I recently moved from the panhandle of Florida to central Texas (please don’t make me explain) and for the 2 mos I’ve lived here, I’ve been sick 4 times.
I gave up smoking this last time. But, other than possibly the climate change, could something else cause this? 3 of the times it’s been some sort of cold/flu thing, and the 2nd instance it was strep throat with scarlet fever. That was a beautiful thing there.
My brother (and roomie) insists it’s because I’m not a ‘clean’ person. I am not a clean freak, but I’m not dirty either. He insists that it’s my style of living that makes me sick. But he doesn’t think stopping smoking in the house will change anything. He’s strange.
Any guesses as to why this town makes me sick?
Are you more apt to spend periods of time indoors with several people at a time? Classrooms, airliners, crowded businesses with lots of visitors, etc. are responsible for most virus transmision these days. We were a lot healthier when we were all farmers.
It may not have anything to do with where you moved. Try why you moved and that you moved.
Stress does lower your resistance to bugs. Moving is a major stress. (Even good things, like a wedding, are stressful.) If you moved, was it to change schools? Change jobs? Find work? Has the reason you moved panned out the way you’d have liked it to? All of these factors play on your general stress levels.
[silly aside]The year I graduated college someone was “quantifying” stress factors. (The original study was real, but, of course, it was immediately turned into pop psychology that showed up as a test in the Sunday magazines.) The year after graduation I spent one year in post-grad in Europe. I have only come down with that many illnesses one other time in my life. When I got back from Europe I took one of those silly tests for giggles. Between the stress of leaving college, the stress of starting a new school, the stress of moving to a foreign country, along with different other stresses related to my summer job and similar events, I tallied the score and discovered I had 1,257% of the stress points needed to kill me.[/silly aside]
Despite that silliness, the stress factor is real. The next time I came down with numerous sequential infections was the year that we adopted our kids while the situation at work went into a state of flux. (My health also went into “flux.”)
Quitting smoking probably adds to your stress, as well. (Don’t go back to it.) Unless your house or school/work has a particularly high number of bugs, I’d look at the stress, though.
Tom~
it might be because it’s so freakin’ dry here (in Abilene myself) when i moved here from SC i got sick off and on for about 3 months but then, i have severe alergies.
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Tom of the duo tomndebb 
My aunt told me that stress plays a big factor of illness, but I really don’t think that’s it. I live a relatively stress free life, and when something stressful comes along, I handle it, and it’s gone. Usually. Eventually I hope to be like that guy from the movie ‘office space’
I’m thinking the biggest part is going from hot and humid to hot and arid is a big thing. I work retail, so I come in contact with a lot of people. I just can’t figure it out. I’m doing the same thing I did in Florida. I’ve quit smoking for almost a month now. (well, i had an ultra light today…just like smoking a twig to me really) I keep my stress to a mimimum. Work is work and stays at work. I go out, I have a good time. I think it’s just this town. I’d say what town, but then bad memories of guns and religious cults would be mentioned and really… we don’t need that. Or Janet Reno.
You lived in Florida for a long time, you became acclimated to the cold bugs in that area. You moved to Texas, whole new set of bugs you haven’t been exposed to. Thus, you get sick.