NO typhoons, NO hurricanes, NO tornados, NO humidity, NO earthquakes, NO bone chilling winters with 6ft of snow. If you can deal with just HOT for 4 months, you’re good to go. THAT’S Arizona.
As a longtime desert dweller I've never seen cars, tires or street signs melt. Those pictures were photoshopped. I think people are moving here for a number of reasons - better quality of life, the natural beauty of the environment, economic opportunities, a state income tax of only 2.5%, low sales taxes and low property taxes. For example, my house is 3,100 sq ft. on a lot that is 10,680 sq. ft and my property tax for 2023 is only $1,425.00. If I were living in New York or Connecticut or Massachusetts my property taxes would probably be in the $14,000 - $17,000 range.
It is pretty crazy how there's a huge city like that in the sanoran desert. As a flagstaff resident it's definitely not the same. We get about 90 inches of snow a year. No one Eben has AC here. It never really reaches above 88 degrees. It's amazing how elevation changes the weather.
It's a dry heat. I've lived in Arizona, and now reside in the humid southern states. 115 with low humidity is much more livable than 105 with 80% humidity.
Exactly, here in the NW it gets to around high 90s sometimes over 100 but it's very muggy and humid and almost suffocating. In Arizona it's dry and actually not that bad.
Arizona can get hell-hot in the summer. ACs in your car and better tires are VITAL. I have lived on and off in AZ since 2005 (I'm originally from Louisiana and moved to AZ after Hurricane Katrina). However, in the fall and winter time, the weather is amazing. The only problem I have with AZ now is it has become California Jr. The prices out here are getting out of hand, especially for decent apartments. I currently live in Phoenix, Arizona (North Phoenix). Honestly, my time is up here, and it's time for me to check out other countries overseas to see what else is out there before I get too old.
I would recommend Mexico but not in Mexico city cuz a lot of American are moving there and prices are increasing over there. I would say outside of Mexico city. I built a house in Hidalgo, Pachuca when I first came here for a festival. Extremely affordable but it does get extremely cold in December
And now Blaze News just put out an article of Gilbert's near decade old Digital Government where you better tote the Leftist message and watch your P's & Q's on even your own social media messages. They don't take kindly to dissent. Funny how years ago I didn't want to go through Louisiana because of its French-based law system. Who knew the whole country would become "Guilty Until Proven Innocent!"
I've been to AZ for business. The valley and southern AZ can be obscenely hot. But, Northern AZ, Flagstaff, Williams, Grand Canyon receive snow each winter.
Tarantulas are NOT dangerous. They are, however, very cool critters, and you very rarely run into them. Only during the mating season, I believe. (That would be the tarantula's mating season.)
Love Tucson 🙂 Dry heat doesn’t bother me at all. Plus you can always just take a drive up one of the sky islands, where it’s always a bit cooler, great hiking, and some of the best birding in the country 🙂👍
Right people forget that places of business are very accommodating with the heat. Anywhere you go it's nice n cool only when you step outside or drive is it hot.
I grew up in Phoenix in the 60s and 70s. Most of us had evaporative cooling, not AC. Wasn’t until heat pumps were invented that AC really took off for most homes. And I’ve never seen melted taillights.
Aww... I had both on my house that fed to the same "Plumbing" venting to the house. I still used the evaporative cooler instead of the AC. Even during the monsoon times. It really didn't get too humid. At least not like it does in the eastern of here states....@@markme4
As a person who grew up in arizona I loved it but family were getting old so I moved with my family to be with them. Arizona will always hold a special place in my life. Waddell Arizona is also a amazing a amazing place to live for privacy. But I loved it.
In Az - live up in the mountains a bit- 5000-6000 feet. 4 seasons and high temperature will be 90 for a few weeks in August. In Phoenix, fall , winter and spring is some of the best weather in the nation. Best if you can travel July and August to Higher elevations or head to the coast. Oh , and the prices are moving up fast- Better buy now for the future. Best to buy a lot somewhere up at elevation now- then build when you are ready,
Phoenix specifically during the winter time host, a lot of snowbirds retirees or people who come down for 4 to 5 months out of a year just to enjoy the nice winter weather especially Canadians
As an Arizona native, just want to correct you on some of the things you mentioned - 1) The 126 degree afternoon high temperatures (typically in late June and the entire month of July) you stated are only experienced on rare occasion in the Lake Havasu area, which is in the northwest region of the state, the highest afternoon temperature ever recorded in Phoenix was 122 on June 26th, 1990. The mountain regions, which include Prescott (elev. 5200 feet), Sedona (elev. 4000 feet), Flagstaff (elev. 7000 feet), Payson (elev. 5000 feet), Showlow (elev. 6900 feet), Pinetop (elev. 8000 feet) plus a handful of other towns. 2) Saguaro National Park you mentioned in 12:13 - The G is silent in Saquaro, it's pronounced So-wah-rro.
Arizona always struck me as a place east of LA, physically and metaphorically. It's significant that a lot of comments discount the heat and extol the property taxes. Has anyone considered the quality of life? The closest I have been to a scorpion in my house was when a Jehovah's Witness crossed my threshold. Arizona's politics mimic it's cultural cacophony. Many newbies do not make a community.
After 5 plus months living in Chandler, (Jan to May) we love it, the land is so spacious, summer did bother us when it is more than 120 F, people will go to the mountains or north even take a break to visit friends or family in other states ,a cruise or reunion Abroad ,etc
@@falcorzed Northern Arizona is only a couple hours away. It's easy to go camping or check out the white mountain towns. Or stay in the valley and float down the river or jet ski at one of the lakes. Been here 40 years and summers are great.
