Why the west side of El Paso is the place to be

I get to see the search engine terms that bring people to the site, so i will try to make or update posts (like the TomTom maps one) that will hopefully help people.

The latest term i got was “best places to live in El Paso”  so i’ll go into why we like the West Side.

El paso is basically split by the mountain with with the West Side of the mountain being the West Side, the East Side of the mountain (the older part, the fort bliss part) being the East Side.  the you have South Side (downtown) and North East which is new and nice but still on the east side.  everything is in relation to the mountain which they dont show on any el paso maps because i guess it would make more sense that way, anyway i digress…

The West Side is great because for the most part its newer, you dont have the riff raff that you have on the other side, you have almost all the same stores that you have on the east side (except they are usually smaller on the west side) –more of that in the cons.. the west side also has a portion of I-10 to New Mexico by it so thats handy.

Cons:  there are basically only two ways to get to the west side from the east side.  I-10 which sucks my butt, and transmountain road, which goes over Franklin Mountain and is a pretty good drive but was closed alot during all the raining and flooding because of rock slides and what not.  other things that suck, the best buy is small, i guess its adequate but its small, the barnes and nobles sucks, no good computer books at all, now i know most of you dont care about computer books but i do, its my blog, so i care   there is no costco (its on the east side), but there is a Sam’s club but we havent been there yet so i dont know if you save money there versus the commisary or PX.  texas sucks because of sales tax but there are no state taxes (but i did get hit with a nifty “new resident” fee of $90 each for each vehicle).

Other stuff about the west side that isnt much fun is that its so new maps really dont have alot of the roads and we had alot of sink holes and mud slides with all the rain, but since we only get rain like 1 part of the year its not so bad.  El Paso in general is getting hit so bad with all this rain because no one designed drainage for the place, the main drainage system is the sun, so when you get a few days of rain you get the mess we had, personally i think whoever designed some of these roads needs to give their paychecks back.  i am not an engineer but i’ll bet that building and designing in some drainage when they built most of the roads would have been cheaper than the cleanup costs.

-Chris