This week's poll was suggested by LazyReviewer, who thought "art quality" was "air quality."

You can submit poll ideas here: https://www.mangaupdates.com/topic/kilkdnn/site-manga-poll-suggestions

Previous Poll Results:

Question: Have you ever climbed a tree?

Choices:

• Yes, the taller the better! - votes: 724 (30.4%)
• Yes, but only short ones - votes: 1086 (45.6%)
• Nope, not interested - votes: 573 (24%)

There were 2383 total votes. The poll ended: March 1, 2025

Now I'm wondering how many of you even have public parks nearby

A just ruler amongst tyrants

I swap between living in the middle of one of the biggest cities in the continent and small seaside nature town a few times a year and I don't really smell any difference so... meh?

Currently I'm living in a city with a pretty bad air quality, not really India or China bad, but it's up there mmm... It's slightly better than "Cancer" air quality, so I guess it's between Bad or Terrible mmm...

On the other hand, I lived in small city of Kalgoorlie in Australia for a few years in the past, and that city is night and day comparatively mmm...

So I guess if you're from NA, Europe, or Australia, the air quality is most likely at least "Meh" mmm...

I will change this world mmm...
So the world can change me mmm...

Pretty good quality I'd say. For the highest tier I would say forests and great would be the countryside. I live in the 3rd largest city in my country, so there's some traffic, but public transit like trams help quite a bit for reducing harmful particles.

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Presently, I live way out in the sticks: there's trees, hills, some small farms, villages (the closest thing around here to towns), and not much else. So, yeah, the air here is pretty damn good.

I'm actually missing the smell of city streets.

By contrast, my hometown was about thirty minutes away from one of the biggest cities in the world — the air quality, while not great, was better than decent (lichen, a great indicator of clean air, was not hard to find, although usually in small quantities).

As for the poll results: Honestly, there's a lot of factors involved in air quality. Where you are relative to major roadways and factories, terrain, weather patterns (including pressure), top soil conditions, waste management, the presence of wildfires or volcanic activity… etc. Additionally, the air of certain places is notoriously easily polluted regardless — to wit, London and Los Angeles. (London may even be in a class of its own: the first surviving mention of the once-near-continuous smog known as the London fog dates to 1285. However, it most likely goes back to at least the mid-thirteenth century, since Edward I banned the burning of soft coal in the city in 1272 — circumstances indicate that the problem had been building for a while then.) Despite being a seaport, New York City could get pretty bad too until they cleaned it up (at the peak of the problem, a day breathing New York air was compared to smoking a pack of cigarettes, and a white dress-shirt collar would turn black from the air in half a working day). Whereas cities such as Boston or Paris have had comparatively clean air, even before they started clean-air campaigns in the late-twentieth century. Many first-world cities have had clean-air campaigns ongoing since then, so their general air quality can be surprisingly good (even London). It's places in the developing world where you're most likely to find horrible general air quality (mostly China and the Indian subcontinent, not to say there aren't locations elsewhere). That probably explains the results of the poll?