Anyone live on a busy road?

neverdespairgirl

m00m00 wrote: »

the clue was in the description

'into nottingham'

having the windows open is asking for trouble

Ah. Sorry, missed that!

One of the great things about living in a flat above the ground floor is not having to worry about that kind of thing.

dander

I grew up living in a house on a busy junction and as other people have said, you very quickly get used to the noise and tune it out. But when I got old enough to drive it did used to really infuriate me at rush hour to have to sit in a queue of traffic right outside my own house, waiting to be allowed to turn into the drive to park.

Equally I found when I lived in inner London, again the noise didn't bother me - but I hated feeling trapped in my own home because there were certain times of day you just couldn't really use the car because you'd spend 10 minutes just trying to get to the end of your own road.

Zazen999

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

What about the summer, when you wanted the windows open?

We opened the windows...

m00m00 wrote: »

the clue was in the description

'into nottingham'

having the windows open is asking for trouble

Luckily the house was in one of the posher areas; no crime there.

Nottingham much like other town/cities has its good areas and its bad. But then again, the pubs in the bad areas are really good and earthy - whereas the pubs in the posher areas are sterile and dull.

I've lived in at least 34 different houses, in many different towns/cities and Nottingham is one of my top three. Great place to live.

ailuro2

I used to live on a street that was quite busy, the traffic noise you get used to, the dirt on the windows you dont.

we now live in a very quiet street, and tbh there's no way I'd move to a busier road, not because of the noise, but because of the pollution factor - I'd not fancy going back to breathing in the stuff that gathered on my windows, even though my old flat was three floors up I had to clean the windows every week to remove the coating of black stuff.

My sil lives about 50m away from a busy road and thinks her plants can't survuve the pollution - when she moves them to the back of the garden they perk up, sso she may have a point!

ceridwen

No chance - as in no chance whatsoever I would live on a busy road. I hate noise and want to be able to open my windows whenever I decide to. I find that I cant open my windows at night as it is even in the "side" road I am in - as traffic noise comes in and disturbs me. Its also not nice to share the peace and quiet punctuated only by bird song in one's garden - with a constant low-level of traffic noise in the background (that you are trying to tune out and pretend its not there - but never succeed). Between that traffic noise - and the noise from 2 of the nearby neighbours houses at intervals - I've had to give up hope of having the quiet "sits" contemplating in my garden that I have been promising myself (more like thinking positively about those troublesome neighbours moving and how much longer it will be before car noise in our society reduces - whilst using my garden instead for growing what food I can). Hoping that the neighbours concerned will have moved and societal traffic noise levels will have reduced before I retire...fingers crossed!:cool:

Studies have shown that sleep is always disturbed by noise - even if the person isnt consciously aware of it. Pollution does take a toll on health - look at the increased incidence of childhood asthma. I wasnt charmed a while back to read that living in a polluted area increases ones chances of heart problems too.

MRSTITTLEMOUSE

I live on a busy road right opposite a police station and the main council buildings.We have no issue over security as there are so many camera's on the street because of these buildings.I also have no issue over the noise even though we're a main bus route into town.We never even notice the buses going by.
The one thing I do find irritating is that every day I have to wipe down my front door and windows as they get so dirty and the front of the house is going to have to be painted again after only two years as it is filthy already.
Having said that I would'nt move as I love where I live and you get pro's and con's with everything.

Paparika

I grew up in an old cottage that had it's bay windows about 2 metres from the A27. Not only that, but a bus stop sign was fixed to our gate wall, so you can imagine the traffic. When we first viewed it, it had been on the market for about 2 years because of it's location but my mum had just enough left from a divorce settlement to put in a small cash offer. We all got used to it within a few weeks, it was a fantastic quirky building with a massive garden, and easy to pop to the shops. When they built the bypass from Havant to Chichester we thought we'd gone deaf, the silence was eery.

In Bristol, I've been living away from traffic noise (flats in a side road), but the general 24 hour city noise drives me nuts - seagulls from 3am, building noise from 7.30am and sirens of all sorts 24 hours. I've just moved to a house on a main road in chav central (south Bristol), but it's far, far more peaceful than living in the city centre!

Phirefly

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heppy23

We live on the A170. We live in a listed building with secondary double glazing which isn't brilliant. The street is also a main pedestrian thoroughfare.

Pros of living on a main road.

• We never get stuck in when it snows, as long as you can get the car out into the road you can go.
• Easy to give directions.

Cons

• Parking, our street is double yellow lines on one side. During the day the other side is used by people too tight to use the car park down the road, basically if we go out in the morning we can't get parked back near the house til after 5pm.
• Crossing the road, can be a nightmare, especially with a 3 year old and associated buggy, bags etc.
• Noise, for an A road it's not too noisy, we are set back from the road a good bit but the local boy racers use our road as a drag strip. It's 30mph all the way but they start at one end and the challenge is how fast they can be going when they get to the end! Also noisy in the summer when the town is clogged up with daytrippers. Sad looking people sat in their cars. Keep meaning to buy a cinema style tray and walk up and down shouting "icecreams".
• Litter in the garden (beer cans, takeaway packets etc). Noise from people outside, it seems there's something about our house that attracts people that want to have a row on their way home from the pub.
• Safety - our son just cannot play out the front, too much chance of him running into the road.

m00m00

Zazen999 wrote: »

We opened the windows...



Luckily the house was in one of the posher areas; no crime there.

Nottingham much like other town/cities has its good areas and its bad. But then again, the pubs in the bad areas are really good and earthy - whereas the pubs in the posher areas are sterile and dull.

I've lived in at least 34 different houses, in many different towns/cities and Nottingham is one of my top three. Great place to live.

I live in Nottingham, luckily in one of the not crap areas (but close enough to be careful, as they are never that far away)

first floor flat though, and a guard kitten, so no hassle at all in the time we've been here.