> I guess to let it be known that there are far worse places out there than a couple of small Australian towns (with what to me looks like very clean air). It

> I guess to let it be known that there are far worse places out there than a couple of small Australian towns (with what to me looks like very clean air). It sounds like the situation in your town was very bad. That neither diminishes nor invalidates a bad situation elsewhere. We should all be striving for better, no matter where we start from.