I moved from New York to Arizona after falling in love with the state on vacation. The drivers are worse, but I was actually able to buy a home.
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with John Saverino, 48, about his experience living in Arizona after moving from Long Island, New York, in April 2022 with his boyfriend. The following has been edited for length and clarity.
I moved to Glendale, which is just outside of Phoenix. We're actually moving to Mesa, which is a much nicer area. It's a little less crowded and less congested. We paid the HOA and then some of the taxes at my mom's condo, and one thing about New York is the HOA fees were outrageous. It was about $650 per month.The traffic in New York became unbearable
One of the main reasons I left New York was because the traffic was getting out of hand. In Arizona, you haveIf I want to travel on that same road at 2 p.m. on a Saturday, it's smooth sailing — you can go anywhere you want and it's not bumper to bumper. In New York, it seems to be always like that. I was thinking that it's not nearly as populated as New York, so I didn't expect the rates to be this high here. The drivers seem to be just as bad, if not a little worse, than New York drivers.You're kind of centrally located. You're surrounded by California, Nevada, and Colorado. There's also a lot of mountains out here that are really beautiful.
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