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My friend who just moved to AZ 6 months ago emailed this to me. Sounds like she really likes it! :smile:

Just moved to Arizona! Now this is a state that knows how to live!! Beautiful sunny days and warm balmy evenings. What a place! It is beautiful. I've finally found my home. I love it here.

June 14th:

Really heating up. Got to 100 today. Not a problem. Live in an air-conditioned home, drive an air-conditioned car. What a pleasure to see the sun everyday like this. I'm turning into a sun worshipper.

June 30th:

Had the backyard landscaped with western plants today. Lots of cactus and rocks. What a breeze to maintain. No more mowing lawn for me. Another scorcher today, but I love it here.

July 10th:

The temperature hasn't been below 100 all week. How do people get used to this kind of heat? At least, it's kind of windy though. But getting used to the heat is taking longer than I expected.

July 15th:

Fell asleep by the pool. (Got 3rd degree burns over 60% of my body). Missed 3 days of work. What a dumb thing to do. I learned my lesson though. Got to respect the ol' sun in a climate like this.

July 20th:

I missed Lomita (my cat) sneaking into the car when I left this morning. By the time I got to the hot car at noon, Lomita had died and swollen up to the size of a shopping bag, then popped like a water balloon. The car now smells like Kibbles and sh!ts. I learned my lesson though. No more pets in this heat. Good ol' Mr. Sun strikes again.

July 25th:

The wind sucks. It feels like a giant freaking blow dryer!! And it's hot as hell. The home air-conditioner is on the fritz and the AC repairman charged $200 just to drive by and tell me he needed to order parts.

July 30th:

Been sleeping outside on the patio for 3 nights now, $275,000 house and I can't even go inside. Lomita is the lucky one. Why did I ever come here?

Aug. 4th:

It's 115 degrees. Finally got the air-conditioner fixed today. It cost $500 and gets the temperature down to 85. I hate this stupid state.

Aug. 8th:

If another wise ass cracks, 'Hot enough for you today?' I'm going to strangle him. Damn heat. By the time I get to work, the radiator is boiling over, my clothes are soaking wet, and I smell like baked cat!!

Aug. 9th:

Tried to run some errands after work. Wore shorts, and when I sat on the seats in the car, I thought my ass was on fire. My skin melted to the seat. I lost 2 layers of flesh and all the hair on the back of my legs and ass . . . Now my car smells like burnt hair, fried ass, and baked cat.

Aug 10th:

The weather report might as well be a damn recording. Hot and sunny. Hot and sunny. Hot and sunny. It's been too hot to do anything for 2 months and the weatherman says it might really warm up next week. Doesn't it ever rain in this place? Water rationing will be next, so my $1700 worth of cactus will just dry up and blow over. Even the cactus can't live in this heat.

Aug. 14th:

Welcome to HELL! Temperature got to 115 today. Cactus are dead. Forgot to crack the window and blew the windshield out of the car. The installer came to fix it and said, "Hot enough for you today?"

My sister had to spend $1,500 to bail me out of jail. Freaking Arizona. What kind of a sick demented idiot would want to live here??

Will write later to let you know how the trial goes.
 
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OH Sh*T!!!!
White92, That was the funniest thing ive read in a LONG time...laughed so hard tears are in my eyes only cause I know exactly what you mean!!!
F*CKING Hilarious!!!
 
Too funny.

We have family that live in Cave Creek (just outside Scottsdale). Beautiful area for part of the year. They've been there nearly 10-years now and I think they're nuts.

The funny thing is that before we moved down to Dana Point, and we sold our townhome in Rancho Santa Margarita for an obscene amount my wife and I actually considered moving to Scottsdale. We figured we could buy a monster dream home and basically pay cash. Retire by 33 years old and get any job just to put food on the table.

At the end of the day we just didn't think we wanted to experience AZ summers and knew that once we left S. CA, we'd probably not be able to afford to come back. So we live at the beach (hell, we don't even have A/C) but I'm probably going to have to work everyday until I die :

Oh well.. at least I can drive the NSX on the weekends.
 
