British Couple Reacts to Why So Many Americans Move To Arizona And Not New Mexico
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Phoenix has been near the top of the list of fastest-growing cities for decades. It has definitely outgrown its charm. It's a prototypical transplant city, almost everyone is from somewhere else and wants to transform Phoenix into the city they came from despite leaving that city for some reason.
I grew up in Vermont , but I was born in Phoenix Arizona.
@@marydavis5234 I've been here since I was 4, so I'm not technically a native either
@@sikksotoo We moved to Vermont,when I was 2 years old
Too hot for me in AZ. I don’t like deserts.
I wouldn't live in Phoenix if you gave me a free home and paid my taxes forever! What a god awful place to live! Give me Southern Arizona any day of the week.
As an Arizona resident my whole life, nothing beats a dry heat and mild winters
I grew up in Northern New Mexico by the mountains and right underneath the Colorado Rockies. It gets very cold there in the winter and we get a reasonable amount of snow. There are ski resorts in the area and people ice fish in the winter as well. The ice is at least a foot thick on the lakes!
I'm surprised you mentioned High School Musical! It was set here but not actually filmed here, it was filmed in Utah. Most people just know us from Breaking Bad. I love Breaking Bad and it's made more people aware of my state, but sometimes people assume life here for everyone is just like in the show.
Most people don't realize how cold New Mexico can get! Albuquerque doesn't get a whole lot of snow, but just about an hour north, Santa Fe is at the southern end of the Rocky Mountains, so northern NM gets cold and gets lots of snow. There's lots of skiing that I enjoy doing here in Santa Fe and Taos.
In many ways, Arizona is our slightly warmer sibling. NM and AZ are pretty much the core of the "Southwest" region of the US. We have similar foods and similar histories. Both states have some of the highest Native American populations and the modern Navajo Nation has significant territory in each state. The similar history lead to both states having similar foods. New Mexican cuisine is distinct from Mexican, Californian, and Tex-Mex foods, and to me, is the best cuisine in the US (but I'm biased). Arizona has pretty similar food, but I also think it has been watered down a bit there because of all the growth, whereas NM has remained a little more traditional.
Both have amazing nature, and I encourage visiting both. Arizona obviously has the Grand Canyon, but other areas like Sedona are popular as well. New Mexico also has some national parks, like White Sands and Carlsbad Caverns. Some of the oldest settlements have been found here as well, like Chaco Culture National Monument, Bandolier National Monument, and Gila Cliff Dwellings. Acoma Sky City and Taos Pueblo are also some of the oldest continuously-inhabited places in the US, and people have lived there for roughly a thousand years each. Santa Fe is also the oldest state capital in the US (although San Juan, Puerto Rico is slightly older, but PR isn't a state yet), as well as the highest elevation state capital.
Fun fact: Phoenix is BY FAR the largest state capitol in the United States. Yes there are larger individual cities, but none of those cities are their state’s capitol
Born and raised in AZ, this video overlooks a lot of factors which catapulted it's growth. A MAJOR contributor was WW2.. during the war, many GIs were trained and stationed at bases in AZ and chose to stay when the war ended, leading to huge population jumps in the 50s & 60s. On the population comparison, AZ's 2nd largest metro (Tucson) is also larger than Albuquerque.
I lived in both states and I like them both. Good times.
I considered going to New Mexico, but they have a high crime rate. They're 2nd highest in the USA for violent crime in 2022.
Right now, it is 45℉ in Albuquerque, 66℉ in Phoenix, and 30℉ in Flagstaff, AZ (and snowing!).🥶
He is absolutely correct about water being the difference, but none the water from the Colorado River ever reached Phoenix until the 1980's.
(When Phoenix already had over 1.6 million people, and Albuquerque had roughly 450,000.
But the Area around Phoenix was irrigated (not counting long prior to colonial settlement) starting in the late 1860's.
Federally aided irrigation projects expanded this in the early 1900's
After the 1930's, Phoenix did benefit from the power generated by the Hoover Dam (on the Colorado).
But Phoenix owes much to its sunny climate, and especially its warm winters - both for agriculture, and for attracting business.
This is an excellent point that was missed in the original video. Phoenix to this day still gets the majority of its water from the Salt and Verde river systems (and to lesser extent Gila and Aqua Fria). Reservoirs built on the Salt river greatly contributed to the development of Phoenix and the surrounding area allowing for a secured source of water and hydroelectric generation starting with Roosevelt Dam which was completed back in 1911.
