Listening to them is problematic if they are too close to where you live. They're pretty loud, and it's a rhythmic low frequency drone sound. There are distance limits, but in places like Denmark where there is not a lot of room left to build them away from residences, there have been efforts to reduce these limits.
If I had to hear that pulsing all day, every day, during my sleep, for the rest of my life...I could see it being a problem.
For me, it's specifically those gasoline leaf blowers. It gives me pretty high anxiety that no other sound does, for reasons I don't understand. The rest of your list can be bothersome to me, but doesn't create the anxiety.
Our house fills with low frequency vibrations and a dull humming when they pass by, and even at my office a further half mile inland I can gear and feel it over the loud office environment.
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