Steelers - BEST Road Fans

[pczach]

Steelreserve. You know, if you did more than visit the strip bars, you'd see more of the city! I love it here.

My wife and I plan on retiring to the Phoenix area. It's absolutely beautiful. The weather is fantastic. There is a wonderful, modern road system in place. There is a lot to do, and they have some of the most beautiful communities filled with custom home, and other communities with semi-custom homes that offer a great lifestyle.

I love when people talk about everything being new and having no character as a negative thing. Character like what? Telephone poles and transformers surrounding your property that you pay huge money for? Road systems that don't have enough capacity to handle the existing population in that area? Those same roads littered with trash and in horrible condition? 150 year old houses and buildings everywhere that are loaded with deadly materials and structures that need to be updated badly? A punishing tax system like California has? Earthquakes? Awful traffic? Incredibly high real estate prices?

I mean...to each his own, but I'll take new, well-planned, and beautiful any day of the week.

Hardly any rain. Warm temperatures. The almost complete lack of flying insects. Reasonable real estate prices with low taxes. Gorgeous mountains and desert vistas with views everywhere. All the luxury without all the pretentious assholes you find in many other areas.

Yeah, what a shithole!

[Craic]

My wife and I plan on retiring to the Phoenix area. It's absolutely beautiful. The weather is fantastic. There is a wonderful, modern road system in place. There is a lot to do, and they have some of the most beautiful communities filled with custom home, and other communities with semi-custom homes that offer a great lifestyle.

I love when people talk about everything being new and having no character as a negative thing. Character like what? Telephone poles and transformers surrounding your property that you pay huge money for? Road systems that don't have enough capacity to handle the existing population in that area? Those same roads littered with trash and in horrible condition? 150 year old houses and buildings everywhere that are loaded with deadly materials and structures that need to be updated badly? A punishing tax system like California has? Earthquakes? Awful traffic? Incredibly high real estate prices?

I mean...to each his own, but I'll take new, well-planned, and beautiful any day of the week.

Hardly any rain. Warm temperatures. The almost complete lack of flying insects. Reasonable real estate prices with low taxes. Gorgeous mountains and desert vistas with views everywhere. All the luxury without all the pretentious assholes you find in many other areas.

Yeah, what a shithole!

You're in for a surprise, my friend. I have a picture somewhere of a thermometer on my back porch that in the shade, read 120. In the sun, it read 130 and was still rising before I decided to pack it in and go inside. I wouldn't call that warm! Oh, and then the rain issue! Just wait until your first tsunami season.

The storms start with this:


Then, morph into this:


And then ends in this:

[Butch]

Yes you get rain in buckets when you get it but...it is still part of the dessert. I mean San Antonio has gotten over a foot of snow before but I wouldn't say it snows in San Antonio. Nor would I say it rains here either. When it does rain here it can come down hard but again we are in drought more often than not.

[DesertSteel]

In my part of the desert it goes 4-5 months without rain and we have much cooler temperatures in summer ranging from 108-112 degrees ☀️

[Craic]

In my part of the desert it goes 4-5 months without rain and we have much cooler temperatures in summer ranging from 108-112 degrees ☀️

Yeah, we don't get much rain, but when we do . . . ! You must live north of Phoenix, no? I'm as far was on I-10 as you can get and still be part of the Phoenix metroplex.

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In my part of the desert it goes 4-5 months without rain and we have much cooler temperatures in summer ranging from 108-112 degrees ☀️

Yeah, we don't get much rain, but when we do . . . ! You must live north of Phoenix, no? I'm as far was on I-10 as you can get and still be part of the Phoenix metroplex.

[pczach]

You're in for a surprise, my friend. I have a picture somewhere of a thermometer on my back porch that in the shade, read 120. In the sun, it read 130 and was still rising before I decided to pack it in and go inside. I wouldn't call that warm! Oh, and then the rain issue! Just wait until your first tsunami season.

The storms start with this:


Then, morph into this:


And then ends in this:

We're really not in for many surprises. We've been going out there for multiple weeks every year for nearly 15 years. We've also been there at different times of the year and have gotten to experience all of that.

We used to go there in the summer because that's when my son would be out of school. The heat is ridiculous, but if I'm not working it doesn't really matter. I work outside, so I know a little bit about handling the heat and the cold. 95 degrees back home with 100% humidity is much worse to me. Besides, that's what pools and air conditioning are for! I am so sick of cold weather because I have spent so much time in it. My body just feels better in the heat.

I've experienced rain, and have experienced a couple of dust storms. I was out for a walk with my son and saw it approaching. We ran back to the room before it really hit. They are scary looking when they are coming towards you!

The bottom line is that we love it there, and know most of the pitfalls. We have been looking for property for a few years when we are out there, so we know a decent amount about the entire Phoenix area, and have a good idea of the areas we are most interested in living.

[DesertSteel]

Yeah, we don't get much rain, but when we do . . . ! You must live north of Phoenix, no? I'm as far was on I-10 as you can get and still be part of the Phoenix metroplex.

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Yeah, we don't get much rain, but when we do . . . ! You must live north of Phoenix, no? I'm as far was on I-10 as you can get and still be part of the Phoenix metroplex.

Southeast of Phoenix.

[Hawkman]

Is he waving a TERRIBLE TOWEL ?

No I think that’s the person behind him.