I'm about to be a first time home owner. Been looking around with my realtor the last few weeks. I found something that I really really liked this past weekend. Only issue is it's about 400 feet from a major freeway (202). The homes across the street back directly into a giant wall that separates the freeway from the neighborhood.

Sound isn't the issue. It's white noise to me. But the pollution freaks me out. Am I being silly?

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Cardiovascular problems as well. Doesn’t sound too good. I grew up close to 88 in Downers Grove and thought nothing of it as a kid. I guess we’re more informed now.

My advice if this is your first house: re-sell ability.

Move

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What's "white noise" to you is probably a major negative to most who didn't grow up within earshot of an arterial street. And it likely will be a nuisance that could become a factor if you refinance or sell.

The health concern is a logical question though. I suspect that it will become a hot topic soon.

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As long as the freeway didn’t spring up over night you should be fine. Your offer just needs to take the freeway into account.

I lived about 1 mile from 90 and and a train line. I didn’t notice how much I hated it until I moved.

I lived in a far south suburb for all of the ten months that I could take the darkness, quiet and feeling of isolation.

I jumped at the chance to move to the top floor of a city high rise where if you tried, you could hear street sounds. To each his own, but I shudder to think what rent there is now.

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I think you're absolutely right. I feel that the younger generation care more about this stuff because the information is out there now.

The offer would definitely take it into account. 202 has been there a while but there is a huge $2 billion extension which will be completed by the end of the year connecting west + east valley = more traffic.

We looked there. I didn't like the noise and it smelled exhausty on a hot day when we looked.

F'n sissy millennials. Hell, *cough*cough* as a kid we spent the summer mornings playing in the scrap heaps at the asbestos factory, came home to eat lunch of raw bacon sammiches, cough*cough, went swimming' in the cesspool, then played the afternoon away in the abandoned coal mine. Heeeeccccchhhh/.ptaw. Shit, ain't nothin' like city living' by a road, for Chrissakes,

Grew up in Innisbrook, right off of Highland Ave. and 35th. Thought nothing of it as a kid. But now I look at a map and and realize we were so close to 88 and 355.

Just move under some power lines. You'll be fine.

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I'll look into it.

Eat some paint chips too.

I'm sorry you're poor.

It's really bad for respiratory. Brake dust is like smoking.

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I'm 27 about to buy my 1st home. I think I'm doing alright.

Every time this thread gets bumped I get "Living After Midnight" in my head.

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For me it's Aretha Franklins Freeway of Love

Rockin' to the dawn

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Rocky 4 is on.

Living in a van down by the river for me.

I can't imagine it is much worse than living in a big city filled with cars. The noise will lower the value but that is built in already.

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

The pollution aspect is a valid concern.

https://sandiego.urbdezine.com/2015/05/ ... ion-roads/

this line caught my eye: Ninety percent of the cancer risk from air pollution in Southern California is attributable to auto emissions. (Hulsey, et al., 2004, par. 10)

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i would never live near a highway because of the noise.... never even considered the pollution aspect