[kstewskis]

When my dad was a kid (40’s and 50’s), and to a lesser extent, when I was a kid, Las Vegas (Metro area, as a whole), was very very different. Even the climate has changed there, due to the asphalt being everywhere, and all the lawn waterings. When I was a kid, it rained maybe 4 or so times a year, now it seems more often. And the Summer nights cooled down to the 60’s/70’s (50’s and 60’s my dad tells me when he was younger), now it can be 100º after midnight.

You pretty much described what happened in the Phoenix metro area as well, over the last 30+ or so years. It's turned into a giant asphalt less productive urban jungle, at the expense of losing our farms, groves, and dairies. Most everything now is imported (food) or outsourced (jobs), not a good climate for a sustainable area, especially for a desert one.

Those were decent times what you describe, back when people still knew how to say "thank you" and "please."

[JDW11235]

Well, I for one, would like to say “Thank you” for the kind words. I personally am fond of the countryside, but it took a few years to acclimate to it after being born and raised in the city. The quiet really unnerved me at first, but now I quite enjoy the lack of tension of city life. Even though it’s a game of give and take, I’ll take the country any day!