Top 7 Reasons NOT to move to Phoenix Arizona

[Music] are you planning a move to the Phoenix area maybe you've already got it on the books to retire here well you might want to avoid moving here if you can't handle these seven things so let's get into it [Music] yes no matter where you live in the country there are going to be things that you're going to be like I can't take that I can't live there so I'm going to go over seven of those facts just so you know what to expect and if you can't handle them you might not want to move here number one is going to be dust it is a desert it is very very dry and it's not uncommon to have the wind come through and then the air quality goes down because there's just so much dust in the air so if you've got dark Furniture you're gonna have to keep that dusted uh pretty much every other day and just know that it's it's very dusty it's very dry and Dusty number two are going to be Rock chips and cracked windshields like I just said we're in a desert so how they keep the Dust for dust control they have to keep it covered especially along the freeways which is pretty much all decorated in Rock from side to side everything's Rock here and maybe some plants a cactus those types of things along the freeways in fact there's some areas along the freeway where they've actually taken different colored rocks and then made a pattern on the side of the side of the hillside um so you're gonna get a rock chip uh you can of course there's plenty of companies out there that will come fill those Rock chips for you and of course once they get to a point where they're on the outside of your windshield um in an area that they can't fix it's going to end up cracking your windshield my husband and I have been back to the Phoenix area so my husband was raised here I lived here from the age of like 16 to our mid-20s jobs took us away and then we decided to move back in 2020 and uh I can tell you that we forgot all about that so we made sure that we had the right insurance coverage and we've already replaced two windshields in the like two and a half almost three years that we've been here so it's gonna happen so make sure if you've got like an exotic car or a classic car that you get some kind of treatment on the hood the front area where rocks are going to hit because you don't want you know rocks ended up chipping your paint and then just make sure you have really good windshield coverage uh that is going to take us to number three allergies if you think that you're gonna move here because you're going to escape the allergies where you're at chances are you're still going to have allergies when you move here it might not be the same types of trees or grasses or weeds we still have them here in fact you might let's say you are grass allergy person like me [Music] um I typically have worse symptoms in the fall rather than the spring which is kind of crazy but here's why they replant all the golf courses any green space that you see we have two different types of grass they usually do some kind of like Bermuda or some kind of grass that can handle the heat in the summer months and then come October when the temperatures start dropping they reseed everything to like a rye grass something that can handle the cooler winter temperatures so you might end up finding out that you're springing Allergies have suddenly turned to Fall allergies of course right now in the spring months when I'm filming this there's a lot of allergies happening because of all the trees and Cactus and stuff blooming so you're not going to escape the allergies I'm so sorry it's just going to be different just have to go get retested and make sure you've got the right concoction in place number four it's gonna be scorpions we have different types of bugs all over the world like all over the country like you couldn't get me to move to some place that's got roaches and pig you know you have to have a lanai around your pool area just to enjoy your pool because the bugs are that bad you know mosquitoes the side is yeah I don't I don't know how big the mosquitoes are but I can tell you I've visited there and I I have no desire to move there even though I think it's a lovely State uh here we're gonna have different Critters and scorpions are one of those scorpions do sting a sting typically feels like a bee sting um just gotta make sure you put ice on it and let it heal I honestly in the all the years that we've lived here never seen a scorpion in my house uh my husband said that when in the house that he lived in they had some eucalyptus trees that were growing right up to the house and that the Scorpions would get onto the roof and in through like the vents and stuff like that and into their house that way so once they cut down the trees they didn't have any more scorpion issues so if you live near water source like golf courses those types of things where there's going to be a good food supply for the Scorpions chances are you're gonna have um you're gonna see them so just hire pest control people to keep them out of your house and your home because again you don't want your animals animals are so we're five the average speed limit on our freeways is 65 miles an hour you need to be able to keep up with the speed of traffic or the flow of traffic here which everybody here drives very very fast they drive fast it's I would have to say the average speed limit on the freeway is probably closer to 75 to 80. so if you're getting on the freeway going holy crap why is everybody passing me it's because everybody it's just the way it is here so