One thing I miss from living north, is the sound of the trains coming up the tracks half a mile of the house. It was always during the day. The highway was close, we could see it from our house. There was the noise of trucks and motorcycles coming from it, but it was more "background sound" that was easy to ignore. Except when the motorcycles were all bunched up on their way to a bike event somewhere.
Down here, the noise of all the landscapers is what annoys the most. Up north, everyone mowed their lawns on Saturdays. No one fired up the mower until after 9AM. Everyone was finished before noon.
Down here, they come all days, start as early as 7:30, and you see trucks lined up the side of the road til 4 or 5pm.
To me it's MUCH noisier to live in The Villages than it was to live in the suburbs of Connecticut, 3 blocks from the highway and half a mile from the railroad tracks.
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