Does anyone else live next to a main road?

I live in the city centre next to a busyish road. I have pretty much got used to the noise and dont really notice it apart from motorbikes which seem to like to do about 80 down a 30 and your chavs with fart can.
 
I live next to an alleyway in Manchester that has hundreds of drunken revelers in the evening shouting, fighting, breaking glass etc until 3-4am. As if that wasn't bad enough, deliveries for local shops start at around 5-6am. In the heat, with the windows open it is a nightmare. But you do get used to all sorts of noise.
 
JRY said:
I've just moved to a very nice 1 bed flat in a Georgian house. Only problem with it so far is that my bedroom faces a main road. Even with the windows closed (not doubleglazed) the sound of cars is still pretty audible.

I was wondering if anyone has or ever had this experience? I guess will have to invest in some decent earplugs for sleep :P hopefully will get used to it?
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I don't live by a main road but there is an airport about 3 miles away and we got double glazing two years ago. The difference this had made has been amazing, even when we have a heavy downpour with the windows closed you really cannot hear it.
 
I've also been thinking about earplugs since I moved into the center of Brighton, listening to drunken idiots walk past our house at quite literally all hours of the night on Fridays/Saturday is starting to get to me.

How long do they take to get used to and can anyone recommend some good ones and places to buy them?

Thanks.
 
Oh my dad lives right next to a main road and you don't even notice it after a while. I have both window opens at night and its only the occassional woo woo woo woo that disturbs me. That an the occassional chav yelling at night x3
 
First year of uni accom was on a fairly busy road, (Holyhead road for you Cov-ers) and it was a bad year for my sleeps. the window frame was also warped which let more noise in.

I now also hate the sound of diesel coming from LTi taxis.

More to the point- I come from a very quite village and silence is what I'm used to, and I never got used to sleeping with sound of the vihecles.
 
I've always lived next to a main road and apart from the odd night where there are a few drunks making some noise, it's always just background noise.

Although when i was single i slept with my PC on, so with the whirring was always keeping me company.

Now my girl has to have her rain CD on, so it's never been quiet for me :/
 
scorza said:
Then you get some 2Fast2Furious wannabe screeching his tyres, engine at 6000rpm, fartbox exhaust system and you wake up with an adrenalin rush thinking "WTF was that??".
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lol so true.

I never wake up in time to hear them always wonder why I' awake!
 
I live on the main London Road in Brighton and hear loads of traffic all day and much of the night. It's worse at weekends as you also get the drunks about. I am used to the car noise now after 5 years and use ear plugs at night but find they fall out and I still stay asleep any way. More annoying than car noise is people shouting and breaking things. It better in the winter as less people are about and the window is shut.
 
I'm glad i don't live on a main road as i cannot sleep with the window closed, even in winter. Well i can but i hate it, i always like to have fresh air.

The only annoying thing about where i live is an ice cream van that stops directly outside my window every day.
 
Oh yes my dad also lives right next to the bottle bank. As oppossed to my mum who lives in a country village. I sleep well in both places and I swap every week
 
I live on a main road - 24hr bus service or 2 use it so constant traffic.
Lived there 20 odd years and you will zone it out.

I have rear windows open at night to avoid having front ones open.
 
[TW]Fox;14694988 said:
Yea, they make constant noise, for no real reason at all :confused:
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Yes they do when they're broken. I'm sure you wouldn't be annoyed if you heard it constantly through the night.
 
My room faces the A34, you tend to get used to the cars especially some nice sounding cars (not fartboxs) putting their foot down off the lights in the middle of the night.

Worst is trucks/lorries which shakes the house when they are approaching the lights down hill.
 
Having to get used to coming from a very quiet residential area to living opposite a block of flats where 95% of the tenants get a taxi quite frequently.

All of the taxis have diesel engines and don't turn them off when they're sat outside waiting. Probably get 3-5 an hour and they sit outside for quite a long time, it's like a parade of tractors :(
 
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