I’m on board with "I don't give a fuck about these wealthy monsters bullshit" Wednesday, and next week I’m good too. .
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It doesn’t have to be fun, just less awkward than being reminded that your neighbors are poor. You know, when you run into a neighbor at the store and complain about your helicopter pilot, how hard it is to find a decent mechanic for the Lambo, and offer an amusing anecdote from your ski trips in the Alps. For some reason they always give you a strange look as if you just landed from Mars, before a long uncomfortable silence followed by them walking away.
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“General aviation” in this case means pretty much anything that’s not a commercial or chartered passenger or cargo flight. But realistically at an airport like this, that only leaves private planes.
Limiting the airport to general aviation doesn’t necessarily mean you need a fancy private jet - a person with a pilot license could still land there in their Cessna - but it does make the airport pretty much off-limits to anyone who doesn’t own a plane.
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Good. The world needs less noise, not more.
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If I were a Billionaire, I might, maybe, visit the Hamptons, once, in my private jet; after giving all the staff in the area the night off. Of course, I wouldn’t land.
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Palo Alto, California had some comparable complaints a few years back, leading to this quote going viral locally:
“Average millionaires like myself”. #justsiliconvalleythings
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Is it true that the content of one’s soul is inversely proportionate to the content of his pocketbook?
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It’s called “heaven”.
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These communities where houses are built with airplane garages, and all centered around an airstrip are more common than you think.
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What a weird rule. RV’ing always struck me as one of those sort of classic retirement plans that was with the reach of many and – as such – rather democratic. But I guess in every activity it seems someone wants to be the Star-Bellied Sneetch.
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Oh, and you though you multi-millionairs were part of the "One Percent™ "?
Financially, you might be in the top 1% but it’s really the 0.01% that run things, Dumbass!
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It’s a bit less of the typical NIMBY issue.
There are problems with people running jets around the area without posting flight plans or notifying air traffic control for area airports and the military base nearby.
Aircraft flying dangerously low. There’s periodic issues with people landing helicopters on area beaches and parks. Sometimes even schools and highways. Often times flying out of this airport.
A lot of the complaints actually come out of the Indian Reservation in the area as well. There’s a sort of impression that you can get away with whatever you want over there. So you want to say, fish from a hovering helicopter. Do it in the waters off the Res.
With so many insanely wealthy people relocating to the Hamptons through COVID, traffic at the airport was increasing a hell of a lot. Along with bad behaviors. There were multiple startups using the airport for “Uber of the skies” style air taxi setups coming out of NYC.
This airport was originally an airfreight and small craft airfield. It’s where like crop dusters and rescue aircraft would launch from. That kind of usage has been dead for a while, it hasn’t been shut down because of demands over this private usage.
The airport itself isn’t actually all that close to any residential areas.
A lot of the opposition to keeping it open. Is out of the non-rich residents who’d prefer it to be redeveloped into something they could use, or that could provide some jobs. Since it’s not a profitable or all that heavily used airport, nobody but the ultra rich and a drone startup have been using forever.
And there are no commercial flights coming out of it.
There’s a little bit of redevelopment that’s gone on. There’s an office and industrial park down there. But it’s mostly a TV studio for a cable network about being ultra-rich for the ultra-rich, a couple ad focused pseudo magazines. A few, like, window manufacturers and machine shops. Then a big tennis and indoor entertainment facility with big bar, bowling alleys and a restaurant.
I think this airport is beyond that cut off. There’s been a shut it down and do something else with it vs MORE PRIVATE HELICOPTERS football locally for a very long time.
It takes about 3 hours from Manhattan, minimum, out to Montauk. Most normal people drive it or take a bus.
Which is kinda the heart of the thing. The helicopters, private jets and big ole yachts are the only fast, luxurious way out there.
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What do billionaires call millionaires? “The poor.”
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Hey, I’m kinda in the same boat, er, RV. I haven’t run into those parks with the 10 year rule, but that’s mainly because I hate private RV parks. They’re super expensive and many are more-or-less parking lots. You’re all crammed in next to each other. At least at state and county parks, there is usually more room.
But I’m done with that and I wanna get rid of that rig and go back to a tent. Family’s not up for it, but it’s because a tent doesn’t have a generator and a TV with built-in DVD player (for off grid, y’see).
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One of my wife’s ex-boyfriends* is extremely wealthy. He purchased a very nice holiday place at a very expensive beach a couple of years ago, but sold it after one summer saying “god rich people are arseholes”.
- She went out with him in high school, about 40 years ago. Also yes, he is much better looking and richer than me. She may have made a mistake there.
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