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it's just i'm thinking of buying a place where I can actually see the cell tower out my window and I'm a little hesitant to put in an offer.
Here's my theory: It doesn't matter if it causes cancer - what matters is if some slice of the buying population thinks it might, because that means when it comes time to sell you're going to have a smaller pool of potential buyers and potentially less demand for your house (meaning it will take longer to sell and/or you'll get less for it.) If you think it's a problem, it's likely other people will too. Remember the real estate mantra: "Location, location, location."
Thanks to modern medicine keeping all of us alive longer (though the obesity trend looks like it may be decreasing life expectancy in the current generation), we're all at a higher risk for cancer--life just does it to you, even if you live on a farm 200 miles from everywhere. I just wrote a thesis about a man in the 1930s who died of cancer after farming and living off the earth his whole life. That wasn't the main topic, or anything, but it just goes to show that cells mutate and sometimes the body can't beat it. Aside from the hugely obvious things like sun-bathing 8 hours a day year round and such, I really don't think people end up with cancer who wouldn't have. The key is to do the preventive health practices (like colonoscopies and mammograms) that help good ol' modern medicine find the cancer and remove/treat it before it runs its course too far.
In the last few decades, the use of chemicals has proliferated so much that really they are all around us. Our personal care products, carpets, foods, beverages, fertilized lawns, ... I'm not saying we should give up because of this. I think we should try to limit our exposures where we can and keep our bodies and minds as healthy as possible, while realizing many factors are out of our control.
That being said, if I could see a cell phone tower out my window, that would be a pretty unappealing view. I don't know that I'd want to live with that on a daily basis, unless there was some very compelling reason for living there.
Cell Towers are pretty low power compared to TV and Radio towers. I bought a house close to a tower as well and did some research, biggest risk I could find was resale.
If you own a cell phone you are basically sitting next to a signal source and holding it to your head. Depending how close you are there is some noise pollution from AC units and transformers.
The closer you are the less you see of the tower cause it's high up in the air and you don't look up that much.
We had a potential house right next to a power transmission tower (that may not be the right word, but anyway). We weren't concerned about the (unproven/possibly nonexistant) cancer risk, but we were thinking of people who are paranoid about everything technological, and anticipated some problems with resale. That wasn't enough to kill the deal (it took some other things), but in this buyers market, i wouldn't knowningly reduce my pool of potential buyers. Just my opin.
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