Americas Dirtiest Cities

[michickenwrangler]

I'm just glad that Detroit and Flint aren't on a bad list for once! (unemployment, crime, most miserable cities)

 

[wolftracks]

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Lived in Holly when I was in the 7th grade for half the year and flint used to give me the creeps. Begged and begged for us to move back here. LOL

Maybe I can find my nice little dream island and be done. Then again.........so much pollution in the ocean. Nowhere to run!

 

[debilorrah]

There is nothing wrong with living in the desert. I love it here!!! I am in the igh desert in SoCal and we have seasons here. The community is close knit, even though it's large, and people ride their horses down the street.

See how blue the sky is?

 

[gryeyes]

California is also one of the largest states; it's certainly the LONGEST, just under 1,000 miles from North to South. Or from South to North, for that matter.

So many people NOT on the West Coast think California is all like S.F., or like L.A., and are often surprised to find out we have HUGE uninhabited areas, plus huge agricultural areas, in addition to major metropolitan areas. We gots us some mountains, some deserts, some valleys, whole bunches of rivers, a couple HUGE delta areas, marshes, sloughs, cricks,

whole swaths of the state with trees green year round, other sections glorious with wildflowers for a few short months and then all this horrible brown nothing the rest of the time.

Gorgeous coast line (also about a thousand miles long - go figure!) with everything from wide, flat beaches to rocky cliffs and caves and all that picturesque stuff.

And, yes, population centers spewing out pollutants which cannot effectively dissipate, but coalesce into smog and "inversion layers" in geographic locations challenged with micro-climates.

*sigh*

 

[Dunkopf]

The areas that are so polluted are also very densely populated. I lived in San Luis Obispo and it was gorgeous year round. Drove 200 miles south and you couldn't see mountains 2 miles away. I will say that on the rare day that LA has clear air it is beautiful. I also lived in San Jose which is blocked on 2 sides by mountains and gets very smoggy. It's only 40 minutes from a fantastic coastline though.