After last night's conversation on noise I installed a sound meter on my phone.
Brentford, living in a tower block next to the M4, used to be between 60-70 db even at 4am. During the day solidly 70 db.
Crouch End right now is 29 db over a 5 minute average, but when a bird outside burst into birdsong it went to 31 db max, and the min was 28db.
This is the kind of noise level where you could hear a quiet watch ticking on your arm and no road or city noise is present. It's pretty incredible that this is still London.
That sounds blissful. My road (6m from front door) has become a rat run and is busy 24hrs a day. It's got speed bumps on it so people tend to accelerate between them and then jump on the brakes hard every 50m.
After last night's conversation on noise I installed a sound meter on my phone.
Brentford, living in a tower block next to the M4, used to be between 60-70 db even at 4am. During the day solidly 70 db.
Crouch End right now is 29 db over a 5 minute average, but when a bird outside burst into birdsong it went to 31 db max, and the min was 28db.
This is the kind of noise level where you could hear a quiet watch ticking on your arm and no road or city noise is present. It's pretty incredible that this is still London.