Why would anyone buy a house in the desert? (economic, money, claim)
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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...
No everybody is not wrong. I respect everyone's opinion but yours. Don't worry I won't be moving to Apple Valley California either.
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!
Actually, Sedona is built in the forest. Mainly Pinon Pines and Juniper with lots of Cottonwood and other deciduous trees along the creek. The forest gets denser as you drive up the canyon towards Flagstaff. Also, the largest stands of Ponderosa Pine in the USA are around Flagstaff.
Actually what's called "desert" in the USA are often not what people think of as deserts which is the Sahara desert of sand. Deserts have a lot of plant life and animal life, not really different from anywhere else. I live in what's considered to be desert and you can see deer, coyotes, cougars, foxes, beavers, muskrats, all kinds of birds including many migrating and year round water fowl.
People who have never been to the USA deserts have a big misunderstanding of what they are.
When I think of Phoenix, I think of orange trees.
Southern California in it entirety is a desert, including all of LA and Orange County. Would you suggest everyone who lives south of Fresno move to your neighborhood?
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?
You don't want to hear the answer, but here goes anyway.. the foreclosure rate is high due to the large number of people who wanted to live in such great places. Mobs of people moved to their dream spot, and a % of them lost jobs and were foreclosed on. It's all because of the
popularity of the area, it's God's country...
I would rather be in the desert at 110 than in a humid environment at 50...!!! High humidity really sucks, dry heat is fantastic...
I've experienced both and it's a myth.
110 degree in the desert is awful, now it would be worse if it was humid, but to suggest that 50 degree humid is comparable is just plain ignorant.
Illinois gets pretty humid and 85 humid is very doable, a bit sticky but not nearly as bad as 110 desert heat, no freakin way.
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