Why would anyone buy a house overlooking a 5 road junction?

There are so many other quieter alternatives!

Very popular with the Spanish from what I've seen.
Many of them prefer living next to busy roads, strangely enough.

A Spanish estate agent once tried to sell me a house where the garden was bordered by a new motorway on one side and by a slip road on the other.

He seemed quite surprised when I told him it wasn't quite what I considered to be a pleasant, peaceful place in the countryside.

We don't do quiet! We are scared of the country, we need people and the noise they make , we like to feel a part of the crowd. When we stay in hotels we are often asked whether we would like a room at the back (where it is quiet) No! stick us up front we say. Madrid, Barcelona, Benidorm, We want to be in the middle of it. We desire markets, main roads, even railway stations
We want to sit and look at the other people, oh yes and we will judge them by appearance and compare ourselves to them. We can see them interact with their kids and we are pleased with what we see or saddened by it.
We turn up at airports long before our flight is due to leave, just so we can watch the other people (also not miss said flight).
Yes, give us people and lots of them. If you put us in a field we will leave it ASAP and find the nearest human and talk to him/her about the weather or some such fascinating subject.
Each to their own. I have family who are very sociable, yet they are happiest miles from town, funny people

There's nowt so funny as folk.

I concur, I'm a city boy.

When we lived in Denia, my wife (a city girl) and I decided to give the Valencian hinterland a try, because it is beautiful. We were going to view a small finca that was for sale about 20 miles inland.

20 minutes later, and still 20 miles away from our destination, we found ourselves in yet another valley where the country roads no longer had signposts and the only traffic we had passed was a tractor laden with oranges that kept falling off and bounced against our car.

Eventually we managed to get to the top of the valley. I pulled off the road and we stopped to admire the most amazing, tranquil scenery below. The smell of freshly squashed oranges seemed to blend in with our surroundings.

We turned off the radio and listened to the sound of silence. 'Could we live in a place like this?', I asked my wife.

She's a shrewd woman who doesn't normally rush into rash decisions. She must have waited several seconds before she said, 'Let's get back to Denia, quick.'

As this is a respectable forum, I've censored her words. She had used the F word twice in that short sentence.

Each to their own.

We have lived in some citys and I must say
never ever again
Visits will do me
My Dream realy is a piece of land, fence round it, middle of no where,
must go back to my childhood as grandma had a farm.
For noise we have a car can travel
I find the Campsite a nightmare for noise at a lot of time, so would never ever rent in a city nor town hopefully not a village neither.
But I do love the spanish for there roundabouts.
Miramar Playa just got a new boot in theres...

err, fabulous, fantastic ?

Suits me just fine anyway, all the more space for us country boys to stretch our wings and do our thing.

Round my way so many of those Valencian city dwellers couped up like battery hens in those hideous apt blocks can't wait to get out into their weekend homes given the opportunity, windy, wet or fine.

Nice to see them come, nice to see them go and life return to normal.

I am with you on this. I never have really got how people enjoy the countryside and peace and quiet. Too me that equates to boredom.
Everyone to their own though.

I have to live within walking distance of bars and restaurants - the more the merrier.

I have a friend I visit from time to time who has 70 acres of mixed trees (mostly cork) on the side of a mountain miles from anywhere. It is one of the most beautiful places I have ever seen.

And mind-numbingly boring after a couple of hours.

I like the best of both worlds - a town or city location but in a quiet spot (yes, they do exist!). I like to sit outside a cafe and do a spot of people watching, but when I go home and especially during the night I want peace and quiet. When we go on holiday it is always a city break but we do check reviews very carefully to find a quiet location and always ask for a room or apartment not facing the street. At home we live in a traffic free location but only a 5-10 minute walk away from all the shops, cafes and other facilities of a big town.

The countryside is lovely for a visit but I would go stark raving mad if I had to stay there for more than a day or two. I lived in a semi-rural location before I left the UK and that was bad enough, we had to travel miles to get to any decent shopping or leisure facilities. Great if you wanted to go out walking. or just sit looking out of the window, but not much else to do.

Personally I thought your choice of script and colour was excellent

Today is our big shopping day for the week, but early this morning I found that the remaining bread had gone off. Five minutes later I was in the bakers to buy the breakfast bread, and a couple of fancy rolls because the bathroom scales had been kind to me.

It wasn't even proper daylight yet and I walked another five minutes to buy a newspaper and a coffee to watch the sun rise. And the spectacle of the shaking drunks getting their first fix of the day.

I've got a pal who's got a finca. If he walked for five minutes he wouldn't even have reached his gate.

As long as you have good neighbours, I like the feeling of living in a community too. A couple of nights ago I set out to take my rubbish to the bins but didn't get more than 20 metres before one of the neighbours said "Is that little bag all you've got? Give it to me, I'm going down." I offered to return the favour last night, but she wouldn't let me. A few days earlier my OH carried a large box of washing powder up the street for a neighbour, and not long after there was a tap on the door and there she was with a dish of fruit for us. Small acts of kindness and a bit of give and take cost nothing but can add greatly to the sum of human happiness!

Exactly the same here for me. One thing I have noticed though is that many of my neighbours do not accept anything from me without giving something in return. Your example of the dish of fruit is the sort of thing that I mean. I find that they are generous to a fault but seem to have a problem with taking anything whether it is help or an item.

Rosemary

Me too, an apartment located above a bar would be perfect. All the loud chatter, car door's banging, music blaring, fans and coolers whirring away and the odd drunk singing. Perfect.