The Top Reasons People Regret Moving To Phoenix Arizona

Turn your oven on high for about 30 minutes, now open the oven door and put your face in it....that's Arizona heat

Speaking of dangerous animals. Most of them walk on 2 legs

Been in Phoenix 11 years now and she forgot to mention the high crime, drug problem, and homelessness that plagues the valley

I lived in Phoenix 45 years. I moved to the Pacific northwest and I love it. No more hellish summers and pollution.

It used to cool down at night, but the uncontrolled population growth killed it. Once the entire valley was paved over night time cooling became a thing of the past. Born and raised there, but made my escape to a less populated area 30+ years ago. RIP Arizona.

The light pollution in Phoenix is horrible. It does not cool off at night for months. It is suffocating.

I live here 65 years and your the first person I ever heard who tells it like it is. 😮 Congratulations.

We lived in the Phoenix area for over 7 years and the heat is excruciating. I hated the summertime there. If you have leather seats in your car, and no covered parking, you can actually injure yourself if you are wearing shorts and not paying attention when you get in. We would always keep towels in the car, especially for the kids. You cannot leave anything in your car during the hot summer months. It's a beautiful city, I love the desert landscape and the mountains, but I just could never adjust to the energy there. I can't explain it, but something didn't feel right and always mentally and spiritually draining. I was so happy to finally pack up and leave back in 2017. They have already predicted a major water shortage for the city due to to Colorado river is drying up and with so many people still moving there by the droves, it's going to be chaos and a catastrophe, especially in the heat. According to the discovery channel, three cities no one should be living in: San Francisco, Phoenix, and New Orleans.

I left after 15 years. May, June, July, August, September, skin cancer, ridiculous electric bills, absurd traffic, scorpions, poisonous snakes and Valley Fever.

You didn't mention the influx of drugs/crime/homeless/illegals/nomads.

Temps used to cool off at night but with the increase in construction , and tearing down the orchards , it will still be 100 at night . I’d drive home from a baseball game and could tell without looking when I passed an orchard because it immediately felt cooler

Stayed about a year in 1980, it was fun , I was young and did alot of exploration and trail riding, and then I started to miss things like lakes, grass, and lush forest, I would never go back now, but it was exciting for a time.

I used to live in Tucson and one thing that always got my attention when I traveled to Phoenix was how aggressive drivers were there. I used to say that you could be going 95 mph on the Superstition Freeway and you would still have somebody tailgating you six inches from your rear bumper.

It begs to be said that if you have dogs, about half the year they cannot walk on the ground with bare paws (a sweeping majority of PHX is pavement, sand, rocks, and asphalt; verrrry little grass and shade). It’s not just the heat in the air that’s dangerous to them, but the ground - even white sidewalks - will burn their poor little paws-paws. And a lot of dogs absolutely hate booties and refuse to wear em. Phoenix heat is EXCRUCIATING to them in more ways than one. Much worse than for us humans.

Drying your laundry is a plus. I hang it in the garage & come back to stiff, dry jeans in less time than it would take time in the dryer! Love it.

Just moved down to Mesa from Washington to take care of my mom. Biggest lesson so far has been, be very careful picking up a package from Amazon at night. I bent down to pickup a book leaning against the house when a scorpion stung my hand. The pain was way worse than a bee sting. Now, I’m very careful at night, I water the fruit trees in the morning or before dusk so I don’t get stung when I pick up the hose nozzle. Living here isn’t really a choice for me, I have to be here but I really miss the moderate weather and almost everything about the Puget Sound.

I refuse to live anywhere where if the power goes off, I might die.

To many people moved here and now we are surrounded by buildings and traffic everywhere. It used to be nice here.

I lived in Phoenix for a year and I hated it there. I will never go back! Didn't really mind the heat, the people were just so rude and ignorant.

I love Arizona, I arrived in 1999 and appreciate where I live. I have arthritis and I’m not bothered by the heat. My joints and body feel so much better. I lived in Scottsdale for 26 years and moved to Tucson 6 months ago. The mountains are vast and I can escape to Mount Lemon in 1 hour where you can ski and hike and weather is 25 degrees cooler than Tucson and reaches the teens in the winter months. Less traffic here with loads of parks, of course a pool brings your electric bill to $500.00 a month in June, July and August in PHX and surrounding close suburbs in PHX. In Tucson my bill has been $255.00 so far and it’s June. I welcome the monsoon in July. I was bit one time by a scorpion my last year in Scottsdale. Get a bug sprayer, close your windows, keep your doors shut. I believe snakes are in the open very desert wide open spaces more. I lived in North Scottsdale on a mountain right before Fountain hills. Of course I had rattlesnakes, I just was careful and always had shoes on. Mountain lions and bobcats drank out of my pool at night. Javelinas love garbage night, the solution was to put the cans out in the morning. Dust happens‼️ You live in Arizona there’s no escaping dust unless you decide to live in "The Pecans" in Queen creek which looks like the Midwest. I don’t like the traffic and PHX and surrounding areas has a lot of congestion. Snowbirds leave eventually and locals get great sales. PHX, Tucson and surrounding areas have delicious restaurants, you can enjoy plenty of family time here up in Sedona at the waterfalls and lakes here. If you like the bar scene there’s no shortage, golf is everywhere, doctors seem to like a 3:00 tee time. 🌟 Do not move to Rio Verde there is an enormous water problem, the water is turned off and water is trucked in. Real estate agents don’t have to tell you this and if you buy a million dollar plus you’ll be out of that major cash. Always google properties and problems in the area you’re looking at. Scottsdale turned off the water flow to Rio Verde because the shortages in the Colorado river. Feel free to ask me anything about PHX and different towns. I’m not a realtor nor do I have anything to sell you. Overall I love Arizona and it’s 99% gorgeous weather.🌵🌵🌵