you know I'm all five foot two I wear a six and a half seven shoe my right foot is very heavy so I love that we can drive fast and it really ticks me off when I get it stuck in a like rush hour traffic which your rush hour here is your typical morning and then your afternoon hours of when people are coming and going to downtown area so just know people drive faster better keep up otherwise you're going to be freaking out so number six is gonna be the sound of Freedom if you can't handle the sound of Freedom what do I mean by that Luke Air Force Base Jets you get it okay sound of Freedom so pretty much the entire West Valley at least from Highway 101 which is Glendale area to the West is going to hear jet traffic I love it we live I don't know probably about 10 miles from Luke Air Force Base but we're on one of the paths so I'm gonna post I'm going to put a map up here of the Luke Air Force Base map um so that you can see what their flight plan is now they're not in the same area every day um I I couldn't tell you what day of the week that they're coming over I just hear them in the mornings and then as they're doing their flight path so but sometimes they come over and they're banking right over our backyard it is the coolest thing ever and of course sometimes if you're on a zoom call like I set up with people like you when you want to meet to move here I'll set up a zoom call and then we'll kind of go over everything so make sure you do call me if you want to move here and you want some information again we set up a nice Zoom call and go over everything with you to make sure that we're all on the same page and timeline that sort of thing but anyway sometimes you'll be on a zoom call and you'll get these jets flying and bacon out right over the house so people are like oh my gosh what was that noise that was a jet or two or three anyway so if you don't think you can handle a uh the sound of Air Force jets going over you you can just move to another area of the valley um there are people that can't stand it you either love it or you hate it so just be aware of it and number seven if you can't stand the sight of a gun on somebody's hip other than a police officer you might have a problem so don't we're constitutional carry state what that means is that anybody is allowed to carry a weapon on them at all times um if you and it happens you're going to see it you don't see it often you're going to see it more if you leave the Phoenix area and you get up into some of those more rural country areas a lot of people are going to carry a weapon on them sometimes they're concealed sometimes you don't see them but a lot of times they're right smack on their hip so don't freak out don't be like oh my god I've called the cops cause you got a gun it's legal they have a constitutional right to carry that weapon so just be you know aware that people might have a weapon on them and not to freak out because honestly if I'm going into a store or to a movie or volunteer somewhere I'm okay with it but then again I also had several years of law enforcement under my belt so um but I would much rather know that somebody is in that environment with me that is going to be on the ready should something go down so just be aware of it if you can't stand the side of it just look the other way because it's legal and I have a little bit of a bonus for you this is a summertime issue only and again it's going to depend on where you live at in the valley a lot of our water is stored in tanks so my bonus one is going to be hot showers if you can't stand taking a hot shower when you want to take a cold one in the middle of the summer months it might be a problem for you or at least it's going to end up being a tepid shower so depending on where they store the water some of the water stored underwater or underground some of it stored in tanks that's cooking out in the Summer sun and you literally want to just take a cold shower in the summer months when you're hot and you can't the water comes out either tepid at best or actually kind of hot we have a Facebook's page set up for our neighborhood and I remember last summer so many parents complaining that they had to push ice cubes into their kids bath because the water was too hot and that was that was when you fill it up with cold water so uh yeah you can't take it so if you're like in the middle of like phase one of the live Hard program and you're like I'm gonna go do phase one in the summer months it's not gonna happen unless you can figure out how to do a cold plunge type thing because you're not going to have a cold shower to be able to take so it's gonna be it for me today hey if you have any thing that you want me to cover would you please comment below I'd love to be able to put videos together for what you're curious about the Phoenix market and then of course if you are planning to move here please call me all my contact information's below we could set up a zoom call go over everything with you and figure out whether or not it's gonna be big a good fit for you and then figure out your timeline I'd love to be able to help you um you know it's it's or maybe you've you've moved away and now you're coming back and things have changed just like it did for us you know we were gone almost 25 years and things changed a lot in that 25 years so maybe you just need to refresher and figure 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Channel: Living In Phoenix Arizona West Valley

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Length: 12min 2sec (722 seconds)

Published: Sat Apr 22 2023