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Originally Posted by JManc
Actually, we've been pretty lucky this spring; weather has been pleasant. A few humid days here and there by most days remind me of the summers back up in NY. Wife and I done a lot of gardening over the past few weeks.
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I broke a sweat yesterday breaking up sod, and it was 64 degrees. I don't know how I ever survived Houston.
Today it is again in the mid 60s, and people are out walking everywhere, most in masks and all maintaining their distance. Fruit trees are blossoming, tulips are blooming, buds on the maple trees have opened up and leaves are appearing. Although there are fewer people here in the city than when I lived here 30+ years ago, it has become a much cleaner and better place to be than in the past.
There is the expression "you can't go home again" but the place I grew up is now a better place, so in a sense it is now a "new" home.
We walked around the Outer Harbor early this morning and there were hundreds of people out on the paths, which was nothing but mainly abandoned or run-down industrial areas even 10 years ago. They have made the city parks car-free to prevent overcrowding, and there are families and couple walking through the neighborhoods and the parks. The city has always been an incredibly busy place in the summer, filled with walkers, and it will be interesting how this will all work out as summer approaches.
I think that there are many other cities that people moved away from that have gotten "better" in many ways since they left. Often, the people who have left have no idea of the changes that occurred, or in some cases don't believe or understand what has happened. Their minds and views may be frozen in time.