I came form California and I'm overweight. In fact I didn't take up swimming until again until I spent 3 years in Arizona. Now, there was a country club pool I could have swam there but I didn't. In fact in my area in Arizona there are public pools or health club pools as just are ready as there was in California. I think that many people back east are probably are into other sports more like figure Skating, in fact a top figure skater name Sasha Cohen went back there to get better coaching and a better facility. Also, just because Long Island isn't into swimming as much as the Pacific region doesn't mean they don't workout. Also, I enjoy indoor pools, something that both California and Arizona lack. The weather is not always rosy in either states. There are sometimes bad rain storms in California in the January or February period and Monsoon conditions in Arizona in the summer. The New Yorkers are a little wiser to built the indoor pools, in Tempe we had rain problems and the 800 was delayed until the next day and the 200 IM relays got cancel. Now back east and in the mid-west where pools are mainly indoors they could have continue on with the meet.
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If we are not talking about "...swimming time..." but about athletic lifestyle in general, Eastern US still doesn't match Western US in my book.
New York for example, like I wrote in my post above, doesn't have parking space at the facility you go to, but has parking in private garages at $9 per hour in 1999 when I was there, and sure has too many toll roads, too much criminality in every minute of the day (a gas station attendant for example gave me a few cents change back to a payment of $20 for a $9.xx lying that I gave him a $10, a car that scratched my car on a ramp had had the driver taking off with the police officer after I called the police -talk about New York corruption, exactly like it is reported in newspapers-, a speeding ticket I got was erased when I manipulated the New York corruption system through a Master swimmer friend who is a lawyer, there were bugs galore and no ventilation in my expensive rent apartment, the banks had had protection bars at their customer windows inside their facility -"Is this a war zone?" I asked the cashier-), and too many obese people going on weekends to the mall and jamming the streets.
Pools are rare: Asphalt Green in Manhattan, Nassau in Long Island.
There is no parking and no alternative public transportation to Asphalt Green.
Granted, I heard Los Angeles in California is like New York, but I am comparing here New York with California's Silicon Valley and San Diego.
Dara Torres trained for the 2000 Olympics at Santa Clara and Stanford in California.
She went to New York where the TV networks are headquartered for her business career only, not for her athletic career.
Coming from Europe like I did, New York and New Jersey are a downgrade in civilization, they are third-world style where quality and harmony require extra money to spend.
Quality, harmony, beauty in an healthy life are in my today's menu, on my everyday's menu, at a regular price here in San Diego.
If we are not talking about "...swimming time..." but about athletic lifestyle in general, Eastern US still doesn't match Western US in my book.
New York for example, like I wrote in my post above, doesn't have parking space at the facility you go to, but has parking in private garages at $9 per hour in 1999 when I was there, and sure has too many toll roads, too much criminality in every minute of the day (a gas station attendant for example gave me a few cents change back to a payment of $20 for a $9.xx lying that I gave him a $10, a car that scratched my car on a ramp had had the driver taking off with the police officer after I called the police -talk about New York corruption, exactly like it is reported in newspapers-, a speeding ticket I got was erased when I manipulated the New York corruption system through a Master swimmer friend who is a lawyer, there were bugs galore and no ventilation in my expensive rent apartment, the banks had had protection bars at their customer windows inside their facility -"Is this a war zone?" I asked the cashier-), and too many obese people going on weekends to the mall and jamming the streets.
Pools are rare: Asphalt Green in Manhattan, Nassau in Long Island.
There is no parking and no alternative public transportation to Asphalt Green.
Granted, I heard Los Angeles in California is like New York, but I am comparing here New York with California's Silicon Valley and San Diego.
Dara Torres trained for the 2000 Olympics at Santa Clara and Stanford in California.
She went to New York where the TV networks are headquartered for her business career only, not for her athletic career.
Coming from Europe like I did, New York and New Jersey are a downgrade in civilization, they are third-world style where quality and harmony require extra money to spend.
Quality, harmony, beauty in an healthy life are in my today's menu, on my everyday's menu, at a regular price here in San Diego.
