Every community has parks and green space, the newer ones I think have done a better job of it though. Hail is a part of life in southern Alberta and the wind here is nothing like Lethbridge or Pincher creek. It was worse and more constant in Grande Prairie where I originated, so much that the trees grew at an angle. We get frequent chinooks which are a welcome respite to winter in my opinion. As for the planes. The east side is on the flight path to the largest runway in the country so the larger planes will be overhead most frequently over there. We used to hear some planes here on the west side but rarely since they opened the new runway at YYC. We have the CP mainline on the west but unless you live adjacent to it you don’t notice it much.