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Phoenix, AZ
Phoenix Arizona - The Worst Place to Live -
3/7/2013People visit Phoenix from Nov-March with rose colored glasses on. Phoenix, for lack of a better term, is a sh-t hole. The quality of air is the worst second to LA and don't let anyone tell you different. The brownish pinkish cloud that lays over the entire valley is constant. The whole Phoenix Valley is surrounded by mountains you can't even see most days. If you don't have allergies or respitory problems before you move to Phoenix, you will after. The "Arizona Apple Chest" can be found on just about every female in the city. It's from driving into the sun for an hour and a half to work and an hour and a half home every day and not realizing the damage its doing to your face, neck and chest even through your car windshield. A 2 hour a day commute is average and 3 hours a day is pretty normal - there is no public transporation to support a city that is 100 square miles. Hardly anyone car pools so all the car pool lanes that were just constructed are used by single passenger idiots thwarting the traffic laws. All there is to do in Phoenix Arizona is shop and there is a shopping center on every corner and every corner looks just like the last. What else is there to do when its 100+ degrees for 6 months, 105 degrees for 3 of those months and a 110+ in July and August. If you like big jacked up trucks billowing diesle smoke everywhere then Phoenix is the place for you. And the schools - Pheonix ranked 48th in the union for education and its prevelent because nobody votes for anything having to do with posturing education because most of the Haves on the east side go to private schools. If you live on the west side you are a Have-Not and if you live on the east side you are a Have. Culture: I have 1 word for you, Mexican. There are probably more Mexican food places in Phoenix than there are in Mexico. Anything else that is decent will cost you 150 dollars a plate. There are 4+ million people in the Phoenix Metro area and it swells to a million more with all the snowbirds from Oct until May. If you want cheap living, even cheaper wages, don't mind running your AC evert 20 minutes and sitting in a dark house for 6 months, horrible education standards and respitory problems then move to Phoenix, Arizona - the polluted furnace of the southwest.