The Top Reasons People Regret Moving To Phoenix Arizona
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- Опубликовано: 12 сен 2024
- In this video, I'll share the REAL reasons people regret moving to Phoenix, Arizona. It's not all sunshine and golf courses! We'll cover the harsh realities of the scorching summers. We'll also talk about the unexpected monsoon season and the rising cost of living. If you're considering a move to Phoenix, you NEED to watch this video. I'll give you an honest look at the challenges and drawbacks of living in this desert metropolis.
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Turn your oven on high for about 30 minutes, now open the oven door and put your face in it....that's Arizona heat
Absolutely!
😂😂😂
Lived Moon Valley AZ X 20 years, now in Florida ( velvet air) . Phoenix is the 6th largest city in the nation. Crime,Gangs…one year 122 degrees planes could not even fly as no flap settings. Jeanne
😂😂😂 can confirm!
😂 yeah, you don’t need to come here to experience that! My grandmother described it like walking into an oven! Your description is very accurate.😂
Speaking of dangerous animals. Most of them walk on 2 legs
True 👍
Ha ha yeah that are the most dangerous animal on earth.
Exactly!
Dogman @@garymcgovern1423
🤣the angry people in traffic will unalive you way before the wildlife.
I live here 65 years and your the first person I ever heard who tells it like it is. 😮
Congratulations.
Refreshing, isn't it? Not moving to Phoenix but if I did, she's a realtor I'd trust!
I have been in Phoenix since 1978. I really miss 1978 Phoenix. This video is 110% accurate!
Who gives a f, leave then.
It's agenda driven by jealousy. This is the most beautiful area in the entire world and I've been everywhere. The diversity in flora, fauna and climate is amazing.
Crime and nothing but sand, and more sand
It used to cool down at night, but the uncontrolled population growth killed it. Once the entire valley was paved over night time cooling became a thing of the past. Born and raised there, but made my escape to a less populated area 30+ years ago. RIP Arizona.
Yes, now one huge heat island.
Same here. Left in 1990 at 19 years-old and haven't lived there since.
Saving up to leave, born and raised here. It's a nightmare, whenever someone says they love it and give their reasons why- the cons outweigh any pros.
This is a hostile desert.
Humans aren't meant to live here.
Leave.
@@T12E5 and just about everything generates more heat. The constant nonworking population, that's on a permanent vacation is off-putting.
I’m a native of AZ and agree with the concrete jungle Phx has become..so I don’t live in Phoenix but most people can’t afford to move to the nicer parts of AZ. There’s a scarcity of employment in the mountain towns unless you wanna work at a DQ or Dollar store.
I used to live in Tucson and one thing that always got my attention when I traveled to Phoenix was how aggressive drivers were there. I used to say that you could be going 95 mph on the Superstition Freeway and you would still have somebody tailgating you six inches from your rear bumper.
Sounds right. I moved from there to Georgia. People here seem to believe once the light turns red there is still plenty of time for four or five more cars to zip through
Those are Californians with AZ plates
@@DesertRunner602 lol
Remember the AZ rule for who goes first at a light or stop sign … the biggest vehicle.
That's one thing that really irritated me in So. California. If you have that 2 second safety cushion between you and the next car, its a guarantee somebody will race into it in seconds with inches to spare. Yes and the bumper riders.
I lived in Phoenix 45 years. I moved to the Pacific northwest and I love it. No more hellish summers and pollution.
Miss the sun eh?
@@Sdtr6982 suicide capital of the Nation. Such a depressing place
@@jimkoenig5026 agree
I've lived here as well. Once you get by the rain that just will not let up well after April, the price of living here then slaps you across the face for a 2 bedroom house with like one bathroom built in the 50's, and barely functioning anything, please deposit 900,000 dollars; you have to deal with 1- 1/2 hour commutes to nearby cities because all you have is I-5 or I-405. Want to make the lifestyle across the water in the Peninsula? lots of luck, because one of the many broke down ferries might delay your commute. Did I mention the Hood canal bridge closures at times or the Tacoma Narrows bridge toll, maybe the I-90 toll... They will get their money, they will make you pay for living here. Quality of life can make or break a lot of people.
@@Sdtr6982 Rain … rain … rain!
It begs to be said that if you have dogs, about half the year they cannot walk on the ground with bare paws (a sweeping majority of PHX is pavement, sand, rocks, and asphalt; verrrry little grass and shade). It’s not just the heat in the air that’s dangerous to them, but the ground - even white sidewalks - will burn their poor little paws-paws. And a lot of dogs absolutely hate booties and refuse to wear em. Phoenix heat is EXCRUCIATING to them in more ways than one. Much worse than for us humans.
Yes you can walk dogs at 6 in the morning. 10 at night is also OK.
True, we had to buy booties for our dogs
You can absolutely fry an egg on the sidewalk or road pavement in the summer with no problem!
I had to buy a treadmill for my dog in the summers! She actually loves it.
YES! Do not move here!
The light pollution in Phoenix is horrible. It does not cool off at night for months. It is suffocating.
I agree. People should not move there, it's inhuman.
Leave
Try Las Vegas. The glow of Vegas can be seen in Mojave Nat Monument 65 miles away.
When I first moved there in 1965, it actually cooled at night
move.
Temps used to cool off at night but with the increase in construction , and tearing down the orchards , it will still be 100 at night . I’d drive home from a baseball game and could tell without looking when I passed an orchard because it immediately felt cooler
Been in Phoenix 11 years now and she forgot to mention the high crime, drug problem, and homelessness that plagues the valley
That's now a known yet rarely reported issue for all major US cities. There are NO MORE pleasant major cities in the US. Have a look at San Francisco, Denver, Chicago, etc, etc...
and she says that the bad guys are the wildlife animals, sad.....
My family came to southern Arizona BEFORE the Civil War. As military families. NONE of us live here or in California which we came to in 1849. We all left both states! I am so very old, I remember when nearly NO ONE in Tucson had 'air conditioners'. We used 'swamp boxes'. I continued to use this with my home in Tucson in 1968 to. 1970 with only a swamp box. The population explosion in the Southwest came with air conditioners!
I saw that was a problem now. As a former AZ resident I don't know how the homeless are surviving in that summer heat. Being a border state, I can't imagine what it's like now. I grew up in Pinal County back in the 70s and 80s, it was safe and we didn't have the problems you have today.
@@emsnewssupkis6453 I don't think swamp coolers work there anymore. I grew up with them in the 70s and 80s, when the humidity was low. It's too humid there now with everyone having lawns and swimming pools, along with the man-made recreation lakes in the Phoenix area.
I refuse to live anywhere where if the power goes off, I might die.
EXACTLY that's one reason we left Las Vegas also.
That sounds like Biden's NEW GREEN America.
You could die in Chicago if the electric goes out in winter. Wind chill 45 below many times ! No place is perfect, New York anyone ??????
@@user-eg1os8tq9d San Francisco. Never that cold, never that hot.
You're not gonna die if the power goes off my guy 😂 plus in the 5 years I've lived here, never had a power outage. It was almost a monthly occurrence however when I lived in California at multiple areas of the state
Drying your laundry is a plus. I hang it in the garage & come back to stiff, dry jeans in less time than it would take time in the dryer! Love it.
