Why would anyone buy a house in the desert? (Illinois, county, California)

[freightshaker]

I've lived in San Diego years ago.... It was and is a beautiful place... If you are wealthy enough to be able to afford the taxes and property taxes.... As for me, I will stay now in my beloved desert...

[claudhopper]

Originally Posted by hotair2

Arizona and Nevada are number 1 and number 2. I don't care how cheap the house was I would still would not buy a house in the desert.

nor New Orleans, the place is below sea level, unless they build em to float.

[TigerLily24]

Originally Posted by bradleyyo

Why would anyone buy a house in the middle of nowhere in the Midwest? Blizzards in the winter and tornados in the summer. Sounds awesome.

Or, in hurricane alley in Florida and along the eastern seaboard.
Or, the unrelentingly rainy Pacific Northwest...

To each his or her own.
Personally, I would rather live in the high desert than anywhere else in the country.

I'm thinking it must be a slow news day.

[TigerLily24]

Originally Posted by hotair2

Obviously there is more at play than just the desert, but the fact that Arizona and Nevada are number 1 and 2 in foreclosures is interesting. Why are there foreclosure rates the highest?

Probably has a lot to do with them being so dependent on tourism and service economies that are themselves dependent on people having disposable income.
No disposable income, no tourists.

[claudhopper]

Originally Posted by malamute

I guess everyone can have his/her preferences and wonder why other people would live where they live. I don't like cold weather very much and kind of wonder why people like living where it gets down to 0 degrees, and I don't like earthquakes and kind of wonder why some people want to live on a big earthquake fault -- eventually it's going to happen. I also can't see why some people want to live in what feels like a swamp.

The desert regions of the USA are filled with plantlife and animal life -- probably no fewer than plains regions and forests -- it's just a different kind. Xeriscape plants are absolutely beautiful.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I had a boss that loved to vacation in Joshua Tree, I thought that was strange. I am a tree person, the more the better. I'd much rather be in Oregon than a place like Sedona, I guess it's a personal preference.
LA is built on the desert!

[hotair2]

Originally Posted by Trackwatch

I guess you don't understand that Vegas IS a desert, what you see is all faked.

Antarctica is technically a desert too.

I do understand that Vegas is a desert and that antartica is also A desert. Don't want to move there either.

[ABQConvict]

I hate geography/regionalism threads. They are right next to race in the 'ignorant comment' race to the bottom.

The desert appeals to some people.

Forests appeal to some people.

Mountains appeal to some people.

Coasts appeal to some people.

Get over it.

[hotair2]

Originally Posted by ABQConvict

I hate geography/regionalism threads. They are right next to race in the 'ignorant comment' race to the bottom.

The desert appeals to some people.

Forests appeal to some people.

Mountains appeal to some people.

Coasts appeal to some people.

Get over it.

hmmm. A person from Albuquerque.

[Nayabone]

Originally Posted by hotair2

I passed the stupid test. I am curious as to why so many failed.

so what you're saying is, you're right and everyone else is wrong?
I would say this is the dumbest thread ever started, but that wouldn't be true, because you have started other threads...

[Nayabone]

Originally Posted by freightshaker

go ahead and divorce her... You'll enjoy living in that environmentally sympatico Maytag box...

....and his wife would be happy for the first time in her life. She would be able to vote Republican without lying to him about it..