Phoenix, AZ... yey or ney
12-12-07, 03:18 PM
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It isn't 120 all year round...there are 3 months of lots of heat, the rest is gravy.
Imagine your car breaking down in an ice storm when it is raining on you and 28 degrees (my personal worst weather) or in Minnesota where it is -10 wind chill for two months a year.
I mean don't you get bored in Ventura...or Oxnard...or wherever you are in Ventura county? I mean it is like 60 degrees in winter and 70 degrees in summer... Well unless you are a little inland, like Thousand Oaks or something, it gets a little warmer there. My girlfriend is from Oxnard and I got her to move out here. She likes it here now because it is easy to get around and cheap to live here. Only thing she misses is the ocean, but asked her how many times she actually got out surfing in the last two years and she could count them on one hand....I have actually been surfing more than her in those two years and I have lived here...lol. anyway...I like it here, but that is not to say there aren't better places.
Ventura is very nice. One of my best friends lives in Santa Barbara. I love it there
Anyway, Phoenix is a great place to live if you can tollerate the heat in the summer, and even if you can't. I am so used to it that it doesn't phase me in the slightest. Only time it is painful is getting into a black on black car after it has been sitting in the sun for 6 hours.
Imagine your car breaking down in an ice storm when it is raining on you and 28 degrees (my personal worst weather) or in Minnesota where it is -10 wind chill for two months a year.
I mean don't you get bored in Ventura...or Oxnard...or wherever you are in Ventura county? I mean it is like 60 degrees in winter and 70 degrees in summer... Well unless you are a little inland, like Thousand Oaks or something, it gets a little warmer there. My girlfriend is from Oxnard and I got her to move out here. She likes it here now because it is easy to get around and cheap to live here. Only thing she misses is the ocean, but asked her how many times she actually got out surfing in the last two years and she could count them on one hand....I have actually been surfing more than her in those two years and I have lived here...lol. anyway...I like it here, but that is not to say there aren't better places.
Ventura is very nice. One of my best friends lives in Santa Barbara. I love it there
Anyway, Phoenix is a great place to live if you can tollerate the heat in the summer, and even if you can't. I am so used to it that it doesn't phase me in the slightest. Only time it is painful is getting into a black on black car after it has been sitting in the sun for 6 hours.
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.
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12-12-07, 09:39 PM
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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.
12-13-07, 12:44 PM
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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.
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.
12-13-07, 04:12 PM
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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.
12-13-07, 10:00 PM
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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).
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.
12-13-07, 10:04 PM
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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)"
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)"
12-13-07, 10:09 PM
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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.!
12-14-07, 09:32 PM
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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.!
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.!
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.
12-16-07, 10:29 AM
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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
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
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12-21-07, 12:21 AM
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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.
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