I never thought I'd say this about Arizona...
Fuck it's cold outside.
@Veladynee I keep forgetting you're in AZ. Where at? I lived in Tucson for a few years, and am likely to move back in about 9 months or so!
@zetasyanthis What is bringing you back to the Arid Zone A?
@Veladynee Well, my partner lives in Tucson since getting her vet tech degree in May, and we've been kinda trying to figure out where we want to end up moving now. I miss Tucson, and she loves it too. <3
@zetasyanthis Excellent, most excellent!
Yes, yes, join the rest of us dragons down here... More, moooore, MOOOOORE!! *ahem.*
Yes, Arizona is pretty nice overall, especially Flagstaff area.
@Veladynee Agree. Tucson is pretty awesome too. Higher elevation = much less hot that Phoenix, plus it's just fucking beautiful with the mountains everywhere. (Also awesome art community and food!)
@Veladynee Also, hilariously enough, I miss the rain. XD
@Veladynee (It really doesn't rain very much in the bay area, as opposed to the kickass monsoons in AZ.)
@zetasyanthis This year was the year of the None-soons. :| I moved down here expecting these and got... one. D:
@Veladynee Aww. ;_; And from where, Flagstaff?
@zetasyanthis I lived in Flagstaff for a bit, actually! Then Seattle. Moved down here from Seattle.
@Veladynee Ah, cool! I lived in Tucson from mid 2010 to end of 2015, then moved here. Originally from the Chicago area. :)
@zetasyanthis Oooo, nice. I'm /originally/ from the Houston, Texas area myself! And left that state screaming. XD
@Veladynee Hah. Amusingly enough, work is trying to get me to move to Austin. Not that interested, but eh, it's not the worst part of TX?
@Veladynee Yeah. My reaction compared to Tucson was "Huh, this is hot, flat, and quite muggy. Also Texas. At least in AZ I can get involved and help turn the state blue-ish."
@zetasyanthis I contribute to quite a bit of blue in Arizona by just scales alone as well as raising the local aquatic life ratio by one tick. Natural diversity and all!
But yes, compared to Texas... Arizona is bluer than blue.
@Veladynee Fair enough! And yep, definitely! :D
@Veladynee @zetasyanthis and Texas is giant. My Dad was stationed at Brooks AFB for a while, in San Antonio, so I was stuck there for a couple of summers. If you’re in Arizona (or any state other than Alaska or Hawaii I guess) you can go elsewhere sometimes, easily. Not so in Texas.
Living in the Southwest: Hey, I can drive a couple of hours and be in California, or Nevada or...
Living in Texas: Texas is infinite. Texas is vast. Texas is all.
@Veladynee @Leucrotta Yes, yes it is. I've driven from Tucson to Phoenix to Tucson to Dallas in a shot and that was 23 hours. Never again.
@zetasyanthis @Leucrotta I did a drive with my wingsister from Houston to Phoenix and it was aaaaawwwful. Like 25 hours nonstop.
@Veladynee @Leucrotta And so boooooring. There's /nothing/ there.
@zetasyanthis @Leucrotta Beans and corn. Sometimes wheat.
@zetasyanthis @Veladynee what really drove this home; previously my Dad (DoD not technically Army so he had more flexibility switching locations) was at Ft. McPherson, outside Atlanta. In 2 hours of walking, bussing and riding the train I could get to Lennox Square or other downtown stuff. 2 hours of walk and bus got me from the outskirts of San Antonio to a mall I liked on the outskirts of San Antonio - not anywhere near the stuff downtown.
@Leucrotta @Veladynee I am not surprised. XD
@Leucrotta @zetasyanthis Where I lived in Houston, 2 hours of driving was enough to get me to ... The North end of the city.
2 hours down here in Phoenix can get me to Flagstaff.
Texas is a black hole, a time vortex.
@zetasyanthis Austin's definitely not the woooorst... Cost of living is about on par with Seattle, tho. Expensive expensive expensive, for wages that are fairly low on average. Texas has /really/ low wages which is part of (the rest is state politics) why I said fuck it and left.