I echo ST 's litany of the three small airport closures near Toronto. I and many others happily flew at all of them until the real estate developers smelled profits. Well, a construction company did happen to find King City airport more useful as an equipment park
There's folks been clamoring for some decades to close down Toronto Island Airport. The major complaint is noise and fumes. Somehow these folk give the adjacent Gardiner Expressway and Lakeshore Drive a free pass
Rural folk are generally live and let live types. But watch out for estate and ranchette developments. My old glider club was the subject of orchestrated noise complaints from the people who bought into the latest such development. They sicced Transport Canada and the city of Hamilton on us. The previous rural municipality had been forceably amalgamated into Hamilton, a good half hour drive away through farmland
Like ST, I decamped to a two hour drive from a major city.