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Top 3 CONS of El Paso | Recent Buyers Spill the Beans
What are the downsides of moving to El Paso, TX? Recent buyers name three: the dust and wind in spring, summer mosquitoes near the river, and other drivers, and even those are pretty minor.
If you are thinking about relocating to El Paso, here is the honest list from buyers who just made the move. Number one is dust: it gets windy in late winter and spring, and in a desert that means sand and dust piling up under doors and in corners, so leaving windows open during a windy stretch coats the house. Number two is mosquitoes, but only in summer monsoon season and mostly in the lower, wetter areas like the Upper Valley near the Rio Grande. Number three is traffic and other drivers, though it stays mild compared with bigger cities. Put against hurricanes, flooding, and insurers pulling out elsewhere, El Paso looks like an easy trade.
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Top 3 CONS of El Paso | Recent Buyers Spill the Beans
Hi, welcome to Living in El Paso, Texas where we are not under a hurricane and flooding, rather we are trying to not get sunburned on trail runs. Hi, welcome to Living in El Paso, Texas. My name is John Peña. Thank you so much for checking out the channel. This is going to be the best episode ever
because of weather and because of what's happening also with buyers that I've recently talked to who have essentially said this is like my biggest complaint, my biggest con of El Paso. So we're going to talk about those top three buyer cons, but more so we're going to talk about the awesomeness of
El Paso. So top complaint that we had from a buyer recently is it's dusty, it's dirty. That is so true because in I think it's mostly springtime, could be like late winter, but spring it's windy here and we're in a desert so when the wind's blowing strong what's it blowing around? It's blowing around dust and sand and
dirt and so what happens is when that comes at your house with velocity it gets in like under your doors or piles up in corners in the front. You know it basically it makes everything dusty. So if you had your windows open for instance during that your house is going to get very very dusty. So that's what
that was one complaint. Number two, mosquitoes. Somebody I spoke with said like oh my gosh the mosquitoes like this I didn't know this was going to be like this. I was surprised to hear her say that. She lives on the east side basically right on the line between the east side and far east right on 375 there. She's not
like down low because mosquitoes like in the Upper Valley around like the Rio Grande area where there's a lot more water where they can thrive. Yeah there are mosquitoes down there, but remember that's also just a seasonal thing. That really only happens in the summer right when we basically get most of our rain
monsoon season that's when the mosquitoes can be out with the higher temperatures and water sources. But again that's only the summer. So that was the second con and now in my humble opinion those first two those barely count. You know all right but this one is legitimate. All right the drivers in
El Paso. El Paso hasn't never really struck me as a crazy place to drive. Now that being said I'm gonna say this anyway whenever I see New Mexico license plates that's when I'm like oh man let's let's put on the radar and be a little bit more conscious of what's happening in with my vehicle right now. But I'm
sure you know you can disagree or agree with me. But anyway my my opinion it's not that bad like I've I've heard gossip that like some people believe like if you drive in El Paso an illegal immigrant is going to run into your vehicle with their vehicle and then run down the highway and you're gonna be
stuck there right. That's kind of very sensationalized. That that is not the case. And to suggest that people who drive in Mexico are worse drivers than those people who drive in our country I would definitely not go that far. So my humble opinion it's totally fine but I've lived in lived in some crazy
traffic places and this isn't much to me. So guess it depends on your perspective. So you know all in all I mean come on if that's the worst that El Paso has going for it I'd say we're doing pretty darn good. And what really drove that point home for me this week is as you know Hurricane Ian just hit Florida right. We
before we lived here we lived exactly where it hit North Fort Myers that whole area and we went through Irma and it was a mess. Leah was working in health care it was like emergency kind of crazy stuff. They were shipping gas down just for to have nursing staff available to do kidney dialysis. Like the whole place
is there's no power. Everything is flooded. It's super super hot and so humid. I helped clean up this RV campground after Irma and it was unpleasant. So you know what was ill. And this morning I actually saw a lot of home insurers are pulling out of Florida. They're no longer offering home
insurance in Florida because it's just not profitable. Some of them went out of the business because imagine like Florida like Naples Punta Gorda Fort Myers Cape Coral all that area it's a lot of like nice new homes that are probably 400 to a million basically. And so when they all get wiped out and then
these home insurance companies come in there like you're talking millions of dollars. And so now it's getting hard just to get home insurance if you live in Florida because of these storms that are happening in hurricanes. So in El Paso if all we're doing is battling mosquitoes part of the year dust part of
the year and just having to be on our toes in traffic. Hey I mean I think we're doing pretty darn good. It's like end of September. I've been swimming in the pool. I've been running in the Franklin Mountains. My biggest problem is not my house being flooded. It's like not being smart and putting on sunscreen when I go
for a really long run and then get sunburned. So again I think we're doing pretty darn good. I hope that that everybody is doing good. I hope that everybody in Florida is doing good. My parents are there so you know our hearts and prayers with all of them of course. Next week I think we're going to talk
about if you're a military relocating buyer and some things that maybe you should know. The market is definitely changing and we are your source for all things El Paso real estate. With all that being said please consider subscribing to the channel. But dare I suggest jumping on our Facebook, our Instagram, our
TikTok and we put out a lot of short-form content. Miguel is a busy guy. Lots of drone in, lots of video in, and so if you want to see kind of more of El Paso that would be awesome. And everybody in El Paso like I said I hope that everyone's doing good. Last week was Kelly via VN. Esta semana mucho, no I
won't even be able to say it. Mucho gusto a todos. Yo no se. Can I say something like that? Like hello. It's nice to meet you. Like if this is your first time or if we haven't met yet. Oh and lots of practice Emma. So thank you so much. We'll see you in the next episode.
