Living on main road

Gosh - I would hate that! Not just the noise, but also the fumes - yuk!

Our last house was on the main route to the Welsh valleys and no we never got used to it. We were there for 18 years. We then moved to a bungalow on a very quiet road, it took a while to get used to hearing nothing but my tinnitus.

We used to live set back off a main road and only really noticed the odd lunatic on a motorbike. Then we moved to the country and at first found it hard to sleep as it was so quiet!

In our last house the garden backed onto a main road.We lived there for seven years and never got used to the traffic noise or the dust it created.

We had a rail track at the bottom of our garden years ago, hardly noticed the noise after a few weeks. We are not on a main road but can hear the traffic on the A road a mile away. It’s hard to avoid noise in a town.

Nonogran not my business of course, but if you like windows open a bungalow might not be the safest idea ( unless it’s been extended upstairs).

We lived on the A41 for 25 years and think it may have affected our lungs.

If in doubt I’d say do nowt.
In other words don’t buy it. Something will be just right, just needs patience.

Our first house was on a main road with buses going by from around 6am. They actually caused the house to shake, and we vowed never to live on a busy road again. Even in the back garden, we could still hear the traffic. We stood it for 4 years. As you don't sound in a hurry to move, why not view a few more properties and hopefully something that ticks all boxes, including being on a quieter road, will come up.

People say they do get used to noise. When we bought our first house, we were amazed that houses alongside the East Coast Mainline had to have their floors strengthened, but were and still are popular. One DD used to live near the Newcastle Metro line and hardly noticed it. DD2 now lives under the flightpath for Newcastle airport - it’s been so quiet during Lockdown, she’s going to have to get used to it again, but it doesn’t bother her, although I’m stupidly excited to see planes flying so low! I’m on a main road with a 50mph limit - it’s noisier on certain days at certain times, but I’ve a water feature which ‘deadens’ some of the noise. I’d be more concerned with how the lay by is used. Might lorries park up or caravans stay overnight? Groups of cars meeting for fast food and leaving litter? A similar area I know of has had CCTV installed to try to catch fly tippers.

However, if the house ticks all the boxes?? Early days though, if you’ve just started viewing.

My mantra if/when bungalow hunting is that it should not be on a busy road however we’ll set back it is, or near a water course.
I like my windows open in warm weather and throughout the year, always at night. I don’t think I could ever get used to traffic noise, especially at night. Think of the BikeBoy hammering his Harley Davidson home at 0200! The rumble of a diesel bus or lorry at 0630. No thanks.
Given climate change I think rising water & the anxiety that would bring, would send me to an early grave!
Think carefully, don’t act in haste and what about the resale value if you have to sell in future years? No, not for me!

My daughter found a similar house not on a main road that was so much more expensive.
They decided it was worth it for the massive saving, had a larger plot and as the children will obviously play in the back garden they had no worries about safety.

I don't like it when people come and go and slam car doors - but that could really happen anywhere I suppose.

Now it looks wrong!

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I got used to it but we are well-back from it. It was very hard at first as we sleep with the window open.
My daughter just moved into a house on a main road. She says it's taken her 3 weeks not to notice.
Hers is busier than ours but also set back and behind trees.