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WARNING: If you buy a house in North St. Paul, MN, you will regret it! It may be the biggest, most expensive mistake you ever make. You will breathe smoky air almost every day of your life in this town.

If you are considering moving to North St. Paul or buying a home here, I strongly recommend that you do not do it no matter how good of a price you get.

North St. Paul, MN, is a horrible place to live because of the smoky air!

37 hours of continuous wood smoke

wood smoke in the air 19 consecutive evenings

Breathing smoky, polluted air every day is misery.

Council members Jan Walczak, Bob Bruton, Terry Furlong, and Dave Zick have refused to do anything about this wood smoke problem.

You have no right to breathe under Walczak, Bruton, Furlong, and Zick.

considering purchasing real estate

Perhaps worst of all, your utility rates will be high because you will have to run the air conditioner instead of leaving the windows open on a cool summer evening.

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The air is smoky from burning wood in North St. Paul, MN , almost every evening. It is a nightmare. What used to be a nice place to live has become a living hell.Fresh air is very rare around here.The only way you will be happy in this town is if you love breathing smoky air almost every day.Burning wood, grass, leaves, paper, cardboard, and sometimes plastic, construction materials, and chemicals, if it is combustible it gets burned in North St. Paul andThe air was smoky 25 out of 31 evenings in July 2009 . We hadin the air Aug. 29th - 31st . There wasfrom Aug. 21st to Sept. 8th. It rained heavily on Aug. 20th , providing the only relief we got from wood smoke for almost three weeks.Is this a good way to live? No. It is a horrible way to live. Take it from someone who knows.Every day in this city several people are having recreational fires. Every evening the air is filled with the stench of burning wood. I am one person sick and tired of breathing smoky air every day. Is it too much to ask to be able to breathe fresh air in your own home?Who is responsible for this wood smoke nightmare? The four city council members are responsible.They don't care if you have a child with asthma. They don't care if you have to live like a shut-in because the air is so polluted. They don't care if your sinuses burn because the wood smoke is so heavy.Our four Council members have defended the rights of a small percentage of households to burn wood daily over the rights of all the rest of us to breathe.Burners have the right to burn wood 49 hours a week recreationally. The rest of us have no rights at all.If you arein the city of North Saint Paul, Minnesota (55109), factor this blog carefully into your decision. Buying a home in this city means that your kids will breathe smoky air while playing in the yard almost every day. Your baby will breathe smoky air in her crib should you leave the windows open around your house. If you leave your windows open you will wake up in the middle of the night choking on smoky air.You have no other choice because almost every night the air is too smoky to breathe in this city. Consider this blog your warning.North St. Paul, Minnesota, is a wonderful community other than the wood smoke. If we could restore fresh air like we used to enjoy, life would be happy again. But that is not going to happen any time soon.