Noise. When I lived in Philadelphia, I learned a valuable lesson about real estate: If you must buy a house on a busy street, don’t buy one within thirty yards of a traffic light. Every ninety-five seconds I had to listen to forty-two seconds of several people’s musical selections followed by twelve seconds of engines revving, with an impatient honk thrown in once every fifteen cycles. I never got used to it, and when my wife and I were looking for a house in Charlottesville, I told our agent that if a Victorian mansion were being given away on a busy street, I would not take it. Research
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