Anonymous
Post 02/13/2013 13:15     Subject: Is it OK to buy a house 0.4 miles away from the freeway?
Anonymous wrote:I would NOT buy any house that close to the highway. No way. I'm very sensitive to noise and smells. I'm sure it's unsafe to live too near a huge road with trucks roaring at all hours of the day or night. Even if you can't hear it, all that pollution is pouring off those vehicles running up and down that big road. Not for me. Not now, not ever, not at any price.


How do you and your neighbors get to and from your house, horse?
Anonymous
Post 02/13/2013 12:57     Subject: Is it OK to buy a house 0.4 miles away from the freeway?
I would NOT buy any house that close to the highway. No way. I'm very sensitive to noise and smells. I'm sure it's unsafe to live too near a huge road with trucks roaring at all hours of the day or night. Even if you can't hear it, all that pollution is pouring off those vehicles running up and down that big road. Not for me. Not now, not ever, not at any price.
Anonymous
Post 02/13/2013 11:32     Subject: Is it OK to buy a house 0.4 miles away from the freeway?
I live about one-third of a mile from the Dulles Toll Road (I just went and measured it on a map) and we can hear traffic some in the middle of the night, but besides that we don't notice it. There are trees that buffer a lot of the noise for us.
Anonymous
Post 02/13/2013 11:26     Subject: Is it OK to buy a house 0.4 miles away from the freeway?
8:21 and I have never posted about pollution before, but I seem to have stepped on some toes.

I am from NY, no cornfields in sight, lots of highways and I still stand by the fact that living near a highway is not good for your health, as will most public health officials.


Anonymous
Post 02/13/2013 09:35     Subject: Is it OK to buy a house 0.4 miles away from the freeway?
Anonymous wrote:OP, welcome to DC. Here, they are called "highways." And no, I don't think .4 mile from one is a dealbreaker for all but the pickiest buyers (see above.) We are about that far from the Beltway and we don't hear it at all.


LOL welcome to the big city we don't have corn fields
Anonymous
Post 02/13/2013 09:33     Subject: Is it OK to buy a house 0.4 miles away from the freeway?
OP, welcome to DC. Here, they are called "highways." And no, I don't think .4 mile from one is a dealbreaker for all but the pickiest buyers (see above.) We are about that far from the Beltway and we don't hear it at all.
Anonymous
Post 02/13/2013 09:20     Subject: Is it OK to buy a house 0.4 miles away from the freeway?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I mean to write that noise is NOT the problem.


you are the freeway pollution moron, We user get say your 2 cents


Sorry , your stupid rubbed off on me , let me restate...
you are the freeway pollution moron, We get it, say your 2 cents.



I'm sorry, I'm the what? The "freeway pollution moron?" Is that a thing?

The OP asked if it was OK to buy a house near a freeway and I said what I think. Not sure how that makes me a "freeway pollution moron."


I agree with the prior poster. There is a moron who keeps posting on how the pollution from a freeway will kill everyone. Just ignore that guy.
Anonymous
Post 02/13/2013 09:17     Subject: Is it OK to buy a house 0.4 miles away from the freeway?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I mean to write that noise is NOT the problem.


you are the freeway pollution moron, We user get say your 2 cents


Sorry , your stupid rubbed off on me , let me restate...
you are the freeway pollution moron, We get it, say your 2 cents.



I'm sorry, I'm the what? The "freeway pollution moron?" Is that a thing?

The OP asked if it was OK to buy a house near a freeway and I said what I think. Not sure how that makes me a "freeway pollution moron."
Anonymous
Post 02/13/2013 08:59     Subject: Is it OK to buy a house 0.4 miles away from the freeway?
I have no problem. Get on the freeway quicker too
Anonymous
Post 02/13/2013 08:34     Subject: Is it OK to buy a house 0.4 miles away from the freeway?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I mean to write that noise is NOT the problem.


you are the freeway pollution moron, We user get say your 2 cents


Sorry , your stupid rubbed off on me , let me restate...
you are the freeway pollution moron, We get it, say your 2 cents.

Anonymous
Post 02/13/2013 08:34     Subject: Is it OK to buy a house 0.4 miles away from the freeway?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I mean to write that noise is NOT the problem.


you are the freeway pollution moron, We user get say your 2 cents


Sorry , your stupid rubbed off on me , let me restate...
you are the freeway pollution moron, We get it, say your 2 cents.

Anonymous
Post 02/13/2013 08:30     Subject: Is it OK to buy a house 0.4 miles away from the freeway?
Anonymous wrote:I mean to write that noise is NOT the problem.


you are the freeway pollution moron, We user get say your 2 cents
Anonymous
Post 02/13/2013 08:21     Subject: Is it OK to buy a house 0.4 miles away from the freeway?
I mean to write that noise is NOT the problem.
Anonymous
Post 02/13/2013 08:21     Subject: Is it OK to buy a house 0.4 miles away from the freeway?
No way. I am surprised by all the yes answers here. Noise is of the problem, it's the particulate matter and it can be devastating to your and your children's health.

Please do more research before you decide.

http://now.tufts.edu/articles/big-road-blues-pollution-highways
Anonymous
Post 02/13/2013 07:53     Subject: Is it OK to buy a house 0.4 miles away from the freeway?
Anonymous wrote:Google enough and you will find a survey study which concludes that combining all reliable prior studies gives a full decay distance (to background levels) of 570 m (just over 1/3 of a mile). I did a lot of research and now feel comfortable with that distance. (just can't find the study now on my iPad as I am putting dd to sleep)


It also depends on topography and sound walls