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Originally posted by srv1
you Californians(sp?) dont know what clean air is! thats too bad. 
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Big Bear, in San Bernadino, about 60 miles from L.A., has some of the very cleanest air in the country. I've lived all over the country, travelled to/through 5 continents, and lived in Australia. I know what clean air is. Granted, the air in Ventura isn't as pure as it was in St. Moritz, Switzerland, but it is comparable to the last time I was at Cape Cod, and is usually as nice as it was the last time I was in Vermont.
What is sad, is that smog in L.A. is partly natural. There were reports of it being there by the first settlers. Still, several million people living there doesn't help! When I first moved to California in 1978, I lived in Van Nuys, in the heart of the San Fernando Valley. Because of the mountains that surround it, it just holds the smog in place. For 8 months out of the year, it's so bad down there that you can't even see the mountians that surround it. What is really sad is that when you live there, you just get used to it. You don't even notice it until you are coming back into it from somewhere else. When I lived there, I spent 8 years working as a summer camp counsler up in Big Bear, and the first day or two you were up there, it actually hurt to breath! The clean air felt like a knife in your lungs. That did suck. It's alot better down there now then it was when I lived there, but it still sucks. I avoid the Valley at all costs, when possible!
Take care,
-Chris