@@Spiff99 Yes, indeed. If the Colorado was the key to everything - then what about Yuma for example?
Awesome a New Mexico related video :) BTW Highschool musical is SET in Albuquerque but was filmed in Utah. New Mexico gets a good amount of snow and the balloons are from the International Balloon Fiesta in Albuquerque. We get around 600 Balloons every October but in 2001 we had over 1000 but it was scaled back
Love to hear a Albuquerque shoutout!! I’ve lived in Albuquerque all my life and love it! It’s definitely worth visiting for the Balloon Fiesta and get some New Mexican food!
I really do prefer New Mexico to Arizona.I love having 4 seasons out of the year instead of hot and warm in Mexico is beautiful lots of pine trees lots of waterfalls lakes rivers. Those are kind of limited in arizona they just have like a big outlet with the colorado river
Arizona is quite beautiful, and has all of the seasons. Where I live, up in the White Mountains of Az, we get snow! The summer in the mountain is much less heated then if you were to be in Phoenix, or what we call "the valley".
from the PHX area here - love the white mountains. just went camping out by big lake last month and had a blast. i’d only ever been up there for snowboarding and stuff during winters, but this was my first time going up in summer and i want to go back, lol
We’re seriously low on water in the Colorado river. Lake mead which is the lake created by Hoover dam is seriously low
I live in Las Cruces New Mexico and we like that we’re not inundated by out of staters. We like keeping our Land of Enchantment to ourselves!
Lol, im moving to new mexico this summer. Family there.
Be there or be square is at least from 1960, and probably before that. I think it was said during the Beatnik period of the 1950s.
(snapping fingers) real cool daddy-o 😎
Native Arizonan here. Love living in the desert! Plus I’m 5 hours from San Diego, can pop over to Mexico, go skiing in Northern AZ and am 5 hr drive to Las Vegas. Plus I’m addicted to all of our Sun. It’s the sunniest state in the US.
There are some ski resorts in northern New Mexico.
Hey now, Ski Apache is in Ruidoso!
Live in Arizona. It’s great. You’ll need to visit some time.
I'm both Arizonan and New Mexican. I was born and raised in Phoenix, but my mom's family has nine generations in New Mexico, prior to the US existing or Mexico being and independent country. Went to university in New Mexico but oved back to metro Phoenix a couple years after graduating for the job market. Both states are beautiful in their own ways. There is nothing like waking up on a crisp fall morning to the smell of leaf burning, chili roasting and fresh tortillas cooking with a view of the purple and pink Sandia and Manzano mountains in Albuquerque. And there's nothing like an early morning hike up Camelback to see the Valley of the Sun wake up in the morning in metro Phoenix. One thing I do prefer about New Mexico is their slower growth rate. As other people have mentioned in the comments, AZ is mostly made up of transplants and many (not all) have different cultural values and lack manners. This gives AZ overall a bad wrap, but none of us consider these people Arizonans.
I live in Arizona. Born and raised. Wow, I only knew we were once Mexico, but I didn't know about the Civil War part. I live at 5500 elevation. We get snow..we just had a good snow fall a few weeks ago. We are getting a lot of California people moving to our state, they can buy houses cheaper here and we are now a blue state ( democrat). We had been republican. Until Biden was elected.
Honestly, the real issue is that rural Arizonans have become too used to living in isolation and ignoring politics. If you don't act to control civics, someone else will.
We have many wonderful ski resorts in NM!
I won't get into to it on here, but state politics has a lot to do with it also and was not mentioned.
I have traveled extensively throughout the SouthWest Section of the USA as an long haul Commercial Truck Driver and most likely the reason the population is more dense in Arizona than New Mexico is because New Mexico is much more arid climate and mostly Badlands than Arizona.
Albuquerque, New Mexico is actually named for a town in Spain. Alburquerque is a town in the province of Badajoz in Spain. It has 5,600 inhabitants. It is very close to the border with Portugal and was an ancient dominion of the kings of that country. The origin of the name of the town is uncertain. It is believed to stem from Latin alba quercus "the white oak". Since much of the US Southwest belonged to Spain(later to Mexico after their independence war) they named many towns and what are states today with Spanish names.
It was named in honor of Francisco V Fernández de la Cueva, the 10th Duke of Alburquerque, who was Viceroy of New Spain at the time Albuquerque was founded, in 1706.
