Road noise is a constant now added low humming of factories, we gotta get out of this place!
The home we purchased close onto forty years ago was right at the edge of suburbia next was wild bush then sugarcane fields. Now developed and not so enjoyable, we did have thirty years of peace for that I am grateful.
Longs walks for absolute quiet only happen on the weekends when we make the beach.
Until the holiday makers arrive. I remember growing up on the Natal South Coast it was like that. Absolute quiet. But during the holidays you need to leave! So much has changed now. One has to head to the mountains to get some quiet. I remember returning to the home my parents built when I was a child, in Pretoria. It was one of only 4 that was also on the edge but by now it is almost the centre of the city!
Lived on the coast long enough now, time for change is due, towns connect with little open spaces left from Durban to Transkei border.
Growing up on West Rand we had veld adjacent to the home, many koppies to explore, today all wall to wall housing.
Mountains are calling....