Cheap and easy.

Cost isn't an issue for me. Nothing hard to get around over here. Especially if you fly an airplane. Arizona just sucks IMO. Nothing appeals to me over there. My brother went to ASU out there. He seemed to like it. I guess you have to live there in order to experience it.

 

To each his own I guess, I love it here. I didn't grow up here either..

 

I'm moving to the Chandler area too in Jan-Feb for work for 2+ years. I know it'll be a shock from MN and take some getting use to. I did work down there In the summer 2003 in the 115+ heat working on the Scottsdale Kohls store. Now I'll be working on the new Wild Horse pass Casino Resort, & hotel.

 

Cost is an issue to everybody. Your level may be above mine, or the next guys, or in fact be different than specifically money, but everybody has a level where cost becomes an issue. I am a credit adminstrator in a mid cap bank, I see some extremely high income folks and cost (in a monetary sense) is an issue... If it isn't, they would be arrogant or reckless with their money (which can only go on for so long), and I am sure they didn't get to that position by possessing those traits. Cost in some way shape or form, influences EVERY decision you make. That is very basic economics.

Sorry to nit pick, but it is just a pet peve of mine...

Definately to each their own. ASU has the best looking women in all the land, I believe that to be certainty you should have come to visit your cousin when he was here.

 

Hey, is you SIG correct? 20B FD? I grew up in Minnesota (Buffalo) and moved here in 1986. I'm the president of Rotary Car Club of Arizona (RCCAZ). Our club gets together once a month and we'd love to have another Gen 3 in the group, especially one of dem dar Fellers from Minnesnowta, don't ya know (j/k).

 

AZ isn't bad, I'd live there.

 

Yep, you bettcha, a 20b.

I hope the rotary crowd would be little more active than MN. I'll be down mid Jan to look at some places to live. It will be a nice change of pace.

 

I grew up in the Northeastern Iowa area...around Decorah-Waterloo/Cedar Falls

All of us out here are transplants...

Frank Lloyd Wright had a famous quote, "if you turned the country on its side and shook it hard, anything(anybody) not bolted down, would fall to California(and I guess AZ now because CA has gotten so expensive)"

 

Where do you plan on living? What do you do for a living?

Age/interests? I guess this is better discussed in PM but if you are close I can show you around/let you know of some good places and events.

You are going to love the change of climate, especially if you are coming in Jan.!

 

Its also much bigger here, I used to live there too...

 

I work for JE Dunn Construction as a field superintendent at the ripe old age of 33.
I'm going to look at houses in Chandler mainly, but also in Gilbert, Queen Creek, and Maricopa. From what i've heard those are decent neighborhoods. I would prefer to stay on the south side of Phoenix, sense the job is right next to Firebird Raceway. Any other towns you would recomend? I would like to keep the commute to less than 30 minutes to the jobsite.

 

Tempe, Chandler, Ahwatukee are best for where you will be. Even Maricopa (big $ savings for a house there) could work well for you since you will be working so far south.

I am on the Tempe/Phoenix border just off I-10 and 60 and can be to Firebird in about 10 minutes of heavy traffic

 

Go to maricopa and get your self a nice big house for under 200,000k

 

P: It's a bbie tarp.

 

I moved to Scottsdale and lived there for 18 mos. Due to health issues of my wife, I moved to Northern CA (San Jose).

Here is a summary of what I can recall about Phoenix AZ

Positives:
- housing is cheap: the house (3000 square feet with pool) I got in Scottsdale was $650K, similar house in SJ (no pool 1/2 the lot size) was $1.26M or basically doubled in price
- gas is cheap
- food is cheap
- wide open spaces
- nice winter
- you can open carry guns, you can have assault rifles

Negatives:
- it's very dry, less than 10% humidity and if you have issues with eczema, it will get worse just like it did to my wife
- it's very hot starting at the end of April till end of October or 5 months of heat.
- restaurant food sucks, in the quality and amount
- last and most important, there is a fungus that is airborne (and considered to be a biological weapon) that is in the soil - it's called Valley Fever and it will **** you up if you catch it. Several people in my company had it and they were screwed. see this web site: http://www.valleyfeversurvivor.com/facts.html Since I have young children, I decided that it wasn't worth it living in AZ. They also have another strain of this fungus in the central valley in CA also.
- job market isn't as good as Northern CA
- ASU isn't as good as I thought it would be given that our company didn't hire alot of engineers from ASU but hired from back east or from CA.