[caogecym]

I used to live on a steep hillside of San Francisco and the car noise was so bad. Car engines were so loud when they go uphill.

After that, I became so cautious of the noise issue that whenever I’m looking for a place to live, I look out for steep hill, train tracks, police station, hospitals, main street (the ones with double yellow lines), highway, airport, air plane ascending and descending routes.

[bdefore]

Excellent advice. I'll add one more, having made the same mistake twice, twenty years apart:

Don't live in an apartment at the corner of a four-way stop. The noise of squeaking brakes + engines accelerating from a stop is far worse than engines maintaining speed.