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> Arizona really has nothing to recommend it I’ve been living in PHX for 2+ years now, and have to disagree. Low cost of living and high QoL. Great school dis
by r3trohack3r 5y ago
> Arizona really has nothing to recommend it
I’ve been living in PHX for 2+ years now, and have to disagree.
Low cost of living and high QoL. Great school districts and master plan communities designed to make pre-k -> 12 schools walkable. Great food, amazing supply chains (the stuff you find at grocery stores here can be mind blowing), and well maintained infrastructure.
We are positive sum water, when you build here you are expected to bring the water for your project into the valley. We don’t ration water during the summers here the way I experienced in CA.
We supply electricity to many neighboring states (including CA) thanks to Palo Verde. Our nuclear power plant beats solar at lifetime cost per kilo-watt; the only way solar companies sell their product here is by exaggerating payback.
To me, this state is a testament to man’s perseverance and a great example of positive sum work. We’ve taken a desert and transformed it into an oasis.
- dylan604 5y agoWait for the water to run out, and then we'll see how well PHX is liked.
- r3trohack3r 5y agoWater doesn’t run out in a meaningful way. It moves and gets contaminated. Both problems are solvable. Our approach to water is part of why we are able to give up so much from our pull on Lake Mead during this drought. Nevada is giving up 21k acre-feet, Mexico 80k af, and AZ is giving up a whopping 512k af. Nothing as far as I know for cutbacks from CA's draw. I’ll repeat, when you build here you bring your water. And we actually enforce that. You don’t get to build a new subdivision or plant a nut tree farm without sourcing every drop of water you’re going to use. Water is running out in some states. It’s not running out there because there isn’t water - it’s a symptom of failed water management strategies.
- razorfen 5y agoPhoenix is robbing Peter to pay Paul with regards to water. Phoenix survives thanks to extreme planning measures and water diversion from the Colorado river, but that’s not going to be tenable in the next 30 yrs. There is almost no well or groundwater, and before the constant diversion of water, the city of a Phoenix consumed some order of magnitude more water than they were able to restore. My point is, anyone who lives in an overpopulated desert and says “we don’t have a water problem” should be taken with a grain of salt.
- narrator 5y agoKind of insures that things will remain conservative because environmentalists won't move there because they are certain it's doooooooooomed!