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Advice for dwelling

Question
Hello,
I am seeking your valuable advice to help me find the dwelling place that would improve my health. I am CF, 4 years ago I left Paris and pollution to be closer to the oxygen say near the forest of Fontainebleau. Unfortunately I have not thought at all to the problems that home moisture could trigger that is a big disease aggravation in the fall (I started to perform pre lung transplantation assessment ...).
Therefore, it is VITAL to leave this area and I am now ready to consider moving outside the Ile de France. So I am searching a sunny place, but not very hot in summer, less humid, very few polluted. It is very complex. I conducted various analyzes graphics on rainfall, temperature, terrain, streams ... but I would like your expert opinion. Should be avoided in my opinion two axes: one that includes the departments above the Loire, Normandy and Northern France (due to excessive moisture) and the second axis extending from the Alsace Lorraine Region of Lyon and Provence Alpes Côte d'Azur (large temperature differences being harmful, so no semi continental climate, polluted and too hot in summer areas). The area of Toulouse, Agen and south are too hot in summer for me too. The study of the rainfall is certainly important, but the humidity also depends on the winds, geology whether it is a land that drains water or not ...
Following this rather long description, what do you advise?
Thank you a lot of attention to this email, I am eager to hear your opinion
Answer
Hello,

The question is as relevant as the answer is tricky.
Respiratory disease is the leading cause of death in CF patients: it dominates the prognosis and is influenced by the interplay of innate or genetic factors (CFTR genotype, modifier genes ...) and acquired or environmental factors including quality of care, healthy lifestyle, access to care (specialized CF centers), the economic and social conditions ....
The climatic conditions and the degree of air pollution certainly play an important role but it is difficult to measure precisely despite the number of environmental data at our disposal today.
You'll find the answers already given to a question about the influence of climate by going to the archives and typing "climate".

Hope this answer can help.
Best wishes
Gilles RAULT, MD, Roscoff CF Center
13.09.2015