If you like quiet, do NOT move to the NoVA suburbs

[Anonymous]

If your neighbors didn’t do any of this you’d be here complaining that they don’t maintain their properties.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If your neighbors didn’t do any of this you’d be here complaining that they don’t maintain their properties.

Raking doesn’t make a sound.

[Anonymous]

I'll take leafblowers over gunshots, which sadly has been a reality for us in DC.

Oh and thr ATV races or cars that would circle our block without mufflers. Constant and annoying af.

Leaf blowers any day.

[Anonymous]

I was just in Palm Springs visiting a friend. There is a 50-decibel noise ordinance outdoors in residential neighborhoods. It was lovely!

They are very strict and neighbors will report you, and the police will come to your door.

For reference, 50 decibels is normal conversation, light traffic noise, the sound of a dishwasher running, and the ticking of a clock.

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[Anonymous]

I live in Loudoun County and a few of my neighbors hire lawn services that come once a week in the spring and summer. Takes them less than half an hour to do a lawn and then that’s it. Not the continuous drone you’re describing.

[Anonymous]

Yep. I'm with you OP. Literally moving because of the noise.

We are moving from FCC to Vienna. I can no longer handle all of the noise. There is constant noise from cars zooming by and blaring music (our street is a commuter cut through right by the metro), and it is especially bad right in front of our house where there is a stop sign that they roll into in a rolling stop and then they gun it when they see there aren't other cars. Our houses are on top of each other and I am at the point where I desperately hate the neighbors on one side because of the constant noise. People are constantly walking up and down our street to and from the metro and part of the great noise pollution of these times is people walking down the street talking on the phone -- actually holding it right in front of their face, on speaker, and $#@*&ing screaming at it.

The new place in Vienna is at the end of a cul de sac, with old people in the adjacent houses, backing onto Wolf Trap woods. It is no where near as nice of a house. But I don't care. I need some peace.

[Anonymous]

We moved less than 1 mile precisely to find a quieter lot. We now back to about 80 acres of FFX county parkland/woods. We still have neighbors on one side so still some lawn noise but we see and hear more deer, owls, raccoons, foxes and coyotes than we do people.

[Anonymous]

Do you live in the city of Alexandria? It's pure h e double l. Constant, unrelenting, unbearable.

[Anonymous]

I live in Loudoun County and a few of my neighbors hire lawn services that come once a week in the spring and summer. Takes them less than half an hour to do a lawn and then that’s it. Not the continuous drone you’re describing.

Are you in a newer development that has no trees? We live in a 70 year old section of FFC and we have huge trees. Lots of leaves. So leaf blowers. Those are the most awful IMO. They should outlaw gas leaf blowers. We own an electric one and it is much, much quieter. Also electric mowers are quieter.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm always confused when people complain about noise. You don't live in the countryside.

If you live near people, people do things. How do you think lawns get cut? things get transported? People do work on their homes?

Ultimately I think there are just some people exceptionally sensitive to noise. I can't imagine being remotely bothered by airplane noise - and I live 1 mile from a major airport.

In the country, it's the smells. And the noise.

[Anonymous]

My sister lives in Annandale and it's always quiet when I visit.
I have lived in two different high rise condo buildings which are only two blocks apart. The more expensive and fancier building is way louder at all times, inside and outside. If you got to have a security, you have noise/rule violation problems in the building.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yep. I'm with you OP. Literally moving because of the noise.

We are moving from FCC to Vienna. I can no longer handle all of the noise. There is constant noise from cars zooming by and blaring music (our street is a commuter cut through right by the metro), and it is especially bad right in front of our house where there is a stop sign that they roll into in a rolling stop and then they gun it when they see there aren't other cars. Our houses are on top of each other and I am at the point where I desperately hate the neighbors on one side because of the constant noise. People are constantly walking up and down our street to and from the metro and part of the great noise pollution of these times is people walking down the street talking on the phone -- actually holding it right in front of their face, on speaker, and $#@*&ing screaming at it.

The new place in Vienna is at the end of a cul de sac, with old people in the adjacent houses, backing onto Wolf Trap woods. It is no where near as nice of a house. But I don't care. I need some peace.

This describes my situation perfectly. Trying to move also but everything is so expensive. It wasn't always this way at my house; the noisy cars and loud people seem to have multiplied ten-fold in the past few years. Some days, when people walk by blabbing loudly, I'm tempted to turn on my Ring doorbell and play a loud beeping or siren sound.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I live in Loudoun County and a few of my neighbors hire lawn services that come once a week in the spring and summer. Takes them less than half an hour to do a lawn and then that’s it. Not the continuous drone you’re describing.

Bc in the closer-in suburbs, many of us live on lots that are <.25 acres. In these neighborhoods, there are neighbors on all sides and someone is always having yard work done, renovations, tear-down/rebuilds, etc. and we have helicopters and airplanes heading to 2 major airports. it’s f’n noisy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Opposite of the opposite of the Asian countries is Germany. They have quiet hours which are strictly enforced, culturally instilled, and days like Sunday where shops and other businesses have to remain closed. It's slightly inconvenient but you adapt quickly and look forward to a period of predictable peace and quiet.

except for the church bells in Germany

[Anonymous]

Yup. Lawn mowing season around here where every yard basically gets cut once a week generally tapers off in September. You can often get a generally quiet October before the even lower leaf blowing season starts and runs through early December with another nice quiet run during winter until early April.