Hey, if you live by an airport ...

I live right near a major thoroughfare in Broward County.

The road was there when my family moved in. We knew all about the noise from the cars.

The noise has gotten worse over the years.

The neighborhood has grown, there are more cars, and youngsters use the major road as a drag strip at night.

We knew all about the road when we moved in. The fact that the noise has gotten worse; well, we kind of expected that, too.

Which is why I am having trouble feeling a great deal of sympathy for all the people living near Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport who are complaining about the noise.

Yes, there are some who weren’t aware that the south runway would be built, although that was in the works for 20 years, long before most people moved into that area.

And yes, some flight patterns are making things rough for homeowners.

And things get particularly noisy when the winds are out of the west.

Airports expand. They get bigger, particularly in South Florida.

You know that when you move in. If you didn’t, you should have. Airports have noise. Such is life.

One resident of Lauderdale Isles said: “It’s like a conga line of noise planes. We can hear it in our homes and it has impacted our enjoyment our gardens and yards.”

Wait. You didn’t expect that when you moved in not far from an airport?

Airport honchos are planning a new noise study starting next year.

I can tell you what it will reveal: people who live near an airport will hear noise, no matter how flight patterns are changed, etc.

Until the noise study is complete, residents basically have to live with the noise.

But it shouldn’t be any surprise.