PHeller wrote: Housing is rough. I just can get over not only the lack of options but the sour attitude of rental property owners. This town needs rental permits. Some of these places are health hazards charging $950 a month.
happy for ya … hope your wife finds something soon …
good thing Asheville didn't become your go to spot .. the housing situation here is bad and getting worse … a 2 bedroom dump of a mobile home can fetch $800+
iadr wrote:nderwater wrote: You're not kidding when you say 'high desert' -- Flagstaff is at 7,000 ft! Have you had to do anything to adjust to the altitude?After being there a while, he'll find he has crazy energy for a couple days when you get down to sea level. Experienced it. Body adapts- more red blood cells I take it, but really... IDK. Maybe you just get used to feeling weak. ;)
the "more red blood cells" is the reason so many long distance runners and bicyclist train at high elevation … legal blood doping (hey Lance Armstrong, are you listening ? )
The West is intoxicating. The Flagstaff area is beautiful and you've got a nearly 13,000 foot peak just to your north. How can that be bad?
You will get dumped on occasionally in the winter. Twice driving through the interstate has been closed because of snow. But your right, it doesn't last long.
from today's yahoo travel article on 10 most underrated US destinations
"Breathing in the fresh mountain air in Flagstaff is a big part of what makes outdoor adventure so enjoyable. The city, set at the base of the San Francisco Peaks and bounded by national forests, has an extensive array of outdoor activities. Mountain bikers, hikers and campers will find this a summer haven with plenty to do. Explore an ancient underground tunnel at the Lava River Cave, access tons of mountain bike trails at Shultz Pass trailhead and camp out in the Coconino National Forest this summer in Flagstaff."
La Fonda restaurant, Mormon Lake Lodge steak house, Riordan Mansion, Lowell Observatory, Museum of Northern Arizona, what's not to love? I used to be faculty advisor of the long defunct NAU Sports Car Club (this was in the early '70s), we used to have autocrosses in the Lumberjack Stadium parking lot and lots of TSD rallies, some of which used Schultz Pass Road and Schnebly Hill Road down in Sedona - don't try them today in anything low today, though. In the early 60s a club in Phoenix ran a sports car hillclimb on Schnebly Hill, it was won by the legendary (to us Corvair addicts) Doug Roe in his turbocharged early coupe, beat a 289 Cobra up the hill. It was dirt, but smoother then.
Good on you for escaping Lancaster. I've been lobbying my wife for years with no success. 
I really liked the desert when I visited but just don't know how I'd feel about living there. I kind of like trees, but I hate mowing grass. Love the climate but not sure I like what constitutes housing there (everything is so close together).
Would rather move to NC but wife whines that its still 'too humid'. So I'm stuck here in the land of road salt. 
Congrats dude
Flagstaff has always been on my bucket list of places I'd like to live.
Lived in the high desert here in Oregon not bad, never drank more water in my life and also made me stock Gatorade in the garage fridge. Even up here you see the older rigs with super high miles still on the road reason being you are so damn far from anything. Live just north of the desert now and many folk here go down there for off roading and the like. The storms in that area were spectacular.
Enjoy the new space to roam.
Just to clarify, while Flag is definitely dry relative to most of the country, maybe high desert is painting a somewhat misleading picture - it's in the middle of the largest Ponderosa Pine forest in the country, high temps in the summer upper 80s when it's hot, winters vary a bunch - I remember one with 230 inches, then the next has 55 inches and the ski area never opened (this was 40 years ago).
Thanks, Jim.
Yea, while it's drier than pretty much anyplace on the east coast, it's not as dry as inland California, Mohave and Sonoran Valleys, or the Great Basic Desert.
We actually meet most of our water needs...for now. Then again, there is virtually no agriculture in Flagstaff or surrounding communities.
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