Marketing campaign: El Paso seeks to attract retirees

With all that El Paso has to offer, it seems that this area should be a prime retirement location.

[No surprise]

Not me, when I retire I am leaving this city of high taxes, I can't afford to pay off my mortgage and pay taxes! This city doesn't get it! Give away everything for free, but someone pays for it, the taxpayers. Not anymore, there are better places to live and enjoy your life.

[Get real]

DO NOT come to retire in HELL PASO.
This is what you get:
High taxes
Highest states gas prices
Corrupt government with no representation
Dirty city
Rude People
Crime
Only talk of community development, no action
Few parks
HEALTHCARE focused on illegal Hispanics
Over crowding and a government NOT prepared to accomodate growth
Highest non insured drives in the State
Poorly maintained street and roads
Public transportation is a mess
and so much More..........

[Synthetic]

Contrary to the previous two knuckleheads, I think El Paso could be a serious
retirement destination.

Don't just market the idea, encourage building of an RV campground and senior-orientated cottage housing with central recreation facilities. As seniors flow through in their RV's they are more likely to select El Paso for retirement.
... it all works together.

I agree with the knuckleheads that taxes are far too high, but most of that ugliness comes from state financial laws. We need a reasonable income tax, sales tax, and real estate tax to be in the running as a destination.

The idea seems to indicate that there is intelligent life in El Paso, and that is heartening!

[Ruby]

Why wait to attract retirees from around the country? Start now by creating wonderful living communities and environments for seniors that are already in El Paso. Over time, they will be the ambassadors for the city. I believe the key is affordable luxury as far as the housing units, which can be done in a smaller floor plan. Heavy on amenities, near recreation, near community centers, music and the arts, walking distance of grocery and essentials, shuttles, safe open space - walking trails. Why can't all golf courses allow for walking trails like in Portland? Such a waste of land, not everyone golfs and so many could use part of the course to get some exercise. Great for seniors.

[Rey]

Hopefully someone has enough sense to ask retirees whay they moved to EP and ask retirees from other regions what they are looking for in a retirement place.

Taxes, Price of poperty, safety, support systems, hospitals, retirement homes, etc.

You could get a lot of military retirees just based on Beaumont and the VA located together, FT Bliss and their facilities. Not many places have facilities so close together.

[Texas Parent]

I would rather have a bunch of retirees that have a story to tell than the mexican,honduras, etc., illegals corrupting our city. Besides they don't have insurance and drive like idiots, they ruin the neighborhoods by hang there clothes on the fence(ghetto), have 20 people in a 2 room home and never clean up their yard. Oh,did I mention, taking our english language and making it obsolete. Let the retirees give something to this city besides heartache!

[MijitoCHULO]

Synthetic wrote:

Contrary to the previous two knuckleheads, I think El Paso could be a serious
retirement destination.
Don't just market the idea, encourage building of an RV campground and senior-orientated cottage housing with central recreation facilities. As seniors flow through in their RV's they are more likely to select El Paso for retirement.
... it all works together.
I agree with the knuckleheads that taxes are far too high, but most of that ugliness comes from state financial laws. We need a reasonable income tax, sales tax, and real estate tax to be in the running as a destination.
The idea seems to indicate that there is intelligent life in El Paso, and that is heartening!

The only knucklehead is you for actually not seeing or wanting to see the cess pool El Paso has become

[Some Guy]

Synthetic wrote:

Contrary to the previous two knuckleheads, I think El Paso could be a serious
retirement destination.
Don't just market the idea, encourage building of an RV campground and senior-orientated cottage housing with central recreation facilities. As seniors flow through in their RV's they are more likely to select El Paso for retirement.
... it all works together.
I agree with the knuckleheads that taxes are far too high, but most of that ugliness comes from state financial laws. We need a reasonable income tax, sales tax, and real estate tax to be in the running as a destination.
The idea seems to indicate that there is intelligent life in El Paso, and that is heartening!

You are either blind or an idiot. Look around El Paso. It is not a great place.

