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AsiaESLbound
Joined: 07 Jan 2010 Location: Truck Stop Missouri
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Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2011 6:18 am Post subject: |
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| The place doesn't seem all that fun to me unless you are pulling down serious money in a secure military industrial related job or higher salaried position which is nearly impossible to break into if you weren't already in the door some years ago. Well, I feel that way about pretty much everywhere back home, but how good life is for you is more about your economic and socializing opportunities than the miserable place itself. The thing that makes people consider trying a relocation is locally applying for jobs with a local phone number in front of local employers and possibly getting a loco word of mouth referral to increase their chances far more than simply applying over the internet. Houston has the office where Haliburton interviews, hires, and trains before shipping them to Iraq for $100,000+ dollars a year tax free so lots of desperate brave people have been showing up in Houston since the wars started. Oh, where is my calling? |
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jpopis
Joined: 11 Feb 2011 Location: USA
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Posted: Mon Feb 21, 2011 2:10 pm Post subject: |
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| Funny you ask. I actually live in El Paso (Hell Paso). And I would say it is an interesting town and it might be worth a visit. Mexican food is the best in the US (hands down) and the Franklin Mountain State Park which practically cuts El Paso down in the middle is "the largest urban park in the nation". This city has a really rich history i.e., pachuco/cholo culture, important historical center during Mexican revolution, some of the first Catholic missions, Tigua Indian reservation, etc. If you're looking to visit a very unique place with a predominantly "Hispanic" population El Paso is the place. Living here is another story, stay away... |
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hogwonguy1979

Joined: 22 Dec 2003 Location: the racoon den
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Posted: Mon Feb 21, 2011 10:17 pm Post subject: |
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| for good border times, you can't beat san diego-tijuana. although it seems people are more afraid to go to tijuana in recent years. |
you can't be serious. you must have never been to any other border town.
i've been to tijuana, nuevo laredo, acuna, & ojinaga, and tijuana was definitely the most boring border city, ever.
being from texas, i've been to my fair share of border crossings, acuna being the best for partying or a casual dinner at a nice restaurant (crosby's is great).
never been to el paso, nor juarez, but wouldnt want to go with the crime as it is. NL is also not very safe i hear, but i believe acuna is one of the safer ones. |
used to go across at ojinaga all the time while wife was in grad school in alpine back in the mid 90s, one of better places as it was so remote it didnt have that border town feel. it was typical mexican farming/ranching town but dirt poor as was presidio.
sad thing is now that el paso has turned into federales central the drug trafficers are now using oijinaga as a smuggling point with easy access to us 67. so now its even dangerous.
if you want to try and get a "safe" feeling of a mexican border town you can always try and sneak across the rio grande near big bend, used to be some great villages there however the us border patrol has cut those crossings off in the post 9/11 world |
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