Southern New Mexico is Desert yes but around the middle of the state Northern New Mexico is mostly mountains, fun fact there are more Hollywood actors that live New Mexico than Arizona of course I was born and raised in New Mexico so I might have a bias.
Being "snowbirds," my wife and I chose southern texas for this reason. The southern border of Texas stays even nicer in the winter.
I live in western Kansas wheat farm country and I love it. Wouldn't trade it for the world.
Can't wait to see your news!
Most People know about New Mexico through Breaking Bad, one of the most popular and best TV shows ever made. Y'all should give it a watch!
James, re. the Gadsden Purchase, what I learned around 60+ years ago is that it was bought so that we could avoid blasting a railroad through the mountains.
All of the hot air balloons at around 8:50 are participants in the annual balloon rally in Albuquerque.
Although it doesn't bring in new people, it is an advantage to have a national park, and Arizona has Grand Canyon in the north, as well as Saguaro (sa-WAH-row), whereas NM has a rather new one in White Sands, and longtimer Carlsbad Caverns.
I'd read that Mexico also offered the entire Baja California peninsula as part of the land sale also, but we declined that part. I don't know if that's actually true since it was a single source, but if true and we'd accepted, I wonder how state borders would have shaken out in that case.
@@MagsonDare, after reading your above comment, I made a little trip over to google for some info, and found that in 1848--around the time Texas became a state, and we bought CA, it wasn't brought up. In fact, that didn't happen until 1917, but by that time, we weren't interested, and still aren't.
Politics is a huge reason. No way in hell I’d move to New Mexico!
Highest ever recorded temperature in New Mexico is 122*F and lowest is -50*F
Geoff failed to mention New Mexico's high poverty rate, bad education system, and high crime rate.
Almost no state has a worse educaiton system than Arizona, even New Mexico.
Moved from the Seattle area to a suburb east of Phoenix. I like AZ a lot so far
I live in Arizona and it's a great place. So many people are moving here for the climate and the events we have here.
No place in Arizona is a “good” place. You can keep it.
@@torstenheling3830lmao sounds good to me, i don’t know how you could hate it so much from just a visit. did you hang around the west side of town or what
@@dival9035 The West side of what town? I’m not particularly fond of the right wing politics of Arizona to be specific, but even more importantly the place is a desert. It’s a literal unlivable inferno in the Summers (probably at least half the year at a minimum) and I don’t like dry hot places at all. I prefer cold, cloudy, rainy climates that stay that way the year round. Like Ireland or Scotland.
@@torstenheling3830 ahhh i thought you meant phoenix hahaha. but yeah that’s valid, lifelong resident here and you never really get used to the heat, you kinda just know what to expect
@@dival9035 I can imagine. It’s probably like Minnesota in December or January, just opposite.
Hello... Roswell, New Mexico here! UFO central. Just remember, New Mexico: Come on vacation, leave on probation!
Lived in Glendale for years loved it
Tornado Iceberg - Pt. 1 and 2
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I second this. I know you guys have done tornado videos before, and I always love them, but I'm pretty sure they were always kind of focused on one tornado or tornado outbreak or whatever. It'd be awesome to see a couple "tornado iceberg" videos from your perspectives!
24th Street and Roosevelt Phoenix Arizona born and raised
8th Ave and Dobson in Mesa here.
I wouldn't trade our summers for anyone else's winters.
In the city I live Most of the year the Rio Grande is dry, we have been having drought conditions for about 11 years, Elephant Butte Lake: 15.7% full as of 2023-03-22. That is our water reservoir, it has been as low as 9%, when I moved here in the 1990's it was in the 90% range with a few time that it almost crested the dam. The thing that stopped me from moving to Phoenix was the occasional 43-45C during the summer!
My profile photo was taken at a golf course overlooking Elephant Butte Lake, though i was only there for a visit. Still.... Small world!
My family moved to Phoenix in 1969, for my fathers job and my allergies. I have moved many years ago and miss the state but not Phoenix. The northern part is more my style. Sata Fe NM is beautiful.
He left out that Phoenix Metro, is a very beautiful city. I'm from Utah, but my family lived in Phoenix, several times. It's very clean and manicured, with varieties of palm and citrus, and Avocado trees. Southwest AZ, and a bit norther Mexico is the only place in the world that Giant Saguaro Cactus' grow. Also, parts of southern New Mexico have a similar climate to SW, AZ.
