Some years it's bad, some years it doesn't happen at all. It's really not a big deal. pretty gross sometimes - and this season it's set up bad, last year was pretty bad too. But there's been a couple years here that I don't remember it getting smoggy at all. People whine about it all the time but really, like eheath said, the times when people think it's the worst is usually because of fog as well, not just pollution.
Accounts of people complaining about being trapped in dense fog for weeks on end has been recorded since people settled here. It's just the nature of the valley we live in, it gets foggy and with the development those same environmental factors make it smoggy.
It's undeniable that sometimes it's gross, but it's only in the city... and moving to SLC for the sake of a cool city to live in is like moving to the east coast because you really like big mountains and skiing pow.
Accounts of people complaining about being trapped in dense fog for weeks on end has been recorded since people settled here. It's just the nature of the valley we live in, it gets foggy and with the development those same environmental factors make it smoggy.
It's undeniable that sometimes it's gross, but it's only in the city... and moving to SLC for the sake of a cool city to live in is like moving to the east coast because you really like big mountains and skiing pow.