I was stunned moving to Chicago from Tulsa! Back home we only use sand, which is annoying as hell as it doesn’t go away as easily.
But damn, cars rusted out overnight. The crappy minivan I drove down to Florida had to be trashed within 2-months of arriving. Undercarriage so rotten it wasn’t sane to repair the brakes. And that was after a fuel line popped a week before!
Wondered why I didn’t see many old cars in Chicagoland.