Where is airplane noise not a huge issue in DC metro? Does this place exist?

[Anonymous]

Where is this magical place in dc metro that doesn't have planes flying overhead? We thought we would be deep in and away from Potomac river, but it's getting unbearable here to open windows or use the deck. A very pricey area too, with multi million dollar homes, surprised how owners of these expensive homes don't complain. Is this normal or are there bad and good days? Seems like there is airplane noise every day, but some days it's like living on a landing strip with planes overhead every minute! I am fine with 1 plane per 10 min, to get some peace and finally hear the noises of nature (which is why we moved to the burbs), but it's never ending? Is there some traffic rerouting happening? We are in NOVA suburb near Mclean downtown which isn't close to Potomac at all.

[Anonymous]

We are in NE DC and never hear planes. I am always surprised when I visit my parents in Bethesda how noisy the planes are. Yes houses are a lot more expensive there so obviously airplane noise isn’t a big factor in housing prices.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We are in NE DC and never hear planes. I am always surprised when I visit my parents in Bethesda how noisy the planes are. Yes houses are a lot more expensive there so obviously airplane noise isn’t a big factor in housing prices.

I expected Alexandria to be noisier, seems like your area is closer to the dca than where we are, and yet it's like every fricken plane is flying over our area, they are high up, but noise carries like crazy. I am going to go mad. I cannot move again, I will lose my mind. Is this forever now?

[Anonymous]

Vienna, for one

[Anonymous]

Eastern MoCo near Glenmont. Once in a while we can hear a jet going to BWI. Otherwise, nothing.

[Anonymous]

We are in Chevy Chase and hardly ever hear planes but we have ALL THE HELICOPTERS.

[Anonymous]

Almost everywhere?

Are you the same person who was complaining about this on a prior thread like it was some sort of enormous hardship?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Where is this magical place in dc metro that doesn't have planes flying overhead? We thought we would be deep in and away from Potomac river, but it's getting unbearable here to open windows or use the deck. A very pricey area too, with multi million dollar homes, surprised how owners of these expensive homes don't complain. Is this normal or are there bad and good days? Seems like there is airplane noise every day, but some days it's like living on a landing strip with planes overhead every minute! I am fine with 1 plane per 10 min, to get some peace and finally hear the noises of nature (which is why we moved to the burbs), but it's never ending? Is there some traffic rerouting happening? We are in NOVA suburb near Mclean downtown which isn't close to Potomac at all.

We are in McLean near Old Dominion -Chesterbrook areas and we only get occasional/very little airplane noise, but we do get helicopters several times a day and military fly overs more than once a month.

[Anonymous]

Falls Church, no airplanes, lots of helicopters.

[Anonymous]

McLean
Vienna
Springfield
Fairfax Station
Burke

Shall I continue?

[Anonymous]

Potomac, away from the river

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Falls Church, no airplanes, lots of helicopters.

Same in n Arlington near McLean.

[Anonymous]

You will get a lot of hate about this OP. It’s incredibly annoying. I get that many, many people are not bothered by airplane noise and think it’s cool to tell you that it’s no big deal or you should not care. But I get it. Truly.

I recently moved from my dream house in one of the areas you mention because flight paths changed and the noise became unbearable. There were cracks in my ceilings from the way my house would shake multiple times an hour, 14-20 hours a day. It was miserable.

We looked all over with idea that a new house could not be under a flight path. There are many areas of DC proper that this is the case, but if you want to be outside the city the only place close in that I found was Chevy Chase (although there is some occasional air traffic - albeit not directly overhead - and there are a ton of helicopters).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Almost everywhere?

Are you the same person who was complaining about this on a prior thread like it was some sort of enormous hardship?

No.. this is my first post. We recently moved from a place by the highway to be somewhere quiet and I was shocked that it feels like we are right by the airport while being many miles away and supposedly ( looking at maps) NOT in the flight path... It's literally 30 sec of peace at most I get between the planes all day long! It's crazy, I cannot believe people pay so much money to live in what used to be the plague of marginal and poor neighborhoods that tend to be near the airports. Yes, it's a hardship, I cannot open windows or use the deck, which was a whole purpose moving to the burbs

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You will get a lot of hate about this OP. It’s incredibly annoying. I get that many, many people are not bothered by airplane noise and think it’s cool to tell you that it’s no big deal or you should not care. But I get it. Truly.

I recently moved from my dream house in one of the areas you mention because flight paths changed and the noise became unbearable. There were cracks in my ceilings from the way my house would shake multiple times an hour, 14-20 hours a day. It was miserable.

We looked all over with idea that a new house could not be under a flight path. There are many areas of DC proper that this is the case, but if you want to be outside the city the only place close in that I found was Chevy Chase (although there is some occasional air traffic - albeit not directly overhead - and there are a ton of helicopters).

Are helicopters flying every minute? It's what planes do, it's so so disturbing, I used to live in huge cities with loads of noise and by the highway, but this is arguably the worst. And there are multi million dollar homes, tons of them in this new flight path and they are ok with it?