A report from the trenches

Just received an email that describes what living next to just one soccer field is like--imagine nine of them:

We have ONE soccer field below our Seattle home (it sits about 60 feet below us). It is city owned, used by soccer, baseball and softball teams, adult and children's leagues. The lights can be on as late as 11 p.m. and as we are right above it we can always tell when a goal or run has been scored. Lots of cheering, even as early as 8 a.m.

Also people will park on both sides of our residential street, which is also the bike route, creating lots of opportunity for accidents and injury. 

As a city, and thus an urban location, we haven't minded the field (it was here before our home was built) but it also serves a population of 600,000. And it is one of many spread out in different neighborhoods to minimize traffic and travel. In Hendersonville, where rapid transit is practically non-existent, you will have at least one car per player--do the math and that's a significant impact on the neighborhood. And the environmental impact to the creeks, streams and rivers when the chemicals used to make the grass on the fields green have runoff.

Good luck, it sure doesn't seem like a good idea to me!