Ave's/U neighborhoods isn't exactly cheap living either, especially if you are far enough up the bench to ride from home. You're a long ways from freeway access and that area can definitely have more...

Seriously, those flies will straight-up murder you.

When it's not bug season.

There aren't 1,000,000 people in Jackson, nor is the geography as confining. As for sources, industry accounts for a minority of the PM2.5 emissions that create that nasty winter smog.

General...

If you're referring to winter inversion smog, that has as much to do with geography as anything and there's nothing that can be done about that. Bowl-like terrain + ~1M people + inversion = smog. ...