Letter: Las Vegas homes don’t compare with Queen’s

Monday, Feb. 27, 2006 | 7:38 a.m.

It seems to me that Richard J. Mundy, in his Feb. 19 letter in the Sun, is faulty in criticizing Las Vegans by comparing their discomfort with airplane noise with the fact that Queen Elizabeth II manages to tolerate airplane noise from London's Heathrow Airport.

To begin with, as he states, "she resides for part of the year" at Windsor Castle. We may have some "snow birds" living here for "part of the year" at any given time, but most residents live here year round. A pretty important difference, since they do not have a Balmoral Castle to run to for relief.

Secondly, he's unthinking in comparing Windsor Castle - a castle, for Pete's sake! - a huge multilevel and very multiroom edifice, to the humble (or not) one- or two- or, maybe, three-level house of the average Las Vegan. Surely, Her Majesty's apartments are somewhere in a central level so that sound from the air is filtered out before it reaches her. Homes here do not have this "insulation."

So you can see there really is no justifiable comparison.

Helen Richman, Las Vegas

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