How far does motorway sound travel?

Doozergirl

not_loaded wrote: »

I’m not trying to ‘undermine’ here, just commenting from my perspective and experience. So apparently difficulty in selling a property on, doesn’t matter? OP clearly has uncertainties about buying, hence the post.

At the end of the day I’d have thought peace and quiet beats noise any day. Maybe not?

You were undermining by suggesting that someone who does actually live 200m from the motorway might have hearing problems rather than believe that noise isn't an issue.

200m where I am is certainly not near enough to see if it's an Eddie Stobart. I'd have to walk up to the brow of the hill right next to the motorway to see it at all. Walking in the fields with the dog it is a juxtaposition when you're walking in a field of vegetables looking at and hearing lorries, I'd agree, and I wouldn't want my house at a point 200m away in the middle of a field staring at it, but being in any kind of built up environment comes with noise that obliterates the motorway and the view is not polluted by it either.

I live by the M5. It's been raining. Inside my house with no other sound I cannot hear it at all. When I open the window I can hear it, louder than usual because of the wet, but not noisy. I cannot differentiate the sound of cars, like poppysarah said, it does actually sound a bit like the sea.

jonathon

babyharry5 wrote: »

Hi there
well I actually live in a small village near lutterworth, just off j20 m1, and am approximately the same distance away ( 0.9m)

we rarely hear the motorway at all - it is only if the wind is coming towards us that you hear the traffic - but even then tbh you have to stop and actually "listen" for it.
We are currently on the move ( hopefully 2 wks) but I certainly wouldn't let it put you off buying
Lutterworth & surrounding areas are a lovely place to live

not my house your buying is it?? lol

ooooo so do I:beer:

royP_2

Visited Lutterworth and walked around the area where house is situated, could definitely hear the M1, not sure I would like to sit in the garden with that background noise.

Think we will be pulling out.

RoisinD

poppysarah wrote: »

I'm fairly close to the m60 and sometimes it sounds like the sea!
Sadly it's not though.

You are so right . Lived not too far from the M25 and depending on the wind direction I could sometimes hear the noise of the traffic.

A few weeks ago while in Ireland I heard the same sound and asked my sister in law what it was as we were nowhere near a motorway. She said that is the sea (Atlantic). We were only about half a mile from the beach at the time.

sonastin

I grew up near a major road and my accomodation at uni was always on major thoroughfares as well. A couple of years ago, I was working away from home so was looking for a flat to rent near work. I was waiting for the letting agent near one of the flats thinking "funny, from the map I thought the ring road was just behind those trees but I can't hear any traffic at all. must have my bearings wrong". It was only when a moped with that horrible 2-stroke-engine noise went past that I heard anything. Then I started to notice all the other traffic noise was actually there, but it was so familiar that I didn't pick it up at all until the tone changed.