Here's a quick FYI: it's hot in the desert.

Why people would settle there is beyond me. Yeah, the dry heat is "tolerable" up to about 110. Once you get above that, between the sun and the blacktop reradiating infrared, you nearly die crossing parking lots.
 
Sack it up ladies... it isn't that hot! :biggrin:

Actually, since Saturday, there have been 11 extreme heat related deaths here in AZ (Mostly elderly and homeless).

The summers here do get hot, but the rest of the year is awesome.
 
Syonara said:
Sack it up ladies... it isn't that hot! :biggrin:

Actually, since Saturday, there have been 11 extreme heat related deaths here in AZ (Mostly elderly and homeless).

The summers here do get hot, but the rest of the year is awesome.

Except for the monsoons, the "blue hair posse" that invades every winter and the smog... you're right. J/K. :biggrin:
 
AZ has no major earthquakes, no tsunami problems, no tornadoes, no hurricanes, very low humidity, no fog.

The sun is out most of the year, you can wear shorts in the winter and can drive your NSX year round.

Yea, I can see why some people would like it here. :cool:

A little heat ain't all that bad. ;)

Otherwise it wouldn't be AZ, it may become more congested and expensive than, gasp, San Diego! :eek:

I'm glad the heat keeps too many people from settling down here. :biggrin:
 
I like it when the high is 80 and you can't use the pool. Too cold! You got to have a heater! And of course, flash floods are an issue ...

Live there for six months in 89. Loved it!
 
yeah she sounds like she just wants to complain.....its not that bad, way better than summer in ohio or atlanta.

2 months of heat but you never have to shovel snow :)

115 is SO much better that 80 in NYC.....
 
what soirt of housing can you get for $250K that's in an area within commute distance to tech type jobs? goddamn trailer park mobile homes are going for that here (not kidding).
 
robr said:
what soirt of housing can you get for $250K that's in an area within commute distance to tech type jobs? goddamn trailer park mobile homes are going for that here (not kidding).

You need to move over here Rob. 250k gets you a 3500-4500 square foot home. One mill and your in an estate on the shore of the lake.
I just took in a trailer on trade for a house I built and sold. It is for sale for 7k. Now that is living cheap!
Good luck finding a tech job though. Cornell is always hiring.
 
steveny said:
You need to move over here Rob. 250k gets you a 3500-4500 square foot home. One mill and your in an estate on the shore of the lake.
I just took in a trailer on trade for a house I built and sold. It is for sale for 7k. Now that is living cheap!
Good luck finding a tech job though. Cornell is always hiring.

in cortland??? i just googled real estate there and i'm still working on getting MLS for the area, but this link here doesn't make it look promising.
http://www.homes.com/Real_Estate/NY/City/CORTLAND
 
I think Steve's area is like the area in Oklahoma where I grew up. Except the trailers aren't tornado magnets. And it's not flat, humid, boring, etc...

As a side note, I was reading an article the other day about trailer homes in Malibu that are going for over 1 million. And you don't even get the land with that! Obviously they were in the area long before it was what it is now.
 
Chris@SoS said:
taken at 7 this morning from Camelback mountain

90 dry degrees

It's not that bad :)

-- Chris


How did you get up there to take that picture? Don't tell me you guys are selling 4 wheel drive conversion kits now! :biggrin:
 
http://www.2az.us/hike-camelback.html

It's about a 1.5 mi hike that increases over 1250 ft. The view from the top is a 360 degree view of the valley.

Shameless NSXPO plug: Camelback mountain hike is one of the optional activities at NSXPO 2005 :)

-- Chris
 
robr said:
what soirt of housing can you get for $250K that's in an area within commute distance to tech type jobs? goddamn trailer park mobile homes are going for that here (not kidding).

You are either looking at a new house very far outside of town, or something very small and older in-town.
 
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