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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why do people buy a house close to an airport and then complain?
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The honest answer to your question is that people who buy houses in areas with acute airplane noise might not be aware of the problem before they move in. They are focused on 100 other things in their house hunt, and they have never lived in Glen Echo Heights, Palisades, Foxhall, Woodmont, etc., so they just don't know.

Then the morning after move-in day -- at about 5:12am -- they start to learn. For obvious reasons, no realtor or neighbor will have warned them.

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Before we made an offer on our Glen Echo house, we did the research, sat in front of the house for an extended period of time, and spoke to neighbors about the airplane noise. We decided it was a non-issue and it still is a non-issue for us. It’s fine.[/quote]

It is great to hear that there are people who either don't care or are just asleep at the wheel. Good news for our property values. However, there are many people who DO CARE a LOT. As a resident of Glen Echo you should count yourself lucky that most of the recent efforts by Montgomery County to convince the FAA to send airplanes further east and "over the river", i.e. closer to Glen Echo were unsuccessful. If I were you I would be very vigilant in the future. Nobody wants to be in the other camp.
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Where are they sending the airplanes now? Where do they veer off the river instead of following it along?[/quote]

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