House on dual carriageway - it's a no, right?

[A90neighbour]

I really like the look of this house (some redecoration aside) and it's a good amount of space for the money.

But it's right on a busy dual carriageway. Traffic goes at 70mph along it and there are accidents pretty regularly due to a lot of the junctions not having flyovers (so people have to cross lanes and/or slow right down to turn on and off).

So it's not just the traffic noise and pollution but also the danger of getting to/from the house!

I need to discount it don't I? Or is it worth a look?

Listing here https://www.tspc.co.uk/4-Bed-Detached-Villa-For-Sale-Blouberg-Tealing-DD4-0QU

Google view of road should be attached.

No way. Do you have young DC? I'd have nightmares. I remember estate agents trying to get us to look at houses on busy roads or that had gardens that ran down to the railway line or were next to electricity substations. I refused to even look at them. DS1 was an escapologist. He'd have been gone within minutes of us unpacking boxes.

Also, traffic fumes are so bad for you. My parents retired to a house on a busy road. My mum got dementia. Pollution is said to be a contributing factor. Not the only one I'm sure, but it has a detrimental effect.

Do you have kids, and does anyone have asthma? The pollution from busy roads can cause asthma and make it worse.

Looking at the picture, I'd hate pulling out onto that road every day, and you make it sound like a bit of a death trap. If it backed onto the road and you could grow some big trees to filter out the pollution and noise, it would be different.

Another ‘Hell No!’

Pollution.

Noise.

Vibration, both affecting your ability to live and the house structure itself. I used to live in a rented house close to a road which had a lot of big lorries travelling along it. It was gradually being shaken apart.

Crashes.

Roadworks.

Oh and car headlights coming through the windows.

No way. I'd be afraid of a car/ lorry crashing into the house.

This happened to a relative of mine a few years back! The house backed onto a roundabout and someone crashed into the house, I think it was a drunk driver.

It would be an ‘absolutely not’ from me based on the pollution aspect. You’d pay a cheap price with your cash and a heavy price with your health.

Nope- pollution, resale factor, noise and the danger. Sorry!

You would never be able to eat anything grown in the garden. Constant dirt on windowsills and other surfaces inside and out .Noise. Constantly closed windows. Vibrations. Having to have your tv sound turned up high.

Noise you'd likely get used to, but I couldn't live that close to a dual carriageway.

I have cats that I'd never be able to let out, plus I'd live in fear that there'd be a crash that took out the front of my house, especially with that crossover there.

No way. An even bigger no if I had kids or pets - and especially kids once they needed to drive.

That’d be a definite no from me.

Having to deal with that dual carriageway access every time I wanted to enter or exit the property would be a deal breaker for me.

And that’s even before thinking about the other negative aspects to being so close to a major road.

Hard no. We’re a mile from a duel carriageway and that’s close enough

From experience (rental TG) as other posters. Said, pollution, noise, vibrations, dust, took ages to pull out into the road felt like Russian roulette each time.

Couldn’t leave the bedroom window open in the summer as big delivery trucks travelled at night.

Nearly drove me mad.

You're not crazy, I immediately thought that too. Unless we're both crazy.

I couldnt run out of ways to say no to this house. You don't get used to traffic noise, people might tell themselves it's not that bad because theyve sunk a significant amount of money into something they don't want to admit is a total turkey.

Sold 2007 for £205k

I’d rather have dual carriageway traffic noise than terraced neighbour noise and school run traffic every day. If you are a nervous driver then it might not be the house for you if you’ll feel anxious pulling in and out of your driveway every day but if not , I’d say don’t discount the house.

I’d 100% discount on the pollution, people that live near major roads have their lives significantly reduced. Not worth it!

Everyone’s tolerance of certain types of noise is different. You definitely can get used to traffic or tube line noise though, it becomes like a background white noise.

Do you have young children or cats?

If you decided to go for it could you afford conifers to be planted along the edge of the property to buffer the noise and create some privacy.

Also if you have kids you'll be chauffeur as there's nowhere for kids to walk to or catch a bus;for me my teenagers having the independent to come and go would be important;my friends lived down a long single tracked country road with no pavement and it was a 10 minute drive to the nearest bus stop if there teenager wanted to go out to school or just go to the nearest McDonald's to meet their friends.

That said the price is amazing;where we live you'd easily pay 240K for a 3 bed ex council house.

I misread the title as "horse on dual carriageway."

It's definitely a no, don't ride your horse on the dual carriageway.

I was about to type that only an idiot would ride a horse on a dual carriageway 🙈

For me as much as anything it would be the sloping ceilings.

I wouldn't, because I have too many cats.

hello no, i would never live anywhere where i can't work out of my own driveway