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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Living in a less than ideal, polluted location is not a death sentence. Yes, there is a higher chance one may have health issues but the probability of having thorn is small, so even if it doubles, it’s low anyways. Besides, you can offset that higher likelihood by adopting healthy behaviors in other area.

I live in  the flight path and in hindsight I would not buy here again. However now here we are. We don’t have any health issues and have never heard of health issues from my neighbors. I also have never heard of asthma among my kids’ friends.

There was a report based on actual health issues (stroke, asthma, etc) among the DC residents and I didn’t see the neighborhoods under the flight path faring worse. The worst were low income areas in SE and SW, which don’t seem to be affected by airplane pollution. Somebody has been repeating that Georgetown East and Woodley Park do better but I think that doesn’t mean anything for us. It may very well due to other factors like an average younger population or who knows. We do have many older residents in the Palisades, not sure how that is in comparison with other neighborhoods.

People need to have some common sense. There are myriads of factors affecting one’s health. Pollution and noise are two. If  you get very stressed about noise and/or pollution this area is not for you. High stress may be worse that whatever you are hearing or breathing.[/quote]

To be fair, that report correlated PM 2.5 pollution and health outcomes which have the potential to doublemask the true situation. First because PM 2.5 doesn’t measure the ultra fine particulates and jet emission pollution and second because the health outcomes are intertwined with the access to healthcare. It was still odd that on stroke and COPD that area didn’t do as well as the neighboring equally expensive areas.[/quote]

I think this is the figure comparing estimated vs actual pollution health effects:

https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/cms/asset/5513e6f4-53ee-49b2-918d-e2a7d7b7b8d7/gh2283-fig-0005-m.jpg

Where do you see palisades does worse? Admittedly, I am not the best at interpreting these scientific articles but I am genuinely interested.

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https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2021GH000431

There are many more neighborhoods beside WP and GE not affected by the planes so again, I don’t take away anything with respect to aviation pollution from the fact they do better. [/quote]

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