Seems to me quick drying doesn't make up for the rest of the negatives being posted.
@@Chainyanker007 she has 1.000 denim jeans.
Yep in Austin, Texas also- May- September
To many people moved here and now we are surrounded by buildings and traffic everywhere. It used to be nice here.
😅😅😅 Li'l L.A. 😅😅😅
Yes! We moved to Queen Creek in 09’ and it was perfect! Today, it’s a congested, wall-to-wall housing, commercial nightmare! We hate it and we’re moving.
It's the same here in the Seattle Metro area - three entire counties ruined by population growth, traffic, density, and crime. Literally the ONLY growth in services has been for Homeless, Inc. New traffic structure has not helped anything, and street construction is now constant - just a Public Jobs Program. Street Diets are the new Thought Bubble - in a place that rains 60inches per year, they eliminate lanes for the 2% who ride bikes.
@@user-fu9vj9ix3g Have a friend who lives in Belluvue and works at King County crime lab. The route he has to take (and time) is unreal and he does not use his car. Bicycle and mass transit are used. I forget how long it takes from home to work but I would go nuts doing that day after day. I've been warned about the infamous of I-5 any time but "rush hour" times are ZERO mph times. Packing a lunch sounds normal but people in Germany will do that also on the autobahn as 1 incident backs traffic up 20 to 30 miles (not km). Then they start fights for...just because.
We Angelinos are like viruses. We move in, multiply, destroy and move on. They never stay and help fix what they destroy. Look at my city, La. Don’t let this happen to you.
I worked a campground near Sedona, Arizona in 2020, and that summer Phoenix had over 50 days where the temperatures hit 110 or higher. People would come up to the higher elevations to escape the heat that was driving them crazy, but too many brought the crazy with them.
A few summers I escaped the valley heat up in the Payson area in the early 1980s. I want to say it was around 82-85 degrees on those summer days up there. Sorry to hear it's gone so far downhill.
Those te.ps are considered normal for Phoenix, very dangerous indeed.
Did you really just refer to Sedona as "higher elevation" 🤣😂🤣
@@AerialEscape Higher than Phoenix.
We lived in the Phoenix area for over 7 years and the heat is excruciating. I hated the summertime there. If you have leather seats in your car, and no covered parking, you can actually injure yourself if you are wearing shorts and not paying attention when you get in. We would always keep towels in the car, especially for the kids. You cannot leave anything in your car during the hot summer months. It's a beautiful city, I love the desert landscape and the mountains, but I just could never adjust to the energy there. I can't explain it, but something didn't feel right and always mentally and spiritually draining. I was so happy to finally pack up and leave back in 2017.
They have already predicted a major water shortage for the city due to to Colorado river is drying up and with so many people still moving there by the droves, it's going to be chaos and a catastrophe, especially in the heat. According to the discovery channel, three cities no one should be living in: San Francisco, Phoenix, and New Orleans.
I felt that heaviness in the Kingman area.
Kingman is weird@@valerieirvin249
Agree 😢
What kind of energy? Can you describe it more...please?
You didn't mention the influx of drugs/crime/homeless/illegals/nomads.
Nothing like California. It’s too hot and we do not have bottle and can returns. They cannot get much money.
@@chipcook6646 They can get to much money by panhandling. I checked several years ago and some were making $40,000 a year tax free, lately in the big cities gangs have moved in and are now raking in the dough.
nomads? as in snowbirds?
@@gregh7457 not snowbirds with residences who spend their winters in warm climates, not financially-secure nomads living in a vehicle, but those poor souls living in a vehicle because they can't afford anything else, including fuel, vehicle repair, and healthcare; they circulate around warm climate cities and, many-times, end up stranded and helpless with no gov't assistance, (while the gov't generously supports other unnamed people who aren't supposed to be here), no garbage pickup, no bathroom, no food, and so on.
@@chipcook6646 the draw for destitute vehicle-living nomads in Arizona is the plethora of free parking sites; California allows scant overnight parking.
I left after 15 years. May, June, July, August, September, skin cancer, ridiculous electric bills, absurd traffic, scorpions, poisonous snakes and Valley Fever.
Hmm, I never saw those things in 57 years, oh you mean now.
@@tedmoss you never saw a poisonous snake or high a/c bill? nothing gets past you!
@@tedmoss lol. You never went outside in summer? Never knew anyone with skin cancer? Never had a high electric bill or drove on the 10 or 60 at rush hour? And never saw a poisonous critter in 57 years? You are truly blessed
Cost of living. Better be making 100,000 a year!!!!
Every house I’ve lived in within the Phx area was crawling with scorpions.
Left AZ in 2000. Phoenix never cools off during the warm season. There is so much concrete and asphalt that absorbs all that heat … never never never will it cool off at night. To read that it is the fastest growing city in the US is insane. I now live in Michigan. It gets cold, but it’s easy to get warm. It’s very very hard to get cool in high heat.
PHX wpuld cool off quickly at night - even in the summer months up into the 1970s -when we were surrounded by cotton fields and orange groves. Those fields are long gone or going soon.
Left Phoenix in 1987. Don’t really miss Phoenix living
It was way different then. I moved here in 1990. Lots of changes. Definate improvements in the freeway system.
Were Did You Move To?
I was born here in 99 and it gets so much different by the day, just non stop development, monsoons seem to be gone, soooo many people here now.
Me, neither…
@@kbaz6658 I left there in 1990, been back to visit a couple of times. Will never live there again.
lived here for over 10years, everything requires a car to get to. summers are brutal, bills are brutal, the sun is brutal, and the locals? BRUTAL
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Edit: ok guys, no political things please. I was making a making a joke of Arizona not being for everyone cause of the heat. Learn to take things in stride and enjoy things ok?
Oof, sorry you feel that way!
Easy--move to Cali. You will love it there with Gruesome Newsome
@@bigrigger5617 I'd walk over hot coals barefoot to get a governor like Newsome here in Phoenix.
@@dominicfox9028you on the fentanyl? Or do you just like high taxes high crime and homelessness.
@@dominicfox9028oh and also $1,000 PG&E bills because Newsom is in their pocket
Thanks, I'm convinced. No Phoenix living.
Glad you found it helpful!
Thank you!!
One less person loading up our roads, causing bumper to bumper back-ups we never saw, potholes and cracks everywhere. Our roads used to be like glass in AZ.
If you think that our infrastructure is going to keep up wirh those who have simply decided to 'move to AZ." , you'd be mistaken. We bulit this. And it's breaking our hearts to see it.
Even this realtor isn't from here, and serms to be complaining.
We may join Portugal. And ask "Please go home." Please.
😢
@@rosanneallen-hewlett9973 Phoenix, a nice place to visit.
@@rosanneallen-hewlett9973 I've been in Arizona since 1994, which is longer than I was ever in California. I think I'm almost a native, LOL! I'm OK with people coming to Arizona; it's a beautiful state. We all do need to do our part to keep it nice for future generations.
Don't come here Do yourself a favor.
