even when I do find some woods to walk in I can still hear the screeching and exploding of boy racer cars. There's no peace anywhere. Every year there seem to be more and more people jammed into less and less space. In 1960, there were three billion humans. Today there are eight and we're heading for ten. Africa's birth rate is so high the African population is going to double. I've had the bad luck to be born an introvert at a time when the world's population is about to peak. Developers know there is a high demand, so they build tiny rathole houses and squeeze them on top of one another. If I was young, I'd leave the UK for Australia or Canada. In fact, I'd go anywhere I could have peace and quiet and be alone with nature.

The top of a hill with a reservoir that I can swim in
Last time it was just me and the sheep, tend to go about 6pm in the summer

A private library oh my God that’s the first I heard of that. Sounds amazing!

Driving can be lovely and quiet too if you are going somewhere remote.

For peace & quiet I generally stay at home!

What kind of peace & quiet do you want.

Another one jealous of the private library!

Libraries by me are great at providing the services the community need, but that does make them quite noisy…

Do you feel better now you’ve got that off your chest @Dappy777? (I empathise with how you feel - and also feel sorry for those of us who end up in the tiny houses … On the other hand, if the UK hadn’t systematically raped Africa for aeons we might be living a different history now. Maybe find someone else to blame for population growth?)

Our Waitrose is always empty. Has a wine bar and a coffee bar. Free newspapers great place for a coffee and people watch,

My home i live alone.

My wash basket - not one other soul enters or empties it

I'm off to Google private libraries.....

I am in the UK. In an unpromising town for such a thing as well. It's 200 years old, and you can't drink tea in the library itself but you can in the attached cafe where you can take all the books. It also runs evening classes and is generally lovely. I wish I was retired so I could take full advantage of it!

Oh! Young Person’s Membership, @Ineffable23?

I go the beach - it's only five minutes drive and you can walk for hours without seeing a soul.