@@falcorzed My parents live in Sun City West. We visit them in the Winter months. They visit us, in the Seattle area, in the Summer months. It works out great for all of us! If your retired, a couple of months is doable.
A pretty ignorant video. There are at least 3 climates in Arizona where people live. The valley is what this video alludes too. Typically an elevation in the areas of 1500 feet or less. This area gets HOT! Then there is the high desert. 4000 to 5500 feet. Here where I live it's about 5000 feet and about 20 degrees cooler with Pine trees and a mixture of scrub growth. Then there is the highlands like in Flagstaff and Show Low. These areas are around 6500 to 7500 feet in elevation and about 30 degrees cooler than the Valley. Lots of forests with many Elk and deer. It gets cold in the winter much like you would see in Michigan. You can get a lot of snow and there are areas where there are nice ski resorts, with one near Flagstaff that is on a mountain nearly 13 thousand feet in elevation. Flagstaff got over 13 feet of snow last winter. Arizona is NOT just Phoenix and Tucson. It's a huge state, and this video does not address that. Phoenix is not Arizona. It is just a part of it.
AZ is NOT the place to be. It was from 2007-2018. This place is dead now. It’s just California Jr. Too many people, too much traffic, rent is outta control! A 2bedroom apt in a respectable area is 2200. Jobs pay nothing at the hell all here. Check the minimum wage around here and you’ll see. Don’t let the Scottsdales and Paradise Valleys fool you! It’s hot AF, and the DUI levels here are crazy. Busted tires in the road form the heat and construction construction construction. AZ is a no go as far as 2023 goes.
It’s not cheap here anymore sad to say all of our rent doubled the last few years it’s becoming unaffordable to live here I pay 1600i was paying 800 for the same two bed room ..
I live in a hot, humid climate and we would be utterly screwed if the monsoon didn't arrive in December. When the rain does come, we get metres of rainfall in just 3 months. Phoenix is too big IMO to support a population of that size going forward.
@@chrischapman276 fwir, the entire southwestern US is staring at major water shortages, yet there are still green golf courses dotted throughout the desert cities. Something has to give,.
Phoenix recycles every drop of water that goes down the drain and on top of that, SRP estimates we have a 100 year reserve of underground water, even factoring in explosive growth.
@@BoogerDeluxe22 that's good news. Evaporation is the killer here - irrigators along our river systems seem to prefer to water crops during the day, presumably because it's a lot harder to monitor big systems at night.
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126? ha... it's never been that hot in Phoenix. They don't tell you, that the end of the summer is our rainy season too. So it gets hot, but it'll rain at night. June is the worst, because it usually doesn't rain during June. July and August it can rain every other day sometimes.
My family has been in Phoenix since 1870 and this video was spot on. We saw it all, especially the population explosion in 1978 and hasn't stopped since. My great grandmother was born in 1870 and died in 1970 at 100, boy she had some stories to tell. I have a lot of pictures. "Once the desert gets in your blood, you can't get it out".
I've lived in the Phoenix area for 57 years. For the first 30 years it was pretty amazing. But I quess the word got out that it was a nice place, so we got alot of people moving here. The problem was they were leaving their city or state and bringing their problems and even worse, their voting preferences which has changed the political landscape, making life here worse with some pretty stupid ideas. In the last few years there has been a mass exodus from crazyville, commonly known as California. Again, they are leaving that place just to bring their crazy beliefs and voting here. You would think they would learn and not vote and act like they did over there, but thats not the case. Also, crime is way up since they will not close and protect the border. Texas does a good job of protecting their border, but since we have this new liberal governor, that does absolutely nothing at our border, we've seen a huge increase in crime. We also just learned that many terrorists from other countries have been caught at the border, and since there were 1.5 million people that got away from the border patrol, we can probably say there are some terrorists here. All this, because of an idiotic liberal ideology that slowly creeped in. Sickening. I think it might be time to leave.
I hate to criticize but you sound like a NIMBY. Fleeing to unsettled regions will not be an option eventually, unless you consider interior Alaska. Fleeing to conservative regions amounts to fleeing to poverty. Seen from the other side of the Mississippi, Arizona politics seem toxic, counterproductive and peculiar to the SW. Tolerance evaporated under the assault of the entitled. Desert warfare.
You could not be any more 100% on everything you mentioned here. I, however came from that communistic state NOT bringing any of that shit over. The communistic government of today has drug that state, which I love the land of, down like this government in a larger office has done to this country, that I love and fought for. Things need to be accomplished soon or we'll be doomed forever. The border... Out of control. What in the hell is wrong with these people in "charge"???? Communism in it's earliest stages is what's wrong here....
How did anyone vote for hobbs? No one even knows who she is?? Voting is a popularity contest. It still baffles me how hobbs with no following could beat lake with a hug following…
@@double_joseph327 they really didn’t. They were manipulated by ads into not voting for Keri Lake, and Hobbes was the only other choice on the ballot. It was a VERY close election.
A typical tire temperature will increase about 50 degrees after being on the highway for about 30 minutes. Tires melt around 1100 degrees Fahrenheit. However, tires will begin to break down around 392 degrees Fahrenheit and will explode around 752 degrees Fahrenheit.
@@Acrosstheglobechannel The smaller ones are the deadly ones! My friends in Awatukhee had them -- the newer neighborhoods. Never seen one in Tempe but South Tempe probably has them.
I have visited Phoenix numerous times for business but would not want to live there. Too darn hot for me even in Fall and Spring. Maybe someplace further North like Sedona, but it is a bit small.
