Why I live in Phoenix

[TC]

You could live in Oklahoma..... 112 deg AND tornadoes!

This was West of OKC last Sunday. It peaked at 112 a little while after this photo.

And I guess you could add some Humidity to that to.......We only have something like 8% humidity right now.......

[BBR]

The humidity was pretty low, but the wind was blowing like 30-35mph. It was like being in a giant convection oven.

[Bob Holmes]

I thought you were gonna say that you live in Phoenix because they'll have you! (Sorry, the ball was right over the net and all I had to do was spike it). All in all, I'm OK with heat and NOT OK with cold. Before we moved to Wilmington we did the whole, "Mountains, desert, seashore" thing and decided on seashore. As long as it was warm I would have been OK with any of the above. I'll be sort of in your climate in a month or so and I enjoy Lake Bonneville (but the swimming sux).

Dan

Dan, you and I see things the same. I have no desire to see snow ever again. And dry California central valley air is fantastic for the arthritis.

By the way, the spike comment has to go in the top ten of the week.

[BangShift McT]

Hottest weather I have been in was 134F in Kuwait City, and it was 90% humidity too because the wind was coming from offshore. Thats freakin hot.

Kuwait City overrules almost any day in Iraq. I was working Al Suriyhab (?!) port doing offload, and I thought I was gonna melt..though I have recorded a 145F day in Mosul working on a flightline.

[Barry Donovan]

I wonder'd why people live where they do.

me? I am a hot weather person..yet new england my whole life.

in school I remember a good point of view...

most got off boats and sat in rechid shitholes dreaming to get away.
incentives by gov't was also a reason people end up where they do (northern maine for example staying the spirit of USA)

I'd still go to all places, not much to say.
being knowledge and wealth is more than ever, some places are gonna shrink..
like texas invaded by new orleans.

[pdub]

Give me the South, of course, tornadoes and all. Yeah, that part of it sucks, but I submit that there are weather extremes whever you are. Sue Unit and I were waiting in line at the grocery store one day and we were struck by the headline on the National Enquirer there in a rack at the checkout - "The Weather is Out of Control!"

When was the weather ever IN our control?

I don't like cold and the other half of the world does. That's why the world goes around, I guess, to give us a variety and for us pick and choose if you're able to move to another region to start with.

[Caveman Tony]

Like the old Johnny Cash song.... I been everywhere man, I been everywhere...


But I still think Squirrel's neck 'o the woods is the nicest.


Too bad I live in the northeast where the weather has 4 seasons and they all suck.

[BOOOGHAR]

IMO I would live where Remy is, that place would be perfect if it had a huge ass lake

[Chassisman]

Dan, you and I see things the same. I have no desire to see snow ever again. And dry California central valley air is fantastic for the arthritis.

SHHHHHH.....don't tell them anything about the Central Valley...let them think we live in that stink hole down South or that Gay area...OOPS..Bay Area up North....they might want to move here knowing you can eat breakfast in Yosemite...Lunch at Monterey and Dinner in Lake Tahoe...all in one day....LOL....the CV is like a totally different state than those places.

[TC]

IMO I would live where Remy is, that place would be perfect if it had a huge ass lake

That would be the Show Low area, tall pines, Lakes all over the place, all stocked with fish for the having, though it does snow, but it's usually the snow and melt off in a day or two kind........ Or even Payson is a nice place with tall pines and it's close to a few big lakes and small lakes for fishing and motor boating. And your only an hour from phoenix........

[BangShift McT]

Hey, I've got my two small lakes here, plus a creek. I'm just fine...I don't fish, can't eat the damn things. Hot enough without being "another deployment?!" hot, and for the "Quad Cities" area of AZ, sparse populations. I like it here.

Now, to convince the Southern Belle...

[JOES66FURY]

I hate Tucson, I hate the people in Tucson, I hate the weather in Tucson and I hate driving in Tucson...

I would cut my wrists before I lived in Phoenix

I would like to live in Show Low or Payson....Its like a whole different state there...

The weather in December can't be beat tho.

[BOOOGHAR]

payson and showlow are a lil too hick for me, I like the mix of peeps in prescott and PV, plus its close to sedona and flagstaff


prescott is like a mini mini mini austin tx, thats why I like it

[BangShift McT]

Also like an unpopulated Colorado Springs, to me. Austin? Really?....well, if you can confuse 6th Street with Whiskey Row, maybe...

[Gary 351C]

The first time I experienced 117 degrees was . . .in Phoenix! September 1982 my buddy/room mate drove in to attend UTI. We drove around for an hour trying to find our apartment that the school had chosen for us at 35th ave. and Camelback, that was home for the next 9 months. If I had to move out of California I'd probably move to Phoenix, not a bad place to live from what I remember.