Hello everyone, time to report on Phoenix. We've been here for 11 days now, and we've become disenchanted with Phoenix. Our property search has been terminated, after we spent a lot of frustrating time looking at places. The real estate business here is involved in the same games with the lenders as we encountered in Las Vegas. And then there are the vandals. We saw a nice little house, not right for us, but almost ready to move into. Since we saw it, vandals got in and punched out the walls to scavenge the copper pipes and wires. The place is totally trashed now. It made us sick to see the pictures of the damage.
Our other source of disappointment is the people. They just are not friendly like the folks we met in Tucson. Clerks in stores grump at us, the neighbors can't be bothered to say "good morning", just generally unfriendly. We don't know if its because Phoenix is such a huge city, or because of the devastated economy, but the difference with Tucson is marked.
On Saturday we went to a swap meet (flea market). Place was huge, but there were almost no people around. Then we went to a big mall. Half the shop space is empty, and again there were no people shopping, even at Sears and Macy's. Not a good sign for the Christmas season.
On Sunday we went to see Lake Pleasant, just north of Phoenix. We took a long circuitous route first, and loved the desert scenery. The lake itself is quite nice. It was formed when the Colorado river was dammed here. There are three lakes on the Colorado: Lake Mead, Lake Havasu and Lake Pleasant, all formed by dams. Lake Pleasant was indeed pleasant, with plenty of boats to watch, fishermen, campers, picnickers, and tourists.
Pictures attached are before and after of the poor little house, and from our day out on Sunday. Stay tuned...
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