I am headed to Wickenburg next year, my house is being built right now. My sentences that start with "back home" will be used to tell the neighbors why they have it so good. Example : Back home you couldn't do that, the homeless would steal it the first day"My biggest complaint of AZ is all the people who move here and then try to change it to be like where they came from. These are the same people who start every sentence with "Back home".
Get out the bow and arrows!I can only think of one thing I would change. It is illegal to hunt within 400 yards of a residence without their permission. On the surface it seems like a good law but I have 9 1/2 acres that I see coyotes on it all the time. They need to go and I am not sure my neighbors will see it that way
Great information !! Lake Havasu area is a Bar B Q pit hell hole. Can be in 90’s in Dec.Avoid the Colorado River Valley, at least the Needles to Laughlin stretch. Crazy hot weather, crazy windy weather, high electric utilities, exploding real estate costs, heavy congestion on Hwy 95. It's the beachhead for Cali folks who want to hop in the car and haul azz back to So Cal for frequent visits.
Show Low, Alpine, Eagar areas for small towns, if the wife needs shopping name outfits, Prescott probably best. I'd stay out of Phoenix metro area.
Im an Arizona native myself. 52 years old.I’m a native who fled the people there 30 years ago. It’s so bad now I don’t hardly go back home any more, home being where mom and lots of family live (verde valley). The weather is nice though.
Still have property there and was going to build a winter place on it. With the cost of land there now, I think I’ll sell it and buy a coach.
There is very little about AZ that even looks familiar to me anymore.
Something tells me the top shelf isn't that full today!
I hear ya, I love my native state. My grandmother was what you call a ”territorial daughter”. And I’ve crawled all over most of it.Im an Arizona native myself. 52 years old.
It’s not all bad as you stated. Sure, there’s more people, but I can still find my hunting spots void of most people. The politics and population has changed, but all my special places for hunting, camping, hiking...etc are still there.
They key to hunting in Arizona is the “1 mile rule”: Walk one mile off any road and you’ll rarely bump into others.
I‘ll never leave Arizona.
Eagar, Springerville, Taylor, Snowflake. Show Low if you want a bit larger. I spent 5 years up on the "mountain" and for hunting and fishing its hard to beat. However its cold in the winter and the wind really blows hard there during the spring. Ultimately I did not retire there but that's more about proximity to grandkids and less about the area. The area is awesome and the people are really great there.IF this was the case, where to consider living? What is real estate looking like? More southern or more northern? Obviously hunting has to be a part of this decision!
Now that it is blue the decline will be rapidI'm happy to have had the opportunity to enjoy this state when it was great. Now I would describe it just as "ok". I can't see it ever getting better but it is still better than the majority of other states.
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