> To me, “living near a highway” sounds a lot like a euphemism for “living in the middle of nowhere” I would have thought the opposite. Essentially no-one live

> To me, “living near a highway” sounds a lot like a euphemism for “living in the middle of nowhere” I would have thought the opposite. Essentially no-one lives directly adjacent to a rural highway in the sense of overlooking it in the UK, even say the M25 doesn't have flats lining it, generally arterial roads have setbacks so you might be able to hear the cars etc but you've probably got a buffer zone measured in the tens of meters. The actual roads I'd be thinking of are things like the A406 (North Circular Road), A40, A4, etc, which do have houses and flats immediately next to it. The sort of 'inner-city' 40-50mph urban clearways. There are also a ton of 30mph roads which serve a similar purpose. Basically what one would call a 'main road' as opposed to a side street. Example of a sort of middling neighbourhood: https://goo.gl/maps/o6oSRW84dx147TK48 https://goo.gl/maps/o6oSRW84dx147TK48 (this bit of the A40 is either 40mph or 30mph but has an absolute ton of traffic almost all of the time). Example of a higher end neighbourhood in Central London: https://goo.gl/maps/am8ppgvNDGPcuxoB6 https://goo.gl/maps/am8ppgvNDGPcuxoB6 (5-star hotel)