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In reply to the discussion: Hey retired DUers...any retirement location recommendations? [View all]mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)If you can tolerate 3 months of it being 90-115F for 24 hours a day, there's a lot else to recommend it.
Traffic other than during rush hour is pretty chill, cost of living and housing reasonable, everywhere has AC, lots of areas (house and amenities) are very 'new' if you like that sort of thing.
You can drive to the beach in about 4 hours in Rocky Point, Mexico or 6 to San Diego.
Yeah there's a lot of wingnuts but Phoenix itself is Blue and diverse.
State taxes are moderate level, sales tax is under 9%. Public transit does kinda suck but there is a light rail from some outlying areas into Phoenix proper.
I'll add that winters are beautiful here. I can go outside right now in jeans and long sleeve cotton shirt with an undershirt and be fine.
Worst part apart from Summer is probably that there's no proper 'fall' season here. You don't see a lot of yellows and oranges in Oct/November, IOW.
WE NEED MORE DEMS HERE