Posted on 03/15/2014 7:23:40 PM PDT by Ghost of SVR4
So I am thinking seriously about moving to Phoenix. I have lots of job opportunities out there but am at a loss of the topology as of current. I have a friend out there in Maricopa and he loves it. I will have to rent to start off so I am looking for decent rent for a 3 bdr. Looking for a quiet place or as quiet as I can get it. I currently commute an hour one way. So long as I can keep that, I am open to quite a bit of travel I believe. Also, and this may sound lame, but can I do home garden's out there? Is it simply too hot? What about water? (I'm looking at this from a SHTF perspective as I am accustomed to my area now and its abundance and ease.).
Any input would help...thanks!
a man passes away and is at the Pearly Gates
There to receive him is St Peter
While just outside the gate the man sees a man so brilliantly lit it is undescribable
Next to the brilliantly lit man is what looks like a very very large stove
on the top panel of the stove, a red lite is on
the man asks St Peter..... Is that brilliantly lit man, God ?
St Peter answers yes
the man asks...is that a stove
St Peter answers, yes
then the man asks, what is God cookin ?
St Peter answers............Arizona
There was an evil, vile man in the Yuma prison in the late 1800s. He often cursed God. When he died in the Yuma prison, no one lamented his passing.
Two weeks later, a letter arrived, return address “Hell”.
“Send blankets”, it read, “I’m freezing down here!”
that’s double tough
Scorpions, Tarantulas, rattle snakes, dust storms.
Oh, forgot one other thing....John McCain.
I wasn't specifically, but you're right, Indian School was one of the roads that they kept digging up (we lived a couple blocks from there). Camelback was another one.
How well I know! It's a rip-off of the first magnitude. There's no way I could possibly stay within my SCE 'baseline.' The one promise Obama's kept is that electricity costs under his administration would "necessarily" go up. Mine have -- like a rocket.
I’m in the center of Phoenix.
ok I’m sorry, you guys have a abundance of water. Is that better?
Without electricity to pump water there is not enough water in that area to support the people that live there. There are a lot of good things about the area, that aint one of them.
Most of the water comes by canal from the Colorado, Salt, and Verde Rivers.
Its hard to miss that canal.
Beautiful area.
Don’t drink the water......
Well from what I have read SCE is still cheaper than PGE and that is what we have.
If you like seeing cacti wearing Santa hats at Christmas time, you’ll love Phoenix!
I grew up in Tempe, a suburb of Phoenix, from middle school through college at ASU and then went back after the military and raised my family. I lived there a total of 45 years. It is a wonderful place to live. It is hot but then you couldn’t pay me to live where it is cold. The weather is gorgeous 9-10 months out of the year. People don’t move there because they like the four seasons or because its cold. Golf year round, all kinds of outdoor activities, major league sports teams, Just about anything you’d like.
You can grow a spring and fall/winter garden. We got so we grew pretty exclusively cactus and succulents for landscaping because that’s what does well there. There’s plenty of water, trees, and everything is air conditioned. We used a big 1600 BTU Master Cool evaporative water cooler to cool our home all but maybe 2 months of the mid summer when it can get real hot and humid. It was nice because it was cheap on electricity and you could leave your windows and doors cracked without worrying about the A/C getting out.
I’d still be living there but my wife and I retired and wanted to get out of the big metropolitan city and moved to rural central Florida. All I can say is, you make the best of what you have when you move there and don’t expect it to be like the place you came from. Because it won’t be. That will make you disappointed and want to move back “home”. When in Rome do as the Romans do. Follow the example of the locals, not the transplants. Like most places, the transplants from other states have altered the place they move to. They are the ones that whine about the heat. I loved the heat. Good luck.
Good song, my dad lived in Tucson sometimes, I think it was during periods that he needed easy access to the VA.
When the SHTF, best to live somewhere where you don’t need heat or AC to survive.
The scenery is spectacular. If you hike, bike, ride or explore, you've be busy for years.
The traffic sucks...if you can work flexible hours you'll save yourself a ton of misery.
Do I recommend it? Really, whenever I read the news about other places...other states...they seem like "occupied territory" compared to Arizona.
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