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DIA (Denver) is in the middle of farm country for the most part, however there is some development currently happening within a handful of miles, hotels mostly. Green Valley Ranch is the closest residential subdivision (I think) and it is quite a ways away. (Image attached.)
The former airport, Stapleton was completely surrounded and the areas were older, mixed middle to lower neighborhoods. My dad was a professional pilot and had to be close to work, so we lived in "old Aurora", right next to the main east/west runway. Runways, taxiways (north/south) ran over I-70 which caused traffic jams and for whatever reason there were always accidents right in there too. (Another image attached.)
Santa Fe, NM airport immediate surrounds are pretty dismal and run down coming in from I-25 considering the clientele using it, used to fly corporate out of there at least once a month.
Montrose, CO airport surrounded by commercial and hotels, small regional.
The approach to Telluride, CO will make you sit up and take notice, sharply turning into the valley surrounded by mountains. It's beautiful though.
Craig, CO is next to the Yampa River and golf course and a few homes on acreages, not much else there except for the wind.
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Ohare is surrounded by middle class post-WW2 suburban housing and older city neighborhoods. I'd describe the area generally as working-class to middle-professional-class. The immediate vicinity is a cluster of tollways, ramps, cloverleafs and very poorly designed surface streets.
Midway is in a poorer part of Chicago and is basically embedded in the city street grid. It's not immediately connected to a freeway or tollway ramp like ohare (and many other airports I've been to). It's not uncommon to drive there for a very early morning flight and still see the women working the corners.
MSP as mentioned earlier is surrounded by the Minnesota river to the south/east and the Mississippi to the east. West of there is richfield - very middle class and lower middle class old suburb. Eagan is just south of MSP. It's an upper middle class post-1980s cul du sac suburb. Just to the north is southeast Minneapolis which, like Richfield, is working class affordable.
I don't think Midway is in a very bad area of Chicago. You have to drive through Cicero to get there, and Cicero is edgy, and I think there were some housing projects along the way as well if you're coming from the Eisenhower. But the areas immediately adjacent to Midway aren't all that terrible.
In my current area, there isn't much around the airport, but we're a fairly small town. There is a community college and middle school near the airport on one side. There's a lake around another. Airport has a connector road back to the interstate that runs a few miles and is mostly light industrial with some office space and a rock quarry. Pretty bland stuff.
Can anyone comment on Shreveport? I had a flight into that city in the 1980s and remember a very sketchy looking area just outside the airport. I think it was Hollywood Blvd.
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