Polar Vortex Leads to Increased Home Searches in Phoenix - Shocker? (Miami: new home, landscaping)

[PhoenixSomeday]

@maverick974, first, here in silicon valley the weather has been almost exactly the same everyday as it has been in Phoenix. I have both my home and Phoenix selected on the weather app on my phone and I go back and forth between them daily. So what it's like here right now, is what it's like in Phoenix. So basically, when we move, our winters won't change much. Granted though most of California is a little different than everywhere else.

I feel exactly the same way about heat. I can't stand being cold. I really, really, really f'ing hate being cold. I don't care about layers and blankets and all that. I know you can "only take off so much, but you can put on as many layers as you want". I'd rather be nearly naked being sweaty and miserable from the heat than bundled up with 8 layers like the kids from A Christmas Story. ANY DAY.

I think people have trouble truly grasping that everyone is different, and that it is thus possible for a person to really, actually, honestly, always be ok with the heat.

If i had to live in a place that snowed, I'd be miserable and hate my life. I would be counting down the days until moving, even if it was 5 years out. "1826 days to go..."

[R_Cowgirl]

Woo Hoo!
Let's hope the "vortex" or whatever marketing term they give it next time - puts a little mojo in our market! That plus the Superbowl in Phoenix next year will provide a stunning comparison. [Ummmm.... so they built an arena in New Jersey with uber fancy expensive lighting systems and NO ONE THOUGHT TO PUT IN A ROOF? And some rocket scientists chose that for the SB in the dead of winter and Phoenix for the following year? Hmmmmmmm. Forevermore the comparisons between SB 2014 and SB 2015 will be fodder for everyone from sports commentators to comedians to Real Estate Agents.]

P.S.
To those of you that said "just wait for two or three years and you won't be so positive about this place", well now I've been here for a few years and it's been awesome and it still is, at least to me.

Yep. I found city-data in 2008 because I was looking to leave PHX after 6 years. Have now been to every state in the US in all different kinds of weather. Can't find anyplace I like better than right where I am. The heat sucks. We deal with it. We leave for the coast now and again and I go back to Hawaii at least twice every summer. It works.

[maverick974]

Originally Posted by PhoenixSomeday

@maverick974, first, here in silicon valley the weather has been almost exactly the same everyday as it has been in Phoenix. I have both my home and Phoenix selected on the weather app on my phone and I go back and forth between them daily. So what it's like here right now, is what it's like in Phoenix. So basically, when we move, our winters won't change much. Granted though most of California is a little different than everywhere else.

I feel exactly the same way about heat. I can't stand being cold. I really, really, really f'ing hate being cold. I don't care about layers and blankets and all that. I know you can "only take off so much, but you can put on as many layers as you want". I'd rather be nearly naked being sweaty and miserable from the heat than bundled up with 8 layers like the kids from A Christmas Story. ANY DAY.

I think people have trouble truly grasping that everyone is different, and that it is thus possible for a person to really, actually, honestly, always be ok with the heat.

If i had to live in a place that snowed, I'd be miserable and hate my life. I would be counting down the days until moving, even if it was 5 years out. "1826 days to go..."

I hear ya buddy. I used to bundle up so much that I'd look like the Michelin Man or the Pillsbury Dough Boy and it never seemed to do much good. I was always cold to the bone.

Originally Posted by R_Cowgirl

Woo Hoo!
Let's hope the "vortex" or whatever marketing term they give it next time - puts a little mojo in our market! That plus the Superbowl in Phoenix next year will provide a stunning comparison. [Ummmm.... so they built an arena in New Jersey with uber fancy expensive lighting systems and NO ONE THOUGHT TO PUT IN A ROOF? And some rocket scientists chose that for the SB in the dead of winter and Phoenix for the following year? Hmmmmmmm. Forevermore the comparisons between SB 2014 and SB 2015 will be fodder for everyone from sports commentators to comedians to Real Estate Agents.]

Yep. I found city-data in 2008 because I was looking to leave PHX after 6 years. Have now been to every state in the US in all different kinds of weather. Can't find anyplace I like better than right where I am. The heat sucks. We deal with it. We leave for the coast now and again and I go back to Hawaii at least twice every summer. It works.

