Dave Knows: Elko

• Lack of Trees and “Green-ness”– I miss Oregon.
• Rude customer service — some businesses give off quite the if-you-don’t-like-it-just-try-to-go-somewhere-else vibe, especially car dealerships.
• No affordable housing — Houses seem to have leveled off a bit, but apartment prices just keep going up and up and there still just aren’t enough.
• Slow Mail/Shipping service.  — There’s no such thing as “overnight” shipping to Elko.  I think they still use covered wagons.
• No public transportation — with gas prices and the town growing, we need something better than just the NEAT bus.
• Big Jacked-up trucks.  — there are a lot of them, though with the price of gas I see more and more big burly miners squeezing into little hondas and toyotas, which makes me giggle a little on the inside.
• Lack of selection — It’s Walmart or nothing with a lot of items.  We want a Target and a Costco.
• Always too hot or too cold.  — It snowed in June this year, and a week later it was 90 degrees.  What happened to Spring?
• Nothing for the kids to do. — specifically, “Cheap” things to do. 
• People who call Spring Creek “Spring Crick”  — annoys the hell out of me.
• No recycling — I realize there’s no shortage of landfill space around here, but I still feel kinda bad every time I throw an aluminum can in the garbage.

I think that’s it. Yes, I realize that’s 11 things.  I’m sure I’ll think of something else, probably 10 more things, all before I get home from work today…