Originally Posted by in_the_gloaming
Dear mlh1981..., which I think may be the year you were born.., 1981..? Anyway, personally, I hate Phoenix! I lived in Tempe, which is a suburb of Phoenix, for one year off of Apache Blvd. & McClintock at the Trade Winds Motel and Trailer Court in an old 8 x 23 ft. metal box trailer which was a piece of crap! I'd much rather live in Casa Grande than Phoenix any day of the week!!! Phoenix for me was a disaster..., lots of crime, filth, prostitution, big city problems, crapy neighbors in that motel and trailer court, a bad boss at work and on and on and on...,
The Phoenix area is hemmed in on three sides by mountains and with the over flow of bad air from California, it makes the Phoenix area not as healthy as it is cracked up to be! Phoenix I believe is sinking because of all the aquiphores (deeply hidden artesian water deep underground) they are tapping into, lowering the elevation which was 1100 feet above sea level, making Phoenix hotter and hotter. If they take the water out under the surface of the earth, then what will hold up the earth above the aquiphores? However, most of Phoenix's water comes from the Salt River, east of Phoenix.
My trailer was nothing but problems! I had a Mexican couple next door in a ratty old Aljo trailer that stole everything they could. Another neighbor was so bad I can't discuss his yucky situation here..., when he claimed to be a chef in a restaurant when he was such a scum b*tt, I didn't want anything to do with him. I had another neighbor that hung dirty brassiers outside of his trailer and played one record (Me & Bobby McGee) from 6 A. M. until 11 P. M. every day of the week when he wasn't high on drugs or messing with the marijuana plants he was growing, another neighbor would make a set of dentures for anyone with his pocket knife out of wood, I had many others who were equally undesirable. Hence, when I moved away from there, I breathed a sigh of relief. Good riddance!!!
If I had to do it all over again, I would have rented a room for the Summer, used that time to send out feelers as to where I wanted to live before Fall, when all the housing prices go up, and found a better place! I never, never, never would have stayed in that trailer court with all those undesirable people! I probably would have found a nice apartment in Glendale, Mesa or anywhere else, but not at that trailer park/motel in Tempe!
Casa Grande in Spanish means "Big House" There is a penitentiary there. Casa means house. Grande means big. Casa Grande is a very nice clean city which is south of Phoenix, north west of Tuscon, and west of Eloy, Coolidge, and another little town, I forgot the name of.
Prices there are quite reasonable. Housing there is very nice and clean and jobs are plentyfull. They have several very nice grocery stores, at least one Checker Auto Parts store which I used when I repaired a Chevy van while I moved my older brother from Yuma Az. to S. E. Oklahoma in August of 2005..., when I used their asphalt parking lot on a Saturday afternoon and they didn't object to my repairing my van on their facility.., several Burger King restaurants, car dealerships, and many residential districts with decent housing.
Since I live in Denver, which is a big city which also has its problems, including: gangs, drive by shootings, and a high cost of living, I'd greatly prefer a smaller city and I plan on moving away from Denver in a couple of years because Denver is too big for me. I'm tired of it! I've lived here three times over a 39 year period.
Because of a mechanical break down, my brother and I spent an entire weekend there in August 2005. Back in Feb. 1958, my father and I had gone to Eloy, which is also a nice town not too far east of Casa Grande to pick up my brother. My brother had run away from home and we decided to go after him, rather than let the authorities return him to us. Back in 1958, my father and I stayed at a motel that was run by a retired sheriff and I was very interested in viewing all the weapons the sheriff had taken off of all the people he had arrested. Weapons of all kinds, in several glass cases. I wouldn't mind living in Eloy either, as an alternative to Casa Grande.
Sourrounding Casa Grande are huge agricultural farms of several sections each, with each section being 640 acres. It is all artificially watered with treated water. Lots of butterflies are used to polinate the crops.
Personally, for a city which has a prison, I'd prefer Casa Grande over Canon City in Colorado. I live in Colorado and I've been to Canon City and I'd prefer not to live there either. Too many things wrong with Canon City! At least with Casa Grande, their economy is more diversified. Its a hot climate, which takes some getting used too. A good place to learn Spanish. I see a lot of opportunity there, especially if you're interested in working security, or for a security company.
Nice Pictures Sheena..., thanks for your post!
Thanks ukfschick..., I really like what you said! I did not find Casa Grande to be smelly either! I liked it! Other places I might like to live in Az. are: Prescott, Cottonwood, Payson, Pine, Jackass Flats, Benson, San Simone, and Wilcox.
I like Wilcox because it impressed me as the southern Az. answer to Winslow to the north. My brother and I spent some time in the truck stop along I-10 talking for quite awhile about the area. The one thing I am not crazy about are all these developers that restrict what kind of housing one can put on a piece of undeveloped land..., of which Arizona City is a prime example!
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