Rain Gear?

[GoldOxide_imp]

That is freedom.

In my region, aside from winter ice and snow, the salt (along with the usual traffic oil and brake dust soot) cakes and hardens regular clothes. Not pleasant at all. Even in the summer, the road water leaves a greasy, sooty feeling. Not ideal if you have to meet with clients.

I reckon if it rains often, all the road pollution gets washed away frequently.

I was in Toronto decades ago with a white car. After a light rain the car was covered with little black rings of grime from the dried rain drops.

But all large cities have dust kicked up by cars. Forty some years ago I was in the village of Inkerman about 50 kilometers from Ottawa. At night you could see a purple dome to the north. The girl I was dating explained it was the automobile dust and pollution reflected by the city's street lights. Yuck!

City people have a habit of pulling right up behind the cars in front of them when stopped. In the winter your heater sucks in the exhaust of those cars and fills your car with it. Ever wonder why you feel groggy when you get to work on a slow winter's day?

I keep saying it is amazing western civilization (e.g. North America) got out of the '70s. On top of what you point out, add cigarette smoking in the big ol' Impala with the heater jacked high. Whooooooozy!