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In North America I never hear police sirens, even in a noisy metro. In urban Germany, I could hear them all day. There's something about the '4 story / narrow
by jollybean 4y ago
In North America I never hear police sirens, even in a noisy metro.
In urban Germany, I could hear them all day.
There's something about the '4 story / narrow streets / high density' that reverberates sounds, there's also something uniquely blistering about their sirens, finally, I think they just put them on for any reason.
Being pulled over in Canada I just see the lights, often no siren at all.
- cameronh90 4y agoMy experience in London and NYC is the opposite. In NYC there was rarely a time that I couldn't hear a siren. I figured it was because of the very long, straight roads with unbroken sight lines and the curious way American emergency vehicles seem to leave the siren on all the time. In London I live on a main road but only hear them a few times a day, only for a second as they go past, and rarely at night. Quite a lot of emergency vehicles drive past, but they usually have the siren turned off for the small area where they're audible to me.
- zimpenfish 4y ago> In London I live on a main road but only hear them a few times a day Couple of hundred yards off Old Kent Road and yeah, similar experience - although they do tend to come in bunches around here, it's generally over in a minute or two.
- donthellbanme 4y ago
- april_22 4y agoAlso have a quite opposite experience. Lived in rural Germany for years and even seeing a police car on the road was something special. You could almost never hear police cars. In all major cities I have been you could hear sirens all day, which also makes sense considering population density etc.