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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'd never buy on a busy street. I've passed up lots of great houses because they are on busy streets. That's a nonnegotiable issue for me. Some people I know live in great houses on busy streets and are perfectly happy. I like to garden and sit outside and chat with my neighbors, and that's so unpleasant on a busy street with cars and exhaust fumes. Plus my child has asthma, so the air quality is much worse right on a busy street. I'd choose the smaller, cheaper house. Move up when you have more money or add on to the smaller house. You can never change the traffic noise, though; you are stuck with that forever. [/quote]

Yeah, there are a few people who think this way, but they're hardly the majority.[/quote]

And to elaborate, people have different definitions of what is a "busy" street. There's someone here who gets all draconian about ignoring houses on any street that has a double yellow line, when in fact I've seen plenty double-yellow line roads that don't have much traffic at all. And despite pp's comments, not all "busy streets" emit constant exhaust fumes. You might get that if traffic backed up near your house, but a constant flow of traffic that goes by twice a day doesn't really increase the emissions levels considerably for your house anymore than others in nearby cul de sacs. I mean, Code Red days are Code Red days for everyone. This idea that "air quality is much worse on a private street" is just silly.

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