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You'd be surprised at how progressive southern states are. The Texas state motto is literally "Friendship." Now, I don't know much about Texas but I did live in

You'd be surprised at how progressive southern states are. The Texas state motto is literally "Friendship." Now, I don't know much about Texas but I did live in Arizona for a few years. It surprised me more than a bit, as someone who grew up in New York. Arizona legalized medical marijuana quite early, followed by recreational marijuana. Their medicaid program AHCCCS [1] is extremely comprehensive and even pays for Uber/Lyft to the doctor's office and back. Patients are able to see a great selection of GPs and specialists, and the copay is always $0. The accompanying drug plan is comprehensive, also with a copay of $0. AHCCCS will approve expensive modern drugs like Rozeram (supercharged melatonin analog for sleep) if the sufficient documentation of reasonable need is provided. Cactuses are protected from destruction by law, and must be transplanted when doing clearing for construction. You may find the idea of being able to own a firearm without a license to be unpalatable but the state largely remains very safe crime-wise (perhaps due to that?) I miss living in Arizona. It's a beautiful state with very caring folk. I saw almost no homeless folks in Phoenix. Folks there seem to really care about their fellow citizens. Southern hospitality is for sure a thing, take it from a daft boy from Brooklyn! [1] https://www.azahcccs.gov/ https://www.azahcccs.gov/

seanmcdirmid 5y ago
> Cactuses are protected from destruction by law, and must be transplanted when doing clearing for construction. You may find the idea of being able to own a firearm without a license to be unpalatable but the state largely remains very safe crime-wise (perhaps due to that?) My mom lived in Tucson and decided on a visit that I might want to go shooting with her and her boyfriend at the time. Suffice it to say, it didn't go well. BTW, Arizona does very poorly in crime rate (10th highest for violent crime, 3rd highest for property crime), especially Phoenix and Tucson (but is very urban, so there is that also). I'm not sure why you consider it safe crime wise when the numbers say otherwise. They also do very poorly in education (rank 48th). I was really surprised they could beat New Mexico and Louisiana (https://www.wmicentral.com/news/latest_news/arizona-ranks-48th-in-quality-of-public-schools/article_7953b8f9-a46d-5a5d-832f-d01b3563575d.html#:~:text=Arizona%20ranks%2048th%20in%20quality,%7C%20Latest%20News%20%7C%20wmicentral.com https://www.wmicentral.com/news/latest_news/arizona-ranks-48...). It is beautiful. I would love to live in Tucson someday, but with the bad schools, it would have to be after my kid was done with school and I retired. > I miss living in Arizona. It's a beautiful state with very caring folk. I saw almost no homeless folks in Phoenix. Folks there seem to really care about their fellow citizens. Southern hospitality is for sure a thing, take it from a daft boy from Brooklyn! When I was a kid, I took a greyhound bus from Vicksburg MS to Seattle WA via the southwest approach (I later did the northwest route, which wasn't as interesting). People would get on the bus from various prisons in Texas (the bus stopped a lot at prisons), New Mexico and Arizona...and were all going to LA. Why bother being homeless in Phoenix (when summers can kill) if LA isn't that far away? Heck, that applies to Texas as well, not just Arizona.
- nebula8804 5y ago
  >When I was a kid, I took a greyhound bus from Vicksburg MS to Seattle WA via the southwest approach (I later did the northwest route, which wasn't as interesting). People would get on the bus from various prisons in Texas (the bus stopped a lot at prisons), New Mexico and Arizona...and were all going to LA. Why bother being homeless in Phoenix (when summers can kill) if LA isn't that far away? Heck, that applies to Texas as well, not just Arizona. You know I wonder if anyone has done a study on how much of the homeless in LA are from out of state. Is it even possible? There is like 65k+ homeless just in LA country. I don't know how they are going to fix this.
  - scheme271 5y ago
    There's a point-in-time count of homeless that happens annually nationwide. I believe they capture this information (well, it's more along the lines of how long did they live in the area before becoming homeless).
pueblito 5y ago
Arizona isn’t in the South
- goldenkey 5y ago
  Last time I looked at a map it was next to Mexico which is as far south as one can travel before leaving the United States. Where do you consider it to be?
  - BenjiWiebe 5y ago
    I believe he means it isn't in the South, but in the Southwest. The South in the US is actually southeast. Note the capitalization.
    - goldenkey 5y ago
      I see, that is odd to me but I learned something new. Thank you for clarifying.
nebula8804 5y ago
How is the diversity? Is there integration or do different ethnic groups just keep to themselves. Is there upward mobility for some groups but not others? What about issues like Joe Arpaio and his policies affecting the community. I can't speak for your experience but I wonder are you really seeing the whole picture? How do you feel Arizona will cope with the coming climate change? At the rate its going Arizona may become unsafe to live in in 10-15 years.
- ipaddr 5y ago
  I remember hearing that 15 years ago. I remember hearing about how we are due for an earthquake that will break California into two. That was in the 80/90s. We had great fears of a new ice age in 60/70s. I don't know what the future holds but thinking Arizona will become unsafe in 10-15 due to climate change is a little foolish.
  - nebula8804 5y ago
    Sounds like you have "heard" a lot of different things over the years. Have you look at any actual data? Have you seen the trends in the data that have been going in the wrong direction? At the end of the day, unless the direction changes, it does not matter if it happens in 10 or 15 years or may take longer. It will happen.
    - goldenkey 5y ago
      Would you care to enlighten us with this data you speak of?
    - ipaddr 5y ago
      I have hard data that a quake so big never happened. I have a book from the 70s that talks about the up coming ice age with data to back up his claim. Have I seen trends going in the wrong direction? It depends on what trends and what start point you pick. Currently things are trending lower than a few years ago as carbon output is being reduced in many countries. I remember when the target was keeping it under 3% degrees than lower than 2% now it sits at 1 1/2%. Soon it will be 1% global temp increase. So things do seem to be trending in the right direction.

