I grew up in a little clutch of houses too small to even be called a town.
There was a gas station nearby, plus a 12-room hotel, plus 30 or 40 houses on the side of a seaside hill.
This locale was picturesque, quiet, plus an amazing locale to grow up. I could see the ocean from our front yard, plus a half mile up the road were a series of logging trails that led deep into the dense forest. When I was in high university our dad got a new job plus the two of us had to transport to the midwest, which was a shock to our system. This locale was so hot it felt enjoy I would melt whenever I left the safety of the air conditioning. It took a few days before I adjusted the heat, at which point I realized there was something even worse – the air quality. The dry, dusty air was as thick as London fog, plus the two of us had to run the central Heating in addition to Air Conditioning constantly just to make the air more breathable; Long before COVID people were wearing masks around here, just to serve as an air filter for the air they breathe! All of us went from decreasing the air filter in the central method once every more than one weeks, to once every more than one weeks! The air filters were always blocked up with dirt plus dusty so abruptly, the two of us had to start buying the 12- filter supersized pack. All of us thought about getting the HEPA air filters, however the two of us went through them so abruptly they would be cost prohibitive.