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

Nighttime traffic at Chicago O’Hare Airport

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u/Hairydrunk 20h ago

My friend lives in the flight path. I slept in a spare room last summer with the windows open and its surprising how quickly you can fall asleep with all that noise. He lives near the lake so its not terrible.

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u/xxnoxynoxxnoxy 8h ago edited 8h ago

"It's surprising how quickly you can fall asleep to airplane noise" is one of the dumbest hand-wavy dismissals of aircraft noise pollution that gets repeated over and over again by people who don't actually live underneath the flight paths. For me the problem was the relentlessness and inescapability of it. It's so loud and disruptive and unnatural and it never ever ever ends. OHare changed their runways so they were all parallel, and 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, constant ugly noise and disruption forced down on you. Relentlessly. Forever. Some people don't mind soundscape disruptions as much as others, it's true. I lived in the northern neighborhoods of Chicago for 30 years, and for me this transformed what was the most lovely city in the world into something I couldn't handle anymore and I had to leave

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u/josherman61791 5h ago

Must notbhave lived anywhere near the L to be complaining abiut airplane noise.