And nowhere was that con more expertly employed than in Irving/Grapevine Texas with DFW airport. DFW was built out in the middle of no-freakin'-where, and then the population built in around it. One of the biggest selling points for the builders was that "you're just minutes from the airport." Once people moved in, they discovered that (gasp), they were "just minutes from the airport."
I don't know the full outcome of all the lawsuits, but there were certainly plenty of them, especially people living under the approaches to 13/31.
Michael
I used to work next door (literally) to Hansom. There is very little noise pollution, since it's almost all general aviation and has a large buffer. (Much bigger than Logan, JFK, LaGuardia, or Reagan.) It's generally where AF-1 lands in the Boston area, mainly for security reasons (it's still an AFB) and that's about as much noise as it ever has. Most of the noise is extremely mild, a background buzz, not the window rattling, ear-splitting stuff you get in East Boston, Rosedale (Queens), et al.
None of the Real-Estate around Hansom is cheap. It's La-di-dad Concord, Lexington, Lincoln and Bedford, all veddy toney and expensive towns. The people in those towns probably take 2-4 air travel vacations a year and create traffic congestion in East Boston (were jet noise can be objectionable.)