Once the temps hit 110+, you'll notice your AC is not quite as effective in the car. Takes longer to cool and does not feel as cold overall.
Air conditioning In your car
I have not had a working AC in an automobile this century,
Mine went out in 1996 have never got it fixed
I notice exhaust pipe locations and how many windows that are rolled down,. I can drive from athem to south phoenix and back on the freeway and I am the only one whose windows are down
I only roll with toyota air conditioning. Lasts much longer and colder than most cars. Got 275k on my camry and ice cold ac..
Your car AC probably needs to get freon added in. Over time the freon leaks out and reduces it's cooling ability. I did mine last year. It blows a lot cooler after I did.
Everyone has a pool, but you can’t go in it because the water is too hot to get in. When you drive into a grocery store, they have trees in the wrong places so you’re always parking in the sun. The city planners aren’t the sharpest tools in the shed.
I had to drive my entire career in Arizona, mostly the Phoenix area. I have found that your A/C works better after 3:00, even if it’s very hot out. (Because the angle of the sun is lower) Also, if I would take my motorcycle up north, I wouldn’t come back until the sun was set, maybe not actually cooler, but nice to not have the sun beating on you.
Stayed about a year in 1980, it was fun , I was young and did alot of exploration and trail riding, and then I started to miss things like lakes, grass, and lush forest, I would never go back now, but it was exciting for a time.
well said..zero forests, etc.. black burnt tree things and hot rocks and burned catus..no thanks
We visited Phoenix last year and it reminded me of pictures I’ve seen of Mars. It was way too hot, you don’t even want to go outside.
You do learn to live with it, kind of like when you live with the snow. But it's not for everyone!
I feel the same way about the snow and cold, I hated to go outside for 8 months of the year while living up north
And it gets down to 30 at nite in the winter
Yea but what about 'fridays with Frank?'
@@shawn.shackelton I lived there and it was like living on the sun. Unbearable
I'm in Tucson, and I was a fireman for 20 years. We have had two different bobcat attacks on humans. Both times it was a cat with rabies. Otherwise, yes, they are super shy and skittish.
Thank you for your service, especially out there. The fires out that way are horrible
lived in Tucson most of my life; seen a few bobcats, tons of coyotes and one rattlesnake (not in captivity). A bobcat used to hang out on my roof because he liked to eat the ground squirrels. I'd rather be hot than in the snow and 20 below.
@@philipem1000 occasionally I will see them come through my property. Always very shy and furtive. They don't like being seen. At all.
I've only see bobcats once and that was traveling thru the Badlands of South Dakota. Came across a momma bobby and 4 kits standing in the middle of the road. So we stopped and watched them. If you are looking for them you'll have a tough time seeing any.
Just moved down to Mesa from Washington to take care of my mom. Biggest lesson so far has been, be very careful picking up a package from Amazon at night. I bent down to pickup a book leaning against the house when a scorpion stung my hand. The pain was way worse than a bee sting. Now, I’m very careful at night, I water the fruit trees in the morning or before dusk so I don’t get stung when I pick up the hose nozzle. Living here isn’t really a choice for me, I have to be here but I really miss the moderate weather and almost everything about the Puget Sound.
Too bad you could not convince your elderly mother to move to Washington, but you know how old people get set in their ways. 😊
You can't miss the corruption though.
Inslee banned natural gas if you didn't hear ???
I moved here 2016 from Detroit. Yes toooo many people here now, it’s now very expensive to live here.
It has changed a lot! I've been here since 2001.
They blame Covid and Californians
@@rosemaryfilanowicz I definitely blame those two things as I literally watched us get over crowded after Covid and I’m still seeing new plates from everywhere till this day…uuugghh
The irony, as you’re part of the problem 😂
@@rosemaryfilanowicz - Yeah, presumably everyone is leaving California, strangely the real estate prices here in Orange County just south of LA County continues to rocket. The median sale price has recently hit $1.3 million (pop. of OC is 3.1 million), now why is that if it's emptying out? lol. I've lived in S. Orange county for 47 yrs, great place to live and yes it was expensive way back then too compared to salaries at that time. No different today, 7 - 10x the average salary (excluding exclusive areas like the Newport Coast where median price is around $15 million). The Mediterranean climate, great schools, lots of high paying jobs, low crime rate (half the national average in many cities), great cuisine and entertainment venues, nearby beaches and mountains, 2 hrs away from skiing in winter, access to top level healthcare, no tornados, hurricanes or flooding, only very infrequent small earthquakes, great year round weather (a heat wave is 3-4 days of upper 90s sometimes low 100s but not often in these parts), traffic is heavy but tolerable and depends where you're going and the time of day, the only downside is the very high price of real estate because of the above.
I'm retired and worked as a software engineer at NASA. On many days, Phoenix ranks number one in the world (and/or top 3-5) in air particle pollution. Coupled with the extreme heat and wind (44 of the past 53 days have been blustery) expect emergency rooms to be full.
That's the dumbest comment on here, you are uneducated
YES! Bad Air Quality. I retired from IRIDIUM. Best Regards.
My earliest memories were that of the Phoenix of the late 1950s. Though nearly 200,000 people already lived there, Phoenix was wide open with many orange groves, cotton fields, sugar beet processing, a lot of cattle and horse ranches, and my grandparents lived on the very edge of town at that time, near Bethany Home Road in a subdivision that was carved from an existing orange orchard. I had many happy days of running through flood irrigated lawns, of visiting Legend City, of seeing the brand new Zoo, golfing at 10 at night on a miniature golf under flood lights, attending the state fair which was truly western in feel, going to the Phoenix Indian semi-pro baseball games for 5 dollars, and visiting my grandmother who worked at the state capital which was just a couple of blocks away from cotton fields being farmed. But that Phoenix no longer exists... open fields are a memory, Legend City closed, the baseball games are now played indoors and costs a fortune to attend. Be appreciative of what you have now, the Phoenix of the future will be different then the one that is now, and certainly different from the Phoenix of my childhood.
Oranges in 1978!!!
1. 115F summers. 2. No guaranteed home access to water. 3. Illegals.
We have a lot of illegals which is pathetic. Thanks to Biden. It gets really hot in Texas too. It’s very humid here too.
Illegal aliens there? Is it bad?
And you drive FOREVER in HORRIBLE traffic to get anywhere. The area sprawls like LA
@@joetatoesniff9525 After getting over the border, this is their first main stop.
@@Larry-gn1xj That's a matter of interpretation, I drive in L.A. and Phoenix, L.A. is far worse.
The traffic now is a huge issue. Az feels too full, there’s too many people. There’s a line for everything now everything is busy weekday weekend all the time is rush hour.
I know the traffic has grown but it's still not like many other big cities!
Not like the 70s🌵
more illegal immigrants should help. Biden Harris 24!
@@dmimcg Serious or sarcastic?
I do wonder about the long term viability of Phoenix. A lot of it depends on which political direction we end up going. A vast spread out sprawling city is not going to be able to survive a dramatic rise in energy costs if everything has to eventually run on solar and wind. And then factor in the reliability of solar and wind. After sunset on a windless night in the summer, air conditioners still have to run all night to keep homes comfortable. Where is that electricity going to come from? I see a lot of people eventually moving out of Phoenix in a mass exodus if we continue to go down this solar and wind pathway.
