fyi

"Steve Foley" wrote in
news:QznPe.7871$Fq2.7241@trndny03:

"In our wildest dreams, we didn't think we'd wake up one morning with
planes flying right over our house," Stephen Simmons said.

They bought a house three miles from the airport and never thought
about it? I guess they're just stupid.


Not to come to their defense, but you DID read the part about "I was born
and raised here" right?? It's one thing to buy a house 3 miles from the
airport and not expect noise, it's another to have the noise move to you in
a house you've lived in since childhood!?



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-- ET :-)

"A common mistake people make when trying to design something
completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete
fools."---- Douglas Adams

The article I found stated they bought the house 11 years ago. Methinks the
airport was there first.

"ET" wrote in message
...
"Steve Foley" wrote in
news:QznPe.7871$Fq2.7241@trndny03:

"In our wildest dreams, we didn't think we'd wake up one morning with
planes flying right over our house," Stephen Simmons said.

They bought a house three miles from the airport and never thought
about it? I guess they're just stupid.


Not to come to their defense, but you DID read the part about "I was born
and raised here" right?? It's one thing to buy a house 3 miles from the
airport and not expect noise, it's another to have the noise move to you
in
a house you've lived in since childhood!?



--
-- ET :-)

"A common mistake people make when trying to design something
completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete
fools."---- Douglas Adams

ET wrote:
Not to come to their defense, but you DID read the part about "I was born
and raised here" right?? It's one thing to buy a house 3 miles from the
airport and not expect noise, it's another to have the noise move to you in
a house you've lived in since childhood!?


So was the airport there before he was born? Which was there first? That's the
one I have sympathy for. If you buy a house near an airport, don't be surprised
when aircraft fly overhead or there's noise. OTOH, if you buy a house out in
the sticks and then they build an airport, then you have a valid complaint that
the airport needs to address.



--
Mortimer Schnerd, RN

VE

AH has been there since the mid-70s. It's the interstate freeway
that's the real problem. That and the fact that people keep moving
further north and further south because no one in Houston understands
infrastructure planning.

I moved *way* north. To Colorado.

"Blanche" wrote in message
...
AH has been there since the mid-70s. It's the interstate freeway
that's the real problem. That and the fact that people keep moving
further north and further south because no one in Houston understands
infrastructure planning.

I moved *way* north. To Colorado.

So you got so see how well they understand "infrastructure" planning in
Denver, huh? :~)

Mortimer Schnerd, RN wrote:
snip...

OTOH, if you buy a house out in
the sticks and then they build an airport, then you have a valid complaint that
the airport needs to address.

These things don't just happen. There are many planning meetings,
neighborhood information meetings, referendum votes, city/town planning
and zoning activities. Existing residents have an opportunity to voice
their views, but most simply sit back hand hope somebody else will.
But after the fact, they enjoy complaining bitterly.

that airport has been there since about 1960. there are a lot of pine
trees out that way so maybe they just didn't notice?


dan