I wouldn't worry about being in Georgia. Everywhere you go the local
allergics claim their locale is especially bad and they all have their
reasons.

Exactly when to stop calling a wheezing with colds reactive airway disease
and start to figure it is due to asthma is often unclear. For many people
their symptoms are seasonal. Which season(s) affect you depends on what your
triggers are. If it is allergies then it will dpend on when the things you
are allergic to bloom. If it is colds then it will be worse in the fall and
winter. The good news is that if it does follow a seasonal pattern you can
use that information to taylor your regimen - increase the meds when you
expect to get worse and decrease them when things should be better.

Your wife does not compeltely understand albuterol. It is not addictive and
does not create a dependance. It seems that way to some people who respond
to increased symptoms with increased albuterol without addressing the
triggers. Then, because they haven't fixed anything, they never get better
and so continue to require the albuterol.