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The Spanish love the noise is my theory. They are a very social people. They probably think of it as comforting versus annoying, and like the person that live

The Spanish love the noise is my theory. They are a very social people. They probably think of it as comforting versus annoying, and like the person that lives next to the waterfall that can't hear it, it probably fades into the background of their consciousness. (I lived in Spain for two years.)

switch007 3y ago
> The Spanish love the noise is my theory Totally. I think to them it represents and demonstrates liberation, freedom, fun, family and community. Loud means fun to them. People complaining about noise are seen as serious party-poopers.
- anthk 3y ago
  Spaniard here. No, it depends. The Castilles can be pretty silent/quiet/calm compared to Andalusia and the Eastern coast.
  - switch007 3y ago
    Oh that's interesting. Do you (or: do people usually) exclude Madrid from Castilla? That's the only place in Spain I've lived and would not class the people I knew as quiet and calm. But then again it's a melting pot of people from all over Spain, so who knows! And the calmest and quietest people I met were from the east coast :D Definitely agree about Andalusia though
    - anthk 3y ago
      Well, Madrid it's a melting pot and both a sinking hole where lots of population of Castille end there, and their mentality shifts OFC. It's not the same having to live in a small town in Castile of <2000 people vs doing that the literal capital of Spain.
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pvaldes 3y ago
Each American men bears a hat with mouse ears and every American woman is dressed as Cinderella. They hear Disney music all the time while letting children to take selfies with them. Is a very strange place. Or maybe I have a very stereotyped, very local experience that came from going mostly where all the other tourists go. and I'm wildly extrapolating from here about the rest of the country. Maybe the older houses are the only available places to rent in some cities when you are young, because they are old and creaky, so still affordable. Does this mean that every Spanish family live in old, poorly insulated houses? Hem, not. Is true that Mediterranean coast and Canary Islands care less about proper insulation. The north and center is different. Is Madrid louder than London, Athens, new Dehli, Los Angeles or Pekin? I'm very skeptical about it. It just happens that big cities, sport events, drinking areas and heavy traffic streets are noisy places. Here and in Australia. If you go where the drunkards join; expect to meet a lot of drunkards. But now visit any small village in Castilla; most of the time you could hear an atom crashing against the soil.
- prmoustache 3y ago
  > But now visit any small village in Castilla; most of the time you could hear an atom crashing against the soil. Same in small white villages in Andalucía. That is because they are populated mostly by old people that spend their day in front of their TV and barely want to walk anywhere. But once every 30 minutes whole village is woken up by the local teenager, the scream of his moped echoing in all the narrow streets. And if some people are talking you bet they are all shouting at each other.

switch007 3y ago

> The Spanish love the noise is my theory Totally. I think to them it represents and demonstrates liberation, freedom, fun, family and community. Loud means fun to them. People complaining about noise are seen as serious party-poopers.

anthk 3y ago
Spaniard here. No, it depends. The Castilles can be pretty silent/quiet/calm compared to Andalusia and the Eastern coast.
- switch007 3y ago
  Oh that's interesting. Do you (or: do people usually) exclude Madrid from Castilla? That's the only place in Spain I've lived and would not class the people I knew as quiet and calm. But then again it's a melting pot of people from all over Spain, so who knows! And the calmest and quietest people I met were from the east coast :D Definitely agree about Andalusia though
  - anthk 3y ago
    Well, Madrid it's a melting pot and both a sinking hole where lots of population of Castille end there, and their mentality shifts OFC. It's not the same having to live in a small town in Castile of <2000 people vs doing that the literal capital of Spain.

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pvaldes 3y ago

Each American men bears a hat with mouse ears and every American woman is dressed as Cinderella. They hear Disney music all the time while letting children to take selfies with them. Is a very strange place. Or maybe I have a very stereotyped, very local experience that came from going mostly where all the other tourists go. and I'm wildly extrapolating from here about the rest of the country. Maybe the older houses are the only available places to rent in some cities when you are young, because they are old and creaky, so still affordable. Does this mean that every Spanish family live in old, poorly insulated houses? Hem, not. Is true that Mediterranean coast and Canary Islands care less about proper insulation. The north and center is different. Is Madrid louder than London, Athens, new Dehli, Los Angeles or Pekin? I'm very skeptical about it. It just happens that big cities, sport events, drinking areas and heavy traffic streets are noisy places. Here and in Australia. If you go where the drunkards join; expect to meet a lot of drunkards. But now visit any small village in Castilla; most of the time you could hear an atom crashing against the soil.

prmoustache 3y ago
> But now visit any small village in Castilla; most of the time you could hear an atom crashing against the soil. Same in small white villages in Andalucía. That is because they are populated mostly by old people that spend their day in front of their TV and barely want to walk anywhere. But once every 30 minutes whole village is woken up by the local teenager, the scream of his moped echoing in all the narrow streets. And if some people are talking you bet they are all shouting at each other.