COMMENT BY
Ann from Richland, WA
COMMENT ABOUT PLACE
Richland, WA
COMMENT
Tri Cities Washington
Climate and isolation is the hardest part about living here. The climate
has strong winds, winter can be very dark and depressing, and summer is hot and windy many days. Isolation in that the tri-cities are surrounded by the atomic bomb and nuclear areas, the dry barren scabland, many people compressed into apartments or unattractive housing, the need to irrigate all the time, the restaurants are sub-standard compared to other parts of the country, and round-abouts which are difficult for the elderly to navigate are everywhere. Coal trains will in a few years be going through here with regularity. There is no art museum. Unless you live here to work in the nuclear industry, there is no point in being here. The people are nice, but you sense a lot of loneliness here, and a lack of money to keep up the city facilities is an issue. The houses are 1940's, 1970's or new. Attractive housing is the exception rather than the rule. It still looks like the government town that it was in its beginnings.