How to deal with sound nuisance from cars and motorcycles

I already have that setup and it works pretty well for me with an outside temperature of 0ºC and 80% humidity. My heater is constantly on the lowest setting and the fan does a great job at blocking street noise. I have to mention that my room is very well insulated so your mileage may vary.

Just point the ceiling fan slightly upwards and you will be amazed on how much the room gets warmer.

Good point. I'll try that tonight.

rolf wroteThis feels reasonable to me. Does anyone have something to suggest, or is able to help in some way?
After all most of us live in Lebanon, we would all benefit from some progress.

Start with yourself. That is what I'm doing.

Even if everyone is throwing his trash on the street, keep it till you find a bin.
Even if you feel everyone will judge you if you say you support (gay rights, civil marriage, whatever..), say it like it should be the norm.
Even if your whatever relative third cousin is running for elections, and all your family is pressuring you to vote for him, don't unless you think he is the best candidate.

Now imagine everyone forcing progress like this. We might get somewhere. To change society change yourself, or else everyone is just nagging about it.

rolf wrote This feels reasonable to me. Does anyone have something to suggest, or is able to help in some way?
After all most of us live in Lebanon, we would all benefit from some progress.

I am not sure if you are referring to the main issue of the thread or the poor quality of life in this country. All in all, you should focus on changing yourself not the world. To tell you the truth, I have been always keen on the idea that it is possible for one to reprogram his brain to better fit his environment without letting go of his standards. To be honest, I couldn't be satisfied in my attempts of doing so. I am always in a struggle, always telling myself that I can be more immune and less sensitive like some folks I see. Maybe I am wrong and all are in the same or similar struggle, maybe I have to learn to live with this struggle and accept as part of my identity. What are we exactly without our past and current struggles? I could not guess. Sometimes I wish I suppress less and that I shouldn't back down on what irritates me, my time is limited, I could not wait for my inner peace forever.
Sometimes we forget that we pursuit satisfaction and not the absolute justice, otherwise why we only care about what causes we only perceive and not the other billion causes on this planet? It is all about perception and this is why we suddenly feel better about life after going out and having fun with friends. Please remember to have fun as it always alters your perception, and teach yourself how to have fun because no one knows what that is to you except you.

Regarding noise pollution, I suffer from same problem and I wish my brain did not care about this like other members in my family but now I teach myself to be more relaxed about it. The key thing I found out is that I find the noise to be personal and that I did bind it with other grudges I have towards the people that makes this noise and so I did contribute in amplifying my torment. This is very interesting because I found out that this noise did not bother me, nor I even noticed it on many occasions while I was outside home. I am truly convinced that my pain is personal and is dominated by my dislike towards the people who make it and this is why I only notice it at home. Home is the place where you anticipate bad stuff to happen only because you want it to be your safe heaven and because major part of you bad memories has taken place in it.

Someone suggested Mantra to me and so I will try it, and I will keep you posted about my progress in my struggle and hopefully I can make an achievement without waiting years.

Guitaret wrote Regarding noise pollution, I suffer from same problem and I wish my brain did not care about this like other members in my family but now I teach myself to be more relaxed about it. The key thing I found out is that I find the noise to be personal and that I did bind it with other grudges I have towards the people that makes this noise and so I did contribute in amplifying my torment. This is very interesting because I found out that this noise did not bother me, nor I even noticed it on many occasions while I was outside home. I am truly convinced that my pain is personal and is dominated by my dislike towards the people who make it and this is why I only notice it at home.

That also applies to getting angry at traffic. Some just view cars as moving objects, others view them as people who intend to make your life difficult.

Jerome wrote That also applies to getting angry at traffic. Some just view cars as moving objects, others view them as people who intend to make your life difficult.

Traffic used to bother me so much more when I first moved back to this country from Canada. The solution I found is my news feed reader app on my smartphone called greader. It can read all the articles in my news feed through the car's Bluetooth system. That's my morning ritual in traffic now and since I started that, the cars became "moving objects".

I still get bothered a bit from time to time when traffic is crazy, but I try to focus on isolating myself from the outside by listening to articles and learning new stuff. This time in traffic has allowed me to become much more knowledgeable about topics that I used to know nothing about.

I don't bury my head in the hand and pretend that this country is fine, but sometimes happiness and peace are a matter of perception and contentment.

rolf wroteI just found this study:

My question is whether anyway has any tips or support to offer in trying to report the issue ad have it dealt with by police (or such)?

This is case by case, and in all cases you can only work on mitigating the issue and not beat it to death.

Please bear in mind that is a very difficult problem to fix and I often read about celebrities facing the same issues and sometimes there is nothing they can do about it even with their huge bank account.

If you are referring to the noisy roundabout near your place, the police will definitely not help, I suggest you go beast mode in solving this:
Put it a number one priority to plant speed bumps on all roads near that roundabout, this will take the fun out for your friendly night-riders. This is election season and I am sure that if you take some of you neighbors with you to the municipality and ask for this you might get some help, if not ask for a meeting with the minister of transportation (وزير الأشغال). I am telling you that I have seen people getting what they want from officials by knocking on every door. Just don't give up and you will get this request answered, remember that corruption is a coin with 2 faces. Even if it is illegal to put those speed bumps, use all the means you have access to in order to get what you want.
Another thing that might help is putting a sign near this roundabout, a custom one made by the municipality to tell people to keep it quiet a night, one that is photo-luminescent. This will help a bit (I have seen this before in some streets in Lebanon). Some will tell you that it is useless and that all people will ignore it, I am telling you that not all people will ignore it, not all people are 100% careless.

Because you have my sympathy, I tried to help but I am not sure my ideas will be useful to you. I am sure there are plenty of other stuff you can do but remember a noisy neighborhood will always be a noisy neighborhood because population is going up, not down and so is the chaos.

Cheers