Meanwhile, out in old Arizona.... - Page 2 - PeachParts Mercedes-Benz Forum

Kpmurphy · #16 07-12-2011, 12:45 PM

The CO. I work for Avnet is very big in Arizona, and I have always thought of getting transferred, any buddy on here work for Avnet?
Just thought I would ask.

spdrun · #17 07-12-2011, 12:49 PM

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Originally Posted by Kpmurphy

The CO. I work for Avnet is very big in Arizona, and I have always thought of getting transferred, any buddy on here work for Avnet?
Just thought I would ask.

Unless you know that you can find a job in the same field if you move and lose your job, I'd step carefully. Happened to a friend of mine who moved to Phx with her family, company she was working for went bust, and is now basically stuck there.

Then again, if you buy property in AZ now, you're probably more likely to make money that way than if you bought in 2006-7.

SwampYankee · #18 07-12-2011, 01:13 PM

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Originally Posted by Mike D

Ahhh! THAT'S what that is! I thought it was an old seat mounting location.

In the interest of "authenticity" I'd have fired a shot through the fender and clearcoated it.

pj67coll · #19 07-12-2011, 01:31 PM

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Originally Posted by Kpmurphy

The CO. I work for Avnet is very big in Arizona, and I have always thought of getting transferred, any buddy on here work for Avnet?
Just thought I would ask.

I was almost sort of maybe employed by Avnet when I arrived in Phoenix ten years ago. Not a good experience and I'm happy I never actually started there.

- Peter.

Mike D · #20 07-12-2011, 01:51 PM

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Originally Posted by SwampYankee

In the interest of "authenticity" I'd have fired a shot through the fender and clearcoated it.

Or a tracer round through the fuel tank and not worry about the clear coat.

panZZer · #21 07-12-2011, 02:14 PM

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Originally Posted by Mike D

It sure isn't the town it used to be. You wouldn't recognize the place. It's all over grown now. They've built to the mountains in town and the old open area between Tucson and Picacho is almost gone. As a for instance, Ina Road is considered "in town" now, Houghton Road, is "near East side", there are houses all the way down to Rio Rico, there is no open area between Tucson and Catalina Junction and they've built sub divisions all the way down Ajo to Three Points.

We probably have an average amount of violence but the place is so much larger population-wise that the numbers have increased.

Yup when I first headed thru the aviation depository was east of tuscon --now the ole plane boneyard is swallowed up by the town ( there's a great taco joint just north and I always stop for a few beef and potato burritos for the road).
Before long im gonna be one of those new Arizonian's.

Mistress · #22 07-12-2011, 02:27 PM

was it made in China?

Eskimo · #23 07-12-2011, 04:08 PM

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Originally Posted by Mistress

was it made in China?

I think it looks like a seat from Wicked Cactus Leather.

If you like, you could contact them and ask if it was made in China.

elchivito · #24 07-12-2011, 04:30 PM

I guess I'm an old timer. Does 8 generations here make me an old timer? I'm always getting "we've been here a year but we FEEL like natives!!"
No you don't.
I know lots of *********s who carry all the time, even out here in the boonies. I don't like carrying. It pulls down my pants. Sure, there's a pistol handy someplace and a shotgun in the pickup, but these pencildicks who swagger around all the time brandishing their guns are pretty laughable.

If I had to live in a town, and they kept me from killing myself first, I'd pick Tucson. I like Tucson, in spite of all the cousins I have there. Is Janos still open?

spdrun · #25 07-12-2011, 04:57 PM

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Originally Posted by panZZer

Yup when I first headed thru the aviation depository was east of tuscon --now the ole plane boneyard is swallowed up by the town ( there's a great taco joint just north and I always stop for a few beef and potato burritos for the road).

Yum. You're making me long for good (ubiquitous) Mexican food as in CA or AZ. Yeah, it can be found in NYC, but it's not nearly as common as on the West Coast

Pooka · #26 07-12-2011, 05:31 PM

About 50 years ago this was legal in Texas. I don't know if it is now.

There were no concealed carry permits then, but if you were a 'boni fidi traveler', which was described in the Texas Criminal Code as someone who left the County of their residence, traveled through another County and entered then another County you could carry a gun in your car or, if traveling by horse or foot, on your person.

The horse thing came to include motorcycles after they were invented, and I knew a guy who always went on trips with a cal. 45 'hogleg' strapped to his gas tank. As long as he stayed in Texas it was legal.

As far as I know there was never any trouble over this. You did need to prove you were a traveler, though, and that could be done by packing luggage or camping gear. Of course, if you were pulled over, all you had to do was show your drivers permit to establish your residence and therefore your 'traveler' status.

Daman858 · #27 07-12-2011, 06:28 PM

In my old home town of Baltimore, MD, there were 223 murders last year in a city with a population of 640,000. In Phoenix, AZ there were 117 murders with a population of 1.5 million! In Tucson, AZ there were 51 murders in a city of 525,000.

I would feel much safer in AZ despite those folks openly carrying.

Mike D · #28 07-12-2011, 07:32 PM

Repeat after me, "Tucson, Tucson, Tucson". The easiest way to remember the spelling is to think of what the place was named for. "Took-shon", where "the waters meet" (confluence of the Santa Cruz River and Rillito Creek), according to the natives when the Spanish arrived.

The last time I checked, Janos is still around but many of the famous old places are gone. Mostly victims of urban sprawl. The Tack Room, Cliff's Hidden Valley Inn, Triple C Chuck wagon, Webb's Steak House and a lot of the local "watering holes" have all fallen victim to the city's growth.

We're still "a small town in a big city" but we're slowly fading away.

No longer can you go to the "Cow Pony" and smell horse sweat from the riders (not that that was such a good thing but it was Tucson) and ranch workers but instead the place is full of, gasp!, accountants, bankers and lawyers, riding their Harleys, acting like "bikers". Sad, really.

spdrun · #29 07-12-2011, 08:13 PM

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Originally Posted by Daman858

In my old home town of Baltimore, MD, there were 223 murders last year in a city with a population of 640,000. In Phoenix, AZ there were 117 murders with a population of 1.5 million! In Tucson, AZ there were 51 murders in a city of 525,000.

I would feel much safer in AZ despite those folks openly carrying.

Which puts Phoenix and Tucson somewhat higher than NYC, San Diego, and L.A. It's not that Arizona cities are extremely good, it's that Baltimore is extremely bad (and Baltimore actually has pretty loose gun laws for a big East Coast city).

elchivito · #30 07-12-2011, 09:27 PM

Open carry has always been legal here. Concealed was the big issue some years ago and it passed, then they changed the law again, making CC virtually useless except for carrying in certain places where people probably shouldn't be carrying anyhow. Now, having a gun under your shirt, or under your seat, or in your glove box is no longer considered concealed carrying. Go figure. I have a CC permit, yet I don't carry or if I do, I don't conceal. The only advantage to it for me is I don't have to fill out the paperwork when I buy a gun in a gunshop, which I hardly ever do anyhow.