NoRomance
Landscaping noise is a growing problem. They don't use mufflers and they keep doing it until every last leave is gone. It's getting to the point where you stand outside your home and if you're having a conversation with someone you can no longer have it because of all the noise. This is very very frequent.
The caravans pull up their extended vehicles and create havoc as they rotate through the neighborhood. Even on the other block the noise extends over.
I have told my landscaper to do no blowing in the backyard. I made up to buy him a broom for the front soon. I'm a put a banner on my front lawn recommending the band of leaf blower's and more use of rakes and brooms.
We are all frogs in water that's getting warmer and warmer-we simply don't notice all the noise at this point, and it will never really be the same as it used to be when people hired a neighbor to mow the lawn or did it themselves. But now if you don't hire a landscaper people infer you have financial problems.
But that's outside, and when you're inside Leaf blower's can be heard you just can't get away from them. I lived in Manhattan for four years and living in a suburb is just as bad.