Regarding the Saturday article, “They’ve had enough of jets”: It is difficult for me to have empathy for this couple, or anyone, that chose to live near a place where a great deal of noise is generated; whether it be a military installation, public airport, railroad, etc.
As I wrote before about a gentleman expressing his disgust with noise at Paine Field, as with Naval Air Station Whidbey, these fields were built decades ago, Whidbey in the late 1930s, and I suspect that this couple had not lived there prior to the base being established. If you chose to live in the vicinity of an airport, which cannot be moved, then you need to accept the issues of noise and activities that currently exists, and could possibly become. With the Base Realignment and Closure Act, much military activity is being consolidated to save the taxpayers overall money, and Whidbey, like many other military reservations, are here to stay.
Currently there is another property owner in Mukilteo who was “promised” by a real estate agent that Paine Field was going away (not happening). It is the purchaser’s responsibility to know before they buy a property all that would impact their property value, not trust salesmen or a seller, as I suspect this couple was led to believe.
Richard T. Newman
Everett
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