Sharon, You said it all in your first two phrases about Tucson being a great city for retirees with it's low cost of living and slow pace. Those are my complaints. Thank you for making them again. Along with that low cost of living that you enjoy come lower wages and lack of opportunity for everyone else here. Along with that slow pace that retirees love come extremely long turnaround times for getting anything done or for change of any sort. Tucson is hardly a place on 'the move', like Portland or Austin that it tries to align itself with. I guess you feel that by passing along lovely platitudes that you are giving people an accurate depiction of what Tucson is and where it is going. I feel the opposite. I don't feel that lovely platitudes do a service for anyone other than helping the giver feel better about themselves. In fact, they do a disservice by confusing people. Better to stick with the statistics which some other people have done on this website, if you would read. You are obviously one of the few people that thinks Tucson is top notch and that has benefitted from being here. Great. I wonder if you had lost all the equity in your property (ies) during the Great Recession and still wasn't getting it back, if you would feel the same. You don't quote anything so I assume that you haven't looked at the numbers and how poor and slow Tucson's comeback has been. Glad you love it here though. You get a gold star and a smiley face! Yip-Yippee!
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