Please do not move here if .... (Phoenix, Peoria: new home, middle school, income)

[ZonyPony]

Originally Posted by Magnum Mike

I'll add 3 more items:

- Don't come here if you're an illegal from Mexico - Happy Cinco De Mayo, now go back and celebrate your independence day in Mexico.

- If you want to come here, do it legally like millions have done so in the past.

- If you want to come here from Mexico, leave Mexico behind, don't bring it with you, and learn English.

Hmmm... while I can understand your fervor, Mike, you might want to get the facts straight. Cinco de Mayo (1862) is not an official "Independence Day" for Mexico, but it is a very important day which commemorates a battle which was fought in order to expel the French, which had designs on taking over Mexico! Mexico's official Independence Day is celebrated every September 15. This date commemorates when Mexico declared independence from Spain in 1810. When you read into the above link, you'll see that Americans celebrate Cinco de Mayo with Mexico for a number of reasons.

Originally Posted by _Charles_

And as far as bigotry goes - I have seen thread after thread that might as well say - "please tell me there aren't too many caucasians". One person even complained about day care center pictures that featured too many blond haired, blue eyed children.

Actually, if one seriously takes notice, many TV commercials show less and less caucasians in them, and more and more African, Asian, and Hispanic Americans!

Originally Posted by michael85225

That's nice and all except Cinco De Mayo isn't Mexican Independece Day. As a matter of fact, the US celebrates it like it is an Indepence Day more than what Mexico does in the entire country.

See above!

[_Charles_]

Someone demanded to know the point of my thread. Read all the other Phoenix and Arizona bashing threads and then come back and read mine. You'll get it.

[RickTucsonHomes]

WOW! the Phoenix forum is a lot more "interesting" than the Tucson forum!

[twiggy]

Charles is trying to heat it up a little for ya RickTucsonHomes. We like to keep it a little exciting on here for the visitors. lol

[RickTucsonHomes]

Originally Posted by twiggy

Charles is trying to heat it up a little for ya RickTucsonHomes. We like to keep it a little exciting on here for the visitors. lol

We have our Tucson haters too. One person's screen name is "I Hate Tucson". He rants all the time about the only jobs in Tucson are Call Center jobs, yet by his own admission he has been fired from three call centers! Whether it is Phoenix, Tucson, or wherever you are, if you hate it so much, just move. Put a plan is place and make it happen. It could be two months or two years, but do something besides complain. There's lot of great places in this country to live. Make it happen. Life is too short to be that unhappy with where you live.

[Ponderosa]

Originally Posted by Magnum Mike

I'll add 3 more items:

- Don't come here if you're an illegal from Mexico - Happy Cinco De Mayo, now go back and celebrate your independence day in Mexico.

- If you want to come here, do it legally like millions have done so in the past.

- If you want to come here from Mexico, leave Mexico behind, don't bring it with you, and learn English.

I'll add one more thing.

-If you come from Illinois, New York, New Jersey, California or wherever, don't bring it with you. Forget about your "teams", your "food" and your so-called culture. Like Mexicans, you must leave all that behind and adopt our Arizona ways. I'm as sick of seeing your Cowboys plate frames as I am of seeing Radio Campesino stickers.

[twiggy]

Originally Posted by Ponderosa

I'll add one more thing.

-If you come from Illinois, New York, New Jersey, California or wherever, don't bring it with you. Forget about your "teams", your "food" and your so-called culture. Like Mexicans, you must leave all that behind and adopt our Arizona ways. I'm as sick of seeing your Cowboys plate frames as I am of seeing Radio Campesino stickers.

Ha, ha, ok Pond, that was funny!

[twiggy]

Originally Posted by RickTucsonHomes

We have our Tucson haters too. One person's screen name is "I Hate Tucson". He rants all the time about the only jobs in Tucson are Call Center jobs, yet by his own admission he has been fired from three call centers! Whether it is Phoenix, Tucson, or wherever you are, if you hate it so much, just move. Put a plan is place and make it happen. It could be two months or two years, but do something besides complain. There's lot of great places in this country to live. Make it happen. Life is too short to be that unhappy with where you live.

Totally agree! The same goes with people who "love" it so much they hate others for not loving it! I mean, to each their own! One mans gold is another mans poop! lol Is that how that saying goes? lol Wait, one mans poop is another mans gold? Something like that!

[_Charles_]

Originally Posted by RickTucsonHomes

We have our Tucson haters too. One person's screen name is "I Hate Tucson". He rants all the time about the only jobs in Tucson are Call Center jobs, yet by his own admission he has been fired from three call centers! Whether it is Phoenix, Tucson, or wherever you are, if you hate it so much, just move. Put a plan is place and make it happen. It could be two months or two years, but do something besides complain. There's lot of great places in this country to live. Make it happen. Life is too short to be that unhappy with where you live.

I like Phoenix and that is the point of my thread. This is contrary to the Phoenix and AZ bashing that abounds on ths BBS.

As for heating things up. I can't take credit for that. There is just a relatively higher energy level in this particular forum.

BTW I also like Tucson and southern AZ - esp the area between Tucson and Patagonia.

[actinic]

Originally Posted by twiggy

Totally agree! The same goes with people who "love" it so much they hate others for not loving it!

LOL that's so true. They're such fanboyz they've become delusional and live in their own little utopia, totally oblivious to the real world.