I live up in Upper Michigan and we already have close to 100 inches of snow and winter didn't even start yet. I am a CNC guy with 20 + years experience and have a wife and 9 year old boy. Is Arizona a good place to raise a kid? How is the work scene with the economy so crappy? I need to be able to drive my shoebox and bike way more than I can here. I think I would rather deal with 3 months of excessive heat than 9 months of crappy weather. Sorry this is kind of OT but I hope sommeone has some insight for me. Thanks, Bill
it's more like 6 months of temps over 100. and three of them with temps that can range from 105 to 122
We live in the tampa area. It's been in the 70's and 80's all week during the day and in the 60's at night. It'a also a place where you can go NAKED as much as possable LOL Not sure about jobs tho as we're losing more people to lay offs. but if you wanna look please feel free.
I use to live in tulsa and it SUCKED. to many back woods and bible thumpers there. I still have a daughter that lives in west tulsa.
I've lived from San Diego,CA to Norfolk,VA--Detroit,MI to McAllen,TX thanks to the military and my wandering curiosity. My favorite (not cuz I was born here) is Texas. Arizona has like the opposite of what you have now, 3mos of winter and 9mos of excessive heat, but keep the sweaters as every night is bone chilling cold...I mean, it IS a desert...no offense to Arizonians! As for Texas, I've lived in Lubbock, Rio Grande Valley (beach/mexico), Dallas and Austin....I never gave Houston a try though I have relatives there. Corpus is nice, if a bit 'detached'. Dallas gets one good freeze a year and has about 4mos of 30-50 degree weather. Austin does too, but its more like 40-60 degree weather. Plus the economy in Texas is still fairly solid, at least in the machine field. I mean, a fellow Michiganite, TED NUGENT, even moved here in 2004, bout 20 miles north of Crawford in China Spring/outside Waco. ....and we got these....
Put snow blower in back of pickup and start driving south and west until somebody says 'hey feller, whats' that thing for?' You're there, dig out the fishin poles.
How about the southeast? My kid lives in Raleigh and the weather there is great. She's flying home today to a foot of snow here, leaving a predicted 70* there... I know it gets hot and humid there in the summer, but mild, by Michigan standards, in the winter. Seems to be a good car scene there too, and it seems like there's lots of work in the area too.
I used to live in Oregon, nice but lot's of rain. I have been in AZ for 10 yr's now. I like it here, car stuff all year round. Yes it get's hot in the summer, but after the sun goes down in the evening it's great to run the hot rod around. My neighbor is a CNC guy, he always has work. Move here, we have room for you, it will make your cold bones thank ya.
I'd say that while Florida is a nice weather place, you'd have to scout around on Monster first and check out the CNC machine shop jobs. Bigger cities like Daytona, St. Augustine and the space coast areas have the government and military type work that pays better. Look for places that are big and have parent companies in the North. There's a lot of info you can find for jobs, houses and schools online. Look before you leap and you should do ok. I could use a good CNC programmer right now myself at work. Bob
Load them up. Put a snow blower on the top of the car. Head on out, south of course. When you get to a place where somebody says "What kind of weed-eater is that, or is that a leaf shredder?", unload.
Is that at Squirrel's house? Well, we actually got some frost in Phoenix this morning. Hard to get out and working. jerry
Just read a newspaper article about Grumman Northrup being unable to hire qualified people. Signs out, ads in the newspapers etc.. With your CNC background, sounds like work there would be a slam dunk. Of course, you'd have to live in sunny SoCal.
I moved to AZ 12 years ago from snowy Pa. I will NOT go back. The excessive heat is really only 3 mos. and the rest of the year is fantastic. Yes it does get cold, upper 30s at night in our 2 mos of winter, but it is almost always in the mid to upper 50s during the day. Texas, NC, Florida all have high humidity, which to me is worse that 110. Almost anywhere in Cal would be cool, but from my reasearch is almost unaffordable. For more info on what it costs check out the link below, it really tells you what reality is. http://cgi.money.cnn.com/tools/cost...+AZ&toStateMenu=CA&to_city=Fresno+CA&x=67&y=8
I'm moving to North Carolina so I'll sell you my place in San Diego county...8 acres, house and oh yeah a 3000 square foot shop with surround sound and I'll even throw in a hot rod project or two to keep ya busy!
80 degrees for the last week here in lower al. the want ads are still pretty full. Not that we really need more people here but another hamber wouldn't be so bad.Oh yeah you have to deal with the hurricanes,bugs,99.99999% humidity,on the plus side,the best beaches in the country.
move to pensacola,fl and buy my house,I throw in the Model T sheetmetal in the backyard http://connellandmanziek.idxco.com/idx/2999/details.php?idxID=103&listingID=354954
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