I grew up in a little clutch of houses too small to even be called a town. There was a gas station nearby, & a 12-room hotel, & 30 or 40 houses on the side of a seaside hill. This location was picturesque, quiet, & an amazing location to grow up. I could see the ocean from my front yard, & 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 my dad got a current task & we had to transport to the midwest, which was a shock to my system. This location was so tepid it felt appreciate I would melt whenever I left the safety of the a/c. It took a few afternoons 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, & we had to run the central Heating, Ventilation and A/C regularly just to make the air more breathable, then long before COVID people were wearing masks around here, just to serve as an air filter for the air they breathe. We went from changing the air filter in the central method once every several weeks, to once every several weeks! The air filters were regularly plugged up with dirt & dusty so abruptly, we had to start buying the 12- filter supersized pack. We thought about getting the HEPA air filters, but we made the decision to go through them so abruptly they would be cost prohibitive.