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Old 12-18-2023, 03:51 PM
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Our third house backed up to Odell Circle, so from 8am to 5pm, cars and carts drove past our lanai. Then quite with a pond across the street and not a neighbor in site. My spouse loved the house as did our kids, me loved it after 5pm. But you could watch the carts and “What where you thinking when you picked that color” we could also hear road noise from BV and Morse, the train horn and clicking clack wheels.

We are now Four streets from the turnpike, most days have zero knowledge of the turnpike. There is a wall, so don’t see the trucks. Front of our house faces the road, with 3 streets of houses than the wall, back road and private property, then the turnpike. Our lanai and pool overlooks the prairie. Across the prairie houses with lanai facing turnpike, you can actually hear more turnpike noise since it’s open land, than sitting in back of our house.

Heavy fog can keep sound close so there is a humming of tires, but inside the house don’t notice sound.

Couple times a month you can hear the truck hit the warning bumps when they stray off the road. Will say not a fan when you have open land and can physically watch the trucks driving on the turnpike.

All in all in a year I have never had a day that the sound was a problem especially in the house or at the pool.

However by 2025 unless you are buying preowned, you may not even be close to the turnpike
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