[dylan604]

> But even just a half second of a car horn going off right next to you every so often is intolerable.

You must not have a neighbor with a car whose alarm constantly goes off at random points throughout the day right outside your window. You eventually don't notice it. Speaking from experience

[makeitdouble]

To state the obvious, it's better if it's calm:

https://www.eea.europa.eu/en/analysis/indicators/health-impa...

On getting used to it, people adapt in that they stop consciously noticing the noise, but it's still constantly processed and grinding on one's environmental awareness.

[craftkiller]

I actually do, and I still notice it every time. Some asshole across the street rides a motorcycle and every day he revs his motorcycle which sets off the alarm of some other asshole's van.

[budman1]

live by a railroad track. takes about 6 months till you don't notice it. at all.

[fragmede]

Depends on the frequency and duration. Lived near some tracks for years and what got me was waking up in the middle of the night for that freight train that was irregular. The regular passenger train I got used to though.