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Originally Posted by elchivito
I've had family in Phoenix since before statehood, and personally remember it from the 50s. It's not grown up in a particularly nice way as far as I'm concerned. Maybe part of the problem is it seems that lots of folks moved there not for the valley itself, but for economic reasons. As a result there's no real identity to the place.
If for some inexplicable reason I had to live in an AZ town, Tucson would be my choice I believe. Older. More sense of place.
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Yah, I rather liked the East side of Tucson. Especially when snow covered the Saguaro cacti!
Going up to Mt Lemon to esape the July Tucson heat was always a treat. o "valley fever" issues up there either.
I always loved driving north from Phoenix up through the Black Canyon to Flag.
Sedona was especially beautiful, but it reminded me a lot of Carmel, at least the CBD part - it seemed too "precious", like it knew what it was...
The old territorial capitol, was pretty neat. I almost moved there in the late1980's. But I hear it was about to be "discovered"- with the predictable attendant results....
The Arizonans I knew as friends, all liked to vacation in Pinetop or hop over to San Diego for their "ocean fix", a surprisingly quick straight shot West on 8. I have been meaning to get down to Rocky Point in Mexico, across the southern border, Puerto Peņasco is supposed to be really fun and pretty affordable and safe too.
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