Moving To Arizona, maybe.... - by mxleader
bassoferrol on 9/4/2015 at 14:12
It's time for you to eat some fish, cabbage and fruit too if you don't want to become a ball of fat due to so many salsas and chilies. Take that!
faetal on 9/4/2015 at 14:58
Chili con carne isn't necessarily fatty if you use lean meat and don't do stupid things like add cheese etc...
PigLick on 10/4/2015 at 00:52
Yeh and salsas are pretty much fat free as well.
heywood on 10/4/2015 at 22:19
In truth I have been a terrible eater this winter, and not just barbacoa and chili con carne. For Easter, I made kalbi, duck, lamb chops, and New Orleans BBQ tiger prawns. The weekend before was a big batch of Bolognese. Before that was steak and ale pie made with short ribs. And tonight I'm making Sichuan Twice Cooked Pork. :ebil:
I do need to get back to the salsas and fish soon. The weather is starting to warm up, and I've started to gain a bit of weight, so no more comfort food.
Tony_Tarantula on 11/4/2015 at 19:56
Quote Posted by heywood
Well, I'm back living in the US again. So salsas are no problem anymore. And I can get an assortment of dried chilies here to make barbacoa and proper chili con carne, which I was missing in Australia. But good Mexican is still hard to find up here in the Northeast.
Or anywhere in the US. The only place I can recall thinking was Really good was this little hole in the wall taco place in Beaver Creek, where the staff can barely even speak english. I got the feeling that the place caters mostly to the immigrant staff that runs most of the hotels for the ski tourists.
mxleader on 26/6/2020 at 07:31
Well it's been five years since I decided to move to Arizona. A few things have happened since. When we moved to AZ I didn't have a job. I found a job and was at that job for two years. I bought one of my bucket list cars (Subaru WRX) when I had that job. Then that job really started to suck so I found another job. Now I drive a Subaru Outback. I got a divorce a year ago and I'm finally realizing what a good idea it really was. It wasn't a great idea for my daughter but she's adjusting well.
I've been on the Facebook dating app scene for a few months and I'm over forty so it pretty much sucks. Trying to date in an area where Jesus comes first on almost every profile, and they all want to do is to go skydiving makes it difficult and annoying to make any connections. I'm from the Pacific Northwest so I'm struggling to fit into a conservative culture except for the guns part. I really like guns and it's so amazingly free here to wield almost any weapon out in the open.
Cycling in Arizona seems more dangerous than in Washington state because everyone here is old, blind and has the sun in their eyes when driving. Mountain biking isn't much better because even riding slow and just losing balance can result in some nasty wounds.
I was worried about my daughter going to school in Arizona because of the low school ratings but she's in a really good district and is insanely smart in a lot of ways I never expected.
So it's not as bad as I expected for the most part. The water sucks but the beer is good.
demagogue on 26/6/2020 at 11:48
I guess any place can be liveable enough if you have a liveable income and aren't part of some hated group. Most people most places are decent and you can find scenes of a good life.
I'm from Texas, right around where the trees stop and the cacti start, so I always had a kind of attachment to the American southwest, the open horizons, the nice sunsets, the straight highways I can drive fast on, the air of "life free or die" (though not the batshit levels people take that idea). I may have been lucky to be right on the border of it without going full Mojave/Senoran/Chihuahuan Desert though.
This thread reminds me I haven't heard from Fafhrd in a long time (his profile says since 2017). I liked the guy.