The only place in Arizona that I would ever consider moving to is Flagstaff, which ranks with upstate New York as one of the snowiest regions in the country.
Lived here 20 years. Snakes hate people and do not come into established neighborhoods. Most of the dangerous wildlife prefer to be as far from people as possible. So unless you buy a house on the edges of the city, you probably won't see these creatures in established neighborhoods.
Whoa whoa let’s get it straight the tarantulas in Arizona are the aphonopelma chalcodes, the literal care bare of tarantulas, they are very nice and chill. Just saying. Give the lil dudes a shot of love.
Phoenix is great if you're a couch potatao happy to spend over six months of the year indoors staring at a screen while the outside is like the surface of the sun. Winter is great but summer is over 7 months here. And property prices are just nuts. Nothing justifies the ludicrous property price increases that have occurred here since 2000. I 've lived here since then and would be delighted to get the hell out. Flagstaff is way better than Phoenix but even more expensive.
Population should be guided by resources available, not relocating resources. Here in BC we have a low water availability because its shipped over the border, where there the water is plentiful but we're on restrictions.
I wanted to move there so bad until i visited and found the people to be very rude. That threw me off and no longer want to move there. Also there is not much to do for a city that large.
I moved to Chandler, AZ, 4 years ago because it was affordable, had fewer people, good job opportunities, Pro 2nd amendment, etc. Now, all of that has changed, and it's turning into a mini California 😡
i lived in Mesa, AZ for 20 years from 1994 to 2014, i went to junior highschool, highschool and community college here and worked jobs here, you really have to enjoy severe heat for many many months of the year, the heat starts in April, ive personally seen 104 F days in early April here....... some people really like it here! i moved away to Maine and really enjoy that, because it fits me. i had to NO AC in my car for 11 years, no air movement no nothing, i had a job but it wasnt great was about $10 an hour, this is not a state that will help you if you are poor. You better have an education and be looking for a career, otherwise you can go to cheaper, more comfortable states. I live in Maine now, which is a total 180 and im much happier because theres no real big city (after dealing with quite a few big cities, i prefer the peace and quiet of rural states) and its really cold a lot of the times, which is good for me, because after 20 years, i just couldnt take it anymore and having to spend so much on an AC unit...... the apartment i live in Maine, for example, is inside of a building so i rarely use my heat during the winter only if its below 0 F if you wanna live in Arizona, try one of the smaller cities like Flagstaff, the high country is not appreciated enough! i cant stress enough how important an education is here, if you are gonna work a regular working class job that isnt atleast middle class, its not worth it here in my opinion, you could live in much less hot climates and make similiar money with less costs. you wont have to deal with a Hurricane except once every 25 years or so (i experienced one in 20 years) earthquakes, cold, tornadoes, or any snow.....the high country has snow but not Phoenix. Extreme heat , forest fires, scorpions and rattle snakes, Arizona is extremely rugged when you get out of the big cities where a lot people live. Phoenix works for some people, but i enjoyed the high country more and i am glad i moved away, it just didnt work for me anymore after 20 years.
Because it's always sunny. The warm weather in Fall, Winter, and Spring is superior to anything anywhere else. Lots of flat land to build homes & businesses.
I lived in Az 30 years. I saw cars sinking into the pavement like they were driving in thick mud when I first arrived there. I thought wth? They fixed the problem, because I didn't see it later on. Az was a great place to live, but I left 10 years ago, I don't know how it is currently.
1. There's no accounting for taste. 2. They're out of their minds. 3. Some people like it hot and dry. 4. They're in the drug trade. 5. They have a job and don't want, or can't afford, to try their luck in another state. 6. Their relatives live there.
The thumbnail image says 126. That's a lie. The highest temp for Phoenix is 122 set in 1990. In the last 20 years living in the area, its been 119 once that I remember, and 118 a few times, this year twice 118. It hasn't hit 120 in over 20 years. The problem is it stays over 110 for a couple months. Last year, a record was set at 55 days of 110+. Just set new record this year for days of 110+ at 57 and counting. We also set records this year for hottest June ever, July was second hottest July to last year's hottest July for Phoenix. This year was hottest summer on record 100 days in a row of 100+. Its been freakin HOT. But its a dry heat!
Native of this Sonoran desert, the main reason why people move and live in rhe brutal hot Sonoran desert is technology has made it possible, without A/C few would live her , I worked outside for many decades you never get used to the long brutal hot summers you just deal with it. Phoenix metro is pro business which is why it's economy is diversified today, the north central and east central parts of the state is mountain Arizona, western Arizona isn't for me it's one of the hottest regions on earth. I personally believe modern humanity is foolish to want to live in a desert that's been getting hotter since the late 80's
I live here Bec i have problems with other people and I'm staying with my grandma which she's cool with me, plus I'm here for job corps as well but now i want to switch to san Diego again i miss it there but i do have my ups and downs for az and i like it here so far
We dont get things melting at all like that the heat is rough on things but never has anything tires or plastics melt now put a candle or crayons lmfao the heat can warp cheap plastics and sunburn car paint and plastics left in the sun get sun damage as well. But no melting tires or plastics. Also cooking an egg on the asphalt doesnt work unless you make a solar oven can make some cookies that way also did it in grade school.
Iiving in Phx for 30 year’s never have saw melting anything plastic,rattlesnake never regularly went for a hike at south mountain on nothing!I heard of it but chances are maybe 5 porcent
It’s not cheap here anymore sad to say all of our rent doubled the last few years it’s becoming unaffordable to live here I pay 1600i was paying 800 for the same two bed room ..
