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There is an asphalt factory 10 miles from where I live, on the access road to a major highway, and in the middle of lots of urban development. The factory has b

There is an asphalt factory 10 miles from where I live, on the access road to a major highway, and in the middle of lots of urban development. The factory has been around since the mid 80s. There is a nearby new housing development with residents complaining about the air pollution (apparently it is really smelly) - and their response is "yeah, we've been here since before you were born, so whatev". It cracked me up. Edit: Oh! I almost forgot, there are people who built their house next to a NASCAR track! WHO thinks that is a good idea?

DrScump 6y ago
Similarly, there are people who moved adjacent to San Jose's Reid-Hillview airport and then complain about airplane noise from civil (small prop plane) aviation. Reid-Hillview airport opened in 1937 when nothing but farmland surrounded it.
xiphias2 6y ago
Over time air pollution has to go out of cities anyway if people need to move to cities to be able to get a job. I think that's just a matter of time.
travisjungroth 6y ago
> Edit: Oh! I almost forgot, there are people who built their house next to a NASCAR track! WHO thinks that is a good idea? People who don’t mind noise and want to make a shitload of their mortgage back on Airbnb.
- Gabriel_Martin 6y ago
  Airbnb is the least of it I'd guess. More like parking, camping and vendors' rent, depending on how close they are.
flukus 6y ago
> Edit: Oh! I almost forgot, there are people who built their house next to a NASCAR track! WHO thinks that is a good idea? Depends on how often it's used I guess. At times I've lived a couple of blocks from a formula 1 track and right on a hairpin bend of an IndyCar track. Both were held once a year so even though I don't like car racing it was a feature not a problem.
roflchoppa 6y ago
must be related to the idiots that build their home next to Laguna Seca.
- renewiltord 6y ago
  But those guys won, right? They got to shut down most activities there.
  - roflchoppa 6y ago
    There’s a sound limit on the track, I think the decibel sensor is on the right side of turns 4-5. And you get 3 strikes or your out policy if you are over. People make some interesting exhausts just for this track. https://images.autotrader.com/scaler/620/420/cms/images/oversteer/2016/12-dec/lagunaseca/260090.jpg https://images.autotrader.com/scaler/620/420/cms/images/over... Thunder hill has a similar policy but they move the Sensor around...
int_19h 6y ago
Hereabouts, there's an open rifle & shotgun range that has been around since 1940s. When it was built originally, it was a rural area. Since mid-90s, there were a bunch of suburban neighborhoods developed around the range, some of them right down from where the backstop berm is... and now the people who moved there are complaining that the range makes them unsafe.
selimthegrim 6y ago
I wonder if any of these residents complain about the GP in Austin.

DrScump 6y ago

Similarly, there are people who moved adjacent to San Jose's Reid-Hillview airport and then complain about airplane noise from civil (small prop plane) aviation. Reid-Hillview airport opened in 1937 when nothing but farmland surrounded it.

xiphias2 6y ago

Over time air pollution has to go out of cities anyway if people need to move to cities to be able to get a job. I think that's just a matter of time.

travisjungroth 6y ago

> Edit: Oh! I almost forgot, there are people who built their house next to a NASCAR track! WHO thinks that is a good idea? People who don’t mind noise and want to make a shitload of their mortgage back on Airbnb.

Gabriel_Martin 6y ago
Airbnb is the least of it I'd guess. More like parking, camping and vendors' rent, depending on how close they are.

flukus 6y ago

> Edit: Oh! I almost forgot, there are people who built their house next to a NASCAR track! WHO thinks that is a good idea? Depends on how often it's used I guess. At times I've lived a couple of blocks from a formula 1 track and right on a hairpin bend of an IndyCar track. Both were held once a year so even though I don't like car racing it was a feature not a problem.

roflchoppa 6y ago

must be related to the idiots that build their home next to Laguna Seca.

renewiltord 6y ago
But those guys won, right? They got to shut down most activities there.
- roflchoppa 6y ago
  There’s a sound limit on the track, I think the decibel sensor is on the right side of turns 4-5. And you get 3 strikes or your out policy if you are over. People make some interesting exhausts just for this track. https://images.autotrader.com/scaler/620/420/cms/images/oversteer/2016/12-dec/lagunaseca/260090.jpg https://images.autotrader.com/scaler/620/420/cms/images/over... Thunder hill has a similar policy but they move the Sensor around...

int_19h 6y ago

Hereabouts, there's an open rifle & shotgun range that has been around since 1940s. When it was built originally, it was a rural area. Since mid-90s, there were a bunch of suburban neighborhoods developed around the range, some of them right down from where the backstop berm is... and now the people who moved there are complaining that the range makes them unsafe.

selimthegrim 6y ago

I wonder if any of these residents complain about the GP in Austin.