Wow. K win about 4 a day. But it always tuns out to be a douche bag
As a native New Mexican whose family goes back to the New Spain days (i.e. before it was even Mexico), who has spent more than half of my six+ decades here in NM, I honestly don't think it _can_ grow much. First and foremost is water/drought. It's always been about water and the challenge of having enough for the long term, even before climate change warmed/dried things out a bit, never mind adding in the demands of most industries. If you take away the recent movie/tv boom and the still pumping oil/gas industry (and of course, our world famous chile), there's not really a lot here to attract growth. Good people, though. And pretty vistas. And, once you get out of the cities, delightfully calm and quiet. (Oh, and if you want to see roadrunners, coyotes, and tumbleweeds...we've got plenty of all of them.)
Beesleys, I should have made my visit to Wikipedia before posting below, but . . .
What I have to say is in reference to the aforementioned balloon festival. I learned that it's the Albuquerque Int'l. Balloon Festival, held annually in early October, and is the largest such festival in the world, annually drawing 500+ balloons.
Its fantastic fun. Even as a native to Albuquerque the Balloon Fiesta never fails to amaze. Its fun driving to work in October and seeing the sky full of balloons
@@ji3194 , I hope James & Milly notice this exchange.
Tucson transplant here. Escaped the Chicago winters 35 yrs ago. Here’s a couple of fun facts about Tucson. The westernmost battle of the Civil War was fought just 40 miles north of Tucson, at Picacho Peak. Also, the most southern ski resort, Mt Lemmon, is located in the Santa Catalina Mountains adjacent to Tucson.
I moved from Oxford, Uk to New Mexico 6 months ago and I was also surprised by how cold and windy it is hear; much colder than your average English winter. I used to think UK was a bit quite and sometimes boring as a whole but it’s hands down a million times better than New Mexico!
Sante Fe, the capital of New Mexico founded 1607 is oldest state capital in the USA and 3rd oldest city
Arizona: The 3 C's....Copper...Cotton...Cattle...
When I was in school we were taught the 5 Cs. Those you mentioned plus Citrus and Climate.
Comida!!!
There are people who move to different states for tax reasons, but this has been exaggerated. One motive is political, I suspect. The savings will be only several percent of a person's total income, and the people most in need of that savings are the least able to afford moving. A more likely reason to move is lower housing prices. There are exceptions, but both lower local taxes and lower housing costs are mostly found in more rural areas, and the reverse in more urban areas. People move also for better weather, changing jobs, attending university, retirement, to be closer to family, etc.
Yep even people are complaining that "democrats" are moving to Arizona making turn blue it's laughable. Georgia is becoming a very popular state too.
I live in Las Cruces. I can tell you why people don't move to New Mexico... it freaking sucks here. No, seriously. It gets worse the closer you get to Albuquerque, but the whole state just really sucks to live in.
Details? Other than the politics.
Its amazing to see you guys react to this. Im born and raised in PHX but as a truck driver I’ve been all through NM and it is an amazing state.
Arizona is awesome living here my whole life 🌹👍💕
I can see why you might think that when it comes to the land and just saying we really need this for a railroad but in actuality it saved them from having to blast through mountains. Remember geography is not always on your side. Even in America.
As someone born and raised in New Mexico Please keep moving to Arizona and leave us alone.
Please stop moving to Arizona! Don’t California my Arizona!!!!!!!
As an Albuquerque resident born and raised a lot has to do with elevation, water, and sadly the drug trade. There is many benefits for an untold amount of people to flood our state with cheap available drugs, where because of lower elevation southern Arizona is a bleak wasteland desert and much harder to cross.
My buddy owns a farm in New Mexico. He tried to build a well to source water from the water table, but he had to stop because in that county no individual has water rights, even if they own the land. It's a backwards place for water laws.
OMG As an Arizonan I really wanna know why too!! We dont want the influx geez!! Its 120 here in the summer stay away lol
Older American here, long time resident of southern New Mexico. It's beautiful state. Some middle income communities are actually nice to live in. That being said, I think the real reason people aren't moving to New Mexico is because it is ranked as the worst state in the country, in education. It has the highest poverty rate & violent crime rate in the country. It is the state with the worst / highest number of drug use problems. So far, it's still only the third worst state for drunk driving (DWI) incidents / deaths.
These issues might explain its political alignment or perhaps it's political alignment might explain why some of its issues continue to go unresolved.
The land purchase allowed the railroad to avoid miles and miles of mountains and saved a lot of money; also, Santa Anna felt it was better to sell as opposed to having it taken. The original offer was for all of northern Mexico.