Same everywhere...rich got richer during COVID. Im moving to Arizona next month. My one bedroom apartment In NYC went from $1600 to $2.1-2.5k!! Toughen up buttercup 😂😂
@@loveyourselfalways28 I’m tough as can be butter cup the price of 1 bed rooms here in the nice areas are that same price welcome I guess it’s my fault I bought a amg Benz with a hefty payment butter cup
75% of Californians are conservative that moved to Arizona by the way. It’s the new kids Generation that is born in Democrats but things will change with Trump that is coming.
To be a true native of Arizona, in the summer months, you have to be as tough as a rattler snake, gila monster, horn toad, only true Arizonas live here in the summer hell..
All these videos talk about Phoenix only. AZ is a huge state with a lot of different eco systems and climates. Honestly the PHX is pretty mid compared to the rest of the state. I live at 4500 ft elevation and it rarely gets above 100 here in the summer.
I lived there for a year in 2008-2009 and hated it. The heat is unbearable. Phoenix has a law enforcement zero tolerance objective and the cops are uptight over the smallest things like crossing the street and possession of small amounts of marijuana, and address these types of things with a bullying vengeance. There's news nearly every day about another five or ten illegal immigrant safe houses raided. It's open carry there and the year I was there experienced being within a block of two of three different shootouts on the street and it's got the highest auto theft numbers in the country. But wait there's more ... they use too much water.
What’s this “126 F” on the front of the video? I don’t ever remember when it was 126 degrees in the Phoenix area. This is fear mongering and outright lies.
Yep, a lot of military activity around here in yuma, but bigger than that is the farming industry, we are the biggest producer of produce, "the salad bowl of America"
Try 5 million population in Phoenix , you can’t count just Phoenix proper . Those cities are all connected . You drive across one street you in Tempe or Scottsdale etc , so ya that’s way low for “Phoenix.” 😂
NO typhoons, NO hurricanes, NO tornados, NO humidity, NO earthquakes, NO bone chilling winters with 6ft of snow. If you can deal with just HOT for 4 months, you’re good to go. THAT’S Arizona.
I can't withstand 117 for 4 months
Sounds good to me tbh
HOT is a lot more than 4 months.
4 months try 9 hot months
We don't have any of that and we don't have 135°F searing heat for 4 months either here in SoCal!!!
It gets up in the upper 90°F maybe!!!
As a longtime desert dweller I've never seen cars, tires or street signs melt. Those pictures were photoshopped. I think people are moving here for a number of reasons - better quality of life, the natural beauty of the environment, economic opportunities, a state income tax of only 2.5%, low sales taxes and low property taxes. For example, my house is 3,100 sq ft. on a lot that is 10,680 sq. ft and my property tax for 2023 is only $1,425.00. If I were living in New York or Connecticut or Massachusetts my property taxes would probably be in the $14,000 - $17,000 range.
I’ve seen the streetlights melted never a tire or car tho
Me too. Lived in AZ my whole life and haven't seen that. I've been lucky enough to have never seen a scorpion or snake in my house 🤞
How long ago did you buy your house?
September 32021. @@jeffreycarlson8723
Because people with bad ideas move to cities with good ideas. Regardless of climate. This will continue until we make alaska the new boom town.
It is pretty crazy how there's a huge city like that in the sanoran desert. As a flagstaff resident it's definitely not the same. We get about 90 inches of snow a year. No one Eben has AC here. It never really reaches above 88 degrees. It's amazing how elevation changes the weather.
Holy crap that's insane. I didn't even see snow until I was 16.
I love flagstaff way better than were I moved in bullhead
It's a dry heat. I've lived in Arizona, and now reside in the humid southern states. 115 with low humidity is much more livable than 105 with 80% humidity.
theres almost never 105 in the southern states
@@infoguy1978 Texas
Exactly, here in the NW it gets to around high 90s sometimes over 100 but it's very muggy and humid and almost suffocating. In Arizona it's dry and actually not that bad.
106 today (memorial day Houston TX)
Japan in summer. 105F 94% humidity.
Arizona can get hell-hot in the summer. ACs in your car and better tires are VITAL. I have lived on and off in AZ since 2005 (I'm originally from Louisiana and moved to AZ after Hurricane Katrina). However, in the fall and winter time, the weather is amazing. The only problem I have with AZ now is it has become California Jr. The prices out here are getting out of hand, especially for decent apartments. I currently live in Phoenix, Arizona (North Phoenix). Honestly, my time is up here, and it's time for me to check out other countries overseas to see what else is out there before I get too old.
I moved to Scottsdale in 2020 and have always had the notion in the back of my mind that it's turning into a little inland Los Angeles.
Good luck to you!
I would recommend Mexico but not in Mexico city cuz a lot of American are moving there and prices are increasing over there. I would say outside of Mexico city. I built a house in Hidalgo, Pachuca when I first came here for a festival. Extremely affordable but it does get extremely cold in December
And now Blaze News just put out an article of Gilbert's near decade old Digital Government where you better tote the Leftist message and watch your P's & Q's on even your own social media messages. They don't take kindly to dissent.
Funny how years ago I didn't want to go through Louisiana because of its French-based law system. Who knew the whole country would become "Guilty Until Proven Innocent!"
I've lived in Oregon my whole life and I'm moving to Tucson this year and I cannot wait to leave the rain and snow and depressing winter months.
I've been to AZ for business. The valley and southern AZ can be obscenely hot. But, Northern AZ, Flagstaff, Williams, Grand Canyon receive snow each winter.
