Little Pink Houses

In making my little road trip to the Queen's City for work yesterday evening...and stuck in traffic...

I wondered...

Am I the only one who thinks that living next to a highway or major road or a main road at all is a horrible thing? Is it just me or are the properties that exist next to the highway only for poor people? What's it like to come home and relax to the sounds of thousands of cars honking and whizzing by outside your bedroom window? To have everything perpetually reek of exhaust? To actually PAY someone to have all your stuff smell forever of carbon monoxide?

I mean, when you look for a place to live...what are your criteria? Mine are pretty simple: no road frontage, no homeowner's association, trees, and a street that isn't a "drive through".

You don't see poor people living in rural areas tacked onto the side of the highway. Why is that? Have you ever seen a trailer park that wasn't for recreational vehicles on the side of the highway?