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Q: How do you cope with all the noise?
Beijing is so noisy! and I work above a gym. I've asked them to turn down the noise and they won't. It doesn't seem to bother the other people in the office but it's driving me mad
I've learnt how to shut out the noise just by ignoring it. But sometimes it's still unavoidable especially in restaurants where drinks bring about unnecessary shouting. Other than that, I'm pretty much able to live with it.
I can now watch a movie on my laptop, in the same room as a deaf mother in law watching CCTV, next door to an apartment undergoing refurbishment.... without headphones !!!!
I just plug in bigger speakers 
I have to agree with louischuahm...
Chinese are just naturally EXTREMELY noisy people. A man told me knows how many Chinese are vacationing in the Philippines by how noisy it is on the beach...
You kind of have to just live with it and try to live in a residential area that is quiet to make up for it... but good luck with that. I like the noise/energy sometimes...
Just not late at night and early in the morning.
Ear buds at good volume does the trick for me. My one bud will respond in kind in a restaurant when some yo-yo starts shouting on his mobile phone. They usually get the hint.
Move to the quiet place. But that is too expensive for me now...I wrote complaint letter to the government office. Nobody gave a damn. It is almost impossible to ask people not to drive motocycle, which beeps from early morning to midnight around my place.
the volume of conversation around me is one reason i have not been more diligent in learning Chinese.
Because i don't fully understand what I hear, i can zone it out easily.
Headphones and whale music?
The Chinese are ridiculously loud. The amount of times I've thought I heard people fighting and it turns out they were having a pleasant chat.....
Last week I thought the guy upstairs was beating the shit out of his wife. I called the bao an to go up and check because I was ready to call the police, and it turns out there were 3-4 people just having a drink.
The noise is one rare thing that doesn't disturb me in China, anyway I always wear headphones with loud music when going outside, so I can't really hear them.
