So let me ask you this...though many issues are matters of preference...the air is not. Breathing the heavy amounts of pollution is not healthy and you cannot change it. The damage occurring to your lungs are worth it to you to live there?

I mean if you lived in an Indian village with infected water and no bottle or purifying source would you stay?

Whether you can stand the taste or smell is one thing...but the damage is happening no matter your 'mood'.

related...doesn't matter to me what any other city was like years ago as I don't have to breathe that air.