[quote name='s1eepinglionhart']Yes. Given that I'm [almost] 26 and the climate here bothers the
out of me, I'm really thinking a dry warm climate would be better for me. Add that to the cost of living here in NY, at least where I live, and it becomes:
I'm sick of the
ing snow [and winter].
I'm sick of the
ing cost of living here.
I'm sick of the
ing weather here in general [humidity].
I'm sick of not getting paid enough.
The list goes on and on.
Tanuki -- my buddy just moved out there, and I'm using him as a basis for me, but he relocated and stayed with the same company, just the branch out in Tucson. I've been looking, but none of the jobs open at the Tucson branch would be right for me, so I'm still looking.
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Compared to NY, I'd be pretty sure that apartments here are much cheaper just from what I've heard from the NYC folk baout what they pay. My apartment here, 2 bed, 2 bath, kitchen, living room, dining area, pretty good-sized apartment is just under $800 a month with a slightly lower special rate for renewal with our lease. That includes electric and we get a small bill for water, trash, and the smaller stuff for about $10 a month and that's pretty much it for the apartment not counting cable and phone (we both have cells so it's cheaper), which of course are separate.
[quote name='Apossum']you may find that the weather gets just as annoying in AZ.... instead of snow, you have rainy mildly cold weather, which I found pretty annoying. then the summer is too damn hot and everyone stays inside (at least in phoenix. up north it was different-- prescott and flagstaff are pretty active during the summer)
everything else is totally valid though.[/QUOTE]
I don't know what you're talking about there. Besides the summer monsoons, the rest of the year is pretty much rain-free. We just got of a five month drought about a month ago, which I hope we don't have much more since I've apparently got leaks here and nobody ever came by the last time I put in a work order to get my room checked. Northern Arizona is much more normal, weather-wise, but down in the Phoenix area, it's very stable. It's usually only a question of how hot it gets the next day.