It’s strange how one man’s lull is another’s noisey neighbour.
I had always lived in cities, born in Glasgow ( Scotland), raised in Edinburgh. Lived there till I was 30. Loved the sound of the streets at night, of always being streetlights and lights spilling from shops that you never truly knew what darkness was.
Then I emigrated to New Zealand.
For my first 3 months I had to live in a small town on the coast called Kaikoura and for long enough I couldn’t sleep well at night, restless …. And then it clicked, the ocean! The ebb and flow onto a shingle beach and I just couldn’t get used to it . Give me sirens and drunken people shouting into the night anytime
I am totally with you on that, David! When we moved to the backwoods of Oregon from Minneapolis I actually had a white noise I would listen to of “city sounds” 😄It is still very lulling to me. The sound of the ocean though also puts me to sleep.
Honestly, I do t know how people live right on the beach! The sound of crashing waves would drive me crazy.
In my childhood, every time we drove from home (Eau Claire) to the “farm” (Boyceville) and passed Menomonie, I’d sing the Muppets song, changing it to the town’s name 😂 You are welcome! https://youtu.be/8N_tupPBtWQ
It’s strange how one man’s lull is another’s noisey neighbour.
I had always lived in cities, born in Glasgow ( Scotland), raised in Edinburgh. Lived there till I was 30. Loved the sound of the streets at night, of always being streetlights and lights spilling from shops that you never truly knew what darkness was.
Then I emigrated to New Zealand.
For my first 3 months I had to live in a small town on the coast called Kaikoura and for long enough I couldn’t sleep well at night, restless …. And then it clicked, the ocean! The ebb and flow onto a shingle beach and I just couldn’t get used to it . Give me sirens and drunken people shouting into the night anytime
I am totally with you on that, David! When we moved to the backwoods of Oregon from Minneapolis I actually had a white noise I would listen to of “city sounds” 😄It is still very lulling to me. The sound of the ocean though also puts me to sleep.
Honestly, I do t know how people live right on the beach! The sound of crashing waves would drive me crazy.
In my childhood, every time we drove from home (Eau Claire) to the “farm” (Boyceville) and passed Menomonie, I’d sing the Muppets song, changing it to the town’s name 😂 You are welcome! https://youtu.be/8N_tupPBtWQ
That is awesome, CB… and I know that song 😄 I went to school at UW Eau Claire in the before times