Hate This Place? Me Too! (Tempe: house, to live, cost)

[GirlinAZ]

Am I the only one who truly hates this place? I am miserable. I cannot stand this weather and it truly makes me depressed kind of like the reverse of the Seattle blues due to no sun. I am miserable that I cannot just go outside whenever I want to without being so uncomfortable.

I am stuck here due to personal reasons that I can do nothing about. [I have about 6 more years on my "sentence" in Arizona due to my child custody situation and then I am moving to the beach.]

I also think that the people here are so unhappy/unwelcoming and rude.

I am looking at this like a poll with a complainer type attitude. Please tell me I am not alone and share your stories!

DO NOT REPLY IF YOU ARE HAPPY AS PIE-THERE ARE OTHER THREADS FOR YOU GUYS.

[CodyW]

Lurk more. There are plenty of people like you.

[BurtsBees]

Different strokes for different folks.

Thats why people need to do research and see why people like it, and why people hate it. For the reasons you hate it, I love it. I love the heat, and the high temps dont stop me from doing anything.

[tamster42]

I am with you. I hate it here that is why I am working on getting out of this state as quick as possible. Sorry to hear you have to stay another 6 months. I will be out of here sooner than that. Been here 12 years and still hate it. People don't know how to drive here, never have a I ever seen signs where it says red means stop, are they that stupid here??????
Well good luck to you.

[115db]

I cant say that I 'hate' it but its not exactly one of my favourite places. Its not 'home' in my heart. Never has been, never will be. Im just 'stuck' here.

[SpaceNeedle]

I found below from an auto forum:


ARIZONA - WHAT A STATE!

May 30th - Now this is a state that knows how to live! Beautiful sunny days and warm balmy evenings. Mountains and deserts blended together. What a place! Watched the sunset from a park lying on a blanket. It was 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 every day like this. I'm turning into a real 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 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 a dry heat. Getting used to it is taking longer than I expected.

July 15th - Fell asleep by the pool. (Got 3rd degree burns over 60% of my body.) Missed two 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 Tabby (our cat) sneaking into the car when I left this morning. By the time I got out to the hot car for lunch, Tabby had swollen up to the size of a shopping bag and exploded all over $2,000 worth of leather upholstery. I told the kids she ran away. The car now smells like a sewer. No more pets in this heat!

July 25th - Dry heat, my ass. Hot is hot!! The home air-conditioner is on the fritz and AC repairman charged $200 just to drive by and tell me he needed to order parts.

July 30th - Been sleeping outside by the pool for three nights now. $1,100 in damn house payments and we can't even go inside. Why did I ever come here?

Aug 4th - 115 degrees. Finally got the air-conditioner fixed today. It cost $500 and gets the temperature down to about 90. Stupid repairman pissed in my pool. I hate this state.

Aug 8th - If another person asks, "Hot enough for you today?", I'm going to tear his throat out. Damn heat. By the time I get to work the radiator is boiling over, my clothes are soaking wet, and I smell like roasted Garfield!!

Aug 10th - The weather report might as well be a damn recording: Hot and Sunny. It's been too hot for two damn months and the weatherman says it might really warm up next week. Doesn't it ever rain in this barren damn desert?? Water rationing has been in effect all summer, so $1,700 worth of cactus just dried up and blew into the pool. Even a cactus can't live in this heat.

Aug 14th - Welcome to Hell!!! Temperature got to 123 today. Forgot to crack the window and blew the windshield out of the Lexus. The installer came to fix it and said, "Hot enough for you today?" My wife had to spend the $1,100 house payment to bail me out of jail.

Aug 30th - Worst day of the damn summer. I'm not leaving the house. The monsoon rains finally came and all they did is to make it muggier than hell. The Lexus is now floating somewhere in Mexico with it's new $500 windshield. That does it, we're moving to New York for some peace and quiet.

[Nice Nice Baby!]

NICE!! Couldn't have stated it better SpaceNeedle!

[MotleyCrew]

That was too funny. Great post.

[sablebaby]

A lot people compare our summers with their past winters in the snow where you can't just go outside. So you stay inside for the most part and deal with it.

[DaveV]

No, in winter you CAN go outside. There is the differance.. I am outdoors all winter