To quote a favourite movie of mine
Pardon me sir, but it's a big-ass sky.
Our current method of detecting life (electromagnetic signals) is by targeting and scanning stars indivdually using radio telescopes.
This method is pretty costly because we don't have a huge amount of them and they can be better used for other (proper) research purposes. Basically, it costs a lot to monopolise a telescope's resources by repeatedly pointing it at stars without a reasonable hope of a result. Understandably, astronomers want to keep their funding by producing results rather than nothing.
The current estimates is that we can stumble upon signals by about 2040
By 2040 or so, astronomers will have scanned enough star systems to give themselves a great shot of discovering alien-produced electromagnetic signals, said Seth Shostak of the SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) Institute in Mountain View, Calif.
But again, this is pure guesswork.
A related question here on SE asks this same question from another direction
How far away could we detect that Earth has life?
One of the answers, quoted in part:
A "blind" search could look for radio signatures and of course this is what SETI has been doing. If we are talking about detecting "Earth", then we must assume that we are not talking about deliberate beamed attempts at communication, and so must rely on detecting random radio "chatter" and accidental signals generated by our civilisation. The SETI Phoenix project was the most advanced search for radio signals from other intelligent life. Quoting from Cullers et al. (2000): "Typical signals, as opposed to our strongest signals, fall below the detection threshold of most surveys, even if the signal were to originate from the nearest star". Quoting from Tarter (2001): "At current levels of sensitivity, targeted microwave searches could detect the equivalent power of strong TV transmitters at a distance of 1 light year (within which there are no other stars)...". The equivocation in these statements is due to the fact that we do emit stronger beamed signals in certain well-defined directions, for example to conduct metrology in the solar system using radar. Such signals have been calculated to be observable over a thousand light years or more. But these signals are brief, beamed into an extremely narrow angle and unlikely to be repeated. You would have to be very lucky to be observing in the right direction at the right time if you were performing targeted searches
I'd really recommend reading the rest of this answer, and other answers for this question.
So, our "noise" isn't really strong enough to be detected over long distances above the greater (and stronger) chatter of the natural universe.
While we could engineer a stronger broadcast message and hope for a reply, it's a long, long project and unlikely to be funded.