Relocation to arizona all comments welcome

[thirteen/autumns]

I want to live in a nice peaceful low crime are but do not need a trendy address.
We tend to be pretty subdued people our idea of a typical weekend now is to get up late on Saturday have breakfast and then cruise around town maybe a little shopping and dinner out. Sundays are pretty much my shooting day.

North Phoenix… IE north of the 101. Low crime, higher-end housing, close to shopping, safe area to walk and ride bikes, close to hiking trails and mountains, close enough to national forests for recreational fun.

[trauma]

Spend the money and live in a nice area, I live in fountain hills. Northern phx, carefree and cave creek are nice as well. **** Glendale unless you like metheads. A lot of trash in this state.

[CAVDOC]

Thanks for the info. I have a neighbor who works ( maybe retired by now) as a cop in Glendale and I agree it is bad based on everything I have heard. A coworker has a condo in cave creek and we have some other friends we visited in scottsdale ( off dynamite road) and we will probably do a scouting trip early 2016
I can almost smell the freedom compared to living under the socialist yoke of New York oppression!

[Thesandstonefiles]

Thanks for the info. I have a neighbor who works ( maybe retired by now) as a cop in Glendale and I agree it is bad based on everything I have heard. A coworker has a condo in cave creek and we have some other friends we visited in scottsdale ( off dynamite road) and we will probably do a scouting trip early 2016
I can almost smell the freedom compared to living under the socialist yoke of New York oppression!

That's where we came from! Just wait until you walk into the gun shops and see suppressors and sbr's! A boner. You'll have one.

[CAVDOC]

Thanks for the continued input. We plan on a scouting trip early next year. The best options for us still appear Phoenix metro based. Some head hunters are offering sign on bonuses moving expenses and pretty good wages (a bit more for me close to double her current wage for the wife) to come to Phoenix area. One of my goals ( might have mentioned before here) is to drastically improve my commute which right now is 42 miles one way. ) which with traffic in Phoenix might be an issue I understand ( that is a close and quick commute may be elusive is Phoenix )

[Thesandstonefiles]

Uh....I don't know what field of work you're in but I'd be.....wary of head hunters. I mean you're probably fine but I've seen instances were they have inside deals with HR just to get people in the door and they get a kick back whether the employee works out or not.

My wife is jobless after three months. Big sign on bonus seemed like s great idea but the first day she got to work all of the employees were talking terribly about the place. That was the first clue. Long story short it was the worst work experience of her life and she a complaint filed against them and we are NOT the type of people to just do frivolous stuff.

So it might work out but just really try to vet the head hunter and the job. If the jobs in s big business try to vet the area you're going to be in.

Remember, this is the fifth biggest city in the US. If they need to offer huge bonuses to get people to sign that means the place sucks to work or you have serious skills.
I hope in your case it let skills! . Good luck and let me know when you get here.

[CAVDOC]

Thanks sand stone. Both the wife and I have very in demand professions and the recruitment offers we get nearly daily are for all 50 states and even some foreign countries. Before we would ever jump at a job based on initial offer alone it would be associated with on the ground recon. And some of the hunters involved recruited some of my wife's former coworkers and they give good feedback. I am in medicine with over 25 years experience and my wife works in the rehab profession with a masters degree and over 20 years experience so I am happy to say we are in the serious skills department!