MOVING TO TUCSON FROM NYC

SELF

[Celerity]

My god.

I’m from Fairfield County, CT. This is right over the CT border from you, and I often worked in Manhattan/Bronx/Queens etc.

I live in PA now, again right over the NY line.

As someone who is both “you” and “Trying to avoid you” I have some good advice:

Don’t bring NY with you. At all. This is harder said than done. I am surrounded by people who HATE NY, even though they hail from there. They say they came here to escape it but they just turned it into Catskills #2. They didn’t even realize it.

You have to shed every ounce of New Yorker from you and your soul. And that’s not easy. It’s poisonous.

[Kalamata]

God Bless you and your family.

Is AZ considered a swing state? If so, by moving there, your vote will really count, much more so than in NY.

How cool it would be if more conservatives living in commie lands to move to the swing states.

I hope your move is safe and smooth.

[HotHunt]

Tucson is higher elevation even though it is 100 miles south of Phoenix. Temperatures are about 10 degrees cooler in Tucson than Phoenix because of it..

Regardless of this subdivision or neighborhood or wherever you're moving to, understand Tucson is liberal as heck. Democratic stronghold. Open borders town.

Only when you get to Phoenix metro area does it start getting more conservative.

But the good thing is you're getting out of New York and moving to the southwest, my favorite area of the country. I grew up in Tucson and Tempe, just outside of Phoenix. I live in Florida now and miss Arizona and the desert.

[Do_Tar]

If you look up you can actually see STARS!

[piasa]

You might have to explain to the city dweller what stars are... that they aren’t just pointy shapes on fabric.

[Do_Tar]

Oh, yeah. Also not the ones from Hollywood. Though they do occasionally come here to get drunk and/or die.

[firebrand]

Sorry to lose you from the Metro area. It was good to know you and protest with you back in the day. Best of luck in your new home.

[Kickass Conservative]

Anyone here have an opinion of Flagstaff? I’ve been trying to get Mrs. K.C. to think about moving there.

We live in S. CA near the Ocean so we seldom deal with really hot weather.

I hate the Politics here and my Wife just ignores it, so it’s pretty much me who wants to sell the House, take the money and run to freedom.

Have friends in Phoenix and in Prescott, but I just don’t find either place appealing.

Definitely not Phoenix, even though it is a dry heat, just like our Broiler.

[WMarshal]

Flagstaff is a nice little city that offers more to do than a usual city of its size due to being a college town. Arizona Snowbowl is a good ski resort in spite of only being about 160 miles north of the Sonoran Desert. In the summer there are many great opportunities for hiking, mountain biking, disk golf, camping, boating, and rock climbing. The North Rim of the Grand Canyon is only about 2 hours north and Monument Valley about 3 hours to the northeast. Sedona is 30 miles to the southwest is magnificent and in winter is quite a bit warmer than Flagstaff.

Here is downtown Flagstaff:

Here is Arizona Snowbowl:

Here is a pic of downtown Sedona looking north:

I have thought about moving there myself but I cannot leave my children behind so I suffer in the Phoenix heat.

[WMarshal]

Just one word of advice, don’t speed in Oro Valley unless you feel good when you contribute money in fine payments to the city.

[Kickass Conservative]

Thank you for the information. I appreciate it.

Any views on the Politics there being a College Town?

[WMarshal]

Like college towns everywhere anti-Americanism/leftism is rampant.

[Kickass Conservative]

I figured as much, but if I lived there I would never leave the House unarmed. Just say no to Antifa...

[Flaming Conservative]

It’s not the heat. It’s the humidity.

[cherry]

I’ll be there’s fewer snakes in Arizona than rats in NYC...

[Revelation Concepts]

Welcome to Arizona but up here in Phoenix we call Tucson, North Nogales. We would love to annex it back to Mexico.

[WMarshal]

Arizona has good people but Flagstaff, like all college towns, has more than its fair share of young, liberal idiots that buy into the leftist lie. Thankfully age takes care of a lot of idiotic fantasies.

I wouldn’t let that stop you fro. Moving there unless your wife has an unhealthy attraction to youth like my ex-wife(what a whore she is).

[Jeff Chandler]

I visited Tucson in early June and although it got hot in the afternoons, the early mornings and evenings were lovely.

We lived there one summer in the 70s and every sunset was like a post card.

[Jeff Chandler]

you could get a home with a gorgeous mountain view

Our experience of the monsoon season in Tucson:

Every day that summer beautiful fluffy cumulonimbus clouds gathered over the Santa Catalina mountains, building up thicker and higher throughout the day. Towards late afternoon the clouds became restless and bolts of lightning began to strike here and there along the peaks. Sunset triggered the evening drama as the clouds rushed down into the valley -- along with their electric light show -- and dumped their load of rain onto the Old Pueblo, filling the roads, which were designed to serve as storm drains.

After about an hour the streets cleared, the clouds moved on and the stars broke through the clear night sky.

[Jeff Chandler]

as Woody Allen said,

[Suggestion for your move: don't quote Woody Allen.]