I lived in Macau for 7 years, which was handed over to China in 1999, but doesn't get fully turned over to China for 49 years after that. There were no Great Fi

I lived in Macau for 7 years, which was handed over to China in 1999, but doesn't get fully turned over to China for 49 years after that. There were no Great Firewall issues, but the biggest concern for me living over there was quite simply air pollution. My youngest child was born there, and we left when she was 8 months old to live in Indonesia. I was just looking at the air quality index for Asia before reading this [1]. China is in the high 100s to 300s, and even in rural areas it is not what you would expect. I am in Nyack, NY now where the index is 28 or thereabouts. The air quality in China is a deal breaker for me, even though I find China beautiful. I grew up in Brooklyn, and the air at its worst was no where near China's. I've heard anecdotal comparisons these levels of air quality being equivalent to smoking a pack of cigarettes a day. [1] https://aqicn.org/map/#@g/16.3424/114.6094/3z https://aqicn.org/map/#@g/16.3424/114.6094/3z