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Old 09-17-2007, 07:42 PM
 
Location: Tucson
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The lure is cheap land, cheap cost of labor, and tax incentives. It won't last forever... a boomtown is a boomtown. As soon as the costs of living, real estate, and resources catch up to the rest of the western U.S., employers will bolt for greener pastures, and leave the place an even more desolate, polluted mess than it is now. Real estate will crash, with it the economy, and it'll make the situation in Detroit look like a thriving, healthy environment by comparison. Glad I won't be there to experience it when it happens.
Brother... you're even more "optimistic" than I am... Well, I live in Tucson, though. It kinda dances to its own beat in many ways.
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Old 09-17-2007, 08:02 PM
 
Location: Sonoran Desert
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Well one of the reasons is happening right at the moment. I have a weather station in my yard and noticed the dewpoint has fallen to 15 degrees in the past couple hours from 60. The monsoon remnants have been swept away. I went outside and WOW - its really nice out there even though it is still 90. Feels cooler than indoors. I had forgotten just how great that dry, dry air feels after the long and non-productive monsoon. 60s in the morning. It's heaven.
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Old 09-17-2007, 08:41 PM
 
Location: Mesa, Az
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Well one of the reasons is happening right at the moment. I have a weather station in my yard and noticed the dewpoint has fallen to 15 degrees in the past couple hours from 60. The monsoon remnants have been swept away. I went outside and WOW - its really nice out there even though it is still 90. Feels cooler than indoors. I had forgotten just how great that dry, dry air feels after the long and non-productive monsoon. 60s in the morning. It's heaven.
June and July were not bad.......August was a humid son-of-a-gun and the first part of September was nasty as well-------still 1,000% better than dealing with snow and ice
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Old 09-17-2007, 09:04 PM
 
Location: East Central Phoenix
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June and July were not bad.......August was a humid son-of-a-gun and the first part of September was nasty as well-------still 1,000% better than dealing with snow and ice
June & July were awful this year. August was even worse as far as heat. It was officially the hottest summer on record in Phoenix ... and to top it off, we set a new record of 32 days with 110 degres or more. That's the most number of 110 + days ever recorded in a single year. How anybody can say that this summer wasn't all that bad just blows my fried mind!

Why I live here, as anybody has guessed, is NOT for the climate ... although most of the autumns and springs are decent. I like winter if there's enough rain. I dislike continuous dry weather any time of year. As a native, I generally like the various landscapes of Arizona ... especially the high country.

Generally speaking, I like the politics of the state as well. We're not liberal like New Yoawk, Taxachusetts, or California, but we're also not overly conservative like the Bible Belt (deep South). The non union/right to work atmosphere is one very positive aspect about the state. This means that your services will be efficiently running most of the time without fear of a strike.

I also have my family, my career, and my house here. Arizona is my home. It's a place that I want to be proud of, and see it grow and progress positively.
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Old 09-17-2007, 09:54 PM
 
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The job market. Where I was living before, it was sooo saturated. I said to heck with duking it out 12 rounds for jobs that weren't even trying to pay more than $12 an hour (on the high end).

I moved out here and that was all she wrote!

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interesting piece here:

Why I Live in Arizona

but yet...why do YOU live in Arizona?
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Old 09-17-2007, 10:21 PM
 
Location: Arizona, The American Southwest
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..June & July were awful this year. August was even worse as far as heat. It was officially the hottest summer on record in Phoenix ... and to top it off, we set a new record of 32 days with 110 degres or more. That's the most number of 110 + days ever recorded in a single year. How anybody can say that this summer wasn't all that bad just blows my fried mind!

I have to say yes, 32 days of 110+ degrees can definitely get on our nerves, even though it was only 3 days more than the previous record, which I hope we never break again. But in some cases, as we get older, I think our tolerence to hot temperatures seem to diminish. When I was a teenager, I could stay outside and play baseball with other kids in 110 degree weather. I can't imagine doing that these days!
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Old 09-18-2007, 09:04 AM
 
Location: Arizona
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I was raised here and Ive lived in a lot of different places . but the Desert keeps calling me home. I could list a million reasons but I will spare you.
To you people who complain about the "humidity" in August......try living in Houston, Oklahoma City, Dallas/Fort Worth or even Japan for a summer, then, you will know what humidity is REALLY like.
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Old 09-18-2007, 12:04 PM
 
Location: Arizona, The American Southwest
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I was raised here and Ive lived in a lot of different places . but the Desert keeps calling me home. I could list a million reasons but I will spare you.
To you people who complain about the "humidity" in August......try living in Houston, Oklahoma City, Dallas/Fort Worth or even Japan for a summer, then, you will know what humidity is REALLY like.
I've been in Houston late in the summer and one time in October and I know what it's like. I've also been in Michigan and Ohio in June, the temperature was in the uppper 80's or low 90's, but the humidity was WAY up there and it felt worse than 110 degrees!
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Old 09-18-2007, 01:52 PM
 
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Default Costs are about the same in the end...

I moved here from Wisconsin. Heating was the big bill there. Heating a house is peanuts here. Air conditioning is a big bill. My property taxes in Wisconsin were $3,000. Here they started at $1,000. BUT license plates at that time in WI were $25.00! I bought a motorhome here and the plates cost $3,000. In the end everything seems to be a wash.
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Old 09-18-2007, 03:08 PM
 
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CactusJumper you are sooo right! You desert rats really have no idea about humidity until you've been to the south. I lived in Dallas for awhile which had its bad days, but I have spent the past two years in Houston, and let me tell you- Phoenix heat is nothing compared to the heat + humidity here. At least in Phoenix when you get out of the shower- you're not sweating ten minutes later.
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