Sorry, I've spent enough time on the internet to know never to share any specific personal details.

It's cheap low-quality coal with high sulfur content. The level of air pollution it produces is insane. In winter time you can feel the taste of coal on your tongue. The level of visibility is like 150-200 meters, after that it's a solid grey wall. Nobody here cares though, and if you do, you pick up your things and move elsewhere. That's what I am currently preparing to do.

Very curious to know where this is. The most I've seen similar to this is above ground City-wide piped sewage and water in Inuvik.

You'd have to be in a pretty small community, not a City, in maybe NU?

I think it's much more likely to be somewhere in Russia, Kazakhstan etc.

Yes, ex-Soviet [1]

"I am from an ex-Soviet city too, by the way."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20322435