My wife and I just moved into roxborough from Germantown. One of my main concerns was NOT buying a house on a street used by septa. Some people could care less.

I live off of Lawnton so you can hear the busses from ridge ave but it's not nearly as deafening as when I lived on Wissahickon avenue. Nothing kills a quiet spring or summer evening better than the sound of a septa bus 6ft away from your open front window, and following that; don't buy next to a bus stop unless you like strangers standing next to your door and daily clean up of cigarrette butts and candy wrappers from your sidewalk.

I'm not against public transportation, just living next to it.
-Binx