Anyone bought near a motorway? Do you get used to the noise/stop noticing it?

[Radleygirl]

I’ve looked a house today, very close to the motorway which makes it really convenient for travelling to work but the traffic noise was loud in the garden. There are large mature trees at the back but it doesn’t seem to dull the noise very much.

It’s a lovely house with lots of potential but the noise is reflected in the price, I wouldn’t be able to afford such a big house around this area if it was this close to the motorway.

So has anyone bought a house like this? Do you just get used to the noise after a while and just not hear it? Or have you regretted it? It’s fine inside the house, it just really in the garden.

For me it would be the pollution that was the killer. The noise you get used to but you don't get used to the fumes or the soot around your windows etc.

@tenredthings Sorry, but that isn't true. At the sort of distance OP is talking about, most of the road noise you hear is actually due to the friction of tyres on tarmac, which will remain constant regardless of whether the car is electric or ICE. Even more so on a motorway where there is never really any engine revving.

We lived adjacent to a 6 lane A road leading into Central London for a couple of years. You couldn’t hear the noise in the house, but it was a constant white noise in the garden. The nouse was completely liveable, but the outdoor windowsills were permanently coated in a black soot, which was horrible.

We live about 500m from a quiet section of motorway. Between us and the Road are the other side of our street, then another wide street with houses either side and then a wide piece of land that is part of the embankment then the motorway is tree lined. I think our house is higher than the motorway though. I have noticed along another section where I walk the dog I am further away from the road (nearly double the distance) but there are just open fields and it's louder, disappointingly loud as I'd quite like to move to the street!

80% of the time the wind blows the noise away, other 20% we can hear it but it's not loud in the front garden.

I don't think it's just about distance but landscape and what else is around to absorb noise, wind direction and how busy the road is. We live on the top of a hill it's nearly always a little breezy!

Used to live in the SE on a road that got clogged up at rush 2 hours every morning and night. Inside out if windows were alway black far less polluted where we live now!

We lived near a busy motorway... Didn't hear it at viewings... Winter and wind direction made it loud sometimes...

My DH hated it.. Sitting having a glass of wine on patio.... 'its like sitting having a picnic by the side of the motorway'... We moved... Couldn't cope with his moaning

I live about 1km from a motorway junction. The only time we really register noise is when we have the bedroom window open at night and even then it’s just background noise.