[MDLNB]

Darn! That fifteen minutes of noise from hard working folks in the neighborhood really bothers me. I am going to complain about how they can make it quieter for me by using less efficient and less noisy battery powered equipment. Perhaps we can get some illegals to hand pull the grass to make it cemetery quiet. Because I want it as quiet as it will be at the cemetery when I am buried. After all, don't we ALL require extra sleep, so we must sleep during the daylight hours? How dare those folks expect to earn a living by providing a service for elitist retirees !!! Wait, I think I can hear an 18 wheeler out on Rt441 in transit to provide products to restock Publix. I wonder if I complain to Publix, if they can just be a bit quieter when having delivery trucks arrive. Maybe they can resurface their parking lots and loading areas with a rubber surface material. After all, my daylight naps are very important to me and everyone needs to recognize this fact and be extra quiet, regardless of how it effects their activities. Oh my, is that a Pickleball game going on? Don't they understand that some of us need our 20 hours of sleep per day so that we are extra alert when playing Mahjong?

[John Mayes]

Originally Posted by MDLNB

Darn! That fifteen minutes of noise from hard working folks in the neighborhood really bothers me. I am going to complain about how they can make it quieter for me by using less efficient and less noisy battery powered equipment. Perhaps we can get some illegals to hand pull the grass to make it cemetery quiet. Because I want it as quiet as it will be at the cemetery when I am buried. After all, don't we ALL require extra sleep, so we must sleep during the daylight hours? How dare those folks expect to earn a living by providing a service for elitist retirees !!! Wait, I think I can hear an 18 wheeler out on Rt441 in transit to provide products to restock Publix. I wonder if I complain to Publix, if they can just be a bit quieter when having delivery trucks arrive. Maybe they can resurface their parking lots and loading areas with a rubber surface material. After all, my daylight naps are very important to me and everyone needs to recognize this fact and be extra quiet, regardless of how it effects their activities. Oh my, is that a Pickleball game going on? Don't they understand that some of us need our 20 hours of sleep per day so that we are extra alert when playing Mahjong?

LOL……excellent!!!

[Love2Swim]

Originally Posted by jimjamuser

I agree. I have said that for years. One simple step that could be taken is to require leaf blowers to be battery-powered, not gas engine powered. I would think that it would even be better to require the grass-cutting professionals to sweep their grass clippings from the residential roads and their customers' driveways. This would cut down on noise greatly.
.......It would be difficult to cut down trees and branches without gasoline-powered chainsaws. But, there may be chainsaw models with large batteries? Loud cars, trucks, and motorcycles are less often around than the professional grass-cutters and would be hard to stop legally. So, we are stuck with them.
.......Many Villages will NEVER care about loud noise because they don't hear well enough to be bothered by it. But, I consider this to be a good thread to make people aware of the problem. And it has gotten 4 pages of interest so far. But, it will NOT change anything in our lifetimes. Maybe some future generation will be smarter and appreciate the deterioration of hearing that loud noise produces. And it causes anxiety that is real, but often not even felt at the conscious level. It has ruined the careers of some musicians and rock and roll artists.
.......In the meantime keep some earplugs available in your pocket.

Good answer. Other communities ban the use of gas powered leaf blowers, or they have one company that takes care of a whole neighborhood, so you only have the noise once a week. Not in The Villages obviously. It seems like each homeowner has their own service, so you hear the people behind you, next to you and across the street, basically every day. I wonder if the noise is less in a villa neighborhood. Many of the courtyard villas don't have grass, so you won't get the constant mowing and leaf blowers. Of course you probably get more barking dogs.

[Love2Swim]

Easy solution, MOVE

Originally Posted by jimjamuser

That is the sort of black and white personally-derogatory comment just drives POLITE posters away from TOTV. Then the forum will be left with only IMPOLITE posters spouting out VENOM in 3 and 4 word sentences treating NOBODY with respect and opening up no one's minds to anything like understanding. Many disagree with the opinion of the thread starter. But, there is NO reason to slam them for stating an opinion. Sharing opinions in a RESPECTFUL manner is the reason to have a forum in the first place. It is not a place to practice lashing out with close-minded intolerance toward others' opinions. There is ZERO glory in having the most venom!
.......Judging by the number of pages, this is a subject that needed to be talked about. So, the thread-starter did everyone a favor and they legitimately wanted to talk about solutions and see if others were bothered.

Agree. Some people are disrespectful and rude.

