Is it silent?

I live close to the city center in a town of about 65,000 people. Not big but not tiny. All night long there are sounds of cars and trucks, people walking down the street, noise from the freeway 5 miles away--sound carries really well here! And of course those stupid vehicle sound systems that go boom, boom and deafen their owners and everyone around them. It doesn't go on all night but any type of noise like this is irritating. So I sleep with a fan which drowns out all that. On the other hand, I can't sleep if it's totally quiet. The fan helps on quiet nights, too. The best I've ever slept is when I used to camp and could go to sleep with the sounds of crickets, night birds, critters going about their business.

Nevermind out my window I live with a partner who does everything in her power to make a racket! and I have three dogs who's life mission is to bark at every teeny tiny noise that their physically is in the air.. so to me, I can't remember what silence is lmao!

I can't hear anything over the air conditioner! I'm sure I'd hear birds and maybe cars or people talking - since I do live in a neighborhood

At night, even the windows are close I can hear the barks of the dog outside. I also hear those motors running the streets but those are not too loud to make me feel uncomfortable with my sleep. Also, I would like that that way because it will just be scary if you don't hear nothing at all.

I am living in the capital now so that it is very noisy day and night..i really don't like it. I prefer to live in countryside, my hometown...it is very peace with fresh air and i can hear clearly chicken's chirp or coo coo...

It's silent here while sitting in front of my laptop at our home. I really like quiet places so i can be relaxed, i really hate noisy things like a person shouting or talking to me loudly but i'd love listening to music that i don't want to take my earphones off that is connected to my cellphone/laptop. maybe it's the way i used to live or it's just my personality.

I live close to the hospital so I hear ambulance sirens and the spirit of life helicopter and LOTS of traffic!!! I also live about 2 blocks away from the train tracks so I hear those also too many times a day. Then i hear the 7 young kids next doors screaming, crying, yelling, throwing stuff, etc... all the time :( Drives me nuts! So no peace and quiet here ever. Enjoy where you live lol

Nope, it's not silent here at all. I hear all kinds of sounds such as trains, planes, and automobiles. And here I live in the country as well! LOL Well, that's what my late FIL called it anyway. I don't really like calling it that, but it is a rural area and as country as it gets out here. I also hear country sounds as well, such as wild birds, hens clucking, and roosters crowing. There are plenty of bees here too, although I have to say I've never heard them outside any of my windows before. And I've lived here for many many years! LOL Happy mylotting!

Like you, I live rurally...AND I LOVE...just love the "sound of silence" followed by Mother Nature's children greeting the day! My favourite time of the day..is just before dawn, sitting on the deck with the very first cuppa...listening to the world waking up! I wished humans could take a lesson from Nature...everyone wake's up singing...or GOES TO BED singing, like the cacophony of Frog's that I go to sleep to everynite! Soon, tho....the infestation of tourists on this small Island will ravage with the sounds of vehicles; 24/7...the only downside of the milder seasons!

No, not really.. When it is at night, and the people are sleeping, it is still not completely silent.. that would be scary. There could be insects and dogs, wind blowing.. or some people making noises.

I believe nothing is ever silent. There is always some kind of noise going on somewhere. And where I live there is loads of voice. I live in NYC, so you know right off the bat there is no silent days here. Even the nights are noisy.

How I envy you ! you enjoy the sounds of nature.I can well imagine over there a breeze murmurs in the trees,water gurgles between rocks,birds are singing,...what a beautiful rural scenery!I am tired of noise.I live in a city that has a population of about 400,000.even though the authority in the city has begun to work on noise pollution,all the same there is cacophony produced by traffic.

What I hear depends upon what time of day it is and what season of the year. As most of you know, I live on 14 acres of mostly fallow land, but all our neighbors are vineyards and wineries. Last year about this time I made a brief video from my garden of a very common daytime sound here at this time of year -- the tractors working the vineyards. They aren't quiet. See for yourself: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcCFTZJSTac . In the months of April and May you hear weed whackers and chain saws clearing brush almost constantly to clear the land before fire season officially starts. It's supposed to be a very bad fire season this year -- hot, dry, and after very little rainfall during the rainy season. At the moment, from my office, I can hear the birds singing. I also hear the wind. From time to time I hear the noises of hammers and saws from my neighbor's property. He's building a new guest house / hospitality center for his winery. At night this week we've heard the owls a lot, and also the yipping coyotes closer than I'd like them to be, and while I hope that my neighbor has managed to round up her cats and get them inside. During the harvest season, we often hear workers in the fields singing in Spanish or shouting to each other, and the sound of their tractor moving the full bins of grapes along the rows. At all seasons we often hear the loud radios and even conversations from the fields (fortunately from stations I listen to) across the highway. We sometimes even hear conversations from the mansion across the street if the people are outside and the wind is right. Fortunately for us, they seem not to have their outdoor aviary anymore. I don't mind my songbirds here and our owls, but hearing those parrots squawk intermittently through the day was very annoying. We almost always have noise from the vehicles on the highway below us, but only notice it when something especially loud goes by. It's fire season now, and we almost daily hear the fire engines go by, sirens on, day or night, followed by a chorus of all the dogs in the surrounding area. On weekends sometimes one of our winery neighbors will have an event and we will hear the loud music from it down here. I used to be able to shut my windows, and I still can, but the opening for the swamp cooler is across the room, behind where I sit, and it's like a constantly open window I can't shut.

I like the sounds outside of my bedroom. In summer, I can hear the shouting of selling their food. In the year I was out in school, I often miss my family when I heard the shouting sound. I lived on the third floor, so I can hear the chatting of a group of women. They chat loudly so I can hear clearly. And also the sound of the cars running is never absent. In winter, the sounds is less than in summer. I never think the sounds outside is noise. Living with these sounds make me feel I am at my home, my hometown.

I work in a small shop. And even though I sit in the office most of the time, I could still here the banging and clanging of the machines and people on the production floor through the door that leads out there. I have two young boys who could be loud and rowdy most of the time. So there is no quiet when I get home too. But my favorite time of the day is when they are all asleep, and I have the house to myself. Although it isn't really that quiet as I sometimes hear distant cars, the silence is very relaxing to me.