I'll write a charitable response to your flippant comment.

Living in a city has more noise than outside of cities, but that doesn't mean that people deserve to be exposed to noise levels that are harmful to their health. This also ignores people who are born in the city, and can't leave it for various reasons.

Various laws on noise levels have been laws in NYC for decades at this point because it's a public health and quality of life problem.

There would be peace and quiet if it wasn’t for people with modded cars and motorbikes. A very tiny % of people are responsible for almost all the noise.

There is a constant din in a city. The cacophony has a consistency. There is order to the auditory chaos.

Compare to a quiet suburb at 5:30am... dead silence interrupted by the neighbor revving their modified F150 audible a mile in every direction.

The delta is not the same.