It Snows in Albuquerque.
After living in Florida New Mexico should embrace not growing as fast . We're being overran and people move here and try to change how things are that are not broken
NM has much less water. AZ, Las Vegas and LA get their water from the Colorado river which in good years has heavy flow. NM has the Rio Grande which has much less water.
One of my Texan cousins has lived in New Mexico for years during its warmer months. During NM's cold months, he lives in the US Virgin Islands. I know many years ago, retirement communities were built in Arizona. Last year I watched David Hoffman's YT video titled, "Are These 1970 Retirees Funny To You? They Were Living The American Dream When I Filmed This".
There are 2 points that need a little clarification. 1) you brought up why the railroads were built so far south.... it's because of elevation. New Mexico has the southern part of the Rocky Mountains, and since trains are restricted to going uphill to a 12 degree incline, the railroad was laid in the south where it's much flatter. 2) a huge portion of New Mexico was given to the native Americans (Indians) for reservations and are still owned and ruled by those laws. Much of New Mexico's taxes and sale of items like alcohol are governed by the Indian laws (same with Oklahoma) which are much stricter than US laws. Besides Santa Fe and Albuquerque, and perhaps Las Cruces, too, there are no other major cities in New Mexico and hence a much slower population growth. 1 point of interest, the Holloman Air Force Base located near Alamogordo, is on the White Sands Desert and is home to the Missle Testing Range and was the home of the Atomic Bomb used to end WWII in 1945.
Good points, though to add to #2, a greater percentage of AZ land is tribal land (27.7%) vs NM (10.3%). (not to mention feds control more overall land in AZ vs NM)
I joined the military so that I could travel while I still had an interest. I am back in Wisconsin where I grew up. I prefer the 4 seasons, Fall and Winter are still my favorites. I have been to AZ many times and enjoyed the visit and I can say the same for New Mexico. I still have places I want to visit but they are all in Europe.
I grew up in Arizona, and it was nice, getting to be too many people here now. Maybe its time to move to New Mexico to get away from the crowds.
Lifetime Arizona resident. But I wouldn't live in Phoenix unless I had no other choice.
I live in New Mexico. We really don't want the growth Phoenix has expereinced. We like having wide open areas and wilderness areas. New Mexico is also so much cooler than Arizona in the summer. I'm sorry, but I think Phoenix is miserable in the summer. New Mexico is an awesome blend of Native American, Hispanic and all other cultures.Everyone in New Mexico is a minority. If you don't enjoy diversity and outdoor activities, New Mexico is not the place for you.
You couldn't pay me to live in such a hot climate. I'd melt...😢
Once you get used to it, its very nice. Granted I am a NM native. Its a beautiful state
I'm looking at northern Indiana and Wisconsin for that reason. I'm tired of NJ and can't afford to live here after my dad passes.
I'm the same about the cold. I love my hot Texas.
Arizona is horrible
Here is a good video to react to... "When Americans Built a Road Across Canada" From Canadiana
When I was 13, I went to Arizona in the Spring for a conference. I couldn’t believe I could go outside and play basketball while smelling grapefruit trees in February. I told my dad I was going to move to the Valley of the Sun, one day. 10 years later in 2006, I did! I live in sunny Phoenix! 22 Celsius, perfect.
21 from New York State and this is my plan as well. Hopefully next year I can get over there!
I lived in both and miss them. Where I was in az and nm was pretty much same weather and landscape and all. I want to move back to one of them in a few years.
Bwah ha ha says they guy who moved to Arizona 35 years ago from Michigan.
I love New Mexico, especially Santa Fe . . .
I’ve wondered that myself and I’m American!
Great explanation. I always thought it was either because of politics, high taxes, no jobs, or just that the NM people were weird and no one wanted to go there. LOL
I think NM is a gorgeous State.
I mean, you aren't wrong on any one of your points....
New Mexico embraces weird.
Correct on pretty much all counts. Still trying to figure out why it’s a blue state. But if you think about it, there is a reason it was chosen for the Manhattan Project.
Despite the growth, the Albuquerque area has another major downside on growth. They can only really grow outward to the west. To the north and especially south native reservations, also military base to the south. And to the east is mountains, and the city has grown all the way out and (a little bit) into the mountains.
