Moving To Arizona, maybe.... - by mxleader
bjack on 29/3/2015 at 05:21
Cool nicker! I love Zappa. :thumb:
Montana is about a far from AZ as Ireland is to Spain, but I get your point. Man, everywhere is "Spltsville" when you are on the down beat. Get with the program and live baby! I'm not pushing bad dope here bro! I am speaking truth! LIVE IT… BE IT… DO IT… Of course, do not get caught by the fuzz cuz. :)
henke on 29/3/2015 at 15:00
At least Arizona has one thing going for it...
[video=youtube;k4EUTMPuvHo]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4EUTMPuvHo[/video]
bjack on 29/3/2015 at 21:30
mxleader. AZ is a good place to find a job. Don't listen to the noise. I swear, if a place is not a brothel with a needle party going on, it seems to me that many our fellow TTLG chat members would say the place is a racist shit hole. :rolleyes: Are there douche bags there in AZ? Of course there are! Seattle invented them and they all moved to a place without volcanoes and ice. :joke: Well really NY was the birthpace of the douche bag, only to be refined in Jersey. And AZ is full of extinct volcanoes.
Tony_Tarantula on 30/3/2015 at 04:13
You're wasting your breath. A lot of them are the kind of people who think that anything other than NYC or LA is "flyover country" while being completely blind to the racist and classist undertones of that attitude.
demagogue on 30/3/2015 at 06:48
In my experience, people that have only lived in NYC or LA have a rosier picture of the south and southwest, and people that are actually from there or who have lived there longterm know better. But it's hardly like other places in the world I've lived where ethnic tensions or tin-foil-hat paranoia are so intense that people riot and burn entire villages. People are still civil, and you can deal with anyone just fine, especially if you don't bring up politics; and even then the worst you can expect is a heated exchange over barbeque.
It doesn't really matter what anybody's opinion is anyway. If mxleader goes there, he'll need to make the best of it in his situation, and we should be trying to help him with that. Phoenix gets decent ratings for creating new jobs and hiring, better than average. So it's not a bad place to try to find work. And it's still a respectably sized city, so there will be things to do. It's not like moving to a small town in the countryside where there's just one bar you don't want to be going into anyway.
heywood on 30/3/2015 at 22:56
Phoenix might not be bad if you're married, happy to live in the suburbs, and enjoy outdoor desert recreation. It helps if you like SW/Mexican culture. Personally, I could not deal with 3-4 months a year of living in an oven, and the lack of trees would be hard for me to get used to.
I don't think I could live in NYC either. I enjoy visiting occasionally because there is a lot to see and do and the pizza is good, but I wouldn't want to live there. My impression is that the people tend to be pushy and rude, have a somewhat insular New York centric attitude, and seem to stick within their cliques so it would be a hard place to make friends. It also seems a bit dingy and run down and just gives me the vibe of a city past its prime.
I could maybe see myself living in Los Angeles, but the lack of public transportation is a major downside.
mxleader on 31/3/2015 at 05:23
There are many good points so far. I guess I would be bothered by the racism a bit. I don't personally have to worry much about that because I'm a tall white dude but my wife is of Mexican descent. Oddly enough my father in law, who's a LA Mexican transplant is as racist against Mexicans as many white folk. I do love Mexican food and my favorite book is Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey so I'd probably feel at home in some ways. My biggest worry is the school system and the piss-poor ratings Arizona has. I worry about some of the fucked up Arizona ideas getting into my young daughter's head. I am totally down with the gun toting attitude and freedom Arizona law allows for. Of course if I land a decent job soon here in the greate PNW we'll end up staying and if we can't sell our house.
faetal on 31/3/2015 at 21:58
Say what you like about Tony, at least he's consistent.