This is true, Tucson is hardly a small rural community. Tucson has a strange cultural sensibility to it though that's hard to express to people who aren't familiar with the city. The author gives a somewhat accurate depiction of the situation for many local residents in Tucson; outside of the university and being an engineer for Raytheon, job opportunities are rather limited. Drinking is easily the number one past-time.
That being said, I really need to take issue with the author claiming Tucson doesn't have many breweries or movies or bands coming in. Tucson has all of these, and several venues frequented by big name acts, and the university and Loft theater play many foreign and art house films year round. Maybe it's not up to Brooklyn standards, but, jesus christ, that's an unfair comparison to make
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This is true, Tucson is hardly a small rural community. Tucson has a strange cultural sensibility to it though that's hard to express to people who aren't familiar with the city. The author gives a somewhat accurate depiction of the situation for many local residents in Tucson; outside of the university and being an engineer for Raytheon, job opportunities are rather limited. Drinking is easily the number one past-time.
That being said, I really need to take issue with the author claiming Tucson doesn't have many breweries or movies or bands coming in. Tucson has all of these, and several venues frequented by big name acts, and the university and Loft theater play many foreign and art house films year round. Maybe it's not up to Brooklyn standards, but, jesus christ, that's an unfair comparison to make