The realization that Vancouver Washington (PNW) is becoming an unlivable place to be. 3 months out of the year, the weather goes in and out of death valley temps. For several days to several weeks (sometimes in one long stint) the air due to the multi state wide forrest fires kills the air quality and almost all visibility. You can smell it inside, so yay for black lungs and cancer. Over 25% of the time now if you can be some other place, you should be. The way it is going, that may turn to 50% of the time. People are regretting having property here now.
In the 90s, we got 2 to 3 times as much rain, and it was awesome. The population since that decade (I was also here at that time) has at least quadrupled. It was a quiet, semi rural location with decent weather. It is now stinking everywhere with car exhaust, apartments and urban type scenery, massive amounts of storage unit complexes, senior living buildings. Go for a walk and there are obnoxious screaming and peace disturbing types all over, sometimes people in their vehicles with loud mufflers gun their engine the instant they are closest to you driving by, or they shout inappropriate things at you. There was a drug house raided by the police two houses over, and another directly across the street from my old middle school got raided. Hypodermic needles are on the side walks where 11 years walk around. My home street turned in to a speedway--40mph is the limit, and everyday people do 60 mph on it, but still very often you get people doing 80-120mph on it, which is absurd. People strap bright ass lights on their houses that keeps it from ever getting naturally dark outside, people shoot guns, p.o.s. tuner cars with exhaust detonation making cracking sounds, local neighborhood trees everywhere getting cut down. Escaped mental patients, etc. What isn't affected by the ever increasing levels of clown activity is swept away in the heatwaves. 60 plus year old trees go all brown, and smaller ones that never needed watering now do, wild weeds and blackberry bushes that grow everywhere and always defied the driest part of the year are now turning into crinkled corpses, and plant crops bred for growing in this region need higher levels of care or may not be worth caring for at all.
We are 50 miles from where the nearest desert begins, but that may not matter now.
