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Walking next to a busy street is unnerving and stressful to me (to me it seems as though the noise is the biggest problem), so I can easily imagine there being
by arrrg 11y ago
Walking next to a busy street is unnerving and stressful to me (to me it seems as though the noise is the biggest problem), so I can easily imagine there being no positive effect. However, walking down a quiet alley with no cars (audible or visible) has to me nearly the same meditative effect as walking in nature. Not alle urban settings are the same, so I could imagine there being a positive effect in some. (Structurally some small pedestrian-only alley from Renaissance times in the town I grew up in actually feels very similar to nature.)
- Symbiote 11y agoCould the noise be the main factor? My office is directly underneath the flightpath to London Heathrow Airport, and my house is under the secondary approach path. There's a landing about every 90 seconds for most of the day (average 1290 flights per day, maximum 15 between 23:00-0600). Planes tend to be < 2000ft overhead, and Heathrow has lots of big planes. I don't need to go to the countryside to notice the peace and quiet, and feel much better rested. Hotels in the centres of Sheffield and Birmingham have had the same effect. http://www.flightradar24.com/51.48,-0.46/12 http://www.flightradar24.com/51.48,-0.46/12