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jellybaby
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.