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I was born in the country (UK) we could hear individual cars coming from a mile away. We live about a mile from a 2-lane motorway: it's been bliss for me in the depth of lockdown that at times it's been silent, and again I've been able to hear (quietly) individual vehicles at night, or none at all.

My kids, brought up with it, were surprised to even be told there is motorway noise, they simply don't notice it.

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Yeah, you actually need to be pretty far from roads with any traffic not to hear anything at all.

I'm maybe 500 feet from a 2-lane road and about a mile from an Interstate in a fairly spread out area. It's not exactly noisy but with windows open and no music or anything playing, you definitely hear the road traffic.