Could you live where it was silent all the time?
And all you heard were animal noises?
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I could and I would love it. Not hearing random cars, emergency sirens, and gunfire at the artillery range would be wonderful!
Without my hearing aids,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,i do.
Its really peaceful. it put you in your own silent world and after being a cop for 44 years, thats “music” to my ears. like someone else said, no sirens, gunshots, women screaming, or burglar alarms. like the song says…....Silence Is Golden.
I’d be fine with it. Especially if there were no grackles.
I have, and I didn’t like it as much as I thought I would. I now live in the ‘burbs and I like the sound of traffic, neighbors and the train going by.
It’s very rare to find silence. If you listen, there’s a lot going on with nature.
Yes. It sounds wonderful. We can aways create noise if we need it. lol It is perfectly silent much of the time where I live. I can listen to my ears ringing. LOL
I actually don’t think I would mind. It would be a nice change.
No. I’ve tried it, and after two days I had had enough of the house settling noises, crackling trees and the eerie silence at night. The birds singing in the morning were a welcoming sound.
I agree with @Aster—we can always create noise if we need it. Living at one of the busiest intersections in Toronto, quiet would be more than welcome to me!
I most certainly could. ;) and probably will someday
Sounds idyllic and I would have to worry about me making too much noise either!
Sounds like heaven to me. I’m getting a taste of it now living on a farm, though we do get noise at times from the state route we live on. We no longer have the sound of car horns, snotty kids knocking on the door, my neighbor yelling at her toddlers, lawn mowers, bass thumping cars, or dogs barking. I love it.
YES I PROBABLY COULD, ALTHOUGH I MAY HAVE TO LOWER MY NATURALLY LOUD VOICE! All creatures great & small…....all things wise & wonde…...
Hopefully we’ll be moving to just such a place soon. We’re still trying to get our dream home, but we have to sell this house first. The folks selling the home we want to buy are gone, but have given permission for us to come visit their land. Sometimes we’ll go out there and just sit, and listen..to the wind, the birds, the brush rustling. Yes, I could seriously get used to that. No more wack-o crack-head neighbor screaming into her cell phone for her dog to come home…..
That’s what Northern Michigan sounds like. Where my girlfriend’s cabin is at. The first time there, by early afternoon (we got there at 8 in the morning), I said to her “this is the most relaxed I have felt in years!”. I’ll be going up there for the American Thanksgiving. We’re going to be taking the four wheeler out and exploring the rolling hills.
The cabin.
I do and I love it. When I have overnight guests, they often comment on the disturbing quality of so much silence. The occasional howls of the coyotes or hoots of the big owls are as alarming as a siren screaming up Park Ave. might be to me.
@gailcalled Much of my family is from the Seattle area. My uncle and aunt have a big tract of property that they bought in the 70’s, before the boom hit. It’s in the middle of Auburn, yet it’s isolated country at the same time. It’s kind of spooky out there just because in the morning, and at night, the trees drip with moisture, it’s foggy, you can’t hear a thing except the harsh breathing of….. SASQUATCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Frill! I give my self the creeps out there!
@Dutchess_III : I lived for awhile in Preston, WA, east of Seattle in the foothills of the Cascades. It was pretty remote and sometimes at night we’d hear crashing in the trees that would detonate the dogs…always figured it was a Sasquatch party!
All the time? No way. I need some noise in my life or I go stir crazy. The silence I relish is when my hubby takes the kids on an outing so I can have some quiet “me time”. The house is quiet, I can take a hot bath, drink a glass of wine and read a book without being interrupted. But I only like it for a little while, then I need them to come back and be noisy again!
Yes, I’d love the isolation, the ability to have human contact solely when I desire to go out and seek some. People can be such a nuisance, especially in an urban or suburban setting.
yep, but i like the hustle and bustle too, within reason.
I would love that! That would be like heaven to me, and yes I believe I could live like that forever.
@gailcalled Very Nice! But what’s the big eyed creature in the snow?
@gailcalled I want that driveway and I want it NOW. thank you. now I covet all of it.
I am slowly getting there. I have already lost hearing in much of the upper register, and most sounds are muted. I will be experiencing silence more in the years to come.
Kind of. If I could talk to people outside of my house ever so often, I think I’d be pretty content. I go nuts when it’s completely silent, no sounds at all. It was like that for about 21 hours because our power was out, and it took about 3 times longer for me to fall asleep.
NEVER! I’ll shrivel and die first. I need an almost constant stream of music or conversation during my day. Silence is never perfect and hardly satisfying.
The downside.
Severe weather during winter and late summer. Ice, snow, sleet, high winds, thunder, lightening, flash floods, and power outages that may last five days.
Deer ticks. Milo snuck out after dark tonight. When he returned, I pulled four ticks off him.
That beautiful drive is covered with sheet ice during winter. Plowing and sanding bills are huge. There is a bad sharp turn down the fall line. The UPS guy, my snow plow, and me – we have all gone off the road and into the trees.
Clay soil and spongy fields. The guy who empties my septic tank got stuck in the mud the last time he was here. He didn’t listen to me about the soft earth. He had to call his daddy to tow him out. Easier for him to do that than to heed a woman.
Over the MA-NY line, about 30 minutes west of the Berkshires, which are chock-a-block filled with culture. Tanglewood (BSO), Jacob’s Pillow (dance), Shakespeare & Co.(Shakespeare), opera, art movies, jazz, fine art, opera, museums, and the natural beauty.
Farms, cows, llamas, bears, hawks, deer, rivers, lakes, rolling hills, hiking, skiing, sheep herding contests, apple and berry picking, rubbing elbows with celebrities, taking yoga classes with Karen Allen.
Google 12165 or 12037 (for the nearest city).
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