[beebs09]

I'm thinking of buying a house that is opposite train tracks. It otherwise seems like a nice suburb (Hove SA). I'm just unsure of noise, any riff raff hanging about and graffiti. I currently live near the airport (glenelg north) so I'm hoping that the noise will be much of a muchness.

Any thoughts.

[flushthetoilet]

I used to. I got used to it.

[miriams]

We live about a block away. It's very convenient. Occasionally we will hear a goods train but I don't really notice any other trains anymore.

[RealityBites]

I live right on a railway track and don't notice the noise at all. And I am noise-phobic, I refuse to live on a main road!

[lozoodle]

I dont live along the road next to it, but one street back.

I don't notice it, but the train tracks are down a little cliff thing so I think that muffles noise.

I personally wouldn't live directly opposite one.

[CupOfCoffee]

We lived directly behind a suburban train station, and you really do get used to it (after a really short amount of time, we didn't hear it anymore.

One day though, we had people over for dinner and a freight train went past (freight trains are much louder) and I was just continuing the discussion and didn't even notice, they were shocked that I didn't notice it.

[Madnesscraves]

I used to live opposite to one. at first it was really noisy, but then you just stop noticing the noise really.

I now live one street away from one, still can hear it, but again, don't notice it unless someone comments on it.

[Pooks*potters]

I used to have a train track literally over my back fence in metropolitan melbourne. In a notoriously 'dodgy' area (Footscray). Never had any riff raff. Just wild rabbits, mice, and trains.

[SlinkyMalinki]

I lived a street away, and hated it. We moved as soon as we had our first child.

The noise was fine, but there were always a few drunks, and dodgy teenagers loitering around.

[jai*]

I live across the road, from not only the track but also the station.
The lines/station is down a bit of an embankment so that does help with the noise, but as PPs said, you get use to it. I actually quite like it. And it's very handy!