Would you choose to live this close to a school? **UPDATED**

System

My house backs onto a primary school field and, although you can hear the kids playing when you're outside, I've never noticed any noise when I'm inside. To be honest, I barely notice the noise outside these days either; you quickly get used to it!

Tigsteroonie

Remember that children are only in school for 190 days each year, so for 48% of the time there won't be any children in school to make noise.

juno

I'm not particularly near a school, but I do live on the main "way home". I find that the younger children who are allowed to walk home on their own (I'm hopeless at guessing ages, but probably around 11 or so) find it hilarious to shout "rude" words through my window if I have it open. So if it's a lovely sunny day, all I can hear is "poo" and "bottom".

chazsucks

chris_m wrote: »

The sound of laughter is one thing, that of screaming and shrieking is quite another.

That is exactly what I was going to say, my mum lives next door to a school and if she opens the windows and it's break time she has to take paracetamol... no laughter just shrieking and screaming of hundreds of children at once... it's really not a pleasant noise lol

dragonsoup

I had a house backing onto a primary school playground - it was noisy at break times but OK and I'm well known for not liking children much!

More of a problem was the litter the children threw over the fence. I was always picking it out of the flower beds. In the end I sent a weeks worth of the rubbish into the school and it did get better.

More than once though I did find a parent in my back garden trying to find a shoe or ball that their child had thrown over. Knocking and asking first would be polite.....

sniggings

SailorSam wrote: »

Isn't the noise of Childrens laughter something to brighten up a dreary day ?

you would have to be stood next to the kid to hear laugher.

slopemaster

juno wrote: »

"poo" and "bottom".

Must be a 'good' area if they think that's rude.
I've previously lived in places where the nursery-school kids' language would make a builder blush.

System

Barclayloan_query wrote: »

Trust me, the secondary school one looked lovely in the pics but driving for just 30 seconds down the nearby streets I could have furnished my entire house with dumped items - numerous fridges, mattresses, TV's, sofa's - some in front gardens, some in the communal car parks, some at the side of the road. If it was just one house then fair enough but these items were evenly distributed!

Hang on; your earlier posts stated 'primary' for the first school mentioned (infant for the second). A secondary school (ages 11- 16 or 11-18) makes a lot of difference. I would be wary of being too close to a 2-ary school, particularly one that has to use lots of buses for transporting the pupils in to school and home (parking issues). I would have checked their Ofsted report, too....and that's quite apart from the area itself. I daresay it was a slip of the keyboard..?

Barclayloan_query

uselessaver wrote: »

Hang on; your earlier posts stated 'primary' for the first school mentioned (infant for the second). A secondary school (ages 11- 16 or 11-18) makes a lot of difference. I would be wary of being too close to a 2-ary school, particularly one that has to use lots of buses for transporting the pupils in to school and home (parking issues). I would have checked their Ofsted report, too....and that's quite apart from the area itself. I daresay it was a slip of the keyboard..?

Slip of the keyboard! First school mentioned (now 2nd pic in OP) was a junior school (aged 7-11) - this turned out to be in the middle of a ghetto so ruled it out. Other school (now 1st pic in OP) is an infant school

lonestar1

Its obviously something your concerned about OP so why not look elsewhere (sure it may be fine but could you forgive yourself if not ?)