[MDLNB]

I only have one REAL complaint regarding "noise." All the elitist complaining and bellyaching on here by folks that should be celebrating retired life. Instead of complaining about 15 minutes of a bit of disturbed quiet, you should be shouting for joy at how you beat death for so many years and can now enjoy a few years of relaxation and stress free lifestyle. If this noise is so unbearable, install some noise buffers. Don't blame others for wishing to make enough money to provide for their families. Some folks are just plain SELFISH. Install double or triple pane windows and you won't notice what's going on around your neighborhood. There are three of us neighbors, grouped together that use either battery or electric lawn equipment and they can still be heard inside our homes. Do we complain? H*ll no! Everyone's lawns are just about perfect and landscaping is neat and trim. I guess there are a few of us that still remember more difficult times when everything was not perfect.
LIFE IS GREAT! And where else can you live where there is always someone nearby that are not off to work or school and will be there if you have an emergency? Where else can you live where neighbors are REAL neighborly and will lend a helping hand when you need it and won't ask? Where else do you have volunteer neighbors that are so numerous that they are just short of insulted if you choose someone else for a lift when you need car work done? We must-MUST live in a perfect community, if the best we can come up with when bored, is a 15-20 minute noise interruption complaint. The world is going to h*ll in a hand basket and folks around here are complaining about an interruption in their nap time. Go to bed LATE and get up before sunrise and enjoy life to the fullest.
It's your right to complain, but don't let your complaints define you. Are you healthy?
A twist on a common saying: I complained about loud lawn services until I met a neighbor that had no hearing.

[Bogie Shooter]

Originally Posted by Love2Swim

Good answer. Other communities ban the use of gas powered leaf blowers, or they have one company that takes care of a whole neighborhood, so you only have the noise once a week. Not in The Villages obviously. It seems like each homeowner has their own service, so you hear the people behind you, next to you and across the street, basically every day. I wonder if the noise is less in a villa neighborhood. Many of the courtyard villas don't have grass, so you won't get the constant mowing and leaf blowers. Of course you probably get more barking dogs.

One company, one day a week? 32 square miles……how will that work?

[MDLNB]

Originally Posted by Bogie Shooter

One company, one day a week? 32 square miles……how will that work?

I wonder how many times they would be changing out their batteries...
I guess they could use TWO lawn mowers if they had to do 32 square miles...

[joelfmi]

Originally Posted by Pjontheway

We really like The Villages. Coming here for many, many years.
We have lived here for over 3 years now. The noise, during the day is sometimes crazy! (Loud) powerful lawnmowers in neighborhoods and throughout public areas, powerwashing of houses, remodels, new roofs - just to name a few. Yes! Homes & throughout The Villages need maintenance but never lived in such noise.
Not being negative. I like it here. Wondering if less noisy tools could be used? Or something?

That is why transparences and Due Diligence is very Important before you buy.

[dougawhite]

Me and several of my neighbors got together and hired the same landscaper to mow our lawns. That way all of us are done at once and there is less noise and traffic overall in the neighborhood.

[Happydaz]

Noise levels have increased over the past few years to a much higher level. We have been here for close to nine years and the quality of life has been impacted by the large increase in traffic, construction, and lawn mowing services. I moved from the woods of New Hampshire to Danville, California in 1987 and the noise level was oppressive out there. You could hear the highway at all times of day and the lawn workers with their blowers really reduced the quality of life in this very upscale area. When I returned to NH in 1989 I made sure I couldn’t hear a highway where I wanted to move to and I drove by the prospective new home at all times of day and night to make sure it was quiet. Moving to the Villages you think it is going to be laid back and sedate, but as your area gets built up the noise level definitely increases. It has gotten more stressful to live here, in my opinion, as more and more people move here. The new roads, new stores, new apartments are, of course, necessary for a fast growing population, but it was not what I expected nor what I thought I had signed up for. (I moved into the famous, final build out area ) Yes, I could move, but I love the clubs, the people, and many other features of The Villages and as we all know you can never duplicate what we have here anywhere else, but it is getting noisier, no doubt.

[Ken Nelson]

Thank God the dogs peeing in someones yard is quiet!

[Bogie Shooter]

I think all this whining @bout noise is a bunch of BS.
i could go on and on as to why I think this way…….but nobody’s mind will change.

[BlueStarAirlines]

Originally Posted by skippy05

Why are you so afraid of 'being negative'? Just balance it with also sometimes being positive.

I have to laugh! We call that a sh!t sandwich! Something positive...the negative...more positive...

[Michael G.]

Noise?
OK here's a question.

What that must be like in Daytona, Sturges, and Leesburg hearing loud cycles for weeks on end?
Now they would have a real reason to bitch about noise and it wouldn't be coming from grooming someone's lawn.

Then again some say it helps the economy.

[BigSteph]

Afternoon naps are delightful.

Originally Posted by mrf0151

Sorry to hear that this is messing with your afternoon nap time.