The Best Place and sometimes the Worst Place to li
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7/18/2006
I live in Tempe where the city is the home of Arizona State University. This has good and bad points.The city is fun and in the middle of an urban housing renewal that's going to outprice anyone living there.
The public transportation in Tempe is better than Phoenix any day of the week for the residents. The bad? The college population that's driving up the cost of housing and bringing down neighborhood cohesion, good atmosphere amongst neighbors,and beauty. It seems like the locals in the greater Phoenix area are suffering from this and no one politically is doing anything to stop it. No one makes ASU build more housing and parking near Main Campus to keep their population close to campus and this affects the rather nice families that live surrounding the university and beyond those borders. Also this forces up rentals and housing costs and makes property taxes go up when salary increases aren't near the cost of living.
I loved the many shoppping places but now they're getting overpriced when you can take a flight to Las Vegas R/T for under $150 and still get the same items in another state cheaper and just fly back with your empty 2 check-in bags full. Does anyone see the sad part about this? There is not a dearth of jobs in the area to support the increases so you can at least find a better paying job.
So if you have a good paying job that's a pain in the butt,get a script for the Prozac (just joking) or know that the grass isn't greener...yet.
Josie | Tempe, AZ