Where do people like living best with Bronchiectasis?

@sueinmn
I like that where you live half the time is the Gulf of MEXICO 😉

@sheila9 As one who lives in the San Joaquin Valley, I am so excited for you and your health. We take many day trips to the Central Coast through the year just to escape the air, and we talk often of making the move. Perhaps it’s time!

I’m also from Minnesota where the Winters are brutal, and there are so many illnesses in the cold months. (I have both MAC and BE.)
We started spending 2+ months of the Winter in Galveston-lucky to be right on the beach. It has made a big improvement on my breathing. (I used to use supplemental oxygen with activity, but now just at night.) My pulmonary dr said the salt water air is like a “natural nebulizer”, so he’s not surprised that I breathe better when here. I find it so much easier to get up sputum. We walk at least 4 miles a day. Of course, it does nothing for the MAC. I do know I couldn’t live here in the Summer, though, with the heat and high humidity.

@tracestew
You won't regret it. It has been such an improvement in my health I sometimes don't think it's real.
Sheila

Well don’t look at GOODYEAR AZ. the air quality sucks. Wasn’t that way when we moved here; however, all the building and traffic it is awful. Over 100 AQI everyday from 8-12. Ugh. I’m a golfer and trying to golf in a mask is next to impossible.

@ljostroga1973
I live on the water in Lamoine Maine from May to November.
It is wonderful for breathing.
We winter in Litchfield Park Az right next door to Goodyear Az from November to May. It is not the best place for air quality but livable. The temperature is great in the winter and I am happy with this . It also gets me closer to Co for my yearly winter visit at NJH. Maybe my BE is not as bad as yours.

@camilleups

I’m not bad at all. From 8-12 over the last couple of weeks we’ve been over 125 and one day we were 212. If you are looking at the weather app it is totally off on AQI. I look at air quality now.com

This is today in Litchfield. Your AQI is the same as Goodyear. Weekends aren’t as bad as weekends. I10 the culprit.

When I lived in Central Mexico, at 6500 feet, I had probably four exacerbations a year even with the mild climate. Now I live in Tucson, Arizona 🌵 and have far fewer exacerbations. When my lungs are bothering me I sit on my patio and breathe in the warm, dry air - sooo soothing. My lungs love it. I don’t love the summer heat 😂 but my lungs do.

I live in Northeast Florida, just south of Jacksonville. I'm not sure what effects -- both positive and negative -- the climate here has on my Bronchiectasis. The fact that I am only 30 minutes away from the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville makes a move anywhere else a non-starter. The pulmonologists at Mayo -- especially the Cystic Fibrosis team -- are excellent, and being close to good medical care is paramount for me.