Air Quality and Places to live

From Money magazine:

Here are the cities with the Best Air Quality Index in 2006:


Rank City Air quality index (% days AQI ranked good)


1 Lake Havasu City, AZ 100.0%
2 Santa Fe, NM 100.0%
3 Richmond, VA 100.0%
4 Casper, WY 100.0%
5 Cheyenne, WY 100.0%
6 Napa, CA 99.7%
7 Carson, NV 99.7%
8 Idaho Falls, ID 99.4%
9 Salinas, CA 99.2%
10 Santa Cruz, CA 98.9%
11 Great Falls, MT 98.9%
12 Pueblo, CO 98.4%
13 Honolulu, HI 98.4%
14 Billings, MT 98.4%
15 Ames, IA 98.1%
16 Petaluma, CA 97.3%
17 Santa Rosa, CA 97.3%
18 Bellingham, WA 97.0%
19 Schenectady, NY 96.7%
20 Bismarck, ND 96.7%
21 Amarillo, TX 96.4%
22 Charleston, SC 96.3%
23 Kissimmee, FL 95.4%
24 Daly City, CA 95.3%
25 Redwood City, CA 95.3%


Unless you want to move to Schenectady, it looks like the western cities have the advantage over the rest of the U.S. That is depressing and daunting.