Listen ALL OF YOU
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10/10/2007
I am a TRUE Tucson resident, born and raised. I attended school there, served in the army in marana, and am of Hispanic and Caucasian background, so I know about the racial aspects of Tucson. Tucson is the best place in the world, and I am sick and tired of everyone moving to Arizona from God knows where to either visit or live. You come with your high expectations, stingy wallets and especially never ending complaints. I agree with whomever said "If you dont like Tucson, just leave." I remember when Tucson was a perfect sized large town as a teenager, now everyone and their grandmother wants to meve here, and then complain and blame the lifetime residence about how "THEIR" Tucson should be. Tucson is special because the racial demographics are unlike the majority of white subarban blah cities and counties across the United States. Tucson is not perfect, but people are defined by their faults. Yes, it has some crime and congestion and higher housing prices but that is because YOU wanted to come here with your big dreams and desires to have cheap housing and a office job cookie cut ready for you as soon as you walked in the door. There are many other great southwestern cities to go to, go there if you want to much and expect the world. Tucson is a real living and breathing city whose pulse is created by the lifetime residences like those of my family whom have lived in the area for generations, marrying into other racial groups and sharing each unique cultural aspect of their lives to create a singular unified Tucson culture of acceptance and understanding of everyone, regardless of race, gender, color, religion, and so on and so forth. Tucson is not your eastern seaboard typical white prodestant suburbanite locale (not that there is anything wrong with that), and we dont want you to make it that way by coming over here with those rediculous expectations of the same old thing. If you want to work hard, get to know diverse cultures of Hispanic, Native American, and African American background, love the University of Arizona basketball team and the smell of Tucsons' desert after the first monsoon rains, suck it up and deal with crime and heat when it occurs, and pay the damn mortgage without complaint; then I guess I would have to buy a six pack of Tecate' and make some cheese crisps for you and your family, and call you a Tucsonan, and most importantly, my friend.
stephen | Hagerstown, MD