Should I move to Arizona from Southern California? (Young: condo, home)

[Obrienlester]

Yes, move to Arizona.

[grad_student200]

Originally Posted by Bummer

Go for it, YoungTraveler . . .

Many years ago, after a couple of decades first in Southern California and then the Bay Area due to my job, I woke up and said . . . "What the hell am I doing here? California is Too Whacky, Tooo Many Regulations, Too Expensive (Real Estate, Food, Vehicle Registration, Utilities and Taxes to name just a few) and above all, Too Freaky with far too many Nutcases in Sacramento."

I researched a number of possibilities and finally opted for Tucson. To this day, my only complaint is WHY DID I WAIT SO LONG?

Good Luck.

I really appreciate this post. I've got a tech recruiter trying to move me out to Southern California for a "great" job in biomedical engineering (which I am sure it is), but the regional difficulties are troubling.
You corroborate that effectively.

It looks like I should just stay in Phoenix. I love it here.

[LS Jaun]

Originally Posted by LBTRS

I'll welcome you to AZ as long as you don't get here and start voting to make it just like California that you were dying to get away from. So many people from California flee that mess and then try and make the place they moved to just like California.

If you move to Arizona, or any of the other places Californians have flocked to, and start voting in all the liberal politicians and policies, it won't be long and your new place will be ruined also.

As a 4th generation Arizonan I share this perspective.

[Canine*Castle]

Originally Posted by Tominftl

What’s the matter with New Mexico? Do they have the natural disasters California has? (Fires, mudslides, etc...)

It's also the #2 state for crime. No, thank you.

[KurtAZ]

Originally Posted by LBTRS

I'll welcome you to AZ as long as you don't get here and start voting to make it just like California that you were dying to get away from. So many people from California flee that mess and then try and make the place they moved to just like California.

If you move to Arizona, or any of the other places Californians have flocked to, and start voting in all the liberal politicians and policies, it won't be long and your new place will be ruined also.

That is already happening.

[DetroitN8V]

Originally Posted by KurtAZ

That is already happening.

How? What "liberal policies" have transplants enacted?

[Foreverking]

Moving away to Washington State soon, you can take my place..buy my house while your at it. While you are here, plant some darn shade trees. Gave it a decade. I stayed here because it was cheap...then I checked out WA...Wa cost more because you get WAY MORE. I think you can say the same about California although I recently checked out So cal after a 40 year gap from living there as a kid and Reseda/Santa Monica/universal City were all much different places. Not moving there anytime soon either.

[Hschlick84]

Enjoy WA state, lived in Everett just north of Seattle nearly 4 years and couldn't wait to leave that cesspool. Constant rain, grey skies in the winter, anti-freedom politics, high COL, expensive auto insurance and snooty people. You definitely pay for what you get.

[wase4711]

Originally Posted by Foreverking

.Wa cost more because you get WAY MORE.

what do you get that you consider "WAY More"?

[xrilander]

I got the hell OUT of Arizona 2 years ago, Kingman specifically, after 11 years living there. It was OK at first, then progressively got worse once Obama was elected. I`m no flaming Liberal, but the ignorance of the people moving/living there, I just couldn`t take it anymore! I pitty the people moving from CA, because they`ll hate you, so hurry up and change your plates, act like you never lived there. Then bad mouth them, Democrats, and non whites, you`ll fit right in! I actually moved TO California, LOVE IT. Many of the hateful, ignorant types are moving out, well worth the extra cost of living here!