Moved to Phoenix in 1974 as a 10 year old... 9 of the top 10 reasons people regret moving to Phoenix is the mass of people who moved to Phoenix.... R.I.P Sonoran Desert....
1975 for me...wish my mom had stayed in Massachusetts
Yes.. Please don't move to Phoenix
WE're full - especially full of californians...
You could not pay me to move to your miserable city .
I like trees and rain and fresh air.why anyone lives there is a mystery to me.
@@meganmclaughlin9056 You havnt been here for the phx open. or the super bowl, or barrett jackson... its heaven on earth when the rest of the country is frozen - but it does get warm in the summer🙂
@agates9383 I've been to Phoenix and Tuscan and every other state except Alaska. I live in Washington state and Idaho. I like the wild life like moose and deer and rabbits etc.
personal injury attorney billboards everywhere , that should tell you enough.
Not in Scottsdale, billboards aren’t allowed.
@@shawn.shackelton i've read multiple articles before where it said phoenix was the #1 place to be kidnapped in the world. cartel very active . there are nice places in az, however; phoenix isn't one of them . many trucking companies have their headquarters and terminals in phoenix. tax breaks ?i forget what state route i was on but i was driving through the forest of arizona, big elk everywhere, some had been injured from being hit by cars or trucks, and as the elevation slowly descended the forest transformed to desert with the sonora cactus, an incredible sight. it ran into phoenix .
@@professorpauls7362 I'm not sure about the kidnapping. Phoenix is a large city with multiple suburbs around it, and all have nice places to live. You were probably driving on the I40 up near Flagstaff. I lived there for 7 years, and yes, there are times you have to be careful of the elk, but it's not an everyday occurance. It's a beautiful drive.
@@shawn.shackelton i drove i40 frequently , thats a regular interstate , this was a state route that went through the forest, elk everywhere. i looked on a map, i think it might have been the 87 possibly ?
On the buses driving through "Scottsdale", on the TV, they are everywhere - billboards or not
I won the “fry an egg on the sidewalk” contest on that 122° day… and spent the rest of the day inside - specifically in the tiny nook where we had one window AC unit. The rest of the house was fully HVAC, but we needed the extra help.
The worst things about Phoenix:
1) The heat
2) Snakes & scorpions
3) No coast close by
4) no relief
In summer, San Diego beaches fill with "Zonies," as they news refers to AZ residents.
@elultimo102 That's an all day drive. Nothing nearby like within an hour or so. And that's in California. Ew. LOL
@@SaturdaySportsman ---For me, it was 545 miles, and about 8 1/2 or 10 hours. (I drove four round trips, between house-hunting and three U-Hauls).
@@elultimo102 That's quite a trip!
Been in the west valley for 20 years and agree with your reasons. I'd also add the poor air quality. If someone has breathing problems but enjoys being outside, they shouldn't move here.
Thanks for adding that one!
Today is 104 and had air quality. No breeze closed curtains can't look outside
What large city doesn’t?
And Migrants and Kati Hobbs. Corruption like DC
Stop spraying the skies and telling us it's climate change weirdos
I lived in Phoenix for a year and I hated it there. I will never go back! Didn't really mind the heat, the people were just so rude and ignorant.
Living here for three months and I’m ready to go home at one and half months in. I’m done. Back to Cali
A lot of the rudeness and ignorance is on the streets and freeways. Many drivers are from somewhere else so they either move too slow or don't know where they're going.
packin guns and driving like lunatics..heat makin em crazy
I moved to Phoenix in 97 from Michigan and it wasn't as crowded at the time, I rented a two bedroom apartment in Tempe for $450.00 a month. I soon moved to Phoenix two a two bedroom condo for $650.00 a month. I eventually moved out of Arizona in 06. I couldn't stand hot summers any longer 😫 I don't miss it.
That’s because you are from Michigan.
Where Did You Move To?
You may have liked Prescott or Flagstaff. People think AZ is just desert. There are actual seasons and snow up north.
@@michaelthomas5140 I liked Flagstaff. Very charming. But I actually loved all of Arizona.
We don't like people from Michigan here anyway.... gross! Stay there.
I lived there for six years. It's gorgeous. But there are two deal breakers for me... the insanely hot summers, and then the best part of the year (the winters) are ruined by the snowbirds. I swear the population of the valley more than triples in Winter, with elderly snowbirds from CANADA, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Colorado, etc, etc who show up in October and don't leave until May... and they clog up all the roads, restaurants, stores, gas stations, etc, and they complain LOUDLY about everything they don't like and how the locals don't like them.
Stimulating the economy
Same with Florida!
You forgot Doctors and hospitals
Scorpions, tarantulas, snakes, _plus_ elderly Canadians. Ok, got it.
THIS! Hasn’t changed in 40 years
I moved here from a New England state many years ago. Here are the things I tell my friends back east about the summers here that make things other than the heat difficult. One: The sun is out nearly 15 hours a day. About 5 am till 8 pm. Two: There is a zero chance that even for a moment that the sun will duck behind a cloud. Reason why? Because there aren't any in the sky. Wall to wall blue sky from one horizon to the next. Three: Virtually never anything other than a one or two mile per hour breeze. (Years ago, when i used to smoke I'll tell my buddies back east about this. I would tell them before I went to work, I'd sit on the back screened in porch, drink coffee and have a cigarette. I would blow out a couple of smoke rings. When I got home from work the smoke rings were still there) And forth, the sun here has an unusual intensity. If its 90 degrees here and 90 degrees in a New England state, the sun will feel hotter on your skin here than it would there. And then there is the rarity of rain. If you don't water anything outside, including cactus, sometimes it will die. I live in downtown Phoenix. It has been at least 2 years since I got enough rain in one storm to so much as water my grass, maybe even three years. Very seldom is there enough in a rainstorm to water my lawn let alone under a big tree. Usually, I get dust with just enough of a little sprinkling to stick the dust on my vehicle windows. Now they have to be cleaned. As far as the air goes. I tell my friends back east that every breath has a little dirt in it. True. The air always has some dust in it Enough already, right?
Having lived in the valley for over 30 years this video is 100% spot on.
Thank you
I lived there 20 years, it’s hot yup but the wrong way drivers is out of control, never seen it that bad anywhere
I agree that there are a lot of wrong way drivers & I honestly don’t really understand why…
Almost all of them are impaired, often drugs.
I lived in Tucson. There were at least 4 rolled cars a day. I’m still trying to figure out how people roll cars in a residential neighborhood with a 30-35 mile speed limit
@@shawn.shackeltonIllegals on the road!
It’s primarily because a certain culture is pre-disposed to drink & drive… ask any law enforcement officer and they’ll fill you in.
Moved from MD to Phoenix in 2022 to heal & self-care, no regret in that department, but preparing to go back to the East Coast.
Phoenix Arizona was Great at one time now the traffic is like Houston Texas and it's now Los Angeles East and California is taking it over
Yep, 1988 Phoenix was a nice place to be.
