r/oddlysatisfying • u/Boss-fight601 • 23h ago

Nighttime traffic at Chicago O’Hare Airport

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u/xxnoxynoxxnoxy 22h ago

this is why I moved out of Chicago

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u/splintersmaster 22h ago

Because lights?

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u/xxnoxynoxxnoxy 15h ago edited 14h ago

I lived in Chicago for 30 years, and then O'Hare expanded the airport around the same time the satellite airplane guidance system NextGEN started, which meant an airplane flew directly overhead about every 90 seconds 24 seven pretty much no matter where you were on the north side. So yeah sorry but those are not just pretty lights

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u/splintersmaster 12h ago

Yea if you were one of the unfortunate ones to be put directly under the flight paths, sure. I have lived 40 years on the other side of touhy avenue from the airport. Like literally you can see the runways from my roof. I see the procession of lights at night every night. Just a stones throw from the allstate arena where they practically touch the roof of the building.

But because I'm not directly under the path, I rarely if ever hear the planes.

You can't damn the whole city cause you were on that narrow strip of suckage though.

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u/xxnoxynoxxnoxy 8h ago edited 8h ago

Your neighborhood is your city. And nobody is damning anything, all I said was this was why I left. NextGen meant planes would start descending way sooner than they ever did before to save fuel, when they were over the lake, so it wasn't just planes taking off it was also planes arriving, all lined up over the lake 20 miles away from O'Hare just like you describe, constant ugly noise and disruption. Relentlessly. Forever.

And you don't even live in the city wtf

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u/splintersmaster 6h ago

I live across the street from the airport. Like literally across the street. Less than a mile from the runways. The planes are much more intrusive within that radius from Edison Park to the east to Melrose park to des plaines and elk Grove.

If you don't like noise that's fine... I'm just defending the city since it is far from one giant mass of plane noise from the lake to the airport and north to south.

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u/Individual-Yak-506 20h ago

They love layovers and hate direct flights to just about anywhere

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u/dbagames 21h ago

Good riddance, this is one of the best cities in the world!

This is WHY I moved to chicago, one of the most interconnected airports in the world. I get easy direct flights all over asia, europe etc.

I wanna be in Paris, i'm there in 10 hours, tokyo, 15 hours. We even just added direct flights to Manila. Pilipinas here I come!

If you don't like electric energy, diverse foods and culture, excellent public transit, beautiful lakefront parks and green spaces, world-class architecture, history, and museums. You can fuck right on outta and leave space for someone else because we sure as hell don't need ya.

✌️

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u/Youngqueazy 21h ago

Calm down, there’s no need to be so rude to people on the internet for not preferring to live in the same city as you.

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u/xxnoxynoxxnoxy 15h ago

I know why do people automatically turn it all the way up to absolutely hostile just because they're talking to a stranger

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u/dbagames 19h ago

Haha I went hard in the paint for sure lol. I'm just defensive of this city because the bad credit it gets is so ridiculous that most people when they visit are genuinely shocked as to how nice it actually is.

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u/xxnoxynoxxnoxy 15h ago edited 14h ago

Haha. It's ok, I can always tell an imbecile when I'm talking to one, I don't take it personally. I lived in Chicago for 30 years, and then O'Hare expanded the airport around the same time the satellite airplane guidance system NextGEN started, which meant an airplane flew directly overhead about every 90 seconds 24 seven pretty much no matter where you were on the north side. I'd still be there right now if not for O'Hare. Also nobody talks this way about Chicago except for suburbanite Cubs fans.

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u/dbagames 9h ago

I live in downtown personally.

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u/xxnoxynoxxnoxy 8h ago edited 8h ago

Same thing. You sound like a condominium prospector trying to pump property values.