best and worst neighborhoods near airports

[freepcrusher]

taking into account the fact that any neighborhood near an airport could potentially be a noise issue (especially in a busy one) what are the best and worst in your opinion

If I recall, DFW is in one of the nicest parts of the metroplex (Southlake, Flower Mound)
on the other hand, JFK is near the most dangerous part of Queens (South Jamaica)

Others
- LAX is kind of on the line between bohemian (Marina Del Ray, Santa Monica) and middle class (El Segundo, Westchester) but is a good place to live as long as you're not too far inland

- Hartsfield is sandwiched in between some pretty nasty neighborhoods to the north and some meh and working class areas to the south.

[H. Ross Peron]

Irvine is pretty good for a suburb around John Wayne Airport.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Near Columbia Metropolitan Airport, Springdale is solidly upper middle class, with South Congaree lower middle class. However, the worst neighborhoods in Lexington County are in West Columbia and the best are along Lake Murray.

[dead0man]

St Louis (Lambert) is mixed.
Omaha (Eppley) is mostly surrounded by nothing.  What's there is poor, but not dangerous.

[Indy Texas]

Dallas-Love (DAL) has some pretty nice suburban neighborhoods around it. There is an attorney the firm often works with who is based in Dallas but flies to Houston for the day at least once a week. He has reserved parking at the terminal which is only like 15 minutes from his house, uses his miles for priority boarding, never has any checked bags and it ends up being relatively easy according to him.

[pbrower2a]

The area around Chicago O'Hare is awful.

[Mr. Smith]

The Bay Area:

- San Jose is in the downtown, so it's pretty good

- San Francisco is in upper-middle suburbs

- Oakland is in the worst part of the city, and it smells abysmal.

[they don't love you like i love you]

MSP is near a pretty standard middle class area (both the part of Minneapolis its near and the suburb Richfield), but also near the Mall of America, so it's a pretty built up area. What's really cool about it is the light rail also runs by the area, so if you live there you always have easy access to downtown.

[memphis]

MEM is in the hood, not far from Graceland. All the prostitute hotels and boarded up apartment conplexes don't present a good image for tourists. But you can just hop on the interstate and be in a reasonable area in 15 minutes.

[freepcrusher]

The area around Chicago O'Hare is awful.

as someone who's flown out of both I can tell you that the area around O'Hare is pretty nice (isn't it in the Dupage area?). Midway on the other hand is on the edge of the barrio.

[Dave from Michigan]

Detroit metro is in Romulus a working class, and lower income area. It is rather industrial.

[publicunofficial]

SeaTac is probably the worst place in King County. Total rathole.

[muon2]

The area around Chicago O'Hare is awful.

as someone who's flown out of both I can tell you that the area around O'Hare is pretty nice (isn't it in the Dupage area?). Midway on the other hand is on the edge of the barrio.

I'm not sure what pbrower2a was looking at, but I would agree more with freepcrusher. Not much of O'Hare is in DuPage. The largest community next to O'Hare is the suburb of Des Plaines which is comfortably middle class with a median home price of about 250K$.

[freepcrusher]

SeaTac is probably the worst place in King County. Total rathole.

really, i thought it was middle-income white and asian suburbs. Even if it is the worst part of King County, its probably pretty nice by Bronx standards.

[Joe Republic]

The Strip is basically adjacent to McCarran, and of course is horrendous.  Green Valley is decent.

[publicunofficial]

SeaTac is probably the worst place in King County. Total rathole.

really, i thought it was middle-income white and asian suburbs. Even if it is the worst part of King County, its probably pretty nice by Bronx standards.

SeaTac is less than middle income. Nearly the entire town works in some fashion at the airport, and the airport pays at best slightly above the minimum wage (Which is now $15, thanks to SeaTac voters).