I lived too close to a hospital. Apparently, the road I lived next to was the road that all fire, EMS, and police used. Tons of sirens at all hours of the night and day. I toured the place on a quiet day, so it never occurred to me about the noise. That was a bit of a suffer fest.
One funny thing about that place, someone always swore consistently on the street between 17:00-20:00 each evening. It was always someone new, but it was like clockwork. Guests wouldn’t believe it at first, but it became a thing, lol. Sometimes it was someone on a skateboard eating shit in the protected bike lane, other times it was a pissed off pedestrian, someone having an argument, someone having fun, or someone clearly off their medication. No apartment has had that before or since.
We moved into a place here that’s right across the street from a major hospital. It’s a tower next to a busy ‘40x’-style roadway near an Ell train and a double cargo rail line with a partially-secured crossing. “You okay with trains?”, they asked. We were fools!
All day we’re exposed to fire, police, ambulance, subway bong-bongs, train ‘q’ whistles, air rescue and traffic.
But it’s not bad. We were above the 12th floor and facing away from train, metro and highway, and the air rescue’s route past our place was almost at our window so it was always cool.
The only thing we couldn’t cope with - and this will out me - was the double-pane windows were no match to the one train guy whose ‘q’ was an absolute by-the-book whistle and it seemed he was standing on it for a full minute sometimes.
…at 0300 .
Nightly.
We hate that guy.
We moved a year ago - after 5 years there ! - to a new place that our revised building code says should have an AC and it does. We’re much happier despite paying like $4/sqft/mo in rent. It’s got triple-pane windows and that would make allll the difference.
I promise you can cope with loud noise. It’s not ideal, but better windows help, as does concrete construction.
I lived too close to a hospital. Apparently, the road I lived next to was the road that all fire, EMS, and police used. Tons of sirens at all hours of the night and day. I toured the place on a quiet day, so it never occurred to me about the noise. That was a bit of a suffer fest.
One funny thing about that place, someone always swore consistently on the street between 17:00-20:00 each evening. It was always someone new, but it was like clockwork. Guests wouldn’t believe it at first, but it became a thing, lol. Sometimes it was someone on a skateboard eating shit in the protected bike lane, other times it was a pissed off pedestrian, someone having an argument, someone having fun, or someone clearly off their medication. No apartment has had that before or since.
We moved into a place here that’s right across the street from a major hospital. It’s a tower next to a busy ‘40x’-style roadway near an Ell train and a double cargo rail line with a partially-secured crossing. “You okay with trains?”, they asked. We were fools!
All day we’re exposed to fire, police, ambulance, subway bong-bongs, train ‘q’ whistles, air rescue and traffic.
But it’s not bad. We were above the 12th floor and facing away from train, metro and highway, and the air rescue’s route past our place was almost at our window so it was always cool.
The only thing we couldn’t cope with - and this will out me - was the double-pane windows were no match to the one train guy whose ‘q’ was an absolute by-the-book whistle and it seemed he was standing on it for a full minute sometimes.
…at 0300 .
Nightly.
We hate that guy.
We moved a year ago - after 5 years there ! - to a new place that our revised building code says should have an AC and it does. We’re much happier despite paying like $4/sqft/mo in rent. It’s got triple-pane windows and that would make allll the difference.
I promise you can cope with loud noise. It’s not ideal, but better windows help, as does concrete construction.