Generally, living at a big street is not really an advantage besides the effect that the public transportation provides these streets and you won’t have it far to the next streetcar or bus stop. There is often heavy traffic and noise bothering the one having an apartment at such a street – unless you have some good windows that absorb the noise. But in these wintry times one unbeatable advantage pops up, something special that little side streets cant compete with: They are free of snow and ice. The big streets and their sidewalks are the ones that always are cleared off first and very often only those are cleared while on little side streets slippery ice reigns. I don’t want to know how many people fall down in these neigborhoods but you just need to look at such streets and imagine how hard it is for people to walk along there.