Review of Phoenix, Arizona


Phoenix, Arizona Sucks!!!!
Star Rating - 1/14/2016
I lived in Phoenix, AZ for three years before relocating to Cali. Phoenix is the most ignorant, the more immature, the most arrogant, and the most racist city (that's very sad for me) I have ever lived in my entire life (I lived in three other cities: Atlanta, GA, Burlington, VT, and Brooklyn, New York, where I was born and raised). Phoenix is literally 30 years behind New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, and Boston. If you are an urbanite like me, we are all trying to better ourselves in this ugly life in whatever way possible. Living in Phoenix was like living on Sesame Street-full of two-faced people and childish haters and clown-ass wannabees. They go absolutely no culture, no flavor there. NO ONE GOES OUT HERE!!! Ex: Anytime I see the construction of the new light rail station and there is a celebration without the light rail running until four months after of the celebration (???). I knew some thing wasn't right. Don't get me wrong: Phoenix is very affordable. One can live like Donald Trump here but I couldn't stay in that city another brutal hot summer and have what they say, "cabin fever." Easy living is sometimes NOT the best living (and the same goes for ATL which is very similar and not that far behind PHX). Normally I don't go out of my way to say stuff like this because I've reserved. To be fair, if you're not going to college, pursue a trade, or retired with money, don't move to phoenix. Phoenix has a lot of resources, yet there are way too many miserable, soulless losers there.
Rich | San Diego, CA
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Saw your post on Sperling's and thought I'd give you my opinion on somebody that moved from Upstate NY to Phoenix....I REGRET IT! The summers here are so hot that it's not even bearable to be outside from May to September. People here drive like jerks and idiots. The highways are a combination of retirees doing 55 and jerk offs in their pick ups doing 90...Speaking of jerk offs...lots of them around here...the gun toting, large truck driving, monster energy drink or NRA decal rocking "'Merican" jerk offs. The worst part for me is that everything here looks the same as far as neighborhoods and architecture. Beige, stucco everything. The streets here are basically set up in a grid system (north, south and east, west). Its literally strip mall....Gas station....Housing Tract...The redundancy and lack of uniqueness is mind numbing. If you blindfolded someone and dropped them off in a random area they would have no idea where they were if not for a street sign...Even the nice parts of town have shady ghetto neighborhoods sprinkled throughout. Many people here are sketchy, standoffish and rather ignorant...I hate it here. Cant wait to move.
Mac | Gilbert, AZ | Report Abuse

I agree with you Rich. I am looking to relocate as well.
Lori | Chandler, AZ | Report Abuse

I live in California and I went to visit and it makes me not want to ever go ever again.
Mineko | Temecula, CA | Report Abuse

I have been here for 5 years and I feel exactly the same.this place is Not friendly, very unprofessional work-wise, careless, rude, no sense of drive,very complacent, loaded with crime. Phoenix will take literally your soul and not just money if u had any to begin with
R | Phoenix, AZ | Report Abuse
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