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by hueving 2340 days ago
>It's like when people build a house next to an airport, and then complain about all the damn airplane noise.

Not really. Buying near an airport requires explicit acknowledgement that you're doing it and that's why homeowners don't really have a leg to stand on when they complain to their local government. IIRC last time I looked at a home near a bunch of transmitters, there was no such disclosure required.

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Oh, people complain about airport noise all the time. You even hear about it in the news: so-and-so investigating 10,000 complaints about noise. Interestingly (though in retrospect unsurprisingly), the vast majority of complaints come from a very small handful of squeaky wheels. For example, of 8,760 complaints about DCA, 1 home was responsible for 78% of them! Source: https://www.mercatus.org/system/files/dourado-airport-noise-...

Disclaimers notwithstanding, noise abatement requirements continue to become stricter and stricter across the U.S.