Anyone here live in Hounslow or surrounding area ?

Stolly

Stolly

Stolly

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Seriously, how do you put up with the aircraft noise ? Literally 3 airliners have gone a few hundred feet above my head while typing this.

I'm only here for a few weeks, and frankly i've had enough already. Even at the weekend i was woken up at 7:30 or so.


Another, thats 4 now....
 
Yup, Osterley here, its fine, you get used to it, I can't sleep without the noise from the tube/planes. I'm not right under the flightpath though. You'll learn to love it soon enough (maybe...)
 
I'm right under the flightpath, i feel like i can reach out and touch them.

I'm not going to get used to it, i'm doing the project and getting the hell out of here :)
 
I got lost in Hounslow once when I was younger after a big drug binge. Ended up paying for a cab back to my front door in Tower Hamlets for £40 at the time I thought that was the greatest bargain.
 
i suppose you get used to it eventually.

I stayed at a hotel a few weeks ago which is less than a mile away from Manchester airport and directly on the flight path in Heald Green, first night it was noticeable, second night wasn't really that noticeable unless i took notice of it.
 
Stolly said:
Seriously, how do you put up with the aircraft noise ? Literally 3 airliners have gone a few hundred feet above my head while typing this.

I'm only here for a few weeks, and frankly i've had enough already. Even at the weekend i was woken up at 7:30 or so.


Another, thats 4 now....
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You are lucky because of the Cranford Agreement act from the 50's.
Basically some numpty somewhere decided that it would be more "suitable" for the residents of Cranford and Hounslow if the aeroplanes used the nearest runway to them for the planes to land.

What that means is you (wherever you may be in Hounslow) get the luxury of getting planes to land 80% of the year. Now when they take off using your runway you are going to suffer more haha


The likes of us in surroundings areas like Berkshire get subjected to aircraft noise and when they take off they make more noise.
 
wez130 said:
i suppose you get used to it eventually.

I stayed at a hotel a few weeks ago which is less than a mile away from Manchester airport and directly on the flight path in Heald Green, first night it was noticeable, second night wasn't really that noticeable unless i took notice of it.
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Yeah i've worked in the area before, this something else though, its around every 30 seconds at peak times. You can look up and see a line of three to four of them lined up.
 
Use to work on London Road in Isleworth. Pros: You could see the security guards slacking in the office when you came into land. Cons: Every 30 seconds a plane would shatter the silence, making sleeping off lunchtime beers in the car a nightmare.
 
I live directly under the Glasgow airport flight path a mile or 2 from the runway and after a while you get used to them. You don't even notice them. The only time I notice them is when friends come round and suddenly they just look at you with a WTF!? face (as a plane flys over) . Pretty funny actually. But one thing, I would rather live under the flight path than on a busy junction with trucks pulling away at the light etc. ... Been there done that, that sucks. Constant.. Planes flying over lasts about 30 secs max and sometimes you do have to turn the TV up and down a they fly over if the windows open. But it's normal now as I said you don't notice it.
 
Oh further to that I've lived nearby within the Realms of Hounslow all my life and even to this day I hate the person who decided to make Heathrow a huge airport because today's Heathrow could easily have been that airport they had in Croydon.

You do get used to it after a while when they land they are okay
but when they take off they are a nightmare. That concord used to shake the glasses in my house and the windows used to rattle.
 
I live in Hounslow, always have. You get used to it - I don't really notice them.

Forget the planes have you seen what a dump Hounslow is? I mean, the bloody milk floats have rear gunners.
 
I used to live in a litte area just outside of windsor, and when concorde was in service, it'd hit it's afterburners literally just above our place, very low to the ground, absolutely deafening, to the point where everything would shake from the waves etc, tripped the fuze box a couple of times too :S but that was a dodgy fuze box too, which didn't help >.<
 
Vanilla said:
I live in Hounslow, always have. You get used to it - I don't really notice them.

Forget the planes have you seen what a dump Hounslow is? I mean, the bloody milk floats have rear gunners.
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This is true, all around Heathrow is a dump, Hounslow, Greenford et al. The council estates seem to worse than where I live in Tower Hamlets.
 
Vanilla said:
I live in Hounslow, always have. You get used to it - I don't really notice them.
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I think I've had my bedroom windows open for the last 6 months and it hasn't affected my sleep adversely, but the times I long for silence early in the morning or late at night it's a right pain. Early morning, 2am-4am is the worst though. You get all sorts of air traffic coming through. I used to think aliens were invading when I was a kid, soon came to the conclusion it was helicopters.

As I type about 8 planes have passed over, and now I'm actively listening out for them due to you guys. Suppose a positive thread on Hounslow was a near impossibility. Shocked to see a thread title with Hounslow in it though and the topic not being related to how much of a dump the place is.

Vanilla said:
Forget the planes have you seen what a dump Hounslow is? I mean, the bloody milk floats have rear gunners.
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Milk floats don't dare roam these parts.
 
Yep its a complete toilet, won't miss it when i'm done.

Has anyone been to that Lebanese place off the high street ? Never had Lebanese before....
 
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