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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Hey Phil:
A Texan..now their is a great start .
No one place or area within this great nation of ours is better then the other. Each part of the USA has great benefits. NYC is one of the great cities of the world. Is it everything to everyone? Of coarse not, just like San Diego is not everything to everyone. People in the Colorado Mtns. may not care at all for city life...but this does not mean cities are bad...or the folks in the Colorado Mtns. are wrong in their thoughts...
People and places are different. This great Nation was founded by a very diverse collection of people with different beliefs, thoughts, and desires in life. This diverse land is what makes America GREAT and is the foundation of what it is.
Heck, it is the UNITED States of America....Not just San Diego, NYC, Dallas or anywhere else....It is ALL of us...
Gas may cost more in NYC then Tulsa, OK, but that does not mean Tulsa is better or NYC is worse...it simply means supply and demand, and fixed costs to provide service is different. My point here is simple. MANY things vary in this country....but one thing remains...We all share the same goal to enjoy this country and the tremendous things it provides to ALL who enjoy it's freedoms...from Maine To San Diego and Seattle to Miami...
Swimming times and costs and transportation may be different in Texas then NYC...and it may be different in Greensboro, NC then Kent, Washington....but it is still swimming....and we make the best of what we have...or we strive to make posititve changes from within.
Kindest regards,
Tom Ellison
Hey Phil:
A Texan..now their is a great start .
No one place or area within this great nation of ours is better then the other. Each part of the USA has great benefits. NYC is one of the great cities of the world. Is it everything to everyone? Of coarse not, just like San Diego is not everything to everyone. People in the Colorado Mtns. may not care at all for city life...but this does not mean cities are bad...or the folks in the Colorado Mtns. are wrong in their thoughts...
People and places are different. This great Nation was founded by a very diverse collection of people with different beliefs, thoughts, and desires in life. This diverse land is what makes America GREAT and is the foundation of what it is.
Heck, it is the UNITED States of America....Not just San Diego, NYC, Dallas or anywhere else....It is ALL of us...
Gas may cost more in NYC then Tulsa, OK, but that does not mean Tulsa is better or NYC is worse...it simply means supply and demand, and fixed costs to provide service is different. My point here is simple. MANY things vary in this country....but one thing remains...We all share the same goal to enjoy this country and the tremendous things it provides to ALL who enjoy it's freedoms...from Maine To San Diego and Seattle to Miami...
Swimming times and costs and transportation may be different in Texas then NYC...and it may be different in Greensboro, NC then Kent, Washington....but it is still swimming....and we make the best of what we have...or we strive to make posititve changes from within.
Kindest regards,
Tom Ellison
