I used to live in front of a traffic light intersection in a street with lots of traffic. The noise and even the smell was awful. Avoiding that situation was a top priority when I moved to my current place.
My city only approves high-rise and medium density developments next to major streets, leaving the insides of major blocks entirely to single family homes and occasional townhouses. Just your typical NIMBY asshole land.
There's a recently built 9 storey building at one of the busiest intersections in the city. If you look at the rental ads, it's all luxury finish, shiny appliances, modern kitchens with marble this and oak that. Personally, I'd much rather live in a dated or even run down apartment in a quiet street than in this "luxury" where I can't open the windows and can hear traffic even with them closed.
When I used to work in the office (pre-COVID), there was a 5-story apartment building built in what I can only describe the worst location possible.
Side 1 - The busiest Firefighting station of the town on a road named the most dangerous road of the town by a local news source
Side 2 - Qdoba & Chinese food restaurants, followed closely by the busiest artery of the town
Side 3 - Shopping Plaza parking lot with at least 500 car capacity
Side 4 - our office building & post office
I struggled to imagine the kind of person who willingly decides to live in a place surrounded by car traffic, (thus air pollution and noise) at least 12 hours a day.
The complex didn't even have any kind of greenery around it, except for a few shrubs. Also, if you lived on the bottom 2 floors, you had a view of the concrete car garage of the complex and nothing else (garage was immediately adjacent to the shopping plaza)
kspacewalk2|3 years ago
There's a recently built 9 storey building at one of the busiest intersections in the city. If you look at the rental ads, it's all luxury finish, shiny appliances, modern kitchens with marble this and oak that. Personally, I'd much rather live in a dated or even run down apartment in a quiet street than in this "luxury" where I can't open the windows and can hear traffic even with them closed.
antisthenes|3 years ago
Side 1 - The busiest Firefighting station of the town on a road named the most dangerous road of the town by a local news source
Side 2 - Qdoba & Chinese food restaurants, followed closely by the busiest artery of the town
Side 3 - Shopping Plaza parking lot with at least 500 car capacity
Side 4 - our office building & post office
I struggled to imagine the kind of person who willingly decides to live in a place surrounded by car traffic, (thus air pollution and noise) at least 12 hours a day.
The complex didn't even have any kind of greenery around it, except for a few shrubs. Also, if you lived on the bottom 2 floors, you had a view of the concrete car garage of the complex and nothing else (garage was immediately adjacent to the shopping plaza)