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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Originally posted by Rain Man
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Hey, where in San Diego can you go where within a 2 minute walk you can watch a movie, see a play, listen to an opera, enjoy a musical, watch professional hockey, watch an NBA game, or listen to a rock concert? Culture my good sir is defined by New York City.
Also by Paris, France. I know about Paris' art.
The thing is, this thread is about whether the most fit people, not the most cultured people, are in California.
I am pointing out with specific examples, that fitness, outdoors fitness, is way more accessible in California's Silicon Valley and in San Diego, than it is in New York.
To access good fitness in New York, one has to search first with a flashlight in that maze, then one has to travel a long and expensive commute to it.
Originally posted by Rain Man
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Hey, where in San Diego can you go where within a 2 minute walk you can watch a movie, see a play, listen to an opera, enjoy a musical, watch professional hockey, watch an NBA game, or listen to a rock concert? Culture my good sir is defined by New York City.
Also by Paris, France. I know about Paris' art.
The thing is, this thread is about whether the most fit people, not the most cultured people, are in California.
I am pointing out with specific examples, that fitness, outdoors fitness, is way more accessible in California's Silicon Valley and in San Diego, than it is in New York.
To access good fitness in New York, one has to search first with a flashlight in that maze, then one has to travel a long and expensive commute to it.
