How many Zonie natives here?

[saguarodave]

I was born in Mesa in 1954, I spent years in Scottsdale, now I live in Chandler. Except for 5 years in the San Gabriel Valley (L.A. County), I've spent my life in The Valley of the Sun. I love the desert, the open spaces and the weird, funky out-of-the-way places which you can only find in a state such as ours...as one poster said, you are either a desert person or you aren't. And yes, we have museums (art, history, natural sciences), decent restaurants and a good symphony orchestra.

I really hope all the people who dislike Phoenix and Arizona so much will be able to leave ASAP. I'm certainly happy here and I would wish that everyone else can be happy where they are too (and we could perhaps decrease the number of "unfriendly people" some posters write about if all the miserable, unhappy folks who hate it here could leave)--although I've never noticed that Arizonans are any less friendly than anyone else in America (and yes I've been to New York, Chicago, Boston, Philly, DC, Atlanta, etc.).

[MiasM]

He hit the nail on the head! Guess what folks, you bring your attitude with you. If you are negative, you can move to Heaven and you will hate it. No city is all good or bad. I agree that if these people hate an area, get yourself in gear and leave. Everyone has choices in life so stop complaining and change something. I can understand people not liking things about where they live but I don't need to hear bias on here. My husband and I are looking to move to Scottsdale from NY. NY has a lot of good and bad but when I go to the forum - I don't find a lot of complainers like here. NYer's are too busy working themselves to death. Be grateful you people have the "quality of life" to have the time to come on here. But please give some useful info. for those of us that are on here to educate ourselves about an area.

Originally Posted by saguarodave

I was born in Mesa in 1954, I spent years in Scottsdale, now I live in Chandler. Except for 5 years in the San Gabriel Valley (L.A. County), I've spent my life in The Valley of the Sun. I love the desert, the open spaces and the weird, funky out-of-the-way places which you can only find in a state such as ours...as one poster said, you are either a desert person or you aren't. And yes, we have museums (art, history, natural sciences), decent restaurants and a good symphony orchestra.

I really hope all the people who dislike Phoenix and Arizona so much will be able to leave ASAP. I'm certainly happy here and I would wish that everyone else can be happy where they are too (and we could perhaps decrease the number of "unfriendly people" some posters write about if all the miserable, unhappy folks who hate it here could leave)--although I've never noticed that Arizonans are any less friendly than anyone else in America (and yes I've been to New York, Chicago, Boston, Philly, DC, Atlanta, etc.).

[brittZ]

I would have to agree with one exception. I lived in the West Valley for almost 3o years and there has always been a somewhat nasty perceived rivalry bewtwen East Valley and West Valley due to both real and perceived economic reasons. I have been in SoCal for the last 2 1/2 years and will be moving my family back to my birthplace in the next 9 months and cant wait. I definitely see outside attitudes on this board that very much resemble the negative holier than thou attitudes common in Southern California and as far as I'm concerned they can have their beaches and silicone back and the ones that moved to AZ and complain that it sucks can go back where they came from. one interesting point is that most of them came here because they hated/had problems with where they were before and now have the same problems in a new city . . . no matter how far away you move you can never get away from yourself.