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Only read the OP and none of the other responses, but the simple answer is no. My wife and I were both lucky enough to grow up in some very peaceful countryside with lots of space and fresh air. The closer we can get to that for our kids, the better. Living on a main road? No thanks. It's a shame, because the style of house I like is often on the main roads where I live.
It has, and will continue to be, a deal breaker.
Following others above, no!
(or should I say not again...)
Pollution isn't an issue (at least not that I can tell...) but the noise pXsses me off. Fine during the day, and indeed in the back garden, but when it's otherwise quiet at night and a bus or loud car goes past it disturbs.
The road I live on is quite busy, but the road it joins, about forty-fifty metres away, is a former trunk route to the south coast, the A350, now a B-road, which has fourteen side-roads off of it, along with a number of schools in its catchment area, and is really pretty busy, even at night, when the sound tends to echo off the buildings opposite, so during the summer, if I have my bedroom window open I need earplugs to cut down the noise; being woken at 3am by some noisy truck bouncing over a drain cover really pisses me off!
Given a choice I'd happily live well away from any busy road, which is possible even in a city.