AzScorpion
Moderator
One thing about all that greenery is I'm allergic to it. You name it trees,grass,pollen and mold. I suffered for 51 years until moving out here where I'm 90% better. There are only a few things that bother me now and it's for a couple weeks in the spring and fall then I'm good. Not like back east where I suffered all 4 seasons but much less in the winters.When I was stationed in El Paso, I couldn't believe how brown everything was, different shades of tan and brown everywhere. It wasn't until I drove home after I got out of the Army, that I realized how green everything on the East coast is. A friend of mine now lives in Alamogordo. He came home for a family reunion a few Summers ago and he kept exclaiming how green everything was. I laughed because I knew exactly what he was experiencing.
We always said that West Texas would be a hell of beach...if there was any damn water.
Apparently the first settlers to the Tularosa Valley found a verdant grasslands. Overgrazing, the abnormally heavy rainfall stopping and the Dustbowl turned it into a desert.
For me the hardest thing to get use to out here isn't the brown landscape is's the 50 shades of brown on EVERY house! They all look the same and so does every neighborhood,it's like being in a maze. The east coast homes at least have some character along with different styles but here it's one community after another filled in by strip malls and Walmart's.
I hate cold weather,anything under 70 is cold now, and for now there's still a lot of freedom here to do as you please and I really don't mind the summer heat. It would be nice to get a break once and a while but for me it's really only hot June-Aug where the nights just never cool off and at 10:00 pm it can still be over 100 out.
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