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In the old apartment, we would be inundated with cars rushing past at all hours of the night. I slowly grew used to it, even convinced myself that the woosh of cars was akin to the rush of waves crashing at a beach, but it did bother me a lot sleep-wise.
Now that I live in a more village-y apartment with a road that's barely used, I'm suddenly aware of much more different kinds of noises: animals, birds, babies crying -- anything that would break the otherwise peaceful silence.
It's super distracting too! The contrast between infrequent nature noises against silence, vs the contrast between discourteous motorists against background traffic is way waay higher than I'd thought, despite the latter being on average magnitudes in decibels louder.
TLDR: I've come to the conclusion that I can never be happy with my sleeping situation.
I was in a similar bi-polar (environmental) scenario.
I went from living in midtown St Louis in 2015, along the busiest road there (South Grand) to moving to Pevely, Missouri, where the nearest *anything* was a Mr Fuel 1.2 miles away.
It was like an isolation chamber. Thick walls, thick floors, thick ceilings. I would step outside and my ears would almost hurt from the sudden impact of SOUND!
I ended up "pacing" a lot in that apartment when my lease was near over. Then back to the consistent serenade of a crowded side road of Baumgautner in South St Louis County. A bike or horn may rise above the rest sometimes, but I was used to it after a year.
The courtyard three buildings over, where I'm at now, works best. Quiet, calm, but not deafeningly silent nor noisy.