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Anyone live near a train track?

beebs09 View Member Profile	15/11/2012, 09:36 AM Post #1
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I'm thinking of buying a house that is opposite train tracks. It otherwise seems like a nice suburb (Hove SA). I'm just unsure of noise, any riff raff hanging about and graffiti. I currently live near the airport (glenelg north) so I'm hoping that the noise will be much of a muchness. Any thoughts.

flushthetoilet View Member Profile	15/11/2012, 09:38 AM Post #2
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I used to. I got used to it.

miriams View Member Profile	15/11/2012, 09:38 AM Post #3
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We live about a block away. It's very convenient. Occasionally we will hear a goods train but I don't really notice any other trains anymore.

RealityBites View Member Profile	15/11/2012, 09:39 AM Post #4
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I live right on a railway track and don't notice the noise at all. And I am noise-phobic, I refuse to live on a main road!

lozoodle View Member Profile	15/11/2012, 09:41 AM Post #5
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I dont live along the road next to it, but one street back. I don't notice it, but the train tracks are down a little cliff thing so I think that muffles noise. I personally wouldn't live directly opposite one.

CupOfCoffee View Member Profile	15/11/2012, 09:42 AM Post #6
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We lived directly behind a suburban train station, and you really do get used to it (after a really short amount of time, we didn't hear it anymore. One day though, we had people over for dinner and a freight train went past (freight trains are much louder) and I was just continuing the discussion and didn't even notice, they were shocked that I didn't notice it.

Madnesscraves View Member Profile	15/11/2012, 09:50 AM Post #7
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I used to live opposite to one. at first it was really noisy, but then you just stop noticing the noise really. I now live one street away from one, still can hear it, but again, don't notice it unless someone comments on it.

Pooks*potters View Member Profile	15/11/2012, 09:52 AM Post #8
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I used to have a train track literally over my back fence in metropolitan melbourne. In a notoriously 'dodgy' area (Footscray). Never had any riff raff. Just wild rabbits, mice, and trains.

SlinkyMalinki View Member Profile	15/11/2012, 09:53 AM Post #9
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I lived a street away, and hated it. We moved as soon as we had our first child. The noise was fine, but there were always a few drunks, and dodgy teenagers loitering around.

jai* View Member Profile	15/11/2012, 09:54 AM Post #10
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I live across the road, from not only the track but also the station. The lines/station is down a bit of an embankment so that does help with the noise, but as PPs said, you get use to it. I actually quite like it. And it's very handy!

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