Imagine, say a 100yrs ago, There would be no loud music, hum of the motorways?

Question

Im not saying it would be all peaceful, But in today's standards it would be tranquility, Why is there so many people hell bent on making so much NOISE, Are you one of them? With your telemusic, loud speakers, and so forth. FOR THE LAST TIME SHARRUP.

Apparently, there are some bloody loud people below, Or right then , say 300yrs ago, TURN THE BLOODY NOISE DOWN?

Answer 1

Spent last summer in the S.E of France, had a wooden chalet by a lake, no main roads nearby, no streetlights, no noisey neighbours, nearest town 5 mins drive away.

All we heard were Crickets, birds and nature settling down at night.... it was Blisss! I hated being back to street noise and artificial lighting.... When I win the lottery I'm off to the wilderness.................... :)

Answer 2

Was probably very noisy 100 years ago, with everyone living at close quarters in tiny homes. My grandmother brought up a dozen children in a house with two and a half rooms total. No double glazing, sometimes not even glass, so you heard the neighbours yelling to each other in the yard. The loo was a pit, across the yard, and shared with neighbours - often with a queue during the daytime. Chamber pots at night. Noise AND smell. Go back another 100 or 200 and the animals were inside too. Roosters waking up at 4.0am etc.

Answer 3

Only had to go back 50 years. The loud radio started when the portability became possible with the advent of transistors. Radios became smaller and could work off tiny batteries. They were on beaches and any public open space. They were a menace. 10 people within earshot of each other all listened to different programmes it was murder. The car noises came with speed and volume.

Answer 4

A good interesting point, much of the music is deliberately loud to annoy the neighbours. Once you had to play an instrument which limited the amount of playing, now any idiot can be a neighbour from hell. That is why I live in a detached house

Answer 5

There was noise 100yrs ago. Horses and carriages. Trains. People yellin to buy stuff in the streets.

And they had electric power 100yrs ago so motors ran that were noisy too.

If u wanna find a quiet place then live in my town. It's way quiet man.

Answer 6

Hooray! I thought it was only me.

Trouble is they're all in competition with each other, turn up the volume, go deaf, and turn it up even more. It's all made worse now we've got open windows.

Then there's the revved up engines, oh yes and that B yapping dog.

Best time of day is early morning, with only the dawn chorus to listen to. Oh, give me land, lots of land...

Answer 7

100 years ago you'd be getting up before dawn going out to milk the cows, collecting eggs from the chickens, letting the horses out to graze and slopping the pigs. You'd be going over to clean out the outhouse and letting the goats roam the yard to keep the grass from taking over your house, which has no electricitiy. You'd stink of manure all day, day after day and be going to bed at dusk.

Answer 8

If you went to the deepest coldest part of the north pole, there would probably be someone there with an annoying ringtone on their mobile phone, or some chavspaz in a nova with bum-bump-bum-bump music driving past you.....

Answer 9

Unfortunately 100 years ago there would be other noises you would probably find annoying, like steam locomotives and endless streams of livestock being driven past your window to the slaughterhouse, tanners, knackers, etc.

It's all relative.

Answer 10

You'd probably be working in a workhouse 100 years ago, and they were hardly quiet- so I'd watch your tonuge.

Plus without the modern comforts you're used to, I doubt you'd last very long.