deliria1 – well, your post definitely makes me feel better about my lot (pun intended).
When I find the noise thing annoying me, I think about stories from freestanding home owners & their own noise issues with other freestanding homes. Nobody is immune and if they are, in their expensive, private properties, invariably, they will have challenges of a different kind as no place is perfect.
As you write, part of Sydney living. I used to daydream of living on a remote property somewhere will no neighbours until I visited such a place & it freaked me out. Now I value (most of the time) having people close by as it can be comforting at times.