Oppressive Heat/Cool People
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7/11/2013
I'm an outdoor person. In Phoenix, as early as May it will be 100 degrees or more for several days...(sometimes in late April). By June, it is 100 plus for 30 plus days or more and that continues until mid-October. Everyone prays for some relief in the monsoon season but these are not "nice" gentle rains, these are accompanied by high winds, and haboobs (nasty and sometimes terrifying dust storms that ruin swimming pools and cause serious health issues if you have allergies or asthma).
The people are friendly on the outside (so friendly when you go into stores and always friendly to just say hello). Try and make friends? Tough....People keep to themselves, they never come out (well, in the summer I don't blame them), and perhaps because I'm from NYC they don't like my point of view on a lot of issues. Why worry about other people's choices in life if they do not directly affect or impact your life? They should be happy too. Too judgmental of others lifestyles if they don't agree with their own. Basically so many people have moved from somewhere else or they are transient. No wonder they are not friendly. They have not invested their feelings (or fortune that as it may be) in this town. I thought NYC was large - Phoenix is so spread out you cannot imagine seeing people from another area more than once or twice a year. NYC was just not like that.
Kathleen | Glendale, AZ