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Writer's Block: No place like home
Jul. 14th, 2010 12:58 pm[Error: unknown template qotd]
LOVE:
1) Traffic is usually pretty clear, and parking is easy.
2) Cost of living is lower
3) There is nothing like the smell of the desert after a monsoon storm.
4) It's a big city, with all the amenities you'd expect.
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HATE:
1) It's hotter than the devil's balls. Seriously, it's like walking into an oven right now.
2) Mormons control the laws.
3) It's sunny all the time, when I prefer rain/fog.
4) Car dependence and rampant urban sprawl. Public transit is ass, everything is too spread out to walk, and it's too damn hot to walk very far at all most of the year.
5) Anywhere but Tempe, you get the suburban monoculture going: either hardline conservative religious or faux-progressive Scottsdale crap.
Let's see. I was two years old when I left Hawaii, so I can't say much about the reality of living there as opposed to visiting, but I do love Honolulu. The weather is lovely, the city is lush and cultured, etc etc hippie crap. Texas Panhandle I can speak more intelligently about. Phoenix is a quantum leap beyond in terms of quality. When I visit the Panhandle or Oklahoma, I am reminded of the fact that as much as a bitch about the heat/politics/etc, it could be so much worse. How soon we forget our blessings. The people there are genuinely kind and open-hearted, but it is just not my scene. Too provincial, way too religious/fundamentalist.
Yeah, Phoenix is the best place I have lived that I can remember. But look at the competition.
LOVE:
1) Traffic is usually pretty clear, and parking is easy.
2) Cost of living is lower
3) There is nothing like the smell of the desert after a monsoon storm.
4) It's a big city, with all the amenities you'd expect.
5)
omegadonutHATE:
1) It's hotter than the devil's balls. Seriously, it's like walking into an oven right now.
2) Mormons control the laws.
3) It's sunny all the time, when I prefer rain/fog.
4) Car dependence and rampant urban sprawl. Public transit is ass, everything is too spread out to walk, and it's too damn hot to walk very far at all most of the year.
5) Anywhere but Tempe, you get the suburban monoculture going: either hardline conservative religious or faux-progressive Scottsdale crap.
Let's see. I was two years old when I left Hawaii, so I can't say much about the reality of living there as opposed to visiting, but I do love Honolulu. The weather is lovely, the city is lush and cultured, etc etc hippie crap. Texas Panhandle I can speak more intelligently about. Phoenix is a quantum leap beyond in terms of quality. When I visit the Panhandle or Oklahoma, I am reminded of the fact that as much as a bitch about the heat/politics/etc, it could be so much worse. How soon we forget our blessings. The people there are genuinely kind and open-hearted, but it is just not my scene. Too provincial, way too religious/fundamentalist.
Yeah, Phoenix is the best place I have lived that I can remember. But look at the competition.
