Good for the environment, maybe not so much for my health

Hey Comrades,

Not really sure how this works, but ...

I'm an American who's been living in working in Beijing, China for the past two years. For the past six months I've pretty much only been biking to and fro work, about a 40 minute trip each way. It's not a hard ride on Beijing's flat streets, but the pollution's really bad here most of the time. I hope to get a city mask soon that will filter out most of the pollution. Also, I'd like to make a map of Beijing showing some of my days' rides. When you bike to work, you pretty much have to keep biking for the rest of the day or else ditch your bike at some inconvenient spot that you'd have to go back to bikeless later on. So I end up biking to dinner, then a bar, then friends' house, then home. Sometimes I cover most of metropolitan Beijing in a day.

Anyway, I love not needing a car and where ever I decide to live in the future, that will be one of the first things I look for.

Cheers,
-Reid