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.
Thanks God we all DON'T have the same taste or California would be even more of a mess than it is now! I'm a third generation Californian that left 16 years ago and although I enjoy going back I would doubt I would ever live there again (traffic, crime, taxes, overpopulation, overpriced housing, etc.).
By the way, Colorado REALLY sucks so anyone out there thinking of moving here may want to reconsider!
Paul is right! Colorado really sucks bad! Why I just saw negative ad in our senate campaign that accused the other candidate of feeding our children Soylent Green. I’m a native of this state and trust me when I say you don’t want to come here, unless it’s for vacation and you plan to spend a lot of money while you’re here.
Well, I remember swimming in the old LA Olympic pool (1932)this was in 1972 and yes there are some old pools in California too. Some have been updated like the Rose Bowl pool in Pasdenia. It was rebuilt in the 1990's. If New York gets the olympics, it might copy LA which built a new pool for the 1984 olympics from private money or Long Beach which is going with two portable pools for the olympic trials. USA swimming was not going to give Long Beach the olympic Trails with Belmont shores which was built in the late 1960's when Mark Spitz and Gary Hall Sr swam because it is over 30 years old. Long Beach is going to built two comtempoary portable pools for the Olympic Trails, this is a lot cheaper than building a new facility which would cost millions more than it did in the late 1960's. And I think that you can built more pools but there is a lack of land space back east. And California built a lot of there pools back before 1980 when land and construcation costs were a lot cheaper.
This is a subtopic that came up here, and I am going to give my prediction about it:
New York won't get the summer Olympics in 2012, Paris in France will get that.
The reason I am guessing this, is because Paris didn't have Olympics since 1924, is technically strong now, and Vancouver in Canada is favorite to be chosen to stage the winter Olympics in 2010.
The Olympic organizers want to have winter and summer Olympics on different continents.
However, living in Vancouver, New York and Paris like I did, is funny to see the locals gloating about them being almost the best possible society.
I guess, New York with its big money marketing, will re-apply and will get the 2016 summer Olympics, so the new fitness facilities mentioned in this thread will become a reality by then.
Ion,
Regarding your observation, "However, living in Vancouver, New York and Paris like I did, is funny to see the locals gloating about them being almost the best possible society," you said what I forgot to say. There are probably very few places where locals don't gloat about their home town. (Does Fort Worth come to mind? Not sure! :D ) Oh, excuse me, Tom, I didn't realize you were in the room! :o
Some of you are right about lighting being still dangerioius in an indoor pool. I live in Arizona and the monsoons can bring danger. But regular rain with no lighting is ok in an indoor pool. I train in a health club pool indoors and a rec pool outdoors. Now, I also understand why Ion and others like outdoor pools because there is no echo and sometimes there is a stream built up in them. Ion just like California a lot which is his choice. My reason for leaving there is that I felt I was in rut. And there is pluses and minuses to the state just like places back east or in other parts of the country. Ion came from a country which was ruled by a dictator Caesareau. Any one who read current events over 10 years ago knows the type of country it was. And he has succeeded well in the United States. I don't know his background but he came from a poorer background than probably all of us.
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I don't know his background but he came from a poorer background than probably all of us.
True.
However, after an Engineering School in France, I got a good life there, which I kicked in the name of believing too much in foreign movies with adventures in them, and in advertisements, official and unofficial.
Culturally, I am more of the hedonist type (still harmless and prizing integrity though) than of the stolid bland type, so frequent on this continent.
The moral:
don't believe too much in advertisements and movies regarding Vancouver (Canada), New York (US), Paris (France), and other places;
trust first-hand experiences in a variety of situations.