seanmcdirmid 5y ago

> Cactuses are protected from destruction by law, and must be transplanted when doing clearing for construction. You may find the idea of being able to own a firearm without a license to be unpalatable but the state largely remains very safe crime-wise (perhaps due to that?) My mom lived in Tucson and decided on a visit that I might want to go shooting with her and her boyfriend at the time. Suffice it to say, it didn't go well. BTW, Arizona does very poorly in crime rate (10th highest for violent crime, 3rd highest for property crime), especially Phoenix and Tucson (but is very urban, so there is that also). I'm not sure why you consider it safe crime wise when the numbers say otherwise. They also do very poorly in education (rank 48th). I was really surprised they could beat New Mexico and Louisiana (https://www.wmicentral.com/news/latest_news/arizona-ranks-48th-in-quality-of-public-schools/article_7953b8f9-a46d-5a5d-832f-d01b3563575d.html#:~:text=Arizona%20ranks%2048th%20in%20quality,%7C%20Latest%20News%20%7C%20wmicentral.com https://www.wmicentral.com/news/latest_news/arizona-ranks-48...). It is beautiful. I would love to live in Tucson someday, but with the bad schools, it would have to be after my kid was done with school and I retired. > I miss living in Arizona. It's a beautiful state with very caring folk. I saw almost no homeless folks in Phoenix. Folks there seem to really care about their fellow citizens. Southern hospitality is for sure a thing, take it from a daft boy from Brooklyn! When I was a kid, I took a greyhound bus from Vicksburg MS to Seattle WA via the southwest approach (I later did the northwest route, which wasn't as interesting). People would get on the bus from various prisons in Texas (the bus stopped a lot at prisons), New Mexico and Arizona...and were all going to LA. Why bother being homeless in Phoenix (when summers can kill) if LA isn't that far away? Heck, that applies to Texas as well, not just Arizona.

nebula8804 5y ago
>When I was a kid, I took a greyhound bus from Vicksburg MS to Seattle WA via the southwest approach (I later did the northwest route, which wasn't as interesting). People would get on the bus from various prisons in Texas (the bus stopped a lot at prisons), New Mexico and Arizona...and were all going to LA. Why bother being homeless in Phoenix (when summers can kill) if LA isn't that far away? Heck, that applies to Texas as well, not just Arizona. You know I wonder if anyone has done a study on how much of the homeless in LA are from out of state. Is it even possible? There is like 65k+ homeless just in LA country. I don't know how they are going to fix this.
- scheme271 5y ago
  There's a point-in-time count of homeless that happens annually nationwide. I believe they capture this information (well, it's more along the lines of how long did they live in the area before becoming homeless).

pueblito 5y ago

Arizona isn’t in the South

goldenkey 5y ago
Last time I looked at a map it was next to Mexico which is as far south as one can travel before leaving the United States. Where do you consider it to be?
- BenjiWiebe 5y ago
  I believe he means it isn't in the South, but in the Southwest. The South in the US is actually southeast. Note the capitalization.
  - goldenkey 5y ago
    I see, that is odd to me but I learned something new. Thank you for clarifying.

nebula8804 5y ago

How is the diversity? Is there integration or do different ethnic groups just keep to themselves. Is there upward mobility for some groups but not others? What about issues like Joe Arpaio and his policies affecting the community. I can't speak for your experience but I wonder are you really seeing the whole picture? How do you feel Arizona will cope with the coming climate change? At the rate its going Arizona may become unsafe to live in in 10-15 years.

ipaddr 5y ago
I remember hearing that 15 years ago. I remember hearing about how we are due for an earthquake that will break California into two. That was in the 80/90s. We had great fears of a new ice age in 60/70s. I don't know what the future holds but thinking Arizona will become unsafe in 10-15 due to climate change is a little foolish.
- nebula8804 5y ago
  Sounds like you have "heard" a lot of different things over the years. Have you look at any actual data? Have you seen the trends in the data that have been going in the wrong direction? At the end of the day, unless the direction changes, it does not matter if it happens in 10 or 15 years or may take longer. It will happen.
  - goldenkey 5y ago
    Would you care to enlighten us with this data you speak of?
  - ipaddr 5y ago
    I have hard data that a quake so big never happened. I have a book from the 70s that talks about the up coming ice age with data to back up his claim. Have I seen trends going in the wrong direction? It depends on what trends and what start point you pick. Currently things are trending lower than a few years ago as carbon output is being reduced in many countries. I remember when the target was keeping it under 3% degrees than lower than 2% now it sits at 1 1/2%. Soon it will be 1% global temp increase. So things do seem to be trending in the right direction.