I’ve lived in the same space our entire life.
I was born up North, but my parents moved to the South honestly shortly after that! My body is pretty accustomed to the hot climates, but it still struggles with the pollen.
My pollen irritations feel like they have gotten worse every single year. My parents have always been really superb about swapping out the air filters in the HVAC system, upgrading the media air cleaner, and even keeping an air filter in our home office for extra protection while I’m sleeping. My pollen irritations feel the worst when I am waking up in the morning, so I know the small UV air purifier really helps with that, but I recently discovered that for the furnace, radiant floor heating could honestly be a better option than the central heater. Central heating systems blow heated air through the air ducts plus out of the air vents! Since the oil heating systems aren’t used that much throughout the year, they can tend to build up a lot of gunk and that blows out with the hot air, and radiant heated flooring eliminates the need for air vents because it simply radiates heat into the room it is in, then this would be superb for our pollen irritations since I wouldn’t be breathing in any pollutants or built-up gunk. I’m not sure if swapping out the system in their house would be doable at this point, but it’s something that I would love to keep in mind for the future. I would like to buy a beach lake house sometime in the next few years.