Leaving Tucson, ....I did once. And it's OK to return.
A long time ago, and under different circumstances, I left Tucson. The economy here was in its death throes, again, and I was in ....what do we call it, "private' industry? Well, I was working for a living, not living off tax-payer supported employment.
My (late) wife and I picked up, headed for Littleton, Colorado and started all over again. It proved the best 10 years of our lives. We moved all over the country, had a wonderful time, saw beautiful things, met different people, experienced differing points of view, got to know the American people from a broad walk of life.
She died, I moved back to Portland, six years later, left mourning, got re-married, moved to Yuma, stayed four years and moved back to my home in Tucson and retired.
Leaving Tucson was the best thing I ever did. Now back, living off of retirement income and not having to live off this town, and, having experienced the "world as it, the broader PERSPECTIVE i can now view our little town here more properly as a little desert burg with a view of the world that doesn't seem much larger than five miles beyond the city limits.
No perspective on the big picture at all. Everything is a big deal, hyperventilation over everthing, man -the -walls over every little issue, Walp 10 on the speedometer up and down main street from parking tickets to library fines.
Hippies at the helm, pot in city hall, the sixties are alive in the old Pueblo, who cares? We have two newspapers in town; one is nuts the weekly makes the daily look reasonably sane. Neither work is worth reading. Thank God for cable.
The desert is as beautiful as ever, the pace is still slow, shops wonderful, restaurants are offering 2 for 1 deals, supermarkets are cheap to buy food, and it's a wonderful place to retire.
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My (late) wife and I picked up, headed for Littleton, Colorado and started all over again. It proved the best 10 years of our lives. We moved all over the country, had a wonderful time, saw beautiful things, met different people, experienced differing points of view, got to know the American people from a broad walk of life.
She died, I moved back to Portland, six years later, left mourning, got re-married, moved to Yuma, stayed four years and moved back to my home in Tucson and retired.
Leaving Tucson was the best thing I ever did. Now back, living off of retirement income and not having to live off this town, and, having experienced the "world as it, the broader PERSPECTIVE i can now view our little town here more properly as a little desert burg with a view of the world that doesn't seem much larger than five miles beyond the city limits.
No perspective on the big picture at all. Everything is a big deal, hyperventilation over everthing, man -the -walls over every little issue, Walp 10 on the speedometer up and down main street from parking tickets to library fines.
Hippies at the helm, pot in city hall, the sixties are alive in the old Pueblo, who cares? We have two newspapers in town; one is nuts the weekly makes the daily look reasonably sane. Neither work is worth reading. Thank God for cable.
The desert is as beautiful as ever, the pace is still slow, shops wonderful, restaurants are offering 2 for 1 deals, supermarkets are cheap to buy food, and it's a wonderful place to retire.
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