I had a friend that moved here from up state NY. He asked once. "What is with this place? I go for a walk and don't swet. I get back and start swetting like crazy." I explained her was swetting like that the whole time. It was just evaperating so fast you didn't notice. You go inside out of the heat, and it stops evaporating.
That’s the best way to explain our “dry heat”
Yup, I went from the Phoenix area to Georgia. I felt like I was under a heat lamp because the sweat just wouldn't evaporate.
I understand it's not as dry a heat as it used to be though. Too much development in that area, everyone has a lawn that need to be watered and a pool that needs constant filling now.
As someone who grew up in Phoenix, it has turned into a cesspool of ignorance and sadness.
That was pretty obvious when the "Cyber ninjas" showed up
This is very informative. As a former Phoenix resident, I appreciate your candor about the downsides of living there. 👍
Thanks for watching!
One thing failed to be mentioned, which can be quite off putting, unless you were raised on the coast of the Gulf of Mexico, or Florida, is the added humidity during the monsoons. With higher humidity (even though your specific area didn't get the cooling of rain) the temps will be a little lower, but the humidity will rise. Often seeing high humidity, and instead of 115 degree highs, only 107 degree highs ... but adding the relative humidity it feels like 120 degrees or worse.
We do see our humidity rise during monsoons, which I don't love at all!! However, from my clients who come from extremely humid places they tell me it's still nothing like where they come from...
Speaking of housing, the FBI is investigating major rental companies for fixing the rent prices. That's a huge one as to why our prices are too high.
Shut up! Don't tell them that. The point is to keep people from moving here. Phoenix is way overpopulated.
Nothing will happen.
Arizona was the first state to call Bidon the winner, even before the ballots were counted.
It's common knowledge Az. Is corrupt, the last election made that crystal clear.!
@@DesertRunner602why the heck would corrupt rental management bring more people to Phoenix????
@valerieirvin246
Greed
My parents moved the family here when i was 8. We actually arrived on that record breaking day in June 1990. I'll never forget opening the car door and stepping out into 122⁰ of a city I didn't want to be in then and I STILL don't want to be in now, 34 years later. I wish I'd have left here in the the first plane, train or automobile going east the day I turned 18 and never looked back. Could have saved myself a lifetime of bad people, bad weather, bad economy, bad government, bad crime and bad traffic.
Don't listen to this gal's sunshine and roses presentation. She's leaving out all the gangs, corruption, crime, housing scams, homelessness, police misconduct (seriously, the Phoenix police have been under federal investigation several times for how they treat the homeless population)...
Stay as far from Phoenix as you can get if you're not here yet. Get out as fast as you can if you're unfortunate enough to find yourself here ..
You can leave any time. We won't care.
That's true n Tucson is known to be infiltrated with cartel now as I'm sure Phoenix is.
Gramisamaga??
I love Arizona, I arrived in 1999 and appreciate where I live. I have arthritis and I’m not bothered by the heat. My joints and body feel so much better.
I lived in Scottsdale for 26 years and moved to Tucson 6 months ago. The mountains are vast and I can escape to Mount Lemon in 1 hour where you can ski and hike and weather is 25 degrees cooler than Tucson and reaches the teens in the winter months.
Less traffic here with loads of parks, of course a pool brings your electric bill to $500.00 a month in June, July and August in PHX and surrounding close suburbs in PHX.
In Tucson my bill has been $255.00 so far and it’s June. I welcome the monsoon in July.
I was bit one time by a scorpion my last year in Scottsdale. Get a bug sprayer, close your windows, keep your doors shut.
I believe snakes are in the open very desert wide open spaces more.
I lived in North Scottsdale on a mountain right before Fountain hills. Of course I had rattlesnakes, I just was careful and always had shoes on. Mountain lions and bobcats drank out of my pool at night. Javelinas love garbage night, the solution was to put the cans out in the morning.
Dust happens‼️ You live in Arizona there’s no escaping dust unless you decide to live in "The Pecans" in Queen creek which looks like the Midwest.
I don’t like the traffic and PHX and surrounding areas has a lot of congestion.
Snowbirds leave eventually and locals get great sales. PHX, Tucson and surrounding areas have delicious restaurants, you can enjoy plenty of family time here up in Sedona at the waterfalls and lakes here.
If you like the bar scene there’s no shortage, golf is everywhere, doctors seem to like a 3:00 tee time.
🌟 Do not move to Rio Verde there is an enormous water problem, the water is turned off and water is trucked in.
Real estate agents don’t have to tell you this and if you buy a million dollar plus you’ll be out of that major cash.
Always google properties and problems in the area you’re looking at.
Scottsdale turned off the water flow to Rio Verde because the shortages in the Colorado river.
Feel free to ask me anything about PHX and different towns.
I’m not a realtor nor do I have anything to sell you.
Overall I love Arizona and it’s 99% gorgeous weather.🌵🌵🌵🌵🌵🌵
Thanks for your insights, I'm sure it very helpful to others! I know I appreciate it.
Your text is so true. People. What I don’t understand is for example, when Scottsdale turned off Rio Verde’s water. Now on the West side of Phoenix they are expanding 37,000 acres of the biggest master planned community. Where is the water going to come from for all these new homes. Which they say will build schools, churches, etc…..
You're crazy.
Why would you say these things you want to turn it into an unlivable area too?
The heat is so bad here its horrible, you shouldn't gaslight everyone, this town is miserable hot,I'd advice not to move here,you'll regret it, fullstop
YOU FORGOT TO MENTION THE ROBBERY TAX THAT AN AUTOMOBILE OWNER HAS TO PAY ON THE CURRENT VALUE OF THEIR PERSONAL VEHICLE EACH YEAR WHEN THEIR VEHICLE REGISTRATION IS DUE!
Old news
Drive an old paid for car, or truck and problem solved.
The Commies have entered the chat. 🤣
@@nodangles6983 - Yep, that would be me, I drive a Tesla, lol. EVs are great, soon just about everyone will be driving one, they just don't know it yet, give it 10 - 15 yrs. The last to switch will lose out the most. For those that doubt me check out the EV's S Curve, it recently hit the steep portion. As an interesting note the Tesla model Y is now the #1 best selling car globally having overtaken the ICE Toyota Corolla.
But your drivers license lasts for ever...
I told my sister in law to "rent first" when she moved to Phoenix to be close to where her son lives after my brother died. Now she never leaves her house and wishes she had never left Kansas and all her friends. I tease her everyday with the temps we are having in the Seattle area.
The Governor of wa state passed a ban against natural gas.
That should tell you all you need to know.
It's a beautiful state for sure n nice temps but does rain alot.
My wife stepped on a Western Diamondback. The hospital bill was about 60,000.
Yup, look before you leap. Hope she's OK.
Oh wow, that's terrible! I hope she is ok!
My aunt got bit on the ankle by a sidewinder rattlesnake while watering her plants. When it's very hot they like to find a cool wet place. She wasn't sure what happened right away but thankfully got to the hospital before it got critical.
Well don't step on them
😳 excessive 😳
You can get a 2nd degree burn off your seat belt buckle in only 30 minutes of your car sitting in the sun.
