This paper describes result of a preliminary opinion survey toward the co-existence of the airport and local communities. The relationship between the airport and local communities has been improved by the advancement of noise mitigation at source and by the implementation of countermeasures such as soundproofing of houses around the airport. Nevertheless, impact of aircraft noise still continues to be a matter of serious concern for residents in the neighborhood of the airport due to the continuing increase in aircraft movements. An effective solution we believe is that the airport must grow into an invaluable resource to local communities, out of a subject of complaints, i.e., one of NIMBY fa cilities. To search for the coexistence of the airport with local communities, we performed a trial perspective survey about compatibility between life convenience and environment protection, using two methods of questionnaire survey and Picture-Frustration Study. Subjects were university students. The result of a questionnaire survey suggests that subjects give priority to avoiding negative burdens for their life environment and they may have some hesitation in accepting inconvenience of living and/or few opportunities of employment in case of country life, although they have no objection to the preservation of the natural environment. The result of a PF study also suggests that subjects tend to have a negative attitude toward country life without convenience, at the same time they tend to clearly go negative against obvious noise damages. We can conclude that they are strongly aware of the importance of the natural environment, but at the same time they wish life convenience would be compatible with the natural environment.