We live on a quiet street. Just a garbage truck or street sweeper once in a while. But about 2 miles east is the airport and the Marines in Jacksonville, NC area send very noisy Ospreys, Harriers and F18s down here on training runs, south and west are train tracks. In the summer, after a good rain, in the swamp near our back door we get peepers and crickets that can compete with the trains which are half a mile away.