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If NIMBY were all willing to move away from civilisation, nobody would have a problem with them. You wanting peace and quiet in the middle of nowhere affects no one else - that's quite different from demanding everyone around you cater to your desire in the middle of an urban area
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Yes, had this conversation with people complaining about an apartment building being built over a decrepit strip mall in central Los Angeles. "Perhaps living in the center of a megacity is not for you..."
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That's actually not NIMBY behavior at all, because you moved rather than trying to control everybody else around you!

It's great to want to be around few people, that's a choice that should be respected. Just as there should be a choice to allow people to associate at higher densities. But in practice, the law only works against one of these choices.

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It does feel sometimes like you can't escape. I got tired of the nonstop noise and loud cars of a big city and moved to a smaller suburb. Then I learned about Leaf Blowers. If every neighbor has gardeners come at ~7am once every two weeks, the odds are you will wake up to the soothing sound of a 2 stroke Leaf Blower almost every morning!
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Four days a week on our street, thankfully not so early.
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Welcome to the sound of spring/summer/fall in the suburbs. 7am to 6pm, 6 days a week. BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

Most landscaping teams have 2-3 dedicated guys who do nothing but leaf blow the entire time they are at a house. Towns have been largely unsuccessful in curbing this, mostly because demand for landscaping services is so high.

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> 1 people per square mile... Then the state decided that this was the perfect place to build 100 MW of 630 foot wind turbines

That is correct, for the reason you yourself gave. Since it bothers you so much personally, I'm very sorry about your bad luck. But it was objectively the right decision.

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I was reading some stuff a while back about either the FAA or its Euro equivalent coming up with hazard lighting beacons being activated by plane transponders within the area but otherwise off if nothing was actively around. To solve this exact issue.

I really hope such technology comes to fruition and becomes the standard sooner than later.

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I'd say the blinking red lights are pretty mild compared to the non-stop LEO satellites you see zipping across the sky anywhere on earth nowadays.
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How do you measure?

I can't really think of a way to measure it that would come out how you said.

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You can point the telescope away from the wind turbines, you can't point your telescope away from the night sky?
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