I'm on vacation in the mountains this week. Of course we've all noticed just how much quieter and more peaceful it is here. As I pointed out to my mom earlier (is this from NotJustBikes?), it's not that cities (or the suburbs) are loud, it's that cars are loud. In my neighborhood the noise is mostly from the various AC units — it gets really quiet when the power goes out; there is still quite a bit of car noise though, and when the highway opens, there's going to be a lot more.
Like at home, there's not much of anywhere to go from the house on foot. There's a general store across the street, which is a highway (in the mountains, it's not like a city highway) on the top of a hill, so you can't see the cars coming up the hill until it's too late, and there's a lake/pond and park accessible to neighborhood residents and their accompanied guests.
While park access sure is nice, I wouldn't like to live here. Biking from the house is unforgiving on these curvy, hilly mountain roads. I'm also surrounded by idiots here — it's the kind of place people fly Confederate flags and decorate their houses and yards for the 4th of July, where the only big box stores are Dollar General and Walmart, and where the only — the ONLY! — plausible way to get anywhere is by car (even more so than at home!), not to mention the weather I'm just not ready for.
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