Noise

Noise - we love it! SHRIEKING and YELLING and HYSTERICAL LAUGHTER are all requirements of living in this most populace of countries! BLARING HORNS is a common trait, as well as watching EAR SPLITTING TV. CELLPHONES RINGING at the movies, and CHATTING HEARTILY at said movies is common. DOGS BARKING is something to CACKLE WILDLY at and encourage, at this guesthouse, MEOWING CATS have learned that the SQUEAKIEST MOST BLOODCURDLING CRY is the one that works best. CONSTRUCTION noise abounds. Cycle taxi BELL-JANGLERY is near constant. In Hong Kong I remember there are bleeping speakers attached to "everything's ok" alarms at the traffic lights, which double in volume when pedestrians cross.
TVs are constantly on... quietest is in the small hours, as expected, but these hours seem somewhat smaller than elsewhere. A lot like Wellington with its sirens and helicopters, old Chengdu.