I'm not in Commiefornia anymore!

 

Time for the (once again, hopefully) weekly blog entry.

I have moved! I’m now in NW Arizona and I’m loving it here. I live on just over an acre of prairie in Middle of Nowhere, AZ, at a hair over 5,200 feet. That means I get seasons! Reasonable weather! Wildlife! And a pretty view no matter where I look. It’s tough to beat that.

Here are a few things I have noticed during the three months I have lived here.

The people are fucking nice!

It’s amazing, really, especially coming from a shit hole like CA. In just about 100 days exactly, I don’t have one single negative interaction with any person. For those of you from the dumpy areas, this comes highly recommended.

Guns aren't a bad thing!

Everyone seems to carry here, right out in the open. I have not braved doing this myself, other than around the yard in case since there are predatory animals about, but I will. After 30 years of liberal pounding, it still feels sketchy. I’ll get used to it.

Seasons!

I know the dez rats don’t care about seasons, but I do. I was raised in Colorado, so they are what I know and expect. I moved to Arizona on Dec. 31, and trust me, there are seasons here. We rolled into a nasty blizzard and it snowed a few times since. I cant wait to feel spring and fall! How neat. Summer can still go to hell. Fuck the sun.

Room to breathe!

In CA, I started out in a one-bedroom apt, then moved up to a trailer, then a small house on a street that was annoyingly busy. Now I’m on a full acre of prairie grass and red dirt win, and outside my fences is just more of the same. It’s tough to find words that describe how refreshing that feeling is. Just to walk outside and smile, yanno?

Most of the shit is cheaper here.

In CA, the cesspool on the West Coast, it was just shy of $300 a year to register my half-tun pickup, and every other year I had to smog it, which meant more money and wasted time. Here, I registered the thing for five years, no kidding, and I paid $135. Oh, and the motor vehicles lady was nice. Imagine that! Food and necessities are a bit more expensive, it seems, but I live near a tourist town, so I guess that is expected. Everything else is noticeably cheaper.

Fewer crazy liberal wackos.

I mean, that one speaks for itself. #normalcyiscooltoo.

And, just for added effect, some images!