My friends that live in LA still, whom I've known for some time, urged me some 18 years ago to think about getting out of LA for purposes of living well in old age. They insisted on my going to El Paso, and I'm now living here on a permanent basis--no gaps to live in some other city for a time.
When I first came to El Paso, I would rent a room at the Gardner Hotel for 3 or more consecutive months, then board the bus and live in some other city in the country, say hypothetically, Seatlle, for 3 or 4 months; and then return to El Paso. I used El Paso as my base of operations, as it were.
That continued for at least 15 years, living in El Paso for a certain number of months, then going someplace else in the States for a time.
FUN!
But now, I'm sort of settled into El Paso. It remains what will happen should I need medical care, especially for a long term basis. I wouldn't like to return to Sacramento, where last year I spent some 8 months, recovering from an A-Fib procedure on my heart that necessitated better care than I was receiving in El Paso, where the procedure was done. Too expensive a city for me, who must live only on my social security allotment. Oh well, time will tell!
I still remain in contact with the federal agency in LA where these friends were working. Nice people, there.
To the Point
I've recently learned from the locals that El Paso is one of the 2 driest cities in the US. This fact may account for the phenomenon of old people living here to very old ages. into their nineties and even longer than that, remarkably.
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