Come on Brother. Buck up winter is as only as bad as you let it. Yup it sucks, but the dread is worse than the actual. Hurricanes in Fla. & the gulf, earthquakes in Cal., Moonbats and NIMBIs everywhere. The grass isn't ant greener. No I'm not one of those people. You Know, Ice fishermen, skiers, snowshoers, snowmobilers, dog mushers, etc. like everyone else I sit and think about next year's garden and shovel snow.
Okay maybe you have a point.
Granted, the gun laws are better here in AZ, but southern Nevada and Arizona are bloody HOT, 52 days this year over 110 degrees so far. It's so bright that sunglasses are not a fashion statement, they are a medical necessity, seriously. It gets old quick and all you hear is "we're leaving town for a while to escape the heat". I get in my car to come home from work which has sunshades up so the interior has no direct sunlight, yet the steering wheel is still too hot to touch. And it's only 7-15% humidity so we ALL are drinking water all day long to not hit dehydration... that part is aggravating. You know when you open the oven to turn the pizza and you get hit with that HOT dry blast at first? Or turn the blow dryer right in your face? Open your car window when in 114 and that's what it feels like. I'll re-phrase what you said: "I cannot tolerate or stand the summers here any longer".
Every place has its issues, that's for sure. The other thing we still can't get used to: you have to look at the calendar to know when Christmas is coming. Not joking on that one. 320 sunny days a year, living in AC for most of it, you have seriously no clue where you are in the year. I mean, plastic snowmen on your desert rock front yard next to your cactus in 80 degrees on Christmas Day is
bizarre, althought southwest natives probably don't think so. We SO MISS THE SEASONS.
But the gun laws are great. Property tax on my 2244 sqft ranch house is only three grand a year. And Amazon has two huge warehouses here and many things we need arrive in hours. Those three things spoil us, lol.
ANYWAY, if you think you're OK with what I described, then pack up the house and come on down! Well, after the home prices deflate back down a bit. And bring Smith & Wesson with you. And SA.
when you get to be of a certain age, you just don't wanna do anything anymore for the house, the family, and other things that made you what you are. you want "me time", and no more responsibilities.
that's what the Mrs and me want...."me time"...no time for shoveling (or using machinery) to remove snow...no more laying down rock salt, dand, kitty litter for traction.....no more scraping ice off the windshield,
no more turning over a garden......planting a veggie or flower garden.....and the list goes on and on.
i been all over this country and in every state as a trucker....the ld Tony Bennet song..."I left my heart in San Francisco", was popular way back when, things were GREAT in S.F., not at all like these days.
i "left my heart" in the south west. as in NV, AZ, NM, parts of UT.......
lower to no taxes, great expanse land for the money, QUIETER neighbors, ans NO HUMIDITY
i had to make layovers in KIngman, AZ, for a trailer switch. there was a Petro there......now i believe it is a Pilot.
anyway, i had parked my truck far from the building.
i started walking, yeah, bright, hot, sunny day...
i started slipping, thinking i was walking on oil from truck drippings.
my boots at the time, had those white "crepe like" soles, really cheap work boots..
the soles were softening.....that was the slipping......i'll never forget that
i got a buddy in or near Dayton, NV, tells me shooting ranges galore....but he gets snow
i don;'t want snow....
as for the fat guy, in the red suit...??
he hasn't come to my house since the kids moved out........he goes to thier house, and me and the Mrs gotta trudge thru that white 5hit.....
ask me how much i like that white 5hit...........