Tarantulas are NOT dangerous. They are, however, very cool critters, and you very rarely run into them. Only during the mating season, I believe. (That would be the tarantula's mating season.)
Agreed. Their the nicest spiders there is.
I had 3 as pets. :)
Love Tucson 🙂 Dry heat doesn’t bother me at all. Plus you can always just take a drive up one of the sky islands, where it’s always a bit cooler, great hiking, and some of the best birding in the country 🙂👍
Right people forget that places of business are very accommodating with the heat. Anywhere you go it's nice n cool only when you step outside or drive is it hot.
The big problem not the heat, its the California invasion that is driving up housing cost, its getting crazy expensive here in the Phoenix "valley".
Great content, great information 👍 Thanks! ✌️
I grew up in Phoenix in the 60s and 70s. Most of us had evaporative cooling, not AC. Wasn’t until heat pumps were invented that AC really took off for most homes. And I’ve never seen melted taillights.
Evaporative cooling is great when the climate is dry, but those monsoon months out there mid summer are killer !
Aww... I had both on my house that fed to the same "Plumbing" venting to the house. I still used the evaporative cooler instead of the AC. Even during the monsoon times. It really didn't get too humid. At least not like it does in the eastern of here states....@@markme4
I came here for baby grandchildren..the youngest is now attending Stanford. I hate it here but to old to move. Would return to Texas if I could
Your never to old to leave.
As a person who grew up in arizona I loved it but family were getting old so I moved with my family to be with them. Arizona will always hold a special place in my life. Waddell Arizona is also a amazing a amazing place to live for privacy. But I loved it.
I worked for a cable company a few years ago, all over the valley, you're right wadell was my favorite part
In Az - live up in the mountains a bit- 5000-6000 feet. 4 seasons and high temperature will be 90 for a few weeks in August.
In Phoenix, fall , winter and spring is some of the best weather in the nation.
Best if you can travel July and August to Higher elevations or head to the coast.
Oh , and the prices are moving up fast-
Better buy now for the future.
Best to buy a lot somewhere up at elevation now- then build when you are ready,
Phoenix specifically during the winter time host, a lot of snowbirds retirees or people who come down for 4 to 5 months out of a year just to enjoy the nice winter weather especially Canadians
As an Arizona native, just want to correct you on some of the things you mentioned - 1) The 126 degree afternoon high temperatures (typically in late June and the entire month of July) you stated are only experienced on rare occasion in the Lake Havasu area, which is in the northwest region of the state, the highest afternoon temperature ever recorded in Phoenix was 122 on June 26th, 1990. The mountain regions, which include Prescott (elev. 5200 feet), Sedona (elev. 4000 feet), Flagstaff (elev. 7000 feet), Payson (elev. 5000 feet), Showlow (elev. 6900 feet), Pinetop (elev. 8000 feet) plus a handful of other towns. 2) Saguaro National Park you mentioned in 12:13 - The G is silent in Saquaro, it's pronounced So-wah-rro.
Arizona always struck me as a place east of LA, physically and metaphorically. It's significant that a lot of comments discount the heat and extol the property taxes. Has anyone considered the quality of life? The closest I have been to a scorpion in my house was when a Jehovah's Witness crossed my threshold. Arizona's politics mimic it's cultural cacophony. Many newbies do not make a community.
I've YET to see a snake here in 3 1/2 years. I thought I saw a baby one and got excited and turned out it was a wire for a tree.
We have beautiful Winters! 😊❤
EXACTLY RIGHT!!!!! DO NOT MOVE HERE.... You should not move here at all. Stay right where you are.
After 5 plus months living in Chandler, (Jan to May) we love it, the land is so spacious, summer did bother us when it is more than 120 F, people will go to the mountains or north even take a break to visit friends or family in other states ,a cruise or reunion
Abroad ,etc
It never gets over 120 in Chandler. All time record is 119.
Do they go visit for 2 months?
@@falcorzed Northern Arizona is only a couple hours away. It's easy to go camping or check out the white mountain towns. Or stay in the valley and float down the river or jet ski at one of the lakes. Been here 40 years and summers are great.
@@falcorzed My parents live in Sun City West. We visit them in the Winter months. They visit us, in the Seattle area, in the Summer months. It works out great for all of us! If your retired, a couple of months is doable.
A pretty ignorant video. There are at least 3 climates in Arizona where people live. The valley is what this video alludes too. Typically an elevation in the areas of 1500 feet or less. This area gets HOT! Then there is the high desert. 4000 to 5500 feet. Here where I live it's about 5000 feet and about 20 degrees cooler with Pine trees and a mixture of scrub growth. Then there is the highlands like in Flagstaff and Show Low. These areas are around 6500 to 7500 feet in elevation and about 30 degrees cooler than the Valley. Lots of forests with many Elk and deer. It gets cold in the winter much like you would see in Michigan. You can get a lot of snow and there are areas where there are nice ski resorts, with one near Flagstaff that is on a mountain nearly 13 thousand feet in elevation. Flagstaff got over 13 feet of snow last winter. Arizona is NOT just Phoenix and Tucson. It's a huge state, and this video does not address that. Phoenix is not Arizona. It is just a part of it.
Thanks very much for your information. the video kind of frightened me. Especially mentioning the wildlife.
20 year resident here that has since moved on, this is very accurate comment
AZ is NOT the place to be. It was from 2007-2018. This place is dead now. It’s just California Jr. Too many people, too much traffic, rent is outta control! A 2bedroom apt in a respectable area is 2200. Jobs pay nothing at the hell all here. Check the minimum wage around here and you’ll see. Don’t let the Scottsdales and Paradise Valleys fool you! It’s hot AF, and the DUI levels here are crazy. Busted tires in the road form the heat and construction construction construction. AZ is a no go as far as 2023 goes.
