Daily News | Friends and Eagles fans from Philly came to Arizona to get sober and never looked back.
expats in Arizona. Some came chasing the weather, others came for love, but some moved here to dry out for good.
Two more West Catholic grads followed: Mike Daggett, now 54-year-old took a Greyhound out in 2016. Tom, now 59, flew out a just last year.Daggett, a forklift operator, came , “for all the same reasons.” “I’ve been drinking all my life,” he said. “I just had to get out of that area. Everyone I knew drank. I love em all, but I had to get away.”
Wallin, a Cardinal O’Hara graduate, was in recovery in Delaware County, but was offered an opportunity to go to a recovery house in Arizona . He was a laborer in Philadelphia but drinking was a full time job.Wallin wound up buying the recovery house in Arizona. Today, he operates 18 Good Life recovery homes in Mesa, Phoenix, and Peoria, along with one in Chester, Pa. Wallin is also a co-owner of“It’s been a real land of opportunity for me out here,” he said.
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