Say it louder for the people thinking of moving here
And my car key would be hot after a 20 minute drive
I lived in the valley for 36 years...back then it was a nice medium size city, no crime, it was less hot, no traffic, no immigration problems. Now its a major metro area. Over the past 36 years its gotten hotter and hotter due to all the concrete and roadways creating a heat island. It never got over 105 degrees back then. The heat now is unbearable. Traffic is way worse than it used to be. We had no rush hour, now rush hour is 2pm to 8pm. Electric bills in summer are crazy....my bill was always $450-$550 every month. and $200-250 during the winter. Crime was practically non-exsistant......1 0r 2 murders per year...now its every day. Air pollution is very bad...used to be if you had a lung issue..you would move to Phoenix......not anymore. And don't forget about the dust storms and monsoon. Winds can reach 100MPH.....with dust and rain creating a muddy mess. Phoenix used to be a dry climate with very low humidity...not anymore....with the influx of people from back east...they brought lawns, golf courses, subdivisions with lakes and swimming pools all adding the the humidity. Don't get me wrong its still dryer than east coast.....but not by much......don't move to phoenix.....you'll regret it
One thing that was not mentioned in this video (first time viewer) was water availability living in a desert. The water table is going down. Water sources from other states is diminishing.
I would highly recommend taking a look at AZWaterBlueprint.com. This will give you real information about the water situation instead of listening to the media. Here is a direct quote from them "Two years of good snowpack have bought time. Water levels in Lakes Powell and Mead rose considerably due to this snowpack." I've not heard anyone on the news talking about the rise in water levels at Lake Powell or Mead... Gotta go other places to get the real information.
@@shawn.shackeltonWater will not be an issue. Humans already have the technology to desalinize saltwater and with the Pacific Ocean only 400 mi away, it just won't be an issue.
Your uneducated, do some research
@@zezezosezadafrak8210 That "technology" is expensive and nobody wants to PAY for it. Not even NASA or the U.S. government are doing that on city need scale on the West Coast. Not even Saudi Arabia can make that work, even with their oil $millions. It will never be cost-effective on the west coast to desalinize THE AMOUNT THAT IS NEEDED and pipe it that far inland to Arizona. The mistake was in selling huge Arizona farms and water rights to communist Chinese and Saudis. The own thousands of acres.
@@shawn.shackelton Those are temporary reprieves though. I grew up there 40 years ago before all the expansion. We didn't have ground fissure problems in Pinal county back then. Those started appearing around 2010, didn't they?
From what I remember it was from ground water over-pumping and collapsing of the aquifers, and those don't come back with the rainfall and snow melt.
I got a chance to ride my motorcycle from Chicago to Tucson and it was 113deg for 2 days and all I can say it was awesome with no humidity! The land is beautiful and roads like glass. People of Arizona are great and Thank you for the memories♥️
What a great memory! Arizona is pretty special! 🙂
Great place to VISIT
Beautiful if you like sand and rocks and unbearable heat.
113 is a bit much but 98 in Tucson is literally spring-like. Esp compared to the humidity of the midwest.
@@richardsnyder893
Motorcycle clubs*
To people elsewhere: The summer heat can be so high that you never experience sweating because the sweat evaporates immediately. This can be dangerous because it can disguise how hot you are.
It isn't the heat, it's the Phoenix cough. Three times there and 3 times with a hacking continuous cough from the dust. Couldn't live there.
The allergies can be bad at times here, that's for sure!
Interesting statement. I nearly died from "Valley Fever" - a type of fungal lung infection that is very common in the Phoenix area.
The Phoenix area used to have something called "Valley Fever" back when I lived there. Is that what you're talking about?
No one covers their mouth.
Phoenix job market is not great any more.
How so?
Wages low, very menial job openings. Facts
I said this as well. The woman in the video seems to be extremely detached from the working class and current job market.
Wasn’t great in the 1980’s when I lived there…
True they lowered wages even in the construction and manufacturing field.
Lived here for just over a year. Arizona is ranked number one state for road rage and I can believe it. Traffic is terrible like you said and snowbirds make it worse. Whatever you do, don’t let anyone know you’re from California. The cost of goods and services is creeping up near California pricing out and auto insurance is actually more expensive out here. It’s nice going out in the desert and enjoying the natural beauty of Arizona, but past that honestly I’m looking forward to moving.
I left for Georgia 4 years ago. My niece is still in Phoenix and she tell's me it is dangerous. There are beautiful areas north and east of Phoenix but not Phoenix.
The wealthier areas
Let me guess she is white ? Lol
Love N Georgia, Rebels still alive and well, ps Georgia, like Arizona had their elections stolen
@@ingognito369 - You mean by crooks like Rudy G.? He's been indicted in those states along with other Trump goons. Bunch of wannabe election riggers.
I moved from Minnesota to Phoenix 20 years ago. Minnesota had way more things to do. Every time family came to AZ to visit, I would struggle to find things to do for them. I still feel this way after 20 years.
What do you feel Phoenix is missing?
I find there are more things to do now then there used to be… visit FLW house, take the boat around Canyon Lake or Lake Pleasant, bike around Hayden Park (or other parks), visit IFly, catch a sports game, go to one of our big malls, horse riding, visit one of the large museums… go to one of the many restaurants, and there is day trip to Sedona or Jerome, skiing in Flagstaff or Sunrise, trips to a resort and so many other weekend trips…
What did you do in Minnesota? Ice fish for 6 months?
When I lived in PHX, I took up square dancing, attended rodeos and used car auctions, I hiked and climbed mountains made lots of friends at pool parties and went tubing on the Salt River. I don't golf, but I admit paying of the vibrant nightlife.
I'd do it over again now, if it weren't for the oppressive heat, overcrowding and high prices.
Get them to practice digging for gold in the desert in the backyard
I lived in Phoenix most of my life. Owned a 3 bedroom 2 bath house with a 900 sq ft den, swimming pool. Electricity was over $600 a month/ I now live in Costa Rica in a 7 bedroom/5 bath house with 4 car garage on 23 acres I rent for $153 a month/ Electricity is $12 to $15 a month, Here it has never been colder than 54F or hotter than 87F. Mostly 54 to 76.. Love everything here.
i live in Florida and I used to live in Raleigh NC and the weather in Phoenix is actually more comfortable than it is in the southeast. We have high temperatures and high humidity which is very uncomfortable. We have stayed in Phoenix for several weeks in the summer.
I'd rather have humidity over dry heat. It's like being in the swimming pool while it's 122 degrees in Phoenix.
I agree, I'm not a fan of the humidity at all!
It feels oppressive to me in the humidity...
Depends. 120 degrees no humidity but it's bad
@@lovly2cu725 it hasn’t been that hot since 1990 according to weather.gov. I have been there at 112 taking a 5 mile walk. Believe me, it was more bearable than mid 90’s with 90% humidity in Florida
Happiness, skin cancer, and boredom. That's all I got for living in Phoenix for 30 years
yikes! hope you got the skin cancer early and are ok!
