Hate:
Stereos’ base sound bothers me the most. That low pounding beats make me crazy.
People who talk loudly on the cell phone in public transportation. We can hear their plans on the weekend and their life stories. Worse are the people who use speaker mode in public.
Never ending garden water sound. It’s soothing in the beginning but it starts to annoy me after a while. It makes me wanting go to the bathroom often.
Barking dogs.
Don’t mind:
Leaf blower
Love:
Crickets
So happy to read this thread. Sometimes I think I’m crazy being annoyed by some of these things - loud talking in restaurants and public cell phone conversations. I’m glad that others are annoyed also but sad that there is no end in sight.
Absolutely hate the leaf blowers. Not a fan of people talking on their cell at restaurants or in the loo.
If I could get rid of the tinnitus that’s been plaguing me for the last couple of years, I would never complain about loud noises again. 
@svcamom my husband shamed a guy who was talking on his phone at a urinal by intentionally making, um, loud sound effects, including groaning and flushing multiple toilets The guy quickly hung up and left.
Groaning? OMG
Blasting bass music at the highest decibel from a car should not be allowed. I’ve no need to feel like an earthquake is in progress.
You can do it in your home to your own ears and body as long as I can’t hear it next door.
You can close your windows and “enjoy” it all you want.
My impression is that kids aren’t “enjoying” it. I think it’s just a “I can, so I will” thing with no regard to anyone else. Not sure when such selfishness came into vogue.
“People who talk loudly on the cell phone in public transportation. We can hear their plans on the weekend and their life stories. Worse are the people who use speaker mode in public.”
Just remember that you are perfectly free to comment on all those plans that they’ve made public by default. No need to stay quiet while they converse freely and make loud plans. Feel free to chime in! If they need extra advice just send them to CC. We’ll provide the rest.
Judging from the ages of my neighbors who use leafblowers, the selfishness of creating noise came into vogue a long time ago.
Car alarms! The cars are never being stolen. They were bumped or the owner accidentally pushed the panic button.
I have tinnitus too and I wonder if all this unnecessary noise contributed to it.
“The guy in the cubicle behind me at work wears hearing aids – but he doesn’t always wear them when the office gets noisy. Occasionally, I envy him”
When my boys were little I was so envious of people that wore hearing aids I started to resent how unfair it is that as humans our hearing loss tends to happen later in life when we no longer need it… seemed a better idea for us to be deaf when we procreate then regain hearing when our children go away to college.
We went through two rounds of 17 year cicadas in Illinois. They were intense but short lived at least.
I didn’t move to a downtown high-rise for the peace and quiet. But that IS why people move to the suburbs, so I think I’d be even more bothered by the mowers and leaf blowers than I am by the motorcycles.
Leaf blowers and mowers are pretty much the sounds of suburbia.
“Judging from the ages of my neighbors who use leafblowers, the selfishness of creating noise came into vogue a long time ago.”
Agreed. Things like leaf blowers and motorcycles definitely aren’t new.
Have folks here always been sensitive to noise? Has the population density increased a lot where you live?
When I was small, like 7 or 8 years old, my family moved from noisy commercial area to quiet suburb. I couldn’t fall asleep because of the deafening silence at night. I needed the city noise to fall asleep.
I’ve always been sensitive to noise. I’m constantly walking around turning off the tv, lowering the music, etc.
I don’t mind the yard equipment, what I don’t like are loud restaurants. There is nothing enjoyable to me about going somewhere when I can’t hear what people around me are saying.
Now that hubby has his hearing aids adjusted his tinnitus is much better and he doesn’t need things so loud. It’s a huge relief to me.
"Have folks here always been sensitive to noise? Has the population density increased a lot where you live? "
Sometimes it’s a change of neighborhoods and practices in the different neighborhoods that is the issue. Growing up, most of our neighbors worked full time jobs in a standard Mon - Fri work week and did their own yard work, so everybody was out there mowing during the middle of Saturday and everybody was noisy at the same time. In the neighborhood we’re in now, nobody does their own lawn work so it’s a series of lawn care companies coming at various times throughout the week, with teams of 4-6 people all using loud power equipment. Conversely, weekends are quieter because the lawn care companies don’t work weekends. Weekends it’s mostly dealing with the weekly maintenance run of the backup generators. Sigh. Our next door neighbor is a very sweet but somewhat oblivious deaf couple in their late 80s. They can’t hear their dogs barking and they have their generator (which is incredibly loud) set to do its weekly maintenance run from 7 AM to 7:30 AM each Saturday morning.
" they have their generator (which is incredibly loud) set to do its weekly maintenance run from 7 AM to 7:30 AM each Saturday morning"
Couldn’t hurt to talk to them about that. They can run it anytime. In fact, wouldn’t it be nice if the whole neighborhood ran theirs at the same time every week? It would suck for a 1/2 hour (time to put the earphones on or go run some errands) but then you’d be done. 
"Couldn’t hurt to talk to them about that. "
DH claims he mentioned it to them, but either he did a horrible job of explaining (very possible - he’s English and they’re not good at being direct) the problem or they misunderstood (very possible - they’re both largely deaf and often look confused). When we first moved here they did the test from 7 AM - 7:30 AM on Sunday mornings. After the alleged talk, they changed it to 7 AM - 7:30 AM on Saturday mornings.
Definitely Hollister!!! It didn’t take my kids long to figure out that I would buy them just about any item they wanted just so I could to get out of the darn store.
I also agree that leaf blowers emit a horrible and constant noise.