My Personal Opinion of Chandler
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8/11/2013
Going to try to be fair here for the benefit of people considering moving here. Something I love you may hate, and something I hate may be a plus for you. This is just one person's opinion! Some POSITIVES:
Chandler is a reasonably priced place to live. Compared to other places it is a safe place to live. I can go walking around and night and not feel the slightest bit unsafe. And of course the weather never gets really cold here. In grocery stores, Wal-Mart, etc. people have good manners and are, for the most part, polite. NEGATIVES: If you have a strong reaction to visuals please ask yourself if you like the colours orange, peach, and brown. I personally do not so most of Phoenix and Chandler is an absolute eyesore to me. What most people see as a posh looking home I see as a big ugly orange thing. Nor am I keen on desert landscape or anything bronze. (You guessed it, came to Chandler due to husband not by choice.) I have lived in London, Chicago, and a small town in north Georgia... London (and all of England) is my favourite place on the planet and I appreciated Chicago as well. Chandler, or perhaps I should say Phoenix and the area in general, could not be more unlike London or Chicago. While driving around much of it feels like a "nothing" place. Big wide roads with endless identical strip malls (all brownish or orange) and they're so far off the road. There's no character, nothing interesting to see except the occasionally hideous orange or brown building, and everything is landscaped to death with this annoying peach colour rock. THE PEOPLE: Most have been polite that I've met, but compared to other places there's a huge amount of "flakey" behavior. Workers have tried to scam, people don't show up when they say they will or extremely late... I know you could find some of this anywhere but it seems more prevalent here than anywhere else I've lived. Did I mention the heat? If you don't like heat better not come here. I won't complain about that though because anyone thinking of moving here should know in advance this is desert... it gets hot. Duh! There's a positive to the heat.... weather is good most of the year. Still, it's too bright for me and I wait til the sun sets to take a walk. Also if grass, greenery and trees are important to you might not be the best area. Chandler in a nutshell: Safe place to live that's not unaffordable for most but hideous if you don't like southwest style colours and new orange and peach cookie cutter homes.
Shauna | Chandler, AZ