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> Actually I think people frequently don't know.

Indeed. I bought my first house under a major flight path and didn't know it.

Call me stupid, but I didn't know the traffic patterns. Namely that most traffic to the Salt Lake City Intentional Airport goes on a north-south route, and I lived due south of the airport. (The patterns are due to the surrounding Salt Lake Valley.)

So despite being 15+ miles from the airport -- further than most of SLC, where I had lived for years -- the air traffic at my house was incessant at the busy flight times.

I'm not sure that was anyone's "fault" except mine, but anyway, yes, I believe people frequently don't know.

Fortunately, I grew used to it.




Didn’t you spend any time in the area you were buying a house before you signed?


Yes! We had the luxury of being able to visit it several times, since it was an in-state move.

But none of our visits happened midnight or early morning where the issue is most apparent.




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