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A life changer indeed Greg! I look & feel 100% better (despite UTIs) after moving to Tucson.
84 here today and a balmy 74 evening. You were SO LUCKY bnuying when you did! That's
NOW why we can't ... prices too high :-(
All the building however (in a desert) is good & bad. Our neighborhood has
grown exponentially too (hundreds or thousands more homes in just 2 yrs), a new
hospital, street repair, etc.
But all the building has been non-stop noise and dust & dirt for over a year. Valley fever
can occur because of this and they don't water it down as they should.
We just started seeing a Tucson commercial of a kid walking to school and all the dust plumes
he passes (from street blowers to construction to you name it). Upon arriving
to school he coughs out huge plumes of dust (exaggerrated).
Then it says 2000 people will die in Tucson this year from desert dust air quality problems.
Unfortunately, just over our backyard 6-foot brick wall is a street expanding further. It'll be a busy noisy street.
And the truck noise out there starts at 7 AM daily.
Been working out there a year in the SAME PLACE! Non-stop noise & dust. WHY it's taking so long who
knows. Under other circumstances I wouldn;'t care but I called the PIMA COUNTY DEPT OF
AIR QUALITY a week ago (the commercial I stated was to encourage people to call if they're
in an area affected by huge dust).
They're supposed to send someone out for the formal complaint.
Although we're in a nice part of Tucson ... we've seen so much beautiful quiet desert areas nearby
with Saguaros and their kin be destroyed for subdivisions to be built. I'm not a tree hugger but
it's gotten bad. And getting worse.
I love it (warmth, skies like no other) and hate it (unable to buy).
But love our forecast! After 35 yrs in the northeast freezing ... I'm in balmy heaven.
Lori
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Date: 04/02/05 17:13:39
Subject: [QUAD-L] AZ
My first Spring in AZ. It's great, 85 degrees here. It's a big change from my past, I'm wearing short sleeve shirts for the first time in 23 years. Which means my first sunburn on my arms in 23 years. We moved here in Sep. and we are on the South edge of a growing suburb. Only 1 close grocery store. It's said to be the fastest growing town in the country. Already we have a number of stores and restaurants. A new freeway building 2 miles away. They are building a Starbucks, Wallmart, Costco, Samsclub, by the new freeway, plus tons of high-end stores near by. It's funny, every time we see a new store we like, we get happy. They are building a 10 acre park at the end of my street. 2 miles away they are building a huge 100 acre watrerbird preserve, filled with parks and paths, I can't wait. I got so lucky. We bought just after housing started going up. We picked this area because of pricing, but before we got here, they jumped lots. But after I bought, they sky rocketed. Houses!
on my block are going for 35%-40% more than I paid. They are halfway done building my pool. I'm not sure I will ever get in it, but I can't wait to be out sitting by the pool in the sun. I spent 23 years basically couped up sitting by the fireplace in my TV room, only getting out a few times in summer. Now, even if I stay home, I'm at least going outside, getting my niece from school, etc. Starting in March, on Tuesday nights the city has free "Music In The Park" different live bands, from rock to jazz to classic. Lots of cool things going on. I'm sure lots of cities do these things, it's just I was always to cold to go out in the nights. To you cold quads, moving somewhere warm can be a life changer.
Greg
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