Silent Night

One of the best things about hot Sacrmento summers, is the cool night air (and the delta breeze). To conserve energy, we open all our windows and turn on the ceiling fan to circulate the night air into the house. As an added bonus, from our bedroom we are lulled to sleep by the songs of the crickets and frogs. Our current situation is ideal, since there is almost no road noise, and the bedrooms are on a second story and ours faces a vacant field.

Looking for a home in winter and early spring, we had completely forgotten about this highly desirable trait (luckily I was reminded by one of my favorite EDH renters who hates road noise).

Unfortunately, both of the homes I currently lust after are not likely to come with such tranquility. I tend to be a location person (caring more about the location than the actual house). Which means we often end up not too far from busy streets. However this situation, has made me reconsider our single story preference.

Avoiding busy street locations is a big consideration since we have young kids, but even cul-du-sac homes around here often back to main roadways, so the noise is still present. For some reason, when we make trade offs, noise is always the one that loses....I just hope we don't regret that decision down the road =)