Relocating from Maine to AZ

[JeepGirl118]

Originally Posted by Boatdrinks

I've been here almost 4 yrs - never seen a roof rat, nor do I know anyone who has.

Have been here 33 out of 35 years and I have yet to see a roof rat. Scorpions, snakes, coyotes, bobcats, etc. YES - no roof rats though. Thank goodness!

[30apples]

in response to Boatdrinks: you got me there about the hasty move. It was yrs. ago when I was young and uninformed--no computer and so no sites such as this to assist in becoming informed!
The area to which I was referring with the 4- lane traffic along mostly residential areas is in central Phoenix: Missouri Ave between 24th st and thru to around 19th ave, probably farther, though I usually don't go that far on that street. Also, Bethany Home Road from Highway 51 west, Glendale Ave, Thunderbird ave and places north, in the same general east/west area. Camelback rd from Scottsdale Rd to west of Central Ave also has a lot of nice residential areas, but huge #s of cars whizzing past their front yards, so there is pollution and noise. There are many, many other areas w/ nice houses but w/ this kind of heavy traffic.
Perhaps you live in a subdivision area or in one of the areas w/ smaller streets. My relatives live in a very nice neighborhood a block north of Missouri and get this kind of traffic noise and pollution. The neighborhood where they live has irrigation and many fruit trees and they have had roof rats, though I believe the city has some sort of prevention program and we haven't seen any in a while.

[63ragtop]

LOL, of course there is going to be traffic if you live on Camelback/Bethany Home/Glendale/Thunderbird, those are some of the major streets set up every mile in the Phoenix grid system.

No one lives on those streets unless that is all they can afford or they have a good reason. For instance, lot size as a lot of those properties are on larger lots. You have a mile of normal streets and neighborhoods between each major street to choose from. Although I wouldn't want to live at the 1/2 mile mark either as those streets can be busy too, depending on the location.

Missouri being a 1/2 mile street, especially the location you mentioned, you should expect it to be busy.

Don't buy a house a block away from a busy street either.

[Boatdrinks]

Originally Posted by 30apples

in response to Boatdrinks: you got me there about the hasty move. It was yrs. ago when I was young and uninformed--no computer and so no sites such as this to assist in becoming informed!
The area to which I was referring with the 4- lane traffic along mostly residential areas is in central Phoenix: Missouri Ave between 24th st and thru to around 19th ave, probably farther, though I usually don't go that far on that street. Also, Bethany Home Road from Highway 51 west, Glendale Ave, Thunderbird ave and places north, in the same general east/west area. Camelback rd from Scottsdale Rd to west of Central Ave also has a lot of nice residential areas, but huge #s of cars whizzing past their front yards, so there is pollution and noise. There are many, many other areas w/ nice houses but w/ this kind of heavy traffic.
Perhaps you live in a subdivision area or in one of the areas w/ smaller streets. My relatives live in a very nice neighborhood a block north of Missouri and get this kind of traffic noise and pollution. The neighborhood where they live has irrigation and many fruit trees and they have had roof rats, though I believe the city has some sort of prevention program and we haven't seen any in a while.

So probably a more useful way for you to make your point would have been to be clear in that, in the very few areas that you've seen in the Phoenix area, there is a great deal of traffic along those major streets. The majority of residential areas do not have such wide streets and high volume of traffic.

The original poster asked about moving from Maine to Phoenix - I've lived in Maine and can tell you that even in Maine they have wide streets with high volume of traffic in residential areas. Not the high volume that they have here b/c the population is dramatically smaller, but it's certainly a lot of traffic. It happens in every city and I'm not real sure why you thought it such an oddity in Phoenix. However, the fact is that it's not the norm in residential areas in the Phoenix area.

Additionally, thank you for clarifying that your relatives do not, in fact, have a problem with roof rats, and that they're not as big a problem as you initially said they were.

[MyG5]

Don't move to Buckeye! The traffic is awful!

[ejk]

Originally Posted by MyG5

Don't move to Buckeye! The traffic is awful!

Buckeye and pretty much everywhere else!

I'm not complaining because I love it here. But the traffic is a problem Valleywide.

[jyates]

seems many Mainers are headed to Arizona, I've been thinking of heading there myself. Maine is going down the drain and fast. Time to bail off the sinking ship. High taxes,high living cost,and low wages. The job market is slowly killing itself, I've got a degree in computer science and have been looking for a job here for wow almost a year, been in Maine my whole life, grew up in the mountains living in Portland now. I can't stand the immigrants that flood the state and the fact that no one seems to care the state is turning into a **** hole, please pardon my language. I love the state, I feel Mainers are the best, hardest working people in the country but it's getting bad, the streets of portland are filled with high schol dropouts,drunks, and druggies, the police don't do anything. and no one seems to care. I'm just waiting for the day I can afford to head west.

[twiggy]

Originally Posted by jyates

seems many Mainers are headed to Arizona, I've been thinking of heading there myself. Maine is going down the drain and fast. Time to bail off the sinking ship. High taxes,high living cost,and low wages. The job market is slowly killing itself, I've got a degree in computer science and have been looking for a job here for wow almost a year, been in Maine my whole life, grew up in the mountains living in Portland now. I can't stand the immigrants that flood the state and the fact that no one seems to care the state is turning into a **** hole, please pardon my language. I love the state, I feel Mainers are the best, hardest working people in the country but it's getting bad, the streets of portland are filled with high schol dropouts,drunks, and druggies, the police don't do anything. and no one seems to care. I'm just waiting for the day I can afford to head west.

I'm sorry to be the one to tell you this but it's going to s..t everywhere. It is just America, not Maine, you will find the same problems here in a different color if you know what I mean. Just make your decision on the weather, that is really the only difference, oh, but add pollution.

[Newbigtech]

I love Arizona. It's a right to carry state. Lower crime because we can carry weapons in the open. The taxes are getting higher, but that comes with growth. I have been here since 83 and the traffic is getting worse.
It's different here.