El Pasoans have strange ideas!
E.g., Today I spoke briefly to a lady who remarked that some parts of the Czech Republic
were "still poor".
Of course, what they call "Communism" never did mean poverty. It did mean a certain
dull grayness, but not exactly poverty.
On the other hand, I regard El Paso, Texas as a very poor community. Moreover, I believe the average household earning is well below the USA average...
But I think El Paso is poor because the over-abundance of vehicles and businesses selling unhealthy food, not to mention an over-abundance of churches together create a certain atmosphere...
And then there is the absence, let's say, of bookstores.......
So, I really don't know what someone who lives in El Paso might possibly mean when they describe parts of the Czech Republic as poor. (I assume they did not visit a Roma settlement.)
Perhaps they mean there is an absence of the technology that USA-ans seem to regard as essential.
I don't know. But I shall be glad to leave El Paso, and live in the Czech Republic instead......
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