10 Reasons Not To Move To Tucson (Superior: universities, campers, rooftop)

[.45acp]

Yer welcome!

[nugla13]

Moving from Wisconsin
Hi all,
I am looking to move with my family from Wisconsin. My parents live in Saddlebrooke and my dad is from Mesa, Az so we are familiar with desert living.....and we like it.

I am a Spanish/Bilingual Teacher and my husband is an RN. We both speak Spanish fluently....do you think there would be nice job possibilities for us?

Having these occupations, where do you think we could afford to live?
We don't mind not having land or anything big....and my husband loves to ride his bike to work, everywhere. We probably couldn't afford more than $ 150,000 right now.

Also we have a 1. 5 year old daughter so we want to be somewhere safe where we can walk around, walk our dog, etc....
Any ideas?

Also, I have noticed a lot of these townhomes and communities which we don't have where I live....are they for families or more for snowbirds and retirees??...or rowdy with college kids??

Crime stats seem high, but walking around...does one really feel unsafe--is it obvious which are the bad areas??

How's "midtown" ? some people have suggested to me that area.

Thanks in advance for your input!

[twojulybabies]

nugla - you may want to cut and paste this to a new thread and start your own. This thread is quite old.

A quick response would be that there are pockets of crime everywhere, but just do lots of research. Saddlebrooke that you mentioned is very nice.

I think you would do well to find a teaching job here since you are bilingual, and your husband should have no problems finding a job.

Midtown - there are pockets of good and bad, but for your $150, you could find something nice and perhaps hubby could still bike to work.

[.45acp]

Think Marana, Avra Valley, Picture Rocks. Doublewides on an acre. Sticks, bricks and block is not necessary here... There's never that kind of weather. Check real estate sites on the internet. Forget the bike to work. Forget the inner city. Buy guns when you get here... learn how to use them and carry them on you. Forget whatever the social mores of Wisconson are. Don't bring that with you.

[twojulybabies]

Originally Posted by .45acp

Think Marana, Avra Valley, Picture Rocks. Doublewides on an acre. Sticks, bricks and block is not necessary here... There's never that kind of weather. Check real estate sites on the internet. Forget the bike to work. Forget the inner city. Buy guns when you get here... learn how to use them and carry them on you. Forget whatever the social mores of Wisconson are. Don't bring that with you.

Wow, remind me not to vote for you to be our social ambassador.

[.45acp]

I don't do 'nice'... I do reality.

[actinic]

Yep, better to be judged by 9 than buried by 6.

[nugla13]

Okay, .45 acp......
I am assuming that your posts are satirical? and are meant to keep the endless amount of people overpopulating the southwest?
I get it...
I wanted some real and accurate information so I guess I will start another thread, but thanks anyway.

[.45acp]

Originally Posted by nugla13

Okay, .45 acp......
I am assuming that your posts are satirical? and are meant to keep the endless amount of people overpopulating the southwest?
I get it...
I wanted some real and accurate information so I guess I will start another thread, but thanks anyway.

I think you're used to livin' and thinkin' within a box. OK... find a box. There's lots of 'em here... all clustered up together.

My place is a 3 bdrm, 2 bath, dubblewide with a covered veranda, covered patio (about 25' x 70') with a 13K gallon in-ground swimmin' pool w/pump and filter, walled, fenced, 3 car covered/paved carport, paved driveway, 2 car garage, block storage shed, work shed, 6 large palm trees (one is 45') 16 saguaros, 5 mesquites, 3 ironwood, 2 creosote, 1 eucalyptus, numerous agave, barrel cactus, cholla, 3 large prickly pear stands, numerous smaller prickly pear, 1ea bearing lemon, orange, grapefruit, pear & almond trees (which are ripening now), automatic watering system, propane and septic on 1 1/3rd acre for... $170K.

It's remote. It's 'Open Range' area. There are 5 deputies to cover 155 sq miles per shift. It's close to the border... and all that comes with that. We are responsible for our own safety. It's high plains desert. It's Arizona.

[Recovering from Seattle]

All of this criticism is overblown. Tucson is a great place to live.

I lived in Seattle for 18 years and if you want to live in a sad, overpriced, over-rated place, then Seattle is it. $8 for a glass of wine and $500,000 for a two-bedroom crackerbox with NO SUNSHINE for 8 months out of the year. Yes, Tucson may have its shabby parts, but what I love about it is it's a REGULAR city. It has reasonable food and home prices, it has SUN 350 days of the year, and it's not on the media's radar map -- yet.

In another 5 or 10 years, businesses will discover how beautiful the mountains are, how bike friendly the city is, how green it's becoming, and will want to move here! And that will bring moneyed yuppies and then everyone on this list, instead of griping about a roach that comes up once every 3 years when the city treats the water, will be griping about how expensive it is and how the friendly, laid-back lifestyle has been lost. I would just enjoy Tucson as it is because living in a Forbes Magazine Top 5 city isn't all it's cracked up to be.

I wake up in the Old Pueblo every day and appreciate everything from the 4th Avenue art scene to the "desert rat" neighbor down my street.