While we were looking at houses a couple months ago, we were less bothered by the turnpike noise than we were the noise at the houses that back up to 470 in Lake Denham (north of Meggison).
We toured a bunch of houses along Chandler and Meggison, between 470 and Newell along the turnpike and power lines, going at various times of the day and evening. While most had some turnpike noise, some houses had louder noise outside. Some even had noise inside on our visits.
But the outside road noise at those houses off Chandler (that back up to 470) was louder in our opinion.
The place we picked seems to be fine. We hear the turnpike at times outside. Nothing in the house.
As far as resale, we didn't care about the "noise issue". As mentioned, the noise level at our place is a non-factor, so not a big deal. Besides:
A) Plenty of people are buying those houses and plenty more will buy resales too.
B) We both plan on leaving the home in a box, so the kids can deal with resale and sell the house for whatever the market value may be at that time.
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