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Hey, anyone in CO use swamp coolers for house cooling? I hear mixed results, but do see them heavily offered at places like Lowes and Big R. Trying to see if they're worth it. I fully understand that AC is superior, but a whole house AC unit is financially out of my range right now, and the portable units we have fried an outlet last year from overuse.

Hey, anyone in CO use swamp coolers for house cooling? I hear mixed results, but do see them heavily offered at places like Lowes and Big R. Trying to see if they're worth it. I fully understand that AC is superior, but a whole house AC unit is financially out of my range right now, and the portable units we have fried an outlet last year from overuse.

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That's pretty interesting. I always really did like Portland, spent a little time there when I was younger, couch surfing with students at Reed.I always thought it was a great city, or at least it was back then, but I am sure it is a dystopian Hell-hole now.

When I went on that road trip, it started with me flying into San Francisco, to meet my good friend in the bay area. It was pretty wild, as that was a summer of particularly bad wildfires in addition to the paranoia pandemic. But it was very enlightening driving away from the Bay, how people gave less and less of a shit about masking and lock down. Cheyenne was my favorite city we hit on that trip, people straight up did not give a fuck. Great city, excellent beef, and great bars.

What made you leave Portland?

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2 reasons, 1 I can't disclose for dox concerns, but the other was exactly what you said: dystopian Hell-hole. I lived on the Vancouver side of the river, and it was steadily bleeding into Washington after 2016. The final straw was the free-for-all drug law. I miss the weather, I miss the trees, I miss the water, I miss the cold and damp, but fuck if I hate the people there. Sadly: it's every state on the west coast now. I grew up near East Los Angeles. I've watched the steady decline over the decades. Once reason 1 for me moving to CO is resolved, I want to go further east. More than likely NW Arkansas. But I have to convince the wife, first.

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The entire West Coast is an almost perfect place to live, amazing climate, beautiful geography, fertile lands capable of feeding damn near all of America. It is a shame that it is ruined by its' own populace.

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Yes. I talk to my wife about it all the time. Places like Poway, Escondido, Rosemead, and even Bakersfield used to have huge fields of Strawberries, avacados, lemons, etc. Hell: everyone in my neighborhood had a tree growing in their yard. I had a meyer lemon tree, plum, and fig. Next door to the left had Kumquats and Napales. Right had oranges, normal lemons, and grew annuals like chile peppers and cilantro. I miss fresh lemons. I get them from the store, but it's just not the same as those old home grown ones. SLice into 8ths, add salt, enjoy.

none of that exists anymore. I've looked at street views. It's all gone. Too expensive to keep watered I guess.