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My grandmother is in Tuscon and my aunt and uncle are in Phoenix. After hearing stories about them hiding in shoes, and making sure bedsheets never touch the floor lets the little bastards climb into your bed, yeah, I'll pass on the Southwest.

 

I lived in Phoenix for a year and a half. It was awesome, probably.

I dunno, don't speak Spanish.

 

I enjoyed visiting in the winter. It's not somewhere I'd want to live. Funny thing is that promotion I was up for (and almost got) would have put me either in Denver or Phoenix, with the odds higher for Phoenix.

 

I never thought I would hate a place so much solely based on the fact that it's always shorts weather, but if you always wear shorts and own a car with black leather seats... You'll hate every day of your life.

 

@1977Brewer

Sorry your package will have to go out Wednesday. I didnt have a big enough box for it. I will make my friends find one for me tomorrow

Please disregard the box. I love candy and order a bunch of crap from there. Butt stuff, nutt stuff, nuff said

I still expect a public shaming if my beer doesnt live up to expectations

 

Lol. I once had leather and broken AC when I was a textard. Just have to accept that's your life now and it's OK.

 

I will say this, I will move to Arizona LONG before I will move to Texas. No offence, Texans.

 

Funny thing happens after you live here a few years. Suddenly it dips below 50f and you go searching for a parka. I grew up in northern MT and have done -40f winters but the cold in the desert is different, it goes clear to the bone. But, every single thing in the desert was created to hurt you. The only Spanish you need to know here though is: carne asada burro, lengua burro, and cerveza. All the fun Spanish is likely to get you stabbed or shot.

 

I lived on 27th and Dunlap in Phoenix, it was like little Mexico over there.

Having Le Merle, which is French for 'The Merle.'

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I lived in Phoenix for a summer back in the 90s, had a job working in a nursery mostly filing orders and loading plants onto trailers for all the local Home Depots, long story short I picked up a pot got stunk on the finger near the knuckle, spent the rest of the day watching my hand and arm turn red, and had a hole in my finger for damn near a year

 

The first few months I lived here I saw a group of Mexicans try to jump a hulked out white dude at a gas station right around there. White dude started to throw down and the Mexicans jumped in their car and took off. White dude jumped in his Tahoe and took off after them rear-ending them as they went down the road. I grabbed what I was getting quick and got the hell outta there. It was an eye opening experience for me for sure. I don't go to central or west Phoenix anymore unless I have my pistol. Concealed carry ftw!!

 

Yup, welcome to AZ! The second sting I had made my whole body numb for two days and left a weird metallic taste in my mouth. I kill all scorpions on sight.

 

Does AZ still have that crazy strict CCW policy called "everyone"?

 

Daaaamn son.

I will publicly and openly shame you if your beer is bad.

Do you think your beer is bad? That's the first sign.

 

I never thought I would say this, but I would take Texas over Phoenix. And I hate all of you for making me admit that.

 

Yeah, one guy attempted to take my backpack, shook him off and ran. This was around 8 pm on a Thursday and I was drunk walking alone, which was a bad move.

Another guy caught me walking across a parking lot. Funniest thing, when I was walking through it, he was hiding behind a damn palm tree with his stupid gut hanging out like a ****ing cartoon character. I actually turned to face him since he waited until I walked by. I put up my fists like 'let's do it' and he just stumbled away.

One night we had dudes just walking down the street shooting pistols in the air. Two separate groups of 4-5 like it was no biggie. Never saw any cops show up.

****ty area for sure.

 

Uh yeah. Thought you caught on earlier. PKU

 

Ive never been to like Flagstaff or whatnot, but Phoenix and the majority of Arizona is honestly the last place I'd choose to live in the US. I'd rather live in Texas, the other ****ty southern states that at least have some semblance of green, or even the terrible northern states that are nothing but snow.

 

Yessir, if you are legal to own a gun you are legal to conceal. It really is the Wild West out here. The part of town I live in though is nothing like those parts of town. We are overrun with Mormons and Jehovas Witnesses. As sketchy as parts of town are, I have grown to love it here. The desert is a blast if you have a quad, 4x4, or sand rail and stay away from cactus or things with more than 2 legs.

 

I could do SoCal, Colorado, or New Mexico. Utah, Nevada, Texas, and Arizona are very low on the list. Although I'd any of those in a heartbeat over Alabama or Mississippi.

 

Fffffffuuuuuuuuu....

Okay, at last count, 6 boxes are on their way ad of today. You people. Seriously.

 

Northern AZ is actually pretty awesome. Phoenix and Tucson are the armpits of the state. If there was a decent living in northern AZ that is where I would be but the money is in PHX

 

What's a sand rail? Also you guys and your quads, call 'em 4wheelers dammit.

 

That's the fun stuff there. I spent a ton of time in the desert and it was awesome, but my home area was a wreck. If I lived in a nicer spot it wouldn't have been so bad.

 

North Texas is pretty badass. It has me, and Gavin, and the BrewingTravesty guy. He seems nice.

It also has actual seasons occasionally. Not this year though.

 

I remember things with more than 4 (as already discussed) or less than 2 being the primary threats. But I know rattlesnakes are pretty common throughout much of the country, but I suppose less common than the scorpions are.

 

Utah has the Mormons and terrible beer laws but at least the majority of it is gorgeous.

 

Hey @Finsfan, Jester King just released some new homebrew recipes, including for RU55.
http://jesterkingbrewery.com/blog/

 

My time driving through Utah was much like my time driving through Nevada. Desert wasteland. I'm not a gambler so Nevada holds nothing for me. And the Mormon alcohol laws would drive me nuts.

 

off-topic, working on a casein shake, then another pint of WGV Bitter (pin is all but dead), then bedtime.

 

Salt Lake City area mountainwise was one of the prettiest spots Ive been to. Just a quick drive through though so I dont know what life is like htere.

 

Ideally, a tube frame chassis with a rear engine v8 making 500 horsepower or better. The most fun you can have with clothes on imo.
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If you like the outdoors, there are good things in both states. Maybe not enough to justify living there, but some good stuff nonetheless.

 

We get scorpions here but not like the AZ ones.
I got stung on the jugular by one and walked in from the woods. I bet that wouldn't happen with an AZ scorpion.

 

And just to brag because I can - no better place in the world than The Gorge in Oregon. No ragrets moving here:

 

My wife wants to go to Nevada (she's never been) simply to go to the atomic testing grounds. I dig the science behind the nuclear. She's got some weird dystopic fetish with the atomic bomb/nuclear disasters and everything that surrounded it (like, books and books on it, I got her a Chernobyl cleanup medal for her birthday one year). She's not as intrigued by the science (but does ask me questions since I'm better at sciencing than she is).

 

Some of my OR funs:







And ofc getting hailed on when youre hiking:

 

That's fine. We don't want you here anyway.


And why the fvck is Texas lumped in with Utah, Nevada, and Arizona anyhow? Most of the state ain't even like that.

 

Would you rather be grouped in with Oklahoma or Louisiana?

 

Louisiana got some good food though, and pretty scenery.

I spent 4 years in OK. I'd be just fine never setting foot in that state again.