Will be interesting to see where its at in a few years
Reason why I moved outta there last Christmas
I got a 3 bedroom apartment in Arcadia for $1,000 a month 😅
It’s not cheap here anymore sad to say all of our rent doubled the last few years it’s becoming unaffordable to live here I pay 1600i was paying 800 for the same two bed room ..
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I live in a hot, humid climate and we would be utterly screwed if the monsoon didn't arrive in December. When the rain does come, we get metres of rainfall in just 3 months. Phoenix is too big IMO to support a population of that size going forward.
Yup. And it's running out of decent water too!
@@chrischapman276 fwir, the entire southwestern US is staring at major water shortages, yet there are still green golf courses dotted throughout the desert cities. Something has to give,.
Phoenix recycles every drop of water that goes down the drain and on top of that, SRP estimates we have a 100 year reserve of underground water, even factoring in explosive growth.
@@BoogerDeluxe22 that's good news. Evaporation is the killer here - irrigators along our river systems seem to prefer to water crops during the day, presumably because it's a lot harder to monitor big systems at night.
@@arthurwatts1680 fwir?
Help a blind man see here...
Ok so the rainfall for Phoenix is much lower than for the state as a whole.
I'm moving to Tucson this year and I cannot wait!!! I'm tired of the PNW!!! I hate rain and I hate snow!!!
I predict a housing crash due to people buying homes over asking price, lacking equity if prices decline further. Foreclosure becomes likely if they can't afford the house, and selling won't yield profits. With anticipated layoffs and rising living costs, many individuals may face this situation.
I suggest you offset your real estate and get into stocks, A recession as bad as it can be, provides good buying opportunities in the markets if you’re careful and it can also create volatility giving great short time buy and sell opportunities too.
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126? ha... it's never been that hot in Phoenix. They don't tell you, that the end of the summer is our rainy season too. So it gets hot, but it'll rain at night. June is the worst, because it usually doesn't rain during June. July and August it can rain every other day sometimes.
The best answer for the heat is to be *Scottsdale Skinny*.
My family has been in Phoenix since 1870 and this video was spot on. We saw it all, especially the population explosion in 1978 and hasn't stopped since. My great grandmother was born in 1870 and died in 1970 at 100, boy she had some stories to tell. I have a lot of pictures. "Once the desert gets in your blood, you can't get it out".
I've lived in the Phoenix area for 57 years. For the first 30 years it was pretty amazing. But I quess the word got out that it was a nice place, so we got alot of people moving here. The problem was they were leaving their city or state and bringing their problems and even worse, their voting preferences which has changed the political landscape, making life here worse with some pretty stupid ideas. In the last few years there has been a mass exodus from crazyville, commonly known as California. Again, they are leaving that place just to bring their crazy beliefs and voting here. You would think they would learn and not vote and act like they did over there, but thats not the case. Also, crime is way up since they will not close and protect the border. Texas does a good job of protecting their border, but since we have this new liberal governor, that does absolutely nothing at our border, we've seen a huge increase in crime. We also just learned that many terrorists from other countries have been caught at the border, and since there were 1.5 million people that got away from the border patrol, we can probably say there are some terrorists here. All this, because of an idiotic liberal ideology that slowly creeped in. Sickening. I think it might be time to leave.
All Hobbs does is veto bills.
I hate to criticize but you sound like a NIMBY. Fleeing to unsettled regions will not be an option eventually, unless you consider interior Alaska. Fleeing to conservative regions amounts to fleeing to poverty. Seen from the other side of the Mississippi, Arizona politics seem toxic, counterproductive and peculiar to the SW. Tolerance evaporated under the assault of the entitled. Desert warfare.
You could not be any more 100% on everything you mentioned here.
I, however came from that communistic state NOT bringing any of that shit over. The communistic government of today has drug that state, which I love the land of, down like this government in a larger office has done to this country, that I love and fought for. Things need to be accomplished soon or we'll be doomed forever.
The border...
Out of control. What in the hell is wrong with these people in "charge"???? Communism in it's earliest stages is what's wrong here....
How did anyone vote for hobbs? No one even knows who she is?? Voting is a popularity contest. It still baffles me how hobbs with no following could beat lake with a hug following…
@@double_joseph327 they really didn’t. They were manipulated by ads into not voting for Keri Lake, and Hobbes was the only other choice on the ballot. It was a VERY close election.
A typical tire temperature will increase about 50 degrees after being on the highway for about 30 minutes. Tires melt around 1100 degrees Fahrenheit. However, tires will begin to break down around 392 degrees Fahrenheit and will explode around 752 degrees Fahrenheit.
We live in the desert because we are too stupid to realize the desert is no place for people. Love AZ. ❤❤❤
You only get scorpions and snakes if you're near open desert. The established areas don't have those critters.
I have seen scorpions in neighborhoods before but usually smaller ones
@@Acrosstheglobechannel The smaller ones are the deadly ones! My friends in Awatukhee had them -- the newer neighborhoods. Never seen one in Tempe but South Tempe probably has them.
@@frostfree7I had friends who rented a house in Gilbert and had issues with them. I’ve never seen any at my place in Arcadia, though.
@@danieldaniels7571 That doesn't surprise me since much of Gilbert is recent farmland.
