Thanks for another great one war_shu_duck!
As for why life here is so unstable for many I believe it is because Arizona attracts malcontents. It used to be cheap to live here. The sun and 80 degree weather is one hell of a lure when its 23 degrees back home. On the surface many parts of the Phoenix metro area appear affluent. You drive by nice manicured lawns and newly built houses and think that looks like somewhere I would like to live. That is until you do live here and learn most jobs don't pay well. The neighbors in what you thought was a nice area are real annoying Aholes. Most of the people you thought were doing well are barely treading water and up to their necks in debt. So now you're here and what you thought was a move for the better turns out not to be bliss. Then you try to make the best of it and attempt to make friends . There too you find people here don't make real friendships. What you have is competitors. Your co-workers, neighbors, and anyone you attempted to befriend are in direct competition with you. Who has the hottest or richest spouse, most expensive or newest house/car ect ect. This is exactly how I believe a lot of people live in this state. Its also how I think they end up going broke, marrying several times, and moving several times.
Yes! Good analysis.
The unbridled pursuit of pleasure, Scottsdale style, is a good recipe for the misery you see all around you here in Arizona: quantity over quality; quick buck schemes over prudence and thrift; con artistry and bamboozlement over productivity and achievement; chicks sporting fake racks instead of showing respect for what they were given naturally; one-upping your neighbor instead of extending a helping hand; disorder, instability and insecurity masked by partying with drugs, booze and irresponsible gambling.
All in all, it's a human chicken gumbo stew of misery--fried up Chipolte style--in the geographic equivalent of a giant stir fry Wok called the Valley of the Sun, whose average summer temperature is a torrid 111 degrees in the summer.
Sh*t...
Posted by: joe jacari | July 17, 2008 at 08:35 PM
Frank, we thought you finished your infantile diatribes re: Scottsdale....I gather you need stepped up Anger Management
Sessions, and increased doses of medications.
Stick to your nonesense about New Yorkers, my friends and
neighbors in Manhattan thought this entertaining coming from
a wacko in California.
Posted by: steve lowen | July 18, 2008 at 09:34 AM
Ahh, nutcase Steve is back. I guess his straitjacket was defective and he escaped the nuthouse again.
What's most amusing is his claim about friends in midtown Manhattan. Funny, are they living in their offices? Because almost everyone I know in NYC lives uptown or downtown and works midtown.
Nice try, Steve. Keep up the jealousy at the fact that I live in a great place while you'd never hack it here and are stuck with a life sentence in Scottsdale, America's reject bin.
Posted by: Frank Rumbauskas | July 18, 2008 at 11:55 AM