Comment by balderdash

I would be pretty upset if all of a sudden my house was under the flight path of a new airport (and the associated economic consequences) but I always find it surprising how annoyed people get that put a house near an airport and then complain about it, where one of my parents lives there is a small but fairly busy private airport that has been there close to a hundred years, so almost no one that lives by it now can claim to have been surprised by its existence when they moved into (or built) their houses, yet their is perpetual noise complaints and a surprisingly vociferous group that wants it shut down. Similar thing happened where I went to college (house prices were lower near campus - because you had to put up with being near several thousand college kids) and then people move in and complain about the college kids!