Hate This Place? Me Too! (Phoenix, Flagstaff: house, rent, lease)

[63ragtop]

94 in Phoenix is NICE. 100 is still pretty good, unless you are doing ditch digging or something. I mowed my lawn a couple days ago when it was 105. A light breeze was blowing too - I barely felt hot at all.

Around 110 is where it gets bad.

It can be worse if you are going in and out of different temperatures. I feel tried quick if I am going in and out from the air-conditioned high 70s back out into 110 again and again doing errands.

[BSL63087]

Originally Posted by Steve-o

94 in PHX isnt that horrible. Ive hiked Camelback in the low 90s, and hot as it was, I summited. I tried it again a few weeks back in 110, made it 1/2 way and said forget it. You can die up there, no joke.

Yeah I wouldn't do any hiking in the mountains or anything when it's that hot. I've heard Phoenix isn't so bad until it starts getting up into the 100's. If I can handle 90+ here with the humidity, I'm sure Phoenix can't be much worse if it is at all. Some people don't mind the heat as much as others. My best friend says this is as far south as he would ever want to be (Louisville, KY area) and I told him this is as far north as I would want to be. (Which is too far north, I'm sick of the winters) I guess everyone has their own preferences.

[sheena]

Originally Posted by 63ragtop

94 in Phoenix is NICE. 100 is still pretty good, unless you are doing ditch digging or something. I mowed my lawn a couple days ago when it was 105. A light breeze was blowing too - I barely felt hot at all.

Around 110 is where it gets bad.

It can be worse if you are going in and out of different temperatures. I feel tried quick if I am going in and out from the air-conditioned high 70s back out into 110 again and again doing errands.

110 in monsoon season starts to get hot, anything under that is not to bad.

[chocolaterie]

I grew up in Toronto, Canada. so I do miss the snow. The first 3 years I lived here i hated it. I complained to my husband every other day. but we moved because he's an only child and his family was down here.
stuff that i hate: the random violence. The first week i was here, my husband and i were taking a walk at night and some punk kid threw a drink at me as he was driving by. what a nice welcome.. I have never had that happen to me in Toronto and i walked/took the bus every freaking day.
the racism. some guy called me a ****, and I'm not even spanish.
People who don't mind their kids.
and of course the unfriendliness. the few people that i met who were friendly, have their priorities in places i don't agree with.
But hey i can afford a bigger house down here and make a good living. i think where ever you go you will find faults.

[cazelais]

Well welcome to the SouthWest, chocolaterie. My Daughter is moving to Toronto for three years at the end of this month, by the way. I am in Montreal. I visit my Mom in Hemet, Cali. A desert town. I was walking and some big moron screamed at me in his big gas guzzling truck. It was a little scary. I never get that here in Montreal either. The word inbred red necks sprang to my mind on a few occasions. All you here is the boom-boom every half hour from cars. Night time the gangs are out. I guess the best thing is to forget about it because there were lots of great people too. I also met Germans and Australians which I thought was sort of amazing that they made there way to live in Hemet of all places. Locals that were in their 90s and Hispanic that were born there and very kind to me too. Just watch yourself more than if you were in some places in Canada. Well, most of Canada, lol.

[chocolaterie]

Originally Posted by cazelais

Well welcome to the SouthWest, chocolaterie. My Daughter is moving to Toronto for three years at the end of this month, by the way. I am in Montreal. I visit my Mom in Hemet, Cali. A desert town. I was walking and some big moron screamed at me in his big gas guzzling truck. It was a little scary. I never get that here in Montreal either. The word inbred red necks sprang to my mind on a few occasions. All you here is the boom-boom every half hour from cars. Night time the gangs are out. I guess the best thing is to forget about it because there were lots of great people too. I also met Germans and Australians which I thought was sort of amazing that they made there way to live in Hemet of all places. Locals that were in their 90s and Hispanic that were born there and very kind to me too. Just watch yourself more than if you were in some places in Canada. Well, most of Canada, lol.

Thank you for the welcome. And you're right I do find myself much more cautious than when I was in Canada (haha, yes most of Canada). I hope you don't get anymore of those experiences. People can be so .......

[cooldude11]

Originally Posted by azkylady

I know just how you feel, I to am stuck here. I was talked into moving out here by my now Husband, everything he told me about it here proved untrue. lol there are no bugs, the dry heat isen't bad, people are friendly, hardly any crime, yeah right! we have had many arguments over this and it almost did us in. I really get depressed sometimes, i am a person that likes or did to have flowers and a nice lawn, all the brown and dust is a downer, speaking of that I can not keep my house clean no matter how much time I spend on it, I miss a clean house to.Its like being in a fish bowl, and so dangerous with the heat in the summer, sometimes when im out and about I feel like i am going to just drop to the ground im that miserable in the heat. after 5 years I have never embraced or adjusted to Arizona.

I live in central Kentucky and "was" thinking of a move to AZ but I think you talked me out of it.

[azkylady]

Hey you might like the Desert! any dreams of the old west and being a cowboy? I am from Ky as I have said, truth is everything is brown, there is no green , well only the palms that have been transplanted here, like thats natural, and the small patches of grass some have, well its actually two grasses winter grass and summer grass, you have to plant grass twice a year to keep, I was gonna a say lawn, but its more a patch of grass,, lol. Truth is is hot 4 solid months at least, most times over 105. and thats a good day if it dont spike to 110 or more, and dry as a bone, dusty, I mentioned that? I have to say though its very pleasant in the winter, nice to run around in jeans and a sweater comfortable most the day, no coats usually needed, jacket now and then. Dont let me discourage you! you might like it!

[HX_Guy]

You don't have to plant grass twice a year, only once.

Summer grass goes dormant in the winter, it just dries up...you cut it short and plant winter grass. The summer grass revives on its own come summer time.

[azkylady]

your right, I think that is what the lawn people do. mow it short and replant. what do I know?