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Ttbb · 30/09/2017 23:06

Every time I hear voices outside? Bear with me, I'm going to sound mad but I find it very unsettling. I grew up in proper suburbia, then lived in a village for a little while but recently move into town, closer to a train station. Unfortunately this town of full of very unpleasant people who talk really loudly and I can hear them through the (triple gazed!) windows. There are constantly drunks shouting out, feral children screaming, people walking their dogs having shouty conversations and every time it makes me jump. I really thought that I would have got used to it by now but it just makes md incredibly nervous. It makes no sense! Is it normal, albeit stupid unreasonable, to react like this if you are used to quiet? Or am I just mad? Before you suggest it, yes, I am already scheming to move into the middle of nowhere.

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TheOtherNNB · 30/09/2017 23:08

I'm the opposite.
Silence freaks me out and I'm reassured by the urban racket.

alphajuliet123 · 30/09/2017 23:18

I used to live in a city centre. The only time I've had a noise issue was some scratty couple arguing under my (2nd floor) living room window one night. It was quite entertaining at first but went on for nearly an hour, so I threw a big bucket of water on them and they stopped. Try that.

Ttbb · 30/09/2017 23:21

Bucket of water made me lol. That is just so fabulously blunt.
I can get silence being unsettling if you are not used to it, I've tears a lot of people say that. I'm just beginning to wonder if I am the only one who gets spooked by noise.

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alphajuliet123 · 03/10/2017 12:00

It was a mop bucket so they were drenched! I switched the lights off and sat there laughing at the ensuing chaos but they couldn't tell which floor it had come from.

Plump82 · 03/10/2017 23:14

I wad the same. Lived in a not so nice area and any noise set me on edge. It was never people just talking, they always seemed to be shouting or arguing. Knocks at the door were often police asking if id seen anything. I was there for 10 years and it must be ingrained as i now live in a lovely area but say i hear someone outside my flat i assume there will be trouble when it actually fact its people just having normal conversations!

Insomnibrat · 03/10/2017 23:32

Just a thought but could you be suffering with a spot of anxiety? Moving to an unfamiliar place and all that.

I suffer with anxiety and when particularly bad, I find noise, conversations and everything you've described closing in on me to the point where its unbearable. I've been known to walk out of shops because it's been so oppressive. Strange thing really.

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