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Try camping out in your own garden.

A lot of environmental headaches are allergies or pollution, and a good chunk of those are things in your own house - for example dust mites or fumes from plastics/paint/carpet.



If it's a swamp there might be gases being released: https://www.sciencealert.com/how-this-small-lake-in-africa-o...

But yeah the swamp might not have anything to do with it and it could also be something in the house, or the drinking water, etc.


Theres a (pretty sure it's) Billy Connolly (comedian) story about buying a house and the previous owners kept getting sick: something to do with the floor varnish.

Sorry, cant look it up right now- im driving and the heavy rain on the autobahn is making me late. My own fault for drinking until 5 this morning, i guess.




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