text: On houses near the highway , of my knowledge, the price is usually lower because you have to suffer the aggonizing pain of the cars honking an zooming past. In the passage "In German Suburb, Life Goes On Without Cars""When I had a car I was always so tense. I'm much happier this way," said  Heidrun Walter, a media trainer and mother of two, as she walked the streets where the swish of bicycles and the chatter of wandering children drown out  occasional distant motor." Most American families want to live in quiet and peaceful homes. If cars were to be limited there would be less noise and then there will be a higher value for the houses next to the roadways.