1 evening on last Wednesday, I talked with Mr. Hakata(羽片さん).
I got some points.
He said, he liked to live at here. Why? He said, he loved here. Because he said, when he lived at Peking before, the big city nearby that is just 1-Tianjin, no others. There arenot any other big city. The travel time is just about 2 hours. But you see, when I lived in Canton, nearby big cities are a lot of: shenzhen(深セン),zhuhai(珠海)、zhongshan(中山),foshan(佛山), & there are Hongkong(香港), Macau(マカオ)... Many interesting places & shopping centres to go.
And, the yellow sand storms could be meet often. He said, Peking's air pollution is very seriously. Some reasons is by the rocketing amount of automobile; some reasons is from the Seberia's cold current would bring a lot of sands passing those vegetation cover losing places...
I hadnot been to Peking long. Last time is 2003-2004, last last time is 1987. 2003-2004 was in winter. 1987 was in summer. 2times travel wasnot brought bad sense to me. But I couldnot be thinkable that just 10years later, people would like to escape an ever such beautiful captial of this country.