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Yes, there are plenty of odors that would affect buying. If anyone grew up back east, the smell of paper mills might come to mind. That is one foul stink, some of my cousins worked there, and it’s a mystery how. Definitely no refineries or industrial smells.
Don’t care for pot smells, but my neighbors do and I have to put up with it. When doing barn chores, I smell it a lot, but can’t see them, they’re screened by surrounding trees. Wood smoke is a nice smell, burning trash isn’t. Manure is a smell that is ok, digested hay doesn’t have much of an odor. No feed lots, but farms are fine.
Cooking smells are generally ok, in a densely populated tract, it wouldn’t be, you’d smell them all the time, but in a sparsely populated area, a whiff of someone grilling can make you hungry. If one of my neighbors was making Indian curry and the smell carried, it would be nice. This neighborhood could use that kind of diversity.
If you’re going to buy, maybe drive or camp around the neighborhood and see what’s going on. Lots of smells/sights/sounds you won’t know about until the papers are signed.
I looked at a house and walked outside and smelled pot. The neighbor was relaxing on his terrace with a joint. The houses were close enough that it was very noticeable.
Turned to the agent and said nope and we left immediately.
A development in the next town over from me gets landfill smells. This is a neighborhood of McMansions, so no I would not spend a lot of $ to smell garbage.
Cooking smells, probably not. We do have a neighbor who uses a smoker in his driveway. Sometimes when the wind is just right it blows into our front windows and we have to shut them.
I did find a house online once that I drove by to check out the area. Everything seemed nice and I noticed the house was already empty so I parked with the intention of walking along the sidewalks (corner lot). The moment I got out I smelled sewage. It was pretty bad. I thought maybe someone was having work done.
Went home and looked closer to the map online. Yep, couple blocks away was a waste water treatment plant.
My neighbourhood has a mushroom farm next to it. We only smell it occasionally, the wind has to be from the east. It's not awesome but it's wasn't a deal breaker when we bought our house.
Pot is legal here, and our next door neighbour indulges. Which is way less pungent than when the occasional skunk lets one go in the middle of the night near my bedroom window (which happens a few times every summer). Now that smell is truly eye-watering. It usually wakes me up and I have to shut the windows.
We have a cafe behind our house that smells amazing some days.
Being a prairie city, at certain times of the year the winds bring in manure smells from outlying farms.
I live in the city, it smells sometimes, and that's okay. I admit to finding people's issues with smell a bit amusing, some of you sound really really precious.
Yes. Even really strong smelling flowers can be annoying. Jasmine and orange flowers can even be overpowering. I wouldn't want to live next to an orange orchard, for instance. Plugs me up immediately - allergies.
Any smell that drives you nuts to the point where it would drive you inside or make you want to close your windows would make your life miserable and wouldn't be worth it, in my opinion. Not for me, anyway.
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