I have visited Phoenix numerous times for business but would not want to live there. Too darn hot for me even in Fall and Spring. Maybe someplace further North like Sedona, but it is a bit small.
$1700/mo for rent is not “affordable”.
The only place in Arizona that I would ever consider moving to is Flagstaff, which ranks with upstate New York as one of the snowiest regions in the country.
I will never move there, because my skin will have Arid Zona
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Across The Globe, I've heard your voice somewhere outside of this channel, can't remember though. Do make videos for veteran services?
Lived here 20 years. Snakes hate people and do not come into established neighborhoods. Most of the dangerous wildlife prefer to be as far from people as possible. So unless you buy a house on the edges of the city, you probably won't see these creatures in established neighborhoods.
Whoa whoa let’s get it straight the tarantulas in Arizona are the aphonopelma chalcodes, the literal care bare of tarantulas, they are very nice and chill. Just saying. Give the lil dudes a shot of love.
I’m sure Arizona doesn’t have a mouse or rat problem like New York City does.
Hard to compete with NYC
You will have a rat problem if you don't pick up your citrus off the ground.
Phoenix is great if you're a couch potatao happy to spend over six months of the year indoors staring at a screen while the outside is like the surface of the sun. Winter is great but summer is over 7 months here. And property prices are just nuts. Nothing justifies the ludicrous property price increases that have occurred here since 2000. I 've lived here since then and would be delighted to get the hell out. Flagstaff is way better than Phoenix but even more expensive.
Population should be guided by resources available, not relocating resources. Here in BC we have a low water availability because its shipped over the border, where there the water is plentiful but we're on restrictions.
😮yea with a POS for a PM what do you expect.
I wanted to move there so bad until i visited and found the people to be very rude. That threw me off and no longer want to move there. Also there is not much to do for a city that large.
Tarantulas are pretty docule and harmless.
Three words: seasonal effective disorder! 😂😅
I know. I lived in Washington state for 20 winters. I had to get a face tanner. I didn't know what SAD was, then depression snuck up on me.
I moved to Chandler, AZ, 4 years ago because it was affordable, had fewer people, good job opportunities, Pro 2nd amendment, etc. Now, all of that has changed, and it's turning into a mini California 😡
ASU is up to 175,000 students now when you add up all campuses and online. By far the biggest University in the world.
Cost of living has gone through the roof😡😡
i lived in Mesa, AZ for 20 years from 1994 to 2014, i went to junior highschool, highschool and community college here and worked jobs here, you really have to enjoy severe heat for many many months of the year, the heat starts in April, ive personally seen 104 F days in early April here....... some people really like it here! i moved away to Maine and really enjoy that, because it fits me.
i had to NO AC in my car for 11 years, no air movement no nothing, i had a job but it wasnt great was about $10 an hour, this is not a state that will help you if you are poor. You better have an education and be looking for a career, otherwise you can go to cheaper, more comfortable states.
I live in Maine now, which is a total 180 and im much happier because theres no real big city (after dealing with quite a few big cities, i prefer the peace and quiet of rural states) and its really cold a lot of the times, which is good for me, because after 20 years, i just couldnt take it anymore and having to spend so much on an AC unit......
the apartment i live in Maine, for example, is inside of a building so i rarely use my heat during the winter only if its below 0 F
if you wanna live in Arizona, try one of the smaller cities like Flagstaff, the high country is not appreciated enough!
i cant stress enough how important an education is here, if you are gonna work a regular working class job that isnt atleast middle class, its not worth it here in my opinion, you could live in much less hot climates and make similiar money with less costs.
you wont have to deal with a Hurricane except once every 25 years or so (i experienced one in 20 years) earthquakes, cold, tornadoes, or any snow.....the high country has snow but not Phoenix.
Extreme heat , forest fires, scorpions and rattle snakes, Arizona is extremely rugged when you get out of the big cities where a lot people live.
Phoenix works for some people, but i enjoyed the high country more and i am glad i moved away, it just didnt work for me anymore after 20 years.
I used to live in Tucson and then in Bisbee. I loved AZ.
I hate the heat!
Because it's always sunny. The warm weather in Fall, Winter, and Spring is superior to anything anywhere else. Lots of flat land to build homes & businesses.
I lived in Az 30 years. I saw cars sinking into the pavement like they were driving in thick mud when I first arrived there. I thought wth? They fixed the problem, because I didn't see it later on. Az was a great place to live, but I left 10 years ago, I don't know how it is currently.
Still hot !!!!
Can we all assume, when you first arrived here was a "experimental of narcotics" stage of your life?????
It's getting worse here all the time. And worst drivers ever.
Not as bad as Las Vegas.
Yeah no 😂. Try any city on the east coast.
One of the most beautiful Cities in the world, And best locations to live, Is the urban sprawl sucks, And deadly summers, Besides that it is paradise
Because the ac works.
Some like it HOT!Born in Phoenix. 1961If people can stand the heat ,well then just Move out. Very simple.
Arizona......come on vacation leave on probation
Oh man, it's true around here. I live north of Yuma near the border
Arizona is Another Word for Beautiful,Believe!
1. There's no accounting for taste. 2. They're out of their minds. 3. Some people like it hot and dry. 4. They're in the drug trade. 5. They have a job and don't want, or can't afford, to try their luck in another state. 6. Their relatives live there.
The city of Youngtown no longer exist. It was voluntary disincorporated about six years ago
The thumbnail image says 126. That's a lie. The highest temp for Phoenix is 122 set in 1990. In the last 20 years living in the area, its been 119 once that I remember, and 118 a few times, this year twice 118. It hasn't hit 120 in over 20 years.
