[blueridge]

Yard tools running all day, commercial pumps and carpet cleaning vacuums in the distance (can hear them from miles away), the whine from AC compressors around the neighborhood, the resonance from the air moving through the radon piping on sides of our neighbor's houses, the CONSTANT and increasing noise from small planes, the neighbors who seem to vacuum their cars almost every other day for half the day. If my other half accidentally drops a ceramic dish on another ceramic dish my ears are ringing and painful for days.

I read this and I think that others must think that I am difficult to live with. It's not like I'm wincing all day or bitching at others to keep it down. The inside of our house is a sanctuary of silence, for the most part, after lots of trial and error with AC ducting, appliances, insulation. It's all of the other sounds that seem to sneak in through our old walls that are maddening.