Airport noise is worse than arduous - it is hazardous: every day at 0645 am, whether I needed to be awake or not, I was woken just as surely as someone turned on a vacuum cleaner in the hallway. Every morning between 0200 and 0300 two helicopters returned from the east to the airport base.

Couple noise with pollution and forget about opening doors, windows and sitting on the balcony.

Interrupted sleep is not a good thing. This is with closed windows and shutters.

Further it was no longer pleasant to use my balcony - even though it added $6,000 to my property tax assessment. All conversation would stop for the planes. Along with the summer cacophony from the Harbourfront Centre and the party boats, it is no wonder I am a former waterfront resident.

Anonymous