Would you live by a large pylon if you had young children?

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Just that really.

Pylon would be 24 metres from the house at the back of the garden.

Would that put you off living there?

I wouldn’t even if it was a perfect house.

No!

It's not this one though is it

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No. This might sound wacky but I believe the electrical charge from them attracts pesticides which when inhaled are carcinogenic. Call it wacky (and there's a bit more to it than my brief description) but that's my reasoning.

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Jeepers creepers no it's not that one! No need for a thread as it would be a solid NO

No way Electromagnetic radiation

Presumably you never go out in sunlight then? That's much higher levels of EM radiation.

This might sound wacky but I believe the electrical charge from them attracts pesticides which when inhaled are carcinogenic. Call it wacky (and there's a bit more to it than my brief description) but that's my reasoning.

That's wacky. It would also be easy to prove, if true- air quality is measured quite a lot in the UK.

No, I wouldn’t with or without children.
It’s one of the things I was checking straight away while I was house hunting. My worry would be health issues, noise, resale value. I could be more relaxed about resale value because no way you could know the future and lots of things might happen in the area and affect resale value. However health concerns would overweight all positives for me.

They are noisy, and the noise is even worse on damp/misty days. It's a horrible buzz.

Never mind the EM field from them.

No way would I live near them. I used have a job doing compensation claims for reduction in property value for the landowner by having a pylon on their land (often farms/small holdings) and so was often near them and it never ceased to amaze the sheer volume of the buzz on a wet day.

I wouldn't. I stayed in lodgings next to one at college - bloody thing hummed all the time, except when it was drizzly when it fizzed and crackled like popping candy. It was really obtrusive.

I'm also made a bit uneasy by the way they light up fluorescent tubes positioned below the wires. It just feels like I don't want to be exposed to that level of magnetic field / voltage long term.

Our first house backed onto a pylon and we had a child there. Why not? They aren't very pretty but I can honestly say I didn't notice it, neither did our neighbours.

I wouldn't

I grew up next to a pylon. I never, ever noticed a sound. Ever.

There is zero evidence of harm from them, unless you fly a kite into them. So don't do that.

It wouldn't put me off unless it was actually on my property.

My in-laws have lived next to a pylon for the last 40 years and they are now well into their 80's now. So it's not affected their health and I've never noticed a noise from it when I've visited for a week or so at a time . Their kids have all grown up unaffected too . (Well DH keeps leaving the loo seat up but I think that's just laziness !! )

No I wouldn’t, loud buzzy things, unsightly, and potential health risk, coupled with difficultly to resell.

Yes - I really like pylons. The different designs are so fascinating and I love the aesthetic of them marching proudly across the landscape. A pylon in the garden would be a plus point for me.

No but no practical reason why not. Too many 80s safety films have scarred me.

I wouldn't. But I am very sensitive to noise and would be worried I would hear it hum in the rain. And it would really annoy me. In fact, if you do consider buying it I would go and listen near to the pylon in the rain as some can hum quite a bit in wet weather. I think it is something to do with the rain bridging electrical connections – but I'm not sure.

Also, one of the houses we looked at as first-time buyers was right by a pylon. The woman moving out said she was moving out to go back to live with her parents because she had a brain tumour. It may have been a complete coincidence (probably was) but it completely spooked me. So we ended up not buying that house due to that

No because of resale

You yourself are asking the question now and others will too

I’d rather live next to a pit of crocodiles than a pylon, I find them so intrusively ugly to look at in a very industrial way that I wouldn’t feel comfortable having one near me. Plus the noise etc etc

No, not only are they ugly to look at but the health concerns would bother me (proven or not) the buzzing noise is louder when it rains apparently..

No. We have them on a woodland walk near us and my dd cannot walk alongside them as they give her headaches. We have a beautiful large house near to us that keeps going up for sale. It is alongside one of the pylons. There has been a higher than average number of cancer deaths from occupants at this house, specifically 2 brain tumours from 2 unrelated occupants. Might be a coincidence but it is always sold for significantly less than market value.