Can Noise be a Problem?

One thing that made me postpone my plans to buy a new property as that I never know how noisy my new neighbors are going to be. Noise is not a problem in my current place, so I would not want to make the situation worse by moving to a place where many noisy people live. What if my new neighbors are going to have a dog that is going to bark early in the morning? I need to get my sleep if I want to feel good the next day. There might be always something that is going to disturb me in the morning, something that I might not know about yet. I wonder if there is any way I could check how noisy or quiet my new neighborhood is going to be. One way to know for sure is to go there during different times of day and check it out for myself.