Arizona is a great place to live, you should consider moving here (Phoenix: living in, moving to)

[Code Stemi]

I am also thinking about moving to the Phoenix metro area, from Las Vegas. I do like that the natural disaster potential in Arizona is very low, too.

[teddyearp]

Originally Posted by chahunt

I am also thinking about moving to the Phoenix metro area, from Las Vegas. I do like that the natural disaster potential in Arizona is very low, too.

Umm, you may have it a bit wrong. We get huge dust storms, a vast desert where people die of thirst, mountains right in the middle of the city where people hike and have to get rescued from in droves every year, don't forget all the scorpions they're literally all over you every where. 110 degree weather for half a year is a natural disaster in itself. Then there's the flash floods which will come and sweep you away if you are the least bit careless. Rattlesnakes. Yellow mice. Palo Verde bugs, they look like cockroaches about four inches or so long. And they fly.

Then there's the other disasters. Schools whose funding levels rate among the lowest in the nation. Dark money politics. The southern border is just one huge seive where illegal aliens flow across. Vekol Valley pretty much belongs to Mexico. And then the worst part. Every one has a gun. Usually more than one and many many of them wear them around either where you can see them or (gasp) concealed. There's no such thing as an assault weapons ban here, nor bans on most anything else firearm related you'll find in many states, some neighboring. Yup, a virtual wild west out here.

Check this thread for more:

Arizona is a terrible place, do not think about living here.

[wase4711]

'Erp, you should work for the Chamber of Commerce!

[animalcrazy]

I'd love to visit Arizona, I've never been there. I don't think I could handle the heat though. I do much better in cold weather.

[jdhpa]

Originally Posted by teddyearp

Umm, you may have it a bit wrong. We get huge dust storms, a vast desert where people die of thirst, mountains right in the middle of the city where people hike and have to get rescued from in droves every year, don't forget all the scorpions they're literally all over you every where. 110 degree weather for half a year is a natural disaster in itself. Then there's the flash floods which will come and sweep you away if you are the least bit careless. Rattlesnakes. Yellow mice. Palo Verde bugs, they look like cockroaches about four inches or so long. And they fly.

Then there's the other disasters. Schools whose funding levels rate among the lowest in the nation. Dark money politics. The southern border is just one huge seive where illegal aliens flow across. Vekol Valley pretty much belongs to Mexico. And then the worst part. Every one has a gun. Usually more than one and many many of them wear them around either where you can see them or (gasp) concealed. There's no such thing as an assault weapons ban here, nor bans on most anything else firearm related you'll find in many states, some neighboring. Yup, a virtual wild west out here.

Check this thread for more:

Arizona is a terrible place, do not think about living here.

I heard the wind blown sand is so bad, if you leave your car in the driveway overnight it can be stripped down to bare metal by morning...

[Adamson865]

Originally Posted by jdhpa

I heard the wind blown sand is so bad, if you leave your car in the driveway overnight it can be stripped down to bare metal by morning...

That's not sand - that's just because you're living in the 'hood.

[Talonap]

Originally Posted by Adamson520

That's not sand - that's just because you're living in the 'hood.

You mean they steal paint? (Sorry coulldn't resist.)

[Code Stemi]

Originally Posted by teddyearp

Umm, you may have it a bit wrong. We get huge dust storms, a vast desert where people die of thirst, mountains right in the middle of the city where people hike and have to get rescued from in droves every year, don't forget all the scorpions they're literally all over you every where. 110 degree weather for half a year is a natural disaster in itself. Then there's the flash floods which will come and sweep you away if you are the least bit careless. Rattlesnakes. Yellow mice. Palo Verde bugs, they look like cockroaches about four inches or so long. And they fly.

Very infrequent localized flash flooding. On your list, that's the only thing that counts as a natural disaster.
Dust storms are uncommon, people don't die of thirst unless they're being an idiot. Phoenix heat is an annual expected occurrence and not a natural disaster at 110 degrees.

Phoenix is immune from the vast majority of natural disasters. I don't count the ones you made up, other than flooding.

[CybSecGuy]

Then consider the Tarantula Hawks, gigantic wasps with the second most painful insect bite in the world, flying in enormous death squadrons, ready to attack innocent passers-by, anywhere you can find a small patch of greenery that may contain a flowering plant, if you live long enough on your trek through the endless sandy dunes that make up 99.7% of the Arizona wastelands.


Or consider the roaming hordes of Killer Bees that kill 99.7% of the Arizona population each year.


Or Javelinas, a.k.a. Collared Peccaries, humungous and insanely aggressive pig-like monstrosities that storm down the streets of Arizona's towns in packs that number well into the hundreds, looking to gore to death those careless enough to ever leave their walled domiciles.


Please, be informed before making a choice to willingly transplant to Arizona. Just watch the Road Warrior and you'll basically see a cleaned up, Tourism Board-approved version of Arizona.

[LS Jaun]

Originally Posted by CybSecGuy

Then consider the Tarantula Hawks, gigantic wasps with the second most painful insect bite in the world, flying in enormous death squadrons, ready to attack innocent passers-by, anywhere you can find a small patch of greenery that may contain a flowering plant, if you live long enough on your trek through the endless sandy dunes that make up 99.7% of the Arizona wastelands.


Or consider the roaming hordes of Killer Bees that kill 99.7% of the Arizona population each year.


Or Javelinas, a.k.a. Collared Peccaries, humungous and insanely aggressive pig-like monstrosities that storm down the streets of Arizona's towns in packs that number well into the hundreds, looking to gore to death those careless enough to ever leave their walled domiciles.


Please, be informed before making a choice to willingly transplant to Arizona. Just watch the Road Warrior and you'll basically see a cleaned up, Tourism Board-approved version of Arizona.

Those are all reasons to move here, and us natives like all those things