If things sound different in your area now, how have they changed?

Please mention your area, just for context. Unless you prefer not to, of course; no explanation needed.

In San Jose, I’m not far from the freeway and the busy international airport (which is very close to downtown and not out in the sticks). I’m hearing an amazing frequency of planes taking off when I thought the number of flights was down.

I hear less freeway noise than usual, but there’s still some; we’re not close enough really to gauge, although when the weather warms up it’ll be more audible with the windows open. The big difference is that there’s less routine traffic noise and less sound of everyday coming and going in the neighborhood. Fewer voices, too.

And, it seems to me, more sirens.