[_Arrrrrrr]

Not a good idea to market El Paso as a retirement destination, first of all you are already running out of room these would be new citizens are all ready way over the hill with one foot in the grave and their wills are made out to their out of town children and relatives so this thrend would'nt last long and El Paso would'nt draw any significant revenue but at the end left holding a bag of bones with no room left to bury them.

[Chris Rock]

MijitoCHULO wrote:

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The only knucklehead is you for actually not seeing or wanting to see the cess pool El Paso has become

You must have chit for brain and must be walking around with blinders.

[Synthetic]

Some Guy wrote:

<quoted text> You are either blind or an idiot. Look around El Paso. It is not a great place.

Dear Knucklehead,

[WARNING: lame attempt at humor follows]
Given the choice of being blind or an idiot I'd choose idiot, that way I could clearly see what an idiot I am.
[END: lame attempt at humor]

[BEGIN: second lame attempt]
El Paso has much going for it that perhaps you are overlooking.
1. We have some of the best beaches in the country (we're just missing the accompanying ocean!)
2. We have some of the most beautiful women in the world (I see them all the time on the internet, and they want to meet ME!)
3. We have the best politicians money can buy (and what a bargain, buy a dozen for under 10 grand!)
4. We have some of the best weather in the universe (but about half is wasted because comes at night when I'm sleeping.)
[END: lame attempt]

Goodnight knuckleheads!

[No Way for EP]

Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha

With the CAD sticking it to the property owners with little recourse to defend oneself, the PSB running a dictatorship while also having City Council and the Mayor afraid of the CEO and Board, with the price of food and gasoline higher in El Paso than most other places, with the high level of poverty, low rate of Health covered insured, with no jobs for Seniors like many other places offer, the lack of Senior discounts in area resturants, no HMOs or Kaiser Health organizations to lower health care costs for Seniors, Doctors that take over a month to get an appointment to see, no casinos that many Seniors like to entertain themselves, a terrible freeways system and poor transportation for Seniors, a lack of speaking English in daily community affairs on and on and on.

You say look at Tucson and Phoenix - well look at them. Everything I mentioned above those cities have. Also look at the good city planning, landscaping in the cities (they didn't let the local builders dictate the terms of development)and lower school and city taxes. Also look at the lower number of government employees per capita.

I would love to see El Paso become a Senior mecca, but there is no way. El Paso is a Mexican bordertown that only knows how to look at Phoenix and Tucson but refuses to change to attract Seniors.

[Synthetic]

Synthetic wrote:

<quoted text>
Dear Knucklehead,
[WARNING: lame attempt at humor follows]
Given the choice of being blind or an idiot I'd choose idiot, that way I could clearly see what an idiot I am.
[END: lame attempt at humor]
[BEGIN: second lame attempt]
El Paso has much going for it that perhaps you are overlooking.
1. We have some of the best beaches in the country (we're just missing the accompanying ocean!)
2. We have some of the most beautiful women in the world (I see them all the time on the internet, and they want to meet ME!)
3. We have the best politicians money can buy (and what a bargain, buy a dozen for under 10 grand!)
4. We have some of the best weather in the universe (but about half is wasted because comes at night when I'm sleeping.)
[END: lame attempt]
Goodnight knuckleheads!

You need to get your head, or what's left of it, out of your overweight dimpled culo.

I tell everyone I come in contact with to get the hell out of here as soon as their time is up. It's a chithole.

When I travel for government business, I do the same thing. If you like paying high taxes a getting nothing in return, then by all means come to El Paso.

[Rey]

It's all a matter of perspective. EP has some unqiue qualities and lots of potential.

[Im Gome]

When I first retired and moved to El paso, I thought that I saw a hope for the fututre of the city. Now I just want to leave.
It was the high property taxes that services schools that cost way more than other parts of the country. It was the corruption in government, the lack of many people that seem to know what they are doing (I.E. CAD). It was Spanish being spoken with no regard to English speaking people that were moving to the city.
I will be leaving in the near future and not recommending El Paso to any Senior that wants Senior employment, fair property taxation or even to live in a community where also speaking English is important.
El Paso is charming from a distant but I wouldn't want anybody to live here.

[narco]

Old people, stay out of El Paso, their are too many scam artist in that city, plus you might get shot by narcos