When Middle Wallop was at its busiest (a lot of aircraft movements day and night) the local estate agents would wait until Summer block leave, when the place was empty for several weeks, to sell houses in the vicinity.
I still wonder how many outraged owners there were when they realised they had bought next to a very busy airfield by mistake
Like the very angry lady who moved out of London to rural Shropshire for a bit of peace and quiet, viewed on a weekend, moved in on a weekend, and was quite surprised on Monday morning to find the RAF’s helicopter training school literally at the end of her garden.
Her demands that “it has to stop” were not met.
Source: talking at lunch that day to the holding officer in station ops who had taken the phone call.