@@shawn.shackelton "YES"
They had to cut it off my hand
Boredom and skin cancer are your fault
B.S.
Lived in Gilbert for two years. What’s ruined Phoenix I can sum up in one word….California.
Phoenix is getting hotter.
However, Everywhere is getting hotter... I left 5 years ago. Stay Cool. Best Regards
Phoenix is a prime example of what happens to the Natural cooling of the desert when you concrete an asphalt everything I have to live out in the Cave Creek to free area which when we first moved to Scottsdale we would drive up there at night or cooler evenings and we did notice a drastic change in temperature anywhere from 3 to 5 degrees and plus it's open desert so the minute the sun sets all that heats released and it's lots of cooling wins I also have a freeze way in my house so you can always have a nice Cool Breeze blowing and you can sit out doors without the sun found in your head and even if you don't play golf this has got to be one of the most activity oriented States I've ever been in and I used to live in California so I think that a lot of people just do not understand the desert they don't understand the beauty of it they don't understand how you have to protect it to help maintain temperature a lot of people buy these lots and then they put Hardscape on everything I have not touched my property. I've left my property natural I have a lot of open desert I have lots of wildlife so I you know have a pond for them to drink out of especially in this kind of heat and I even created a little watering hole for bees cuz I noticed that they would go to the aunt moats on my hummingbird feeders. We also put solar on our house which if we hadn't put solar on our bills would be pretty high but utility company buys back almost 50% of everything that we produce and my last utility bill was -2.00 meaning APS owes us money and certain times of the year because of the weather is so nice and pleasant and spring like you don't even need to run your AC or your heat you just keep your doors and windows open for just the natural winds that blow through the desert and truthfully you usually go from cool air conditioned locations like your home to air conditioned places like your workplace or the grocery store you don't have to spend that much time out in the very heat my street is lined with natural trees because we have a lot of trees in the desert and a lot of my neighborhood like to walk up and down bad area with the dogs because it's always because it stays cool because of the trees
Lived in Wickenburg from 2005 to 2007. Yeah, away from the concrete jungle it is definitely cooler.
Too much concrete. Terrible place to live.
Thanks for a REAL review of Phoenix, AZ. I am fifth generation Zonie, 78 Years old, and hope this review will hopefully slow down the influx of Californians paying cash for houses flooding the place with people. You didn't mention solar works great here. My summer bill runs $5-12 a month and winters I make money.
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Thanks for sharing!
Once was enough. Residents were rude and unfriendly.
sorry to hear that!
Of course! they don't want you here. (But I always treat people kindly, that's why I always say don't move to Phoenix).
Also the extreme heat probably makes the residents more mean & irritable too.
Yup. Rude, arrogant and wishing they could afford SoCal.
Yes. Stay OUT!
Water availability is also an issue. Live within the SRP water service area to mitigate risk of water shortage.
How is there a water shortage, when golf courses are watering all the time?
Lived in Phoenix for 22 years, in Phoenix Mountain preserve area ( Shea and 32nd street). Loved the gorgeous views, friendly people always ready to help, peaceful magical desert air at night. But your #1 reason (heat) drove us to move, exchanging a 2700 sq. Foot house for 820 sq. ft condo in downtown Long Beach..Mild, caressing breeze every day, ocean air, 75 degree days, 68 degree nights seem way more important than having that custom made house that I loved, no regrets whatsoever. Electric bill is $25 a month, windows always open.
Don’t forget about ladders on the freeways and wrong way drivers
Tucson resident here. Excellent video with accurate facts. Weather is definitely more gentle down here. You didn’t mention the craziness of 2 story homes being built. This creates very high air conditioning bills.
Unless you're from her go back to where you came from.
I miss Tucson! Great town. Much better than phoenix.
Builders say we can't build basements because if the caliche, but pools NO PROBLEM!?!?
Interesting video as a former Arizona resident. Retired and moved 10 years ago after spending 20 years in the Valley Of The Sun. Phoenix had great tech career opportunities that provided me with excellent compensation packages so I can't complain. When I decided to retire I cashed in the desert and moved abroad to a tropical beach. Still hot (with humidity added) but much more safe, scenic and aesthetically pleasing. Plus we have some of the biggest parties on earth, including a week long water/squirt-gun fight that involves millions of people. There is still petty crime, vice, and corruption, but violent crime is extremely rare. Happy to have left the Phoenix sprawl and Sonoran Desert behind.
Beautiful weather? Sadly I spent 17+ years of my life burning to death in Scottsdale. The weather is miserably for 6-7 months per year.
😂😂
The truth… we have two seasons. Winter and summer. Some would even argue are winters our like spring.
We're glad you left
It’s only hot for 3 months.
@@keithsparbanie2108 Hahaha! Tell me what are the hot “3 months”.
I moved to PHX in 1998 for a job relocation. I had gone on vacation there a year before so was aware of the heat. One morning on my way to work late 1998 or early 1999, reporter said: "Average price of a home (I was renting an apt) was $137,000. Report also said that price meant a fireman, police officer or school teacher could not afford one". By the time I moved away for another job in 2005, it was difficult to find a home (except a slum/shack) for under $400,000. I knew that a collapse was coming. Did not know when. But I got out
before it did. Continued population growth/traffic and possible lack of water were other reasons to leave and find work elsewhere.
Besides Vegas, PHX is the largest eco disaster in the USA! They have zero water.
I avoid las losers
That's because when you build in the desert, you get the desert.
Not exactly true, Vegas has virtually zero ground water. Tucson sits on a massive aquifer, so much that they don't use any of their Colorado River allocation. They sell it back to Phx. Lots of the Phoenix area has ground water that can be accessed via wells. Multiple people I know don't have city water access and have been living off a well. But yes Phx recent massive population growth will run out of water it's just a matter of time.
You are uneducated, we have more water than any state in the west, get a map out
That's simply not true. There is available water. A builder cannot submit a subdivision plan unless they can document and prove that there is a 100-year water supply. Between the CAP allocations, groundwater reserves and the mountain district and surface runoff into the lakes northeast of the valley at higher elevations, there is enough water to support up to 10 million people.
I know we couldn’t take the heat. It’s more like six months of the year and the “dry heat” is BS! Hot is hot!
Yep, it's hot and not for everyone that's for sure.
You are correct, 6 months of heat starting in April. No longer a dry heat and yep, heat is heat.
I used to work at an aluminum foundry. Those furnaces were a "dry heat" too. You're right, hot is hot.
My friends back east in Pennsylvania would always say that I wouldn't like their humid summers. Well I went back a couple summers ago and I thought it was beautiful. The sun was not near as scorching hot as the sun in Phoenix and the humidity felt better on my skin and the humid air was easier on my sinuses. Also it never got over 90 degrees when I was there. We tubed down a river for hours and went on a historical boat ride and I didn't feel that hot at all. Visiting Gettysburg was so comfortable temperature wise to me. Ive lived in AZ most my life and Phoenix is really hot to the point that's unhealthy for a lot of people.
But it IT IS DRY.
When I used to visit Phoenix I noticed that all the joggers came out after sunset. It was still warm, but the sun wasn't blasting you with even more heat. The evening sky was beautiful.
