>>I just wonder if the decision about when to vacuum has a psychological component. Isn't household dust mostly sloughed-off skin and therefore a function of how many people pass through the space?
I don't know. Anybody? I wrote based on my own experience. NYC is incredibly dusty -- not as much chemical pollution as LA but more particulates. Within NYC, the East Village is a lot dustier than West End Avenue by Roosevelt Park. The upper East side near the Guggenheim is midway between the two extremes. Again, just personal experience.
More personal experience. I clean my apartment on Friday and travel to a place in the countryside that hasn't been touched since I last visited it a month ago. The place in the countryside is immaculate; when I return to the NYC apartment after a weekend, it's covered in dust. When I spend long periods in the countryside, there's hardly any cleaning required. Returning to NYC, it's back to cleaning at least every other day.
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