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With job offer in hand from Chandler, I'll solicit opinions from the
folks who've lived in the area. I spent about a month over the last 2 years, mostly in the summer, in Phoenix. Looking for a house about 200K or so. Good areas? Bad areas? Wife is an attorney looking to get teaching certificate. Any suggestions? Things to do? Boating doesn't seem big unless you go to San Diego. I found a website that does a cost of living comparison between any 2 cities in the US. Seems Phoenix is actually quite moderate...almost the same as Lebanon, PA (near Harrisburg). Thanks all. --------------------------- to see who "wf3h" is, go to "qrz.com" and enter 'wf3h' in the field |
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Lots of lakes in Arizona. At one point (50's) AZ claimed to have the most boats
per capita. "Bob" wrote in message ... With job offer in hand from Chandler, I'll solicit opinions from the folks who've lived in the area. I spent about a month over the last 2 years, mostly in the summer, in Phoenix. Looking for a house about 200K or so. Good areas? Bad areas? Wife is an attorney looking to get teaching certificate. Any suggestions? Things to do? Boating doesn't seem big unless you go to San Diego. I found a website that does a cost of living comparison between any 2 cities in the US. Seems Phoenix is actually quite moderate...almost the same as Lebanon, PA (near Harrisburg). Thanks all. --------------------------- to see who "wf3h" is, go to "qrz.com" and enter 'wf3h' in the field |
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![]() "Bob" wrote in message ... With job offer in hand from Chandler, I'll solicit opinions from the folks who've lived in the area. I spent about a month over the last 2 years, mostly in the summer, in Phoenix. Looking for a house about 200K or so. Good areas? Bad areas? Wife is an attorney looking to get teaching certificate. Any suggestions? Things to do? Boating doesn't seem big unless you go to San Diego. I found a website that does a cost of living comparison between any 2 cities in the US. Seems Phoenix is actually quite moderate...almost the same as Lebanon, PA (near Harrisburg). Thanks all. Lived in Chandler for 17 years, just moving back to Illinois two and half years ago. Tremendous growth during that time. Not really too many bad areas. I would suggest you be careful of any house that is over ten years old. In Arizona, the heat and sloppy building practices take a toll on construction pretty fast. Be wary of buying too near one of the freeways as the noise can be unbearable during rush hour. Ditto on airport flyways. I had a problem with Chandler's water system...they don't regulate the pressure and it isn't unusual to have almost 100 lbs of pressure at the house. Pipes under slab gave out twice in two years...expensive fix. Put a pressure regulater at house input and no more problems. Another thing to worry about is "expansive soil". The clay around that part of Arizona swells up when water is added and will cause some pretty bad settling in house. Coming from Illinois originally, it never occured to me not to plant flowers near the foundation and the cracks in the walls from watering those flowers were pretty bad. I eventually found the builders "care and use" manual that the original owner had left behind and it warned about not planting any vegetation within four foot of the house. The traffic has become much like Los Angeles so you might want to consider locating near your place of employment. Sitting in traffic at 110 degrees, even with the A/C running can be rather irritating. And one final thought...even though real estate taxes, some food items, etc were much less expensive there than Northern Illinois, I found that auto insurance and auto registration cost, more than made up the difference. In Northern Illinois, we never locked our house or cars but I learned to break that habit. I worked out of Fiesta Mall and we averaged one and a half cars stolen per day from that parking lot. But then I suspect that was the result of living in a metropolitan area instead of a rural farming area. Hope this has been of some help....I wouldn't hesitate to move back to that area but would do some things different knowing the above. Tom. |
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![]() " Things to do? Boating doesn't seem big unless you go to San Diego. Lake Pleasant NW of Phoenix is pretty nice for sailing boats, also bass fishing and general boating. The lakes NE of Mesa have some pretty good fishing...Sahuaro, Canyon Lake, Apache, and Roosevelt. Some pretty big catfish come out of Roosevelt. All close enough for a days fishing trip. Very crowded on the weekends, however. The lake(Barkley?) on the Verde River just north of Scottsdale has a good reputation for catfish, also. They've been pretty low the last few years due to the drought but I hear water levels this Winter have come up quite a bit because of the rains. They had to drop the artificial rubber dams holding in Tempe Town Lake to let the Salt River drain off some of the water behind the dams on the first four mentioned lakes. I hear people came in droves to watch water running in the river bed..it hadn't done so in about ten years. Tom. |
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![]() Things to do? Boating doesn't seem big unless you go to San Diego. I find it somewhat difficult to accept the above statement. Arizona has an extremely enthusiastic boating population, with various factions focusing on their preferred aspects of the sport. I've been a boater in Arizona since the late fifties (as a kid with my dad), bought my first boat shortly out of high school and many since, and still spend virtually every weekend on my boat, including Friday, Saturday, and Sunday night just passed. In the last 72 hours, I have witnessed fisherman in bass boats, wakeboarders catching big air, PWC people doing what they do, and cruisers chasing a glorious Arizona sunset at a lazy 8 knots, cocktail in hand (oops, that was me). Not bad for January. I have boated every body of water that you can launch a powerboat in Arizona, and have kept a boat in San Diego, as well. It might well be that I could be a credible informational resource for you, in regards to boating in the Southwest. Career and housing advice might be better left to others. Boating truly is my strong suit. It would help to know what type of boat you have or are looking to acquire, and what you like to do with it. With a little more information about what boating means to you, I would be willing and able to answer any regional boating questions you may have with some authority. |
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