If you have children read this.......
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5/15/2011
All in all Sierra Vista looked to be perfect place to live despite closeness to Mexico and slightly higher property taxes. It has very low violent crime, cheap houses, amazing views, perfect weather yet seasonal changes and all the large city businesses in a smaller town. We had already reserved hotels for trip there ourselves until we discovered the dirty secret they don't want you to know.
Who is they? City officials, city businesses, realtors, landlords, and residents who live in denial and need to suck others in to comfort themselves.
Where did WE discover dirty secret? On United States government website and then went to families support website and onto the vast public knowledge available online.
So WHAT is the dirty little secret? Childhood Leukemia ! The government admits the rate to be more than 3 times normal and this is despite negating several victims from study such as girl who was diagnosed 2 weeks after moving from there so the gov't said she doesn't count since she moved. Kinda duh duh on that one.
I have made a living crunching numbers and processing statistics and the bottom line here is, if your child is born and raised in Sierra Vista they have "at least" a 1 in 200 chance of Leukemia.
THAT is scary, and THAT should be told to anybody and everybody who considers moving there with children. In my opinion any realtor who does not tell someone this should be subject to license suspension and civil suit, but then I tend to believe we all should be honest too. Silly me.
If you are thinking to retire there, great, it is a definite candidate for Eden. Just don't take any children there.
SOME suggest the cause is a gene, but as I said I crunch numbers and statistics for a living and the gene very well may be reason to make you more vulnerable but not the cause. The gene is found in 25% of USA population and not all who have gene got sick. The other suggested cause is the very high level of tungsten found in soil, air, and water. The armchair scientists however have suggested possible causes being military fuel line that runs under city, something with military base nearby, or related to over consumption of groundwater by residents (more water is sucked from earth than nature can replenish which is primary cause of river going dry EVERY year).
jon | Pueblo, CO