To think I cant have a quiet house

[Greengrass29]

Im quite sensitive to noise

But I hear loud cars with loud exhausts which i hate
neighbours doing things through attached wall

does a house exist with no neighbour or outside noise

Maybe a detached house in the countryside

It is possible. I live in a terrace with an elderly man on one side and a woman my age with her two 20-something sons on the other. Virtually no noise. Victorian terrace. I do worry about what'll happen when the elderly man dies though. It's an ideal family home.

Look at soundproofing your house?

Of course they exist.

if it’s not affordable then noise cancelling headphones

https://www.fedup.com.au/factsheets/factsheets-by-symptom/sensitivity-to-sound-hyperacusis

This might give you some thoughts. If you live by a good Mediterranean diet, you might have a problem with salicylates.

You can’t guarantee no noise - even in a detached house, you could have neighbours playing loud music with their windows open which you could hear. Or neighbours who spend a lot of time in their gardens and are loud.

You could try and work out what would reduce the chances of intrusive noise, eg moving ( if you’re able) to a detached house, quiet neighbourhood, quiet road etc. Also soundproofing measures such as acoustic double glazing, lots of sound absorbing furnishings such as carpet rather than hard floors. But ultimately you have to work on yourself too, to accept that wherever you live, you will sometimes hear noise and you may sometimes be disturbed by it. It’s an increasingly noisy world.

How much can you spend OP?

@Keepingongoing is very right You can’t guarantee no noise - even in a detached house, you could have neighbours playing loud music

The only detached house I ever lived in, my only neighbour had a teenage son who was in a band and they practised in an outbuilding. Kept my son awake every time they practised. Had to complain in the end.

Here you go

@Slightyamusedandsilly good point I guess its cheaper to live in a semi detached and soundproof it

I’m in a detached house in the countryside. Since our immediate neighbour died all other neighbours are at least a field away. Although we don’t have living noises there’s still traffic, including tractors and an idiot with an exhaust that pops. Cyclists have shouty conversations when passing by. Then there’s the noise from sheep, pheasants, geese and bloody donkeys 🫏. Thankfully I can turn my hearing aid off when the donkey kicks off!

Lived in Terraced houses all my life, I detest noise. Last year I bought a full detached house in a rural area, still have neighbours. But its silent 95% of the time, the noisiest thing I hear is birds or the odd plane over head.

I live in a farmhouse surrounded by several acres of my own land. Total peace and quiet.

I’ve lived rural with absolutely no sound anywhere and now there’s cars going by or tractors, lawnmowers, dogs barking, cows mooing etc. Luck of the draw!

We live on a row of detached houses sandwiched between woodland either side.
Noise is from:
Birds.. woodpecker is particuarly noisy
Foxes
Neighbour practising trombone
Local cricket club having events a few times a year.. noise carries
Kids a few gardens away
Occassional cars
My kids 😂

So it is not silent but certainly not constant noise

I cant stand noise but yet i have to have some sort of background noise as i dont like silence.

It depends on what type of noise bothers you. I lived on an otherwise uninhabited island three miles off the coast, and there was a lot of noise from wind, seals, waves, gulls. I lived another time in fields on the edge of a wood — still night noise from hunting owls, daytime noise from peacocks from a nearby rectory, church bells, farm machinery etc.