there's a website called How Loud that analyzes how noisy different addresses are (when standing outside the property, purely on urban geography, it doesn't take into account things like double pane windows or architecture) and something i feel so smug about is that many suburban addresses actually end up being substantially louder than addresses in the inner city because the primary source of noise is cars and so more car-dependent communities will end up with lots of loud wide arterial roads with heavy car traffic all times of day whereas in older cities with narrow residential streets you actually might not be able to hear non-emergency vehicles very often at all.
so a lot of people decide to move to the suburbs because "it's quieter" and then... don't even get quiet out of it. I've lived in both rural and urban areas and my current apartment in the inner-city is actually the second most quiet residence I've held. Because the rural addresses were off of arterial roads in car dependent areas. After all, the residences that are more affordable in suburbs and rural areas are going to be the ones by arterial roads... because nobody wants all that noise!
No, it doesn't. It's cars. It's always cars.
It's quieter when it snows because there's less traffic.
