Flagstaff, AZ (a me thread)

[Dis]

214 miles. Not that close, but I usually go through that way once every couple of years. I just went through there last year when I went to Sedona. You may find hippies in Sedona. Not really hippies, but new age types.

[Sava]

Flagstaff

I was there in 2001 for vacation. Great place.

[:) Smiley]

Well for one thing- the median home price in Flagstaff is around half that of what you'd pay in San Jose- and the situation's likely better as I suspect houses and lots are bigger in Flagstaff.

[Japher]

cost of living

I aint looking at these places willy-nilly

[Japher]

I have a friend who has 100k+ in the past 6 months playing poker... He has a reservation at Extenda Stay America in Vegas in June for the World Poker Tour... He gets out of the Air FOrce a month earlier... It would be nice to be able to be in his corner during that.

[Dinner]

Flagstaff is up in the mountains so it isn't the burning hot Arizona in your mind. I like big cities and Flagstaff struck me as a bit of a po-dunk town but it seemed safe & clean.

Here's a city profile. It seems to be a nice town with dirt cheap housing prices, a decent economy, a young population (average age is 27), and a low crime rate. There are a bunch of colleges there so I suspect it might get noisy if you live in the wrong neighborhood.

[Japher]

Yeah, I saw the avg age, strikes me as strange.

Bunch of colleges? Like 2?

I guess for a 50k town that is a lot though. However, that usually, only counts the locals and not the students.

[Dis]

average age 27, no wonder I saw so many hot chicks there.

[Japher]

I may be in trouble if I move there

[Dinner]

Originally posted by Smiley
Well for one thing- the median home price in Flagstaff is around half that of what you'd pay in San Jose- and the situation's likely better as I suspect houses and lots are bigger in Flagstaff.

Half? Try again because with a median home price of just $160,000 for a four bedroom single family home prices are closer to 1/4 or 1/5 of San Jose.

[Odin]

Originally posted by Oerdin
Flagstaff is up in the mountains so it isn't the burning hot Arizona in your mind. I like big cities and Flagstaff struck me as a bit of a po-dunk town but it seemed safe & clean.

How hot does it get there in the summer? is it beyond hot like the desert, or is it cooler because it is in the mountains? I see they get snow in the winter. If the summer aren't too hot I would like to live there.

[BustaMike]

It is not desert at all, pretend you're in Colorado and that's what the weather is like. It gets up to the 90s in the middle of the summer there.

[Dis]

the elevation is 7000 feet. That's why it's cooler (and why it gets more precipitation than the surrounding desert)

[Dinner]

Originally posted by Odin
How hot does it get there in the summer? is it beyond hot like the desert, or is it cooler because it is in the mountains? I see they get snow in the winter. If the summer aren't too hot I would like to live there.

The profile I linked earlier says the hottest month is July with an average high of 81.4 degrees F (nightly low in July is 47 degrees) and the coldest month is January with an average high of 42.8 (low of 13.4). Year round they seem to average 75% sunny days and a total of 23 inches of rain per year.

Not bad but the temperatures are a bit low for my cold blood.

[Japher]

A bit low for me too, but I think that may be just because of the snow. Central Valley and Bay area get gold, just not when it may snow.

Climate wise I think it's perfect. I am just wondering if I can handle the isolation... or am I going to have to spend more time on CG!