Glad you came to your senses.
In all seriousness, I can't see ever wanting to go someplace cold in my lifetime. Could I leave Arizona? I don't think I would but if for some reason, I had to, it would not be to a cold place. NEVER AGAIN. Gimme some HEAT..............

[cBach]

And the irony is that it will be open air in NJ but AZ will probably close the stadium roof and it will be 70 degrees or something. Bone-headed, but I don't get why y'all never open your stadium roof. I think it was 64 degrees one Superbowl and the roof was closed.

[maverick974]

If the Superbowl was played here this year, we've got a cold front blowing through and it would be only about 66 and blue skies on Sunday. BRRRRRR. Ya can't blame us for closing the roof with such inclement weather. lol.

Honestly, I don't know why they would close the roof in that kind of weather but I'm sure someone will be along shortly to answer that for you.

[bobbyf]

Originally Posted by Bummer

I am always amazed and equally amused when I hear people from "up there" or "over there" refer to the Summers in Arizona in a negative way.

Although the Summers here are hot and often "booger hot" . . . I have personally experienced many unbearable hot and muggy days and nights during the Summer in the East, Southeast, Northeast and Upper Midwest as well as the constant overcast and rain along the Pacific Coast from the Mexican Border all the way to Canada.

There's no perfect place to live, however, I will happily take the relatively "bug free" Summers here in Arizona any time, any day over those areas where the humidity and the temperatures are off the charts and the mosquitos are the size of small cats.

MY TWO CENTS WORTH.

What we hear a lot when we tell people we plan on moving to Phoenix is "I prefer to see color." Everybody must think Phoenix is all brown. It's funny because here in NY, it has been white and gray for two months and will be for two more months, but naysayers want "color".

[Yn0hTnA]

Originally Posted by bobbyf

What we hear a lot when we tell people we plan on moving to Phoenix is "I prefer to see color." Everybody must think Phoenix is all brown. It's funny because here in NY, it has been white and gray for two months and will be for two more months, but naysayers want "color".

This is what you can see in Phoenix 365 days of the year:
http://budgettraveladventures.smugmu...%20trees-L.jpg

Something that can't be seen in the rest of the nation (Outside of the Pacific Coast, Desert Southwest, Gulf Coast, and South Atlantic Coast.)

[Maroon197]

Originally Posted by bobbyf

What we hear a lot when we tell people we plan on moving to Phoenix is "I prefer to see color." Everybody must think Phoenix is all brown. It's funny because here in NY, it has been white and gray for two months and will be for two more months, but naysayers want "color".

Phoenix is all brown. And not just the landscape. After you've lived in Phoenix for awhile and you take a trip back east, that's when it will especially hit you.

[DetroitN8V]

Originally Posted by Maroon197

Phoenix is all brown. And not just the landscape. After you've lived in Phoenix for awhile and you take a trip back east, that's when it will especially hit you.

Yeah, I hate all the brown golf courses, and the bright brown sky. The brown palm trees and brown flowers are particularly bothersome. You want a lack of color? Go to Michigan where it is gray 90% of the time.

[Maroon197]

Originally Posted by DetroitN8V

Yeah, I hate all the brown golf courses, and the bright brown sky. The brown palm trees and brown flowers are particularly bothersome. You want a lack of color? Go to Michigan where it is gray 90% of the time.

Sadly, in winter the sky often does look brown on the horizon due to inversion. Palm trees aren't even native, and they are mostly brown with a tuft of green at the top. And while some golf courses dump unbelievable/irresponsible amounts of water on the grass to stay relatively green, the reality is that most of the grass in metro Phoenix is yellow/brown for most of the year. If I showed you a picture of Phoenix in July and a picture of Phoenix in January, you'd probably have a hard time finding any differences between the two.

I've only been to Michigan in summer, when it was green, but I'm just guessing there are multi-colored flowers and bright green buds in the spring, orange, red and yellow leaves in the fall, white snow in the winter etc. And I'm certain that the houses come in all different colors from red to green to blue to white to yellow. Personally, I'd choose Arizona over Michigan every time for a lot of different reasons, but color wouldn't be one of them.