10 Reasons Not To Move To Tucson (friendly, basement, showing)

[xwideopenskyx]

Originally Posted by sorajet

While I know the initial aim of this thread was to offer up potential dissuasions for living in Tucson, I'm going to pitch in here with my own take on how much I enjoy & appreciate it. I moved to Tucson around 16 years ago & have never been more pleased by a city in my life so I'm happy to share some of the reasons why.

1. Fantastic weather & geography. I'm a big lover of heat, the sun, the monsoons... all of it. Best of all the Sonoran desert is by far my favorite landscape to live in & look at. The cacti, the desert animals, the colors of the scenery; all of it pleases me to no end. And hey, the sunsets are gorgeous too.

2. Outstanding people. I've met some of the best people of my life here, in both the arts & business communities. The friendliness & helpfulness of many of these folks have made me feel welcome from day one & happily there's also a high amount of open mindedness & intelligent tolerance here that's refreshing.

3. My favorite food in the whole world. Despite the fact that I (& my palate) grew up in the Midwest, Mexican food has always topped my list of favorite cuisines; the spicier the better! I'm pretty sure I could happily subsist on a daily diet of salad, burritos, chips, salsa (& maybe a few bottles of Dos Equis) for the rest of my life in fact. To that end Tucson's Mexican food is second to none, and the list of restaurants that I love here would take me hours to write out.

4. Great music. Tucson's music scene has produced some really fantastic bands (in particular the Punk Rock & Punk inspired bands from Tucson are easily the best you'll find in the state) & the more traditional Mexican influenced sounds here (Mariachi, etc) amazed & delighted me upon my first discovery of them. Just great stuff.

5. The Mexican influence. I really really love the embracement in Tucson as regards to Mexican customs, culture (ranging from things as disparate as the amazing "Dia De Los Muertos" parade to the cool colors you'll see all around), architecture & style. I can't think of a single downside to this personally, and I love love love hearing Spanish spoken all around me. It's a really pretty sounding language on the ears.

6. Sense of history. Tucson has a cool & rich past that hasn't been swept under the rug or forgotten. There's all sorts of neat places to check out from all eras of the past too, ranging from the San Xavier del Bac Mission to South Tucson's cool old business signage dating to the 1950's, '60's & later.

...there are many many more reason that factor in for me of course (I've found excellent work here for example, and have found the local arts scene to be full of inventive & dedicated people who seem to want to make certain I never find myself lacking entertainment), but I've quickly touched upon some of the biggest reasons I love it here, and ones that would influence any decision I'd make about where to live.

Your milage may vary of course (& from the looks of this thread it really has for a lot of people), but I personally couldn't have made a smarter decision at 22 than to move here.

I agree with you 100%.

[sickofIL]

While I know the initial aim of this thread was to offer up potential dissuasions for living in Tucson, I'm going to pitch in here with my own take on how much I enjoy & appreciate it. I moved to Tucson around 16 years ago & have never been more pleased by a city in my life so I'm happy to share some of the reasons why.

1. Fantastic weather & geography. I'm a big lover of heat, the sun, the monsoons... all of it. Best of all the Sonoran desert is by far my favorite landscape to live in & look at. The cacti, the desert animals, the colors of the scenery; all of it pleases me to no end. And hey, the sunsets are gorgeous too.

2. Outstanding people. I've met some of the best people of my life here, in both the arts & business communities. The friendliness & helpfulness of many of these folks have made me feel welcome from day one & happily there's also a high amount of open mindedness & intelligent tolerance here that's refreshing.

3. My favorite food in the whole world. Despite the fact that I (& my palate) grew up in the Midwest, Mexican food has always topped my list of favorite cuisines; the spicier the better! I'm pretty sure I could happily subsist on a daily diet of salad, burritos, chips, salsa (& maybe a few bottles of Dos Equis) for the rest of my life in fact. To that end Tucson's Mexican food is second to none, and the list of restaurants that I love here would take me hours to write out.

4. Great music. Tucson's music scene has produced some really fantastic bands (in particular the Punk Rock & Punk inspired bands from Tucson are easily the best you'll find in the state) & the more traditional Mexican influenced sounds here (Mariachi, etc) amazed & delighted me upon my first discovery of them. Just great stuff.

5. The Mexican influence. I really really love the embracement in Tucson as regards to Mexican customs, culture (ranging from things as disparate as the amazing "Dia De Los Muertos" parade to the cool colors you'll see all around), architecture & style. I can't think of a single downside to this personally, and I love love love hearing Spanish spoken all around me. It's a really pretty sounding language on the ears.

6. Sense of history. Tucson has a cool & rich past that hasn't been swept under the rug or forgotten. There's all sorts of neat places to check out from all eras of the past too, ranging from the San Xavier del Bac Mission to South Tucson's cool old business signage dating to the 1950's, '60's & later.

...there are many many more reason that factor in for me of course (I've found excellent work here for example, and have found the local arts scene to be full of inventive & dedicated people who seem to want to make certain I never find myself lacking entertainment), but I've quickly touched upon some of the biggest reasons I love it here, and ones that would influence any decision I'd make about where to live.

Your milage may vary of course (& from the looks of this thread it really has for a lot of people), but I personally couldn't have made a smarter decision at 22 than to move here.

See, this is the kind of response that is needed here. Is there anyone that can post something like this about what might deture someone from moving to Tucson?

If someone had visited and already knows about the heat, lower wages, desert colors (or as some believe lack of color) the crime, (which is published in many places already including the Tucson Police Dept web site) the desert creatures, (which can be found on numorious web sites) what could there be that could keep someone from moving there?

The more I research the more reasons I find to continue to want to move there ASAP. I am also on two Yahoo groups and have met some people that I would like to meet sometime after we arrive. I just can't find any reasons that would even make us rethink moving to Tucson.

[bellringer]

But it's on the wrong thread.

[sweetclimber]

I can't think of any reasons not to move to Tucson except high crime in some areas.
I can think of lots of reasons to move there though.
1) Univ of Arizona, the best college in Arizona
2) wonderful scenery, Sabino canyon (is 7 falls still hard to get to?) and the mountains
3) beautiful areas especially in the North part.
4) It's not Phoenix!!!

[bellringer]

Wrong thread again!

[ZonyPony]

Originally Posted by bellringer

Wrong thread again!

Its OK, Bell Ringer.

No biggie... calm down...

[sierraAZ]

Originally Posted by ZonyPony

Its OK, Bell Ringer.

No biggie... calm down...

Some lovely contributions, huh?!

[bellringer]

I'm as cool as a cucumber. People should post in the right thread. And, the back and forth conversations should be taken to the phone. Lots of personal chit chat that doesn't belong on a forum. It's boring to the rest of us, who aren't your minions.

[sierraAZ]

Originally Posted by bellringer

I'm as cool as a cucumber. People should post in the right thread. And, the back and forth conversations should be taken to the phone.

And the boring square folks should go bore somebody else.

[bellringer]

Then bye bye to you.