I find it interesting how much attitudes to roosters vary by location. Where I live, the lots are long and skinny (been like that since the Spanish colonized the area). So my neighbors' houses are really quite close to mine—as close as in many city areas where roosters are outlawed. But my area is traditionally agricultural and almost everyone in the neighborhood has poultry and/or livestock of some kind. So no one would even dream of complaining about rooster crowing (or shrieking peacocks, or honking geese, or braying donkeys).