New Mexico is really full of Indian reservations. And not near as nice as Arizona. Also Arizona is getting immense totals of illegal immigrants. But New Mexico has huge ranches also that means that the land is priva🎉tell owned and owned by the military and Indian reservations
The next 5-10 year the American Southwest we will see what happens. There a video about "failure to understand exponential growth function"
I live in AZ and I don't even know why lol I think cause it's hot 24/7 and my bones love the heat.
wow !
I knew I shoulda taken that left turn at Albuquerque.
Seriously, was Bugs Bunny not a big thing in your childhood?
AZ has more than NM and more water!
There's something else your video didn't touch on. Arizona tends to be "right" leaning in it's politics while New Mexico tends to be "left" leaning. People do take that into account. But having driven thru both states as a truck driver, I will say both are beautiful.
If you ever come to Albuquerque or the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta, just let me know, I know I can get you a free Balloon ride. I use to own a balloon, and plan on getting back into ballooning in a couple of years. Please don't let the video discourage you from going in a balloon, Balloon incidents are rare, when accidents do occur, it usually is pilot error, not the balloon it self, that was the problem. You really need to do a video of the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta, to see this event with all its glory. My I suggest a video from UA-camrs, (Less Junk, More Journey), video is called (TIME TO LAUNCH) from 2016 Balloon Fiesta.
Hey I love the wide rage of things you react to, would be willing to react to a kind of long video called The British Crusade Against Slavery?
I live in northern Arizona now and love it, but was originally from New York City. I've learned that there are two kinds of Arizonans -- those who love the Phoenix area and those who hate it. There is no middle ground. The whole state of New Mexico is just like the part of Arizona that is loved by people who hate Phoenix. A better comparison between New Mexico and Arizona would be to restrict the comparison those parts of the state that are at least 50 miles (~80km) away from downtown Phoenix. Match Tucson, Prescott, Flagstaff, Yuma, Kingman, Safford, plus fully rural Arizona to the whole of New Mexico, and the comparison would be far more equal than the video lets on. Frankly, Phoenix shouldn't exist -- there's not enough water to serve the area anymore.
That’s why Tucson was the first capital - along with the railroad.
@Sally Chandler , For accuracy's sake, let me note that Arizona's first (pre-Statehood, Territorial) capital was Prescott, founded in 1864 by order of President Lincoln. In the 1880s (I think) it was moved 200 miles south to Tucson, then back up to Prescott because Tucson was too far away from northern Arizona, then finally 100 miles south to the newly-formed hell-hole -- I mean, community -- of Phoenix in time for Statehood to begin on Valentine's Day of 1912.
@@jimdotz I agree with hell hole being a good description for Phoenix.
@@sallyintucson Why?
I agree phoenix is so bad.But in the 60s and 70s it was great.
New Mexico is far too liberal!
We moved to Southern Arizona 30 years ago. My husband grew up and spent his entire life in Connecticut and fell in love with Arizona while on vacation, so much so that he bought a house while on vacation! We fled Connecticut because we knew that we would have a hard time finding affordable housing. The cost of living is less expensive although over the last ten years it has gotten more expensive with all of the people moving here as they flee California, New York and New Jersey. Arizona has sections that have all four seasons and other section that rarely get snow. It is a delight!
Lot of land in NM is also government land so that land can not be built on my the citizens.
I think the main factors for people choosing AZ these recent years are cheaper homes compared to California and Colorado, politics, and the fact that many of the big companies are moving or opening plants over here. Yeah, it's extremely hot during summer in the Phoenix metro area, and traffic keeps getting worse, but people are wiling to put up with it if that means they get to buy or rent for less, get a job almost wherever they want, and they can enjoy some more freedom than in their previous state.
It's a city that shouldn't be. There are too many people and too little water. Summers put electricity cost higher than anywhere else. The smog is horrible. I lived in North Phoenix up on a hill. We were above the brown cloud. If you want to live in northern Arizona, it's much better. Cleaner air, less people and pollution and the climate is all seasons.
I have a good guess what the big news is. Not gonna say more till the announcement.
You guys need to try a reaction to Tyler Childers, Zach Bryan, or Colter Wall, imo they’re the 3 best country artists in the last few years
Tyler childers shake the frost like at red barn radio is really good, the devil wears a suit and tie by colter wall, something in the orange by Zach Bryan
Thumbnail looks cleaner
Albuquerque is Bugs Bunny.
Mild winters dry heat and sports leagues
Be there or be square from 2005? More like from the 1960s...
We love living in AZ