The west isn't all desert... up here we have all the big civilization stuff and great food, MINUS the vast majority of the flying and/or crawling bugs, humidity, heavily salted roads that destroy your cars within a couple years, hurricanes, or super nasty winters.Sic Pup wrote:Bagels, pizza, knishes,streetmeat, snow, fall, Brothas, Sistas, Latinas,Latinos,Jews,Poles, Ruskies, Arabs, Indians, Pakastani, Krauts, Guinas, Japs, Chinese, (all in the same subway car), Broadway, beaches, museums, tourists, 24hr everything, noise, pace and subways.....but mostly bagels, pizza, knishes and streetmeat (Halal is crack). That said, I will say that stretch between Co and NV makes me rethink it every time.maladroit wrote:.Sic Pup wrote:but do consider that I'm an idiot traveling from one end of the country to the other to play in the dust.
That's true, why haven't you moved out here yet?
The tech and airplane industries keep the economy brisk, there's jobs here.
I'm an east coast transplant from many years ago (the South, New York, Baltimore). I'd NEVER go back! Hell I wouldn't even visit.