Reply #2: i just moved out of El Paso.. it has NO humidity!! it is an upland desert

[sam sarrha]

You are lucky to get around 6% humidity, It is the worst place i ever lived. Dusty, just miserable.. The business there operates with the Border Sweat Shop mentality... the Mean income is $14,000 annually. there are Beggers nearly on every intersection.. I was paying $1,700 annual property taxes on a rickety shack. drive bys... the city gov is going to run out of water in 4 or 5 years and they approve artificial lake gated communities.. a HUGE lake of pumped well water. the water had 68ppb arsnic...up to 168 admitted.. they dint have to tell you what it is, 3 is too much... the Asarco plant pumped out VAST amounts of arsenic for decades unabated.. now the whole west side is contaminated. the schools have about 50,000 nonresident children from Mexico getting a taxpayers funded education..

one of the large part of my property taxes was the Thomasin Hospital to provide free treatment for Mexican citizens/nonresidents.. who cross the border in labor with no previous medical care for the entire pregnancy.. and then the mother has a crisis and the birth is traumatic and easily goes over a Million dollars.. simply because all border cities get 1/2 the state funding of all others..the legislature , that meets every 2 years, wont fund medical "Clinics" which you see closed all over town.. hell there are rich republicans that need that money for pork.

if you take the bus across town and back u will spend over 8 hours on the bus, if it doesn't break down or catch on fire.

but it is in the upper Chauwawann desert it evaporates 8 inches more water annually that falls on the ground. your nose lips crack and bleed. you get epoxy buggers way up your nose that remain till you move to another location. you sweat so much and it is so dusty your body gets gritty.

it was not my favorite place