Couldn't disagree more about skateboarding. It's usually just friends hanging out having fun, it's a very leisurely, social past time. It hardly produces any noise, so I have no idea why you've listed it on this thread.
And incredibly repetitive, people trying to do the same trick over and over again.
I feel that if you live in a city you either understand that it's going to be somewhat noisy or you'll go insane, skateboarding generates much less noise than any street traffic.
This is the perfect Rorschach test.
I refuse to accept this premise, that a city is noisy by default. The city is noisy because we have allowed power tools to dominate (cars, motorcycles, sirenes, ACs, ...). Today is actually somewhat of an improvement, not that long ago the city had heavy industry too: saw mills, foundries, ...
But none of that is required. The aspirational city of the future will be the one of the pre-industrial age, but with good sanitation. It is the big galvanizing project of virtually every European city now; it is pushing out cars. It's a real reduction of overall noise, and just, less tangible, but also a real reduction of that low-key trashyness and sociopathy that just seems to seep in into every urban environment where cars dominate.
America is way behind, but it _will_ happen. The future of NYC for example will undoubtedly be one without cars for personal transport.
A downstream effect is, that as the city effectively becomes more quiet because power tools get pushed out, tolerance for noisy hobbies (like skateboarding) is decreasing as well.
I love having access to an international airport, but hate the noisy planes.
I love having local restaurants only a moments walk away but hate the late night loud chatter.
I love all the walking and transit infrastructure but hate the construction noise.
Sorry, but cities are just noisy, even absent cars, power tools. Either live with it or find somewhere else better suited.
My biggest complaints: in-car subwoofers and garden parties that run till deep in the night. Both caused by people that seem to think that just because they enjoy their music, the entire neighborhood should.
I think this is only true above a certain income threshold.
You need to have paid away a bunch of other more pressing problems before you have spare fucks to give about the kind of noise other people are making (except in the most egregious cases).
As a person who lives at the heart of the city, you can't believe how silent it can be.
Also a modern car cruising down the street is arguably less noisy than a hard wheeled skateboard going on concrete.
Doing ollies and grinds on hard concrete with hard wheels and 6 of your friends who all have to yell "yeah!" every time someone lands a trick is definitely nuisance level.
Source: former nuisance.
These cars are silencer than skateboards on parks or pavements.
Maybe you've had some good experiences, just seen people skating at a crowded park, and sound didn't feel piercing?
For me at least this is a lot more annoying or stressful than a loud but uniform sound, even if it's louder than the skateboard.
Even in the middle of the day it was deafening with closed windows. Every single person on the street turned to see WTF was happening. They immensely enjoyed doing it and the attention, and made sure they migrated in groups of 20+. The apartment was nearby the local art gallery where apparently they hang out and it was beyond awful.
Absolutely shocking, obnoxious behaviour and I'm so glad skateboards aren't a thing in my country.