Good choice.
I made it! I'm officially an Arizona resident.
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Good choice.
Welcome to the AZ!
Moved here from Colorado 10 years ago, just before the dems from California really started their californication of that beautiful state in earnest. We're up the road from your new digs, I think, in Pinal County on the southeast side of Phoenix. We have horses, goats, etc. and the critters welcome visitors if you happen to be in the neighborhood some time. Yep, it's hot, 101 already today, but if you don't overdo it you'll acclimate pretty quickly.
Moved here from Colorado 10 years ago, just before the dems from California really started their californication of that beautiful state in earnest. We're up the road from your new digs, I think, in Pinal County on the southeast side of Phoenix. We have horses, goats, etc. and the critters welcome visitors if you happen to be in the neighborhood some time. Yep, it's hot, 101 already today, but if you don't overdo it you'll acclimate pretty quickly.
Congrats on Az. I lived in Kansas Settlement in the early seventies, just loved it, but got transfered to Ca. then fortunately to Or. thirty years ago where I have retired. I wouldn't mind going back to Cochise Co., Az. but having 30 grand and great grand kids here pretty much dictates where I am going to finish my years.
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According to the reading in my car we cleared 100 this weekend, hot but much better than 80 with 90% humidity that summers in Maine consist of! I dug a hole and set a mailbox the end of last week. It was about a 4 water bottle job. Did it in the evening but it was still pretty hot! When I left Maine about 2 weeks ago we were lucky to see 55 degrees! What I love is that as soon as the sun sets the temp drops like a rock. We've been seeing close to a 40 degree swing. Evenings are just plain beautiful.
Plenty of Bills fans around the Raleigh area,along with Pats, Steelers, Jets, Lions and Giants. Sports bars are packed during the season.
We all coexist.
Well, you won't have to worry about cutting the grass any more. 
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Well, you won't have to worry about cutting the grass any more.
Or shoveling and plowing. It's all good!
Mike, has anyone there asked you what "ayuh" means?
LVSteve
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When they bring you their first lizard or Bark Scorpion, then you'll be sure that everyone is a fully fledged AZ resident.
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Buy a good big UV flashlight off Amazon and stock up on Raid Max-Spider and Scorpion. Hunting them mano-a-mano is the only way. You may guess how I know.
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Not yet. Nobody has asked me to say "pahk the cah in bah habah" either!
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I grew up -- 19 years -- in Wyoming.
The Air Force moved me 14 times in 28 years to show me the world: including three tours in Vegas, one in Phoenix, and two in
southern New Mexico, where I was when I retired.
I ran back to Wyoming as fast as I could.
I hope you acclimate to your new-found (20-year-old) love.
Keep Marty Robbins in mind as you do ...
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The Air Force moved me 14 times in 28 years to show me the world: including three tours in Vegas, one in Phoenix, and two in
southern New Mexico, where I was when I retired.
I ran back to Wyoming as fast as I could.
I hope you acclimate to your new-found (20-year-old) love.
Keep Marty Robbins in mind as you do ...
[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VsPKrw_TJ2U[/ame]
I've lived here my entire life and have never gotten tired of the sunsets. I still pull over frequently just to sit and enjoy the view.
Welcome to our beautiful state. There are a bunch of us here from AZ...if you ever need anything just give a shout. I'm about 4 hours north of you. The wife-unit and I go to Tombstone every couple of years just because it's a neat place.
Triggernosis
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Back in the mid-90s I lived in Tucson and worked for these guys at the U of A: AZMET : The Arizona Meteorological Network - The University of Arizona
Our weather station in Benson almost always had the largest daily swing in temperatures.
Pretty country there.
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jrclen
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I'm from Wisconsin. My wife and I had spent 4 winters in Florida when I got the bright idea to try Arizona. I love the west. We rented a place on a hill in Bullhead City. While it was definitely warmer than Wisconsin, it was cold and windy for the entire winter. I enjoyed the scenery and the sunshine, but temperature left a lot to be desired. Maybe Yuma or Tombstone.
I left Tucson in 1984 when work brought me to Colorado. It was decent here then. I hate what this state has become. If my sons and their families weren't here I'd move back to Arizona though not Tucson.
I love visiting Tucson but I'm not sure about living there. Mostly I stay at Ventana but this is my son's back yard. It's all beautiful.
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There are always events going on in Tucson so we wanted to be close to Tucson, but not too close! It seems like Tucson has changed a lot in the 20 years we've been coming out here. In the year that we've lived here Tucson has lost a lot of it's appeal. We still go for concerts, Dr visits, shopping and etc. But we're glad to get out when we're done.
I wonder what it cost to keep a golf course looking like that in Arizona. Beautiful !
LVSteve
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I've seen many a European visitor in a Vegas Walmart buying sweatshirts and jeans because they came here in the winter expecting it to be in the 80s. Nope, high desert ain't like that.
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When we were vacationing out here the people we rented from had a beautiful lawn, not huge, one year we came out and the lawn was gone, just dirt. They said with the lawn the water bill was $1000 monthly.
LVSteve
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The number of golf courses that have folded during my 25+ years in Vegas is mind boggling. It used to be a cheap golf destination. When you look at the huge bath ring around Lake Mead, you realize why those days are gone.
I was in Las Vegas in September 2003. 103 degrees.
North AZ has real winter. I was in Flagstaff in December 2004. There was almost a foot of snow on the ground and there were pine trees. It reminded me of New Hampshire.
The drive from Flagstaff to Phoenix exposes people to a multitude of climate zones. It's an experience I recommend to everyone.
North AZ has real winter. I was in Flagstaff in December 2004. There was almost a foot of snow on the ground and there were pine trees. It reminded me of New Hampshire.
The drive from Flagstaff to Phoenix exposes people to a multitude of climate zones. It's an experience I recommend to everyone.
Glad you made it. Flagstaff? TOO COLD! Phoenix/Tuscon? TOO HOT! I have a bro in the Prescott area, which I think is JUST RIGHT.
PS: It sounds like we have similar luck.
PPS: My bro says he can't recognize his town because it is now full of Californians,
PS: It sounds like we have similar luck.
PPS: My bro says he can't recognize his town because it is now full of Californians,
