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mack the knife · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Location: standing right behind you...

I grew up in H-town, so I know what the hell humidity is, but this sh*t floating around Seoul these last few days feels like swimming in a sea of the accumulated crack sweat of all the contestants on "Biggest Loser". I took my motorcycle out for a spin today and my goddam EYES fogged up. Not my helmet shield mind you, my goddam EYES. At one point I was coming up behind a bus just as it unloaded 400 metric tons of carbon particulate into my mouth.

I've lived in this city forever, but I've never seen it (felt it) this bad before. It's like living in Michael Moore's underwear during a marathon. You'll just never wash that sh*t away, it penetrates your SOUL.

The Perfect Cup of Coffee · Joined: 17 Jun 2007

Demophobe · Joined: 17 May 2004

Worrying about everything that hurts you probably shaves a few years off as well. Laughing

richardlang · Joined: 21 Jan 2007 Location: Gangnam

H-town?

I can't figure this one out. I wonder if anyone, or everyone, else did. That said, what's H-town?

paquebot · Joined: 20 Jun 2007 Location: Northern Gyeonggi-do

twg · Joined: 02 Nov 2006 Location: Getting some fresh air...

Havana?

blaseblasphemener · Posted: Sat Jul 28, 2007 5:43 pm Post subject:

H-Town is Houston. It's a reference from a radio show, Jim Rome, unless there is some other place that uses it as well.

flummuxt · Joined: 15 Mar 2007

mack the knife

richardlang · Joined: 21 Jan 2007 Location: Gangnam

Nah, I got H-town beat. I lived in Savannah.

But, really, yea, humidity is annoying.

mack the knife · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Location: standing right behind you...

I took a trip out of the city and I thought the weather situation would be better elsewhere, but apparently fog/smog had blanketed the ENTIRE peninsula over the weekend. By Monday it had cleared up somewhat (where I was, near Daejon).

shantaram · Joined: 10 Apr 2007

Go to Kanghwa Island if you want some fresh air.

I was there on Sunday. The air was fantastic. We drove out from Seoul where the air was disgusting.

VanIslander · Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2007 6:48 pm Post subject:

One of the criteria I used before ever coming in deciding where to live in Korea was AIR QUALITY.

Geoje Island had that in flying colours due to winds from the pacific and the lack of a major city upwind (Busan is an hour north and wind does not travel southward from there).

I nixed Masan and Ulsan as initial candidates due to air quality consideration.

Where I am now, right between Jiri Mountain and Namhae Island, has great air, and every time I visit Seoul I feel like I'm choking on the air, smelling it, SEEING it, and wondering why anyone would spend more than a year in such a place. Jogging in Seoul must be worse for one's health than the benefits of the exercise.

And we haven't even mentioned the spring sandstorms from mainland asia, which hit the middle of peninsula much more than the southern coast.

It's funny how people act like air quality should be of such small consideration in choosing where to live yet they then repeatedly complain about city pollution.

I have the benefit of having lived in Vancouver, where the ocean breeze is fresh, and Windsor, where Detroit factories make the air smell like metal. That past experience, and the contrast it posed, made air quality a priority for me.

VanIslander · Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2007 6:50 pm Post subject:

billybrobby · Joined: 09 Dec 2004

(lights a cigarette)

Pussies.

tigerbluekitty · Joined: 19 Apr 2007

Agreed. The air here in Seoul is filthy.. among all the other disgusting things here.

Time to turn on the AC and air filter.