I have 2 comments here:
First, if you are even asking the question, chances are you should find a spot not on a road. If you are uncertain, and you decide to go ahead, you are very likely to regret it later. First motorcycle with loud pipes will likely make you change your mind, and say "We should have gone elsewhere". If you're not enthusiastically looking forward to the spot near the road, don't go there.
Second, if for some reason you do decide to go ahead and buy on a road, try to find a spot where the cars can't come into the house too easily! It may sound crazy, but in NY we had a car that sped up our street (a quiet street that became busy over the 25 years we lived there), took out a utility pole, crashed into a tree, spun around and landed on our lawn, 10' from the porch on fire! Nothing happened to the house, but it made me really paranoid about the possibility.
When I saw some to the new homes backing up onto Odell with a large drop into the yard (the roof is about the same height as the road) all I could think of was a car coming across the road, over the wall and into the roof of the house!
Scary to me!
After living for 25 years on what became a busy street we initially had trouble sleeping in our Village home as it was too quiet. That wore off quick!
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