I have two experience with two different climates. One being positive and the other negative. Currently, I live in Pensacola Florida (I love the area) but, I have severe allergies and asthma and I am sick atleast 6 months out of the year!! (no exaggeration)I am extremely allergic to mold, trees, grasses, weeds ect. and Florida has an overabundance of this. We are military and trying to move out west again. My positive experience is out west in Idaho. We lived there from 1995-2003 and I had no allergy or asthma symptoms (maybe every once in a while) but, I didn’t have to take any allergy or asthma medications!! It was wonderful!!! The dry climate is much better for me than the humidity. I always heard about “moving to AZ if you have asthma”. I think this is true….I am much better out west. The humidity makes my asthma symptoms (mold is the culprit for me) worse. With dry heat, mold can’t grow. So, we are going to try to get a humanatarian assignment somewhere out west because I am so sick all the time. I hope we can do this because my husband still has about 6 years left in the USAF and I don’t want to suffer and live here in Florida any longer. We have been here for 3 years now. – Cathy, Florida


