My area is too quiet

[Waspeater]

I have recently moved and I just can’t get used to how quiet it is, it’s eerie, I wake up and my ears a ringing with tinnitus. Has anyone encountered a similar problem with a nice “quiet area” being just totally isolated and horrible.

No.

How did you end up in such an isolated area? It’s my dream to be honest. Where did you move from?

Don't worry, you will get used to it very quickly and going to noisy areas will seem like hell after a while.

No, because even if an area is quiet in terms of traffic and people, it is surprisingly loud in terms of animals murdering each other at night, birds bellowing at dawn etc. I am wondering where you live?

Yes. I once lived on an otherwise uninhabited island and was frequently deafened by seals, sheep, ravens and the sea pounding on the rocks.

That made me laugh as it is so true. Last night we had half an hour of a fox hounding a pheasant out the back. No pheasant noises this morning so I assume the fox had a nice dinner.

It's the dawn chorus that gets me, so noisy in summer.

When DM moved to sheltered housing she complained that it was too quiet. That was because she had lived near a Premier Football stadium and her neighbours worked on a sewing machine 12 hours a day. she soon got used to the quiet and then complained that the birds were too noisy.

It’s a suburban area, there are no animals around because it’s not the countryside and it’s a long cul-de-sac, it’s like a mini ghost town. There is a local shop that sells virtually nothing I want to buy so have to drive to the next nearest convenience store.

frankly, that's my ideal scenario...

i think this is getting increasingly like many suburban areas. People just don’t seem to get out and walk anywhere.

You have to adjust. I live and work in London and I block out the noise. My brother visits from his sleepy village and complains about the racket.

Did you not check out the amenities before you moved?

We live in a quieter area ( just outside a national park ) and like you a quiet cul de sac.
If I sit and close my eyes the quietness feels heavy .
Have a radio playing in another room or play white house if you find it troubling , as others have said you will get used to it.

This is my nightmare. Did you move from a more urban, lively area? Sounds too that you don't just mean sound but also things going on, shops etc.

@LindaDawn I always used to walk, unfortunately there is now know where useful in walking distance

Can you get a bus somewhere?

I live in a very quiet leafy hilly area but with the university bus into Bath just around the corner and apart from uni holidays it's every few minutes. I don't drive so my compromise on living somewhere quiet was it had to be on a great bus route- (it's 6 minutes into town ) This sounds like it's not for you OP where you are- you clearly likes not more on your doorstep - it's hard to really know till you experience it

@Crikeyalmighty is that lansdown? I used to know that area well. I’ve got to move again now, it no good to me here.

I get it. We moved to a cul de sac in a large village where most people are out all day and those who aren't have lived here for many years and hardly seem to venture out. I've previously lived in very rural areas and a city so I thought this would be a good compromise but it is truly the worst of all worlds as I spend most of my life in the car driving to amenities, decent parks or for walks in open countryside. I have the radio on permanently when I'm at home and am planning on going back to the countryside.I don't mind the sounds of rural life!

@Waspeater no- claverton down. I love it here because you have great countryside on the doorstep but city very easily accessible. It's expensive I know but I think most places worth living these days aren't cheap.

Lansdown has similar advantages as it's on the park and ride route

I feel for you- I lived somewhere like you are describing at one point in Windsor - no shop within 20 minutes walk, posh area but dead asa dodo- our street was full of Rishi Sunak clones who never seemed to go out at all - very odd - we managed 6 months!!

It was never so noisy as when we went to rural Wales and rented a cottage next door to a dairy farm - man those cows are noisy! Not so near that I could see them but they would bang their barn all night and the mooing! Give me my London terrace any day.
But total silence? No, my imagination would be running overtime!

I know what you mean!
I currently live facing on to a major dual carriageway, that it only quiet between about 2 and 4am. The rest of the day/night it's fairly constant.
I'm used to the noise now - it just becomes white noise that you don't even hear.

But my mum lives in rural, rural-land. Literally no passing traffic and surrounded by fields and farms. When I sleep over at hers, I can practically hear my own heart beating, it's THAT quiet.

You do get used to either extreme eventually though.

In your case, I would put a quiet radio next to the bed, just playing quietly all night. Maybe Radio 4 or Classic FM. That'll give you just that little bit of steady background noise.