Thinking about moving to Arizona

[zgrins1]

Thank you guys for your responses. We are not yet set on any exact location at this time other than Tucson area. Also buying land is one of the options not a requirement. I'm just looking for areas with lower crime rate and hopefully better schools that are more dedicated to teaching students and less into indoctrination (if there's even such a thing anymore). Just trying to get a general idea what is what around there. Thanks.

[556Cliff]

You think you can handle the heat? Because that alone would keep me out of Arizona. I'd move to Texas which doesn't have it nearly as bad for the heat, but the high humidity sucks there.

[C-grunt]

You think you can handle the heat? Because that alone would keep me out of Arizona. I'd move to Texas which doesn't have it nearly as bad for the heat, but the high humidity sucks there.

Ill take 115 degrees with 15 percent humidity over 95 degrees with 80 percent humidity any day.

[556Cliff]

Ill take 115 degrees with 15 percent humidity over 95 degrees with 80 percent humidity any day.

Either way you're trapped inside and can't really do anything outside in the Summer. I'm picking the place where I won't get 3rd degree burns on my hands from touching the door knobs from inside the house. And the Winters are usually nice in Texas anyways since humidity isn't really noticeable when it's 50/60 degrees outside.

[zgrins1]

Thank you for your replies guys. To answer some of your questions we are looking for some nicer areas. Heat will not bea problem as we spent 2 weeks there in a Summer with temperatures being 102 -104 and a couple of days 110 to 112 and being outside most of the time. Other than drinking an ungodly amounts of water we did not find it extremely uncomfortable. I just felt in love with Saguaro park area. Plus it looks like I can find a job doing the same thing I do now easier in Tucson then around anywhere else in AZ.

[556Cliff]

Heat will not bea problem as we spent 2 weeks there in a Summer with temperatures being 102 -104 and a couple of days 110 to 112 and being outside most of the time. Other than drinking an ungodly amounts of water we did not find it extremely uncomfortable.

Wow, I got to experience a lot of hot days up here in Washington this year with a lot of them working outside in the high 90s, which made anything in the 80s seem (somehow) pleasant. But the one day that reached 111 degrees was completely unmanageable... I couldn't even open my eyes all the way.

Some people are built different.

[Defaultmp3]

Housing sucks in Tucson right now based of off what I've heard my house hunting friends say. Just the nature of the overall housing market, coupled with Tucson's expansion in the past decade or so. Lot of folks willing to pay cash over asking, it sounds like, based off of my friends' experiences getting outbid.

Tucson is also a fairly left-leaning city. I am originally from Texas, and usually describe it as being the Austin of Arizona (left leaning, casts itself as being quirky). Phoenix would be like Dallas (big, no character, shit traffic).

I don't know about schools since I don't have kids, but there is expansion noticeable in the NW side, close to Marana, where a number of newly built/in development neighborhoods are springing up.

[greybuff]

Tucson has always seemed pretty liberal to me. If you are looking for land check out around Florence, we camp south of there and it's pretty nice there in the winter. Anywhere in the low desert will get hot in the summer. I have a small house in Clifton Az. (SE AZ) that needs to be finished that I would sell (health issues wont let me finish it). It sit on the San Francisco River and looks out to nothing but mountains as far as you can see.

[Bodie275]

Phoenix is hotter than Tucson, but I think it has better 2A representation. If you do move to Tucson, I suggest Marana (NW Tucson). Better schools than TUSD (I would move out of state before letting my kids go to a TUSD school). Sauarita is nice, too. If you look at Marana and want land, west of the town and north into Pinal county has some nice tracks of desert. We bought 3.5 acres on Dove Mountain (not IN Dove Mountain, but ON Dove Mountain) and just as the economy turned up (ya' know, when the last guy was president), the area exploded in housing. Just drive north on Twin Peaks from I-10.
Anyway, PIMA county is governance is a clown show that only mirrors the Tucson City Clown'cile. Otherwise, we love the state's gun & knife laws and it's diversity of flora & fauna. We're just hoping that the mass exodus of Blue Californians won't turn the state purple or blue... damn. Never mind

[Redsoxnation]

Do it.

I have lived all over the United States while active duty for 20 years and I lived in both blue and red states and for me and my experiences, Alaska and Arizona along with Utah are the best states in the Union. No other states come close.