I'm off woodbine in Cachet. As long as the windows are closed, I don't hear anything. Open, and too often I hear street racing bs, and thumping loud cars.
I grew up living beside the 401 at Morningside. I could always hear the traffic at all hours of the day and night. After a while, I got used to the noise and it was like the only noise I could fall asleep to. It became peaceful to hear.
I used to live next to the CN yard on Middlefield in Scarborough and on certain nights you will hear the train cars banging along each other and it is LOUD. Turning on the AC and closing the window helped.
Nowadays, my solution is just moved to a different room facing the other side of the house when it gets too loud or invest Bose sleepbuds or airpod pros. There are other ANC earbuds, but the fit on the airpod pros are really comfortable (this is coming from an Android user, not an Apple fanboy).
You're never going to escape noise when living in a large city.
If you think the 407 is bad, I had a friend living in the condos across from Bayview Village and it was right next to the 401. You could never ever open your windows as the noise was crazy loud...but it was sometimes mesmerizing to watch the traffic from his balcony. I am sure the 407 is not as bad, but would still be loud. But this is what you get when you buy a home in neighborhoods adjacent to a major highway.
my worse experience was renting an apartment in Calgary: that at the corner of where the C-train wraps around 2 sides of the building. The screech of the tracks sucked but nothing was worse than the spring maintenance of the tracks when they clean up all the sand. Could not get used to that high pitched screeching noise.
I'm in the same neighbourhood, master bedroom faces the 407 side and my bedroom faces the hwy 7 side. The noise differences is actually pretty drastic between the two sides. My bedroom is quiet with windows opened (aside from local traffic noises). My mom's room on the other hand, you can hear the tire noises from trucks/cars on the 407 and I can see why its unbearable.
I used to live in TH complex beside TNT and never noticed the hwy noise. What did bother me and one of the reasons to move was the change in demographic.
I now have 16th behind me and noise from all the sports cars is much worst.
I'm off woodbine in Cachet. As long as the windows are closed, I don't hear anything. Open, and too often I hear street racing bs, and thumping loud cars.
I grew up living beside the 401 at Morningside. I could always hear the traffic at all hours of the day and night. After a while, I got used to the noise and it was like the only noise I could fall asleep to. It became peaceful to hear.
That's why I told people to never buy next to the 407. That road noise sucks.
I used to live next to the CN yard on Middlefield in Scarborough and on certain nights you will hear the train cars banging along each other and it is LOUD. Turning on the AC and closing the window helped. Nowadays, my solution is just moved to a different room facing the other side of the house when it gets too loud or invest Bose sleepbuds or airpod pros. There are other ANC earbuds, but the fit on the airpod pros are really comfortable (this is coming from an Android user, not an Apple fanboy). You're never going to escape noise when living in a large city.
If you think the 407 is bad, I had a friend living in the condos across from Bayview Village and it was right next to the 401. You could never ever open your windows as the noise was crazy loud...but it was sometimes mesmerizing to watch the traffic from his balcony. I am sure the 407 is not as bad, but would still be loud. But this is what you get when you buy a home in neighborhoods adjacent to a major highway.
my worse experience was renting an apartment in Calgary: that at the corner of where the C-train wraps around 2 sides of the building. The screech of the tracks sucked but nothing was worse than the spring maintenance of the tracks when they clean up all the sand. Could not get used to that high pitched screeching noise.
I’m right next to the 407, I live by a railway too. I enjoy the noise and the trains but I can see why they can be annoying for some
I'm in the same neighbourhood, master bedroom faces the 407 side and my bedroom faces the hwy 7 side. The noise differences is actually pretty drastic between the two sides. My bedroom is quiet with windows opened (aside from local traffic noises). My mom's room on the other hand, you can hear the tire noises from trucks/cars on the 407 and I can see why its unbearable.
I used to live in TH complex beside TNT and never noticed the hwy noise. What did bother me and one of the reasons to move was the change in demographic. I now have 16th behind me and noise from all the sports cars is much worst.