Half the year is uncomfortably hot, December can be freezing, but the other five months are fine.
I describe the breezes during the summer as that gust of hot air you get when you open an oven
I like to use the blow dryer analogy LOL
Hello from Glendale Arizona USA its 9am and 100 degrees
Not at 9am 2 days ago. Hit 100 for the high in late afternoon. NOT at 9am. Maybe a month from now. Please don't exaggerate.
I was born and raised here and have spent most of my life here. When people ask, "How can you stand the heat in the summer?" I reply, "I stay out of it!" Also, those temps that are reported are from the National Weather Service and are from Sky Harbor Airport. I've driven for rideshare for several summers, and I can tell you my car regularly reports temps from 118 to as high as 125 depending on the part of town I'm in. There are also areas that are 10 degrees cooler than at the airport. I do NOT recommend wasting your money to come here in the summer just to check out the heat -- come here for a convention or something. You can book rooms at resorts at a HUGE discount if you really want to, but seriously ... you won't even find people out at the swimming pools. The furniture is too hot to sit on!
Here's a tip: people tend to confuse the need for sunscreen with heat. Unless you have a skin problem and are extremely sensitive to sunlight, there's NO WAY you can be out in the sun when it's 110+ where you're going to need sunscreen. In fact, the sunscreen will only make you sweat more. Don't bother with it, you'll collapse of heatstroke before you'll get a sunburn.
I've never encountered a rattlesnake anywhere near the city. In the outskirts that have recently been plowed and turned into modern subdivisions, people will sometimes report encountering snakes, but mostly that happens in the spring (Mar-Apr) when the snakes come out of hibernation as it warms up and then we get a sudden "cold snap", and they come out again and crawl onto the pavement or asphalt to warm up. During the hot summer months, most critters are nocturnal and crawl under rocks and bushes during the day to avoid the heat. Bushes and shrubs are a little cooler, and there are lots of birds and critter that nap there during the day; if you run into one, you might find yourself suddenly engulfed in all sorts of surprised critters. However, I regularly see scorpions and black widow spiders. I can grab my black light and go outside ("real" desert landscaping) and find at least four scorpions any day of the week. Black widows hide in dark places and make these gnarly webs. Just take a stick and wave it around slowly to mess up the web and they'll go away. However, the scorpions and spiders keep the cricket population down.
BTW, North Scottsdale has what I call "fake" desert landscaping. I live across from the Phoenix Mountain Preserve and it's just raw desert. So are most of the homes in my neighborhood. In North Scottsdale, there are Homeowners Associations that curate the exteriors and homeowners are actually prohibited from cutting down weeds that pop up like ... well, weeds ... after a couple of big monsoon storms. They look nice, but they're heavily manicured to look that way.
Enjoy AZ!
IHarsh weather, traffic, and cost of living are pretty much standard in most major cities. I'm surprised she didn't mention the biggest issue I would be concerned with. Water and future sustainability. . It's one of those things that people don't take into account until it's too late
I agree but if the water were such an issue why in heavens name would we let millions cross the border and consume that much more. 🤷🏻♀️
You are absolutely correct. My professor was a fluvial expert and Phoenix is in major, major trouble with the water supply! The biggest users are not industry or golf courses, it is home owners!!!
No its agriculture
@@cde9952 No it is not! We conducted a study. Business industry, golf courses, agriculture and home owners. It is the homeowners, pools and large water use.
We have plenty of water get educated
Another one that could cause complications is contracting Valley Fever, a fungal infection that can be found in the soil. I did and luckily it was caught early. It's not fun to go through but people should be aware of it, especially those with upper respiratory issues.
Yes, my two dogs got valley fever. In the mid 2000s. Don’t mess it.
@@fryeguyfrye5520 Yesss, my dog is on her third round of flare-ups! It's no joke people!
AZ native here. 02:30 , we used to be able to open the windows at night during the summers because the afternoon and evening monsoons would cool everything down.
Then they started expanding the concrete and asphalt building up Gilbert, Queen Creek, and SanTan.
The desert sand cools down, but the concrete an asphalt caused the heat island effect to grow, so NOW we don't cool down at night or get our monsoons like clockwork. We used to though.
Lived there 55 years. Summation: too much traffic, terrible city planming, West and south sides dangerous places to livein, terrible smog hovers over the Phoenix city located in a still air basin, yes hot but I like hot weather, so dry I would get nose bleeds until I installed humidifier, no body of substance wants to be in politics thus that scene is full of jetks, rampant run away construction of apartments and condos and golf courses and elite old timers that really control their interests but don't much Cate othetwise. But I do love Scottsdale!
In 2014 I lived west of the 17 a few blocks. Cinco de mayo nightly. Corner standers at midnight.
😂😂😂 Fr
Well, yeah…
She is one hundred percent accurate. And those visiting who want to hike in the heat are not only putting themselves in danger, but putting our first responders at risk to save you. Please do not hike in the summer in the Phoenix/Sedona area.
Don't forget that the temps are measured in the shade.
They are really measured at the airport so in places like North Scottsdale, Cave Creek & Carefree the temps are much cooler.
I work outside. I got heat exhaustion twice last summer, and I know what I am doing. It was unbearable.
If you knew what your were doing you would leave.
I’ve lived in CA for 65 years, it’s awesome here.
I’ve spent my life skateboarding, snowboarding, going to the lakes/beaches and riding motocross, sometimes all in one day.
If you live in CA and you’d like to move, we’d love to see you go!!!
in 1945 Pheonix was 100k pop. It's now the 5th largest in the US. After the invention of A/C, these megacities were carved into places they did not belong. The more A/C, the worse the heat gets outside, which is part of why you're up past 100 for days in a row. That, plus the tar and cement is what is driving climate change.
Evaporative coolers were far more common even up to the 1990s too. Those have far less effect on the environment, requiring just a fraction of the energy as AC.
The concrete is like a brick oven.
Retiered Border Patrol and AZ resident for 30 years. Wild horses couldn't drag me to the greater Phoenix metro area.
I'll stay in the altitude and small town vibe of southern cochise county.
Well had you done a better job Phoenix wouldn't be so bad
@@amdg2023Are you an Official Member of the "I'm a Mean Girl Sorority", or just trying out to join? I'd vouch that you definitely have what it takes.
Avoid all the development and be cool at night. Phoenix bites big ones.
@@klee88029 where do I sign up?
$900 power bill for us last month. Been stuck inside with two toddlers for two months now ✌🏼I don’t even like going anywhere because getting in and out of a hot car in a hot parking lot is punishing
Bumper sticker in Bisbee: It's not the heat, it's the stupidity
Bisbee really surprised me when I finally visited. So quirky.
From Bisbee
Phoenix is awful!
@@stephaniebarrett4769 It's worse than awful. Edward Abbey said it's the blob that ate Arizona.
I couldnt take the heat and traffic. The winter and landscape i like. There is a smog that hovers over the city.
Back in the 80’s as you drove north to Phoenix from Tucson you could see the dark pollution cloud above the city as you approached. Phoenix is several times larger now.
Air quality is poor most of the time now.