The problem is it stays over 110 for a couple months. Last year, a record was set at 55 days of 110+. Just set new record this year for days of 110+ at 57 and counting. We also set records this year for hottest June ever, July was second hottest July to last year's hottest July for Phoenix. This year was hottest summer on record 100 days in a row of 100+. Its been freakin HOT.
But its a dry heat!
Native of this Sonoran desert, the main reason why people move and live in rhe brutal hot Sonoran desert is technology has made it possible, without A/C few would live her , I worked outside for many decades you never get used to the long brutal hot summers you just deal with it. Phoenix metro is pro business which is why it's economy is diversified today, the north central and east central parts of the state is mountain Arizona, western Arizona isn't for me it's one of the hottest regions on earth. I personally believe modern humanity is foolish to want to live in a desert that's been getting hotter since the late 80's
I live here Bec i have problems with other people and I'm staying with my grandma which she's cool with me, plus I'm here for job corps as well but now i want to switch to san Diego again i miss it there but i do have my ups and downs for az and i like it here so far
300 days of sunshine would be enough for me to move here for retirement.
We dont get things melting at all like that the heat is rough on things but never has anything tires or plastics melt now put a candle or crayons lmfao the heat can warp cheap plastics and sunburn car paint and plastics left in the sun get sun damage as well. But no melting tires or plastics. Also cooking an egg on the asphalt doesnt work unless you make a solar oven can make some cookies that way also did it in grade school.
Iiving in Phx for 30 year’s never have saw melting anything plastic,rattlesnake never regularly went for a hike at south mountain on nothing!I heard of it but chances are maybe 5 porcent
AZ native here, lived in PHX area my whole life. SO. MANY. LIES. in this video
Looked like tar on the tires...I recorded 134° in an area of mesa in the ☀️ soon after I moved to mountains.
It’s not cheap here anymore sad to say all of our rent doubled the last few years it’s becoming unaffordable to live here I pay 1600i was paying 800 for the same two bed room ..
Same everywhere...rich got richer during COVID. Im moving to Arizona next month. My one bedroom apartment In NYC went from $1600 to $2.1-2.5k!! Toughen up buttercup 😂😂
@@loveyourselfalways28 I’m tough as can be butter cup the price of 1 bed rooms here in the nice areas are that same price welcome I guess it’s my fault I bought a amg Benz with a hefty payment butter cup
DONT CALIFORNIA MY ARIZONA
75% of Californians are conservative that moved to Arizona by the way. It’s the new kids Generation that is born in Democrats but things will change with Trump that is coming.
So we just got gonna bring up northern Arizona weather?
To be a true native of Arizona, in the summer months, you have to be as tough as a rattler snake, gila monster, horn toad, only true Arizonas live here in the summer hell..
Because they want too ,it a great place !,❤❤❤❤
BEAUTIFUL AZ
We are like the sand village of the US.
All these videos talk about Phoenix only. AZ is a huge state with a lot of different eco systems and climates. Honestly the PHX is pretty mid compared to the rest of the state. I live at 4500 ft elevation and it rarely gets above 100 here in the summer.
Witness protection program what else? 🤡👽🙈
They hate winter.
Warm weather I live here
Arizona is awesome! Yeah for 9 months it's brutally warm .. but for those 3 months it's amazing..
Brutally hot for 5 months..June through October.🙄🙄
@margueritemazzeo2904 it's only a little warm lol
@@lueker31 Right..lol..🔥🔥🥵🥵🌵🌵
I know Tucson used to be a great town in the 80's . Not worth one star now .
80° in Pinetop right now. Phoenix is hot, Arizona is not
I live in arizona and half the population is just people from California
And as a Californian, I HATE IT!
Everyone needs to go back where you come from we are full
Most of the Az population is in Phoenix. People live in Phoenix because they don’t know what else to do with themselves, I guess.
This video is so fuck full of inaccuracies. There's CITIES with ten million people in the US lmao.
These stats are not telling you the truth...
It's only hot outside. A/c and swimming. No melting tires it mostly a lie in this video. 63 yrs in AZ
I lived there for a year in 2008-2009 and hated it. The heat is unbearable. Phoenix has a law enforcement zero tolerance objective and the cops are uptight over the smallest things like crossing the street and possession of small amounts of marijuana, and address these types of things with a bullying vengeance. There's news nearly every day about another five or ten illegal immigrant safe houses raided. It's open carry there and the year I was there experienced being within a block of two of three different shootouts on the street and it's got the highest auto theft numbers in the country. But wait there's more ... they use too much water.
Weed is legal in AZ now so that's not an issue. As for crime Phoenix has some bad areas but not like other major cities of simular size.
I love the Desert
What’s this “126 F” on the front of the video? I don’t ever remember when it was 126 degrees in the Phoenix area. This is fear mongering and outright lies.
Last summer
Temperature
yep, lies. Never gets that hot. 120 sometimes. But not 126
wth that bridge was built in 2004 3:01
It's a right to work state,low wages only thinģ that keeps it economy is the military industry
Yep, a lot of military activity around here in yuma, but bigger than that is the farming industry, we are the biggest producer of produce, "the salad bowl of America"
Sun City is hopelessly dated. The houses now seem ticky tacky and poorly built by 21st century standards.
Try 5 million population in Phoenix , you can’t count just Phoenix proper . Those cities are all connected . You drive across one street you in Tempe or Scottsdale etc , so ya that’s way low for “Phoenix.” 😂
Ya, welcome to AZ, now go home
Ball sweat boulivard
The most terrible state ever.
I’d never understand people living there