Why NOT move to Phoenix? (Mesa, Chandler: to buy, living, restaurants)

[Lovehound]

Originally Posted by nasu

The negatives of Phoenix compared to Bay Area CA:

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Less Asian food items. We really don't dine out much unless traveling since I love to cook so having good markets is important to me.

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Much hotter and drier than here in Bay Area. We will no doubt have to get a humidifier for us.

That's all I can come up with. OTOH, living in Phoenix means much easier to move around, less hassle, nicer homes, less oppressive govts.

I keep weighing the negatives of PHX (above) and I still have only the weather and a city I grew up in as my only two things on the + side of SoCal.

Well it would be a PITA to buy house, sell house, move.

[Lovehound]

Originally Posted by KurtAZ

1) Citrus grows just fine here. We have lemon, orange, fig...just missing a lime tree. There is some things that won't but we also have roses, hibiscus, bougainvillea, lantanas...and we just built my daughter an elevated garden that she has been growing strawberries in. I don't hold much hope for those with the Summer coming but...they were fun while they lasted.

2) There are specific markets with Asian food items, Fry's carries many as well.

3) Yeah...walkability can be an issue depending on where you are.

4) Common complaint of most moving from the coasts...as well as nosebleeds and their wood furniture suffering damage. They actually make a system that adds to your HVAC that turns it into a whole house humidifier...that or as you said, purchase some humidifiers for around the home.

1) They sell all the citrus I want at the markets. In fact I don't like citrus. I don't know if it is citrus (prob not) but I'd like a Kaffir lime bush.

2.) My cuz told me about one Asian market in Mesa, and at least in Socal a lot of mainstream markets are stocking more and more Asian foods.

3.) Walk? Walk??? I walk when I need exercise or want to go on a hike. I drive everywhere else!

4.) Heh, most of my furniture would go to Goodwill, right where it came from. I'm house rich and money poor. And I'm a desert rat: if you said dry I'd say, "What's dry?"

[Lovehound]

Originally Posted by ElleTea

Every time someone says there are know Asian markets here, it's obvious they have not been to Mekong in Mesa and the international market around the corner.

Yeah, I think that's the place cuz told me about.

[KurtAZ]

Originally Posted by Lovehound

1) They sell all the citrus I want at the markets. In fact I don't like citrus. I don't know if it is citrus (prob not) but I'd like a Kaffir lime bush.

2.) My cuz told me about one Asian market in Mesa, and at least in Socal a lot of mainstream markets are stocking more and more Asian foods.

3.) Walk? Walk??? I walk when I need exercise or want to go on a hike. I drive everywhere else!

4.) Heh, most of my furniture would go to Goodwill, right where it came from. I'm house rich and money poor. And I'm a desert rat: if you said dry I'd say, "What's dry?"

That was in response to nasu. We have a Ponderosa Lemon tree in the backyard...I always laugh at the tiny lemons in the market they are trying to sell for $1.

[Lovehound]

Yeah, lemon prices everywhere are ridiculous. Frankly, I can't understand why anybody would think citrus wouldn't grow in PHX. I think one of my rentals has a lemon bush.

It's funny owning rentals, I can own it for years and still accumulate maybe only 30-40 hours total time spent at the house. I have pictures but I don't look at them. I look at my bank balance and mortgage status, pay TPT taxes, insurance, property tax etc. All I want to see is rent on the 1st and a phone call or email if something breaks.

[ElleTea]

Originally Posted by locolife

Dobson and Broadway has a large Asian market now too and there's a sign for yet another one on Dobson and Southern. That whole corridor is becoming a giant Asian food and market center, which I happen to love.

That's what I was talking about when I said "around the corner from Mekong,"

[Lovehound]

I thought Mekong was the store. What is Mekong and what city?

[Minntoaz]

The heat and the terrain are what make it LCOL. It'll be what keeps my husband from having us stay long-term.

Also education. A lot to be desired. Before anyone gets crazy, I never said Arizona has a terrible, no-good education system just a lot more can be done.

[Lovehound]

LCOL means?

"Also education. A lot to be desired." That could apply to many people I meet online!

I hear Gilbert has excellent public schools. (But I have no children.)

[ElleTea]

Originally Posted by Lovehound

I thought Mekong was the store. What is Mekong and what city?

Mekong Plaza is a shopping center located just north of Broadway on Dobson in Mesa.

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The immediate area has many Asian restaurants, and around the corner on Broadway is the international market

http://azinternationalmarketplace.com/