Canada, America’s better cousin ;) Toronto is an awesome city too.
And yes PHX is hell on Earth due partially due to climate change, partially due to just being in the Sonora Desert. Sucks to be here in the summer, nice the rest of the year though.
I wouldn’t be able to cope with the wildlife. Bugs are bad enough but snakes and scorpions? I’m from an island where there are no snakes. First snake I saw was a variety of garter snake here in Ontario. Was in a shed and it was at eye level and moved. We made eye contact and I shrieked at the top of my little gay lungs. It bolted and I tried not to have a heart attack.
How you think I’d react around something that could coagulate my blood?
Funny you bring that up. I haven’t seen a snake yet here in PHX (I arrived here six months ago from Orange County, CA) but I did see a giant disgusting moth looking bug today at work that scared the crap out of me. But I do love the desert and its beauty, I just dont like the summers lol
That’s fucked up. Hell no. Fuck that bug. NO. I having a nightmare just imagining it. Honestly the butterfly people in Discovery S4 gave me the willies. That thing would give me a stroke.
That’s fair. Summers suck. The heat is unbearable and all the bugs come out. Then to top it off everything is screaming 24/7 from either kids being out of school, teenagers/college students trying to fuck, animals trying to fuck and everyone being outside all the time. Gimme fall anyday.
Trust me, it’s worse than you can imagine. It looked like some mutant cross between a moth and a bee or something. I’m not even going to try to look it up.
It’s even worse in PHX, as you pointed out, things actually melt here lol
No. Fuck that. My imagination is conjuring up a nightmare. If I see it real, even if it doesn’t look as scary, then suddenly it becomes actually real. I’ll pass.
I have a friend who lived there years ago and the heat was the only thing he really remembers. I wouldn’t be able to deal with that at all dude. I’d fucking melt!
We have heat and sushi. Lots and lots of sushi and japanese establishments here. And increasingly Indian restaurants too. Actually if you’re a foodie, it’s not a bad place, but Los Angeles beats it. As does Toronto.
Huh, never would have expected all the Japanese places. That’s pretty interesting. Toronto does have an insane variety of food but I can’t afford a single fuckin bit of it. Shit is way too expensive here. Delivery for like McDonalds is $30+ now.
PHX has a big asian and south asian diaspora population, so you find japanese/chinese/indian/pakistani (I actually found Afghani burger wraps here in PHX, try them out if you ever find a place with them!) restaurants everywhere here. Almost as much as Mexican. But Its not as good as LA, where you can find every cuisine ever conceived by humans. And inflation is just as bad down here, I mean I don’t order out much anymore as its always 30 bucks + here too!
Osoyoos BC is a true pocket desert, and we’ve made sure our kids raised in central Canada have had the opportunity to see its scorpions and rattlesnakes at the Nk’mip interpretation centre. They have a program there to mark the rattles with luminescent paint to protect them and reduce the roadkill of rattlers on local highways.
The semi-desert southern facing slopes of most interior southern BC mountains are home to rattlers and small cacti. Hike in leather boots.
And of course good BC children are taught to recognize and avoid black widow spiders at a young age.
Canada, America’s better cousin ;) Toronto is an awesome city too.
And yes PHX is hell on Earth due partially due to climate change, partially due to just being in the Sonora Desert. Sucks to be here in the summer, nice the rest of the year though.
I wouldn’t be able to cope with the wildlife. Bugs are bad enough but snakes and scorpions? I’m from an island where there are no snakes. First snake I saw was a variety of garter snake here in Ontario. Was in a shed and it was at eye level and moved. We made eye contact and I shrieked at the top of my little gay lungs. It bolted and I tried not to have a heart attack.
How you think I’d react around something that could coagulate my blood?
Funny you bring that up. I haven’t seen a snake yet here in PHX (I arrived here six months ago from Orange County, CA) but I did see a giant disgusting moth looking bug today at work that scared the crap out of me. But I do love the desert and its beauty, I just dont like the summers lol
That’s fucked up. Hell no. Fuck that bug. NO. I having a nightmare just imagining it. Honestly the butterfly people in Discovery S4 gave me the willies. That thing would give me a stroke.
That’s fair. Summers suck. The heat is unbearable and all the bugs come out. Then to top it off everything is screaming 24/7 from either kids being out of school, teenagers/college students trying to fuck, animals trying to fuck and everyone being outside all the time. Gimme fall anyday.
Trust me, it’s worse than you can imagine. It looked like some mutant cross between a moth and a bee or something. I’m not even going to try to look it up.
It’s even worse in PHX, as you pointed out, things actually melt here lol
No. Fuck that. My imagination is conjuring up a nightmare. If I see it real, even if it doesn’t look as scary, then suddenly it becomes actually real. I’ll pass.
I have a friend who lived there years ago and the heat was the only thing he really remembers. I wouldn’t be able to deal with that at all dude. I’d fucking melt!
We have heat and sushi. Lots and lots of sushi and japanese establishments here. And increasingly Indian restaurants too. Actually if you’re a foodie, it’s not a bad place, but Los Angeles beats it. As does Toronto.
Huh, never would have expected all the Japanese places. That’s pretty interesting. Toronto does have an insane variety of food but I can’t afford a single fuckin bit of it. Shit is way too expensive here. Delivery for like McDonalds is $30+ now.
PHX has a big asian and south asian diaspora population, so you find japanese/chinese/indian/pakistani (I actually found Afghani burger wraps here in PHX, try them out if you ever find a place with them!) restaurants everywhere here. Almost as much as Mexican. But Its not as good as LA, where you can find every cuisine ever conceived by humans. And inflation is just as bad down here, I mean I don’t order out much anymore as its always 30 bucks + here too!
We have rattlesnakes and scorpions in Canada.
Osoyoos BC is a true pocket desert, and we’ve made sure our kids raised in central Canada have had the opportunity to see its scorpions and rattlesnakes at the Nk’mip interpretation centre. They have a program there to mark the rattles with luminescent paint to protect them and reduce the roadkill of rattlers on local highways.
The semi-desert southern facing slopes of most interior southern BC mountains are home to rattlers and small cacti. Hike in leather boots.
And of course good BC children are taught to recognize and avoid black widow spiders at a young age.
That’s why I don’t live in those places
Ontario has ticks.
Most Europeans think they’re a scary tale.