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RE: An HONEST Review of Tucson, Arizona
every other person who I have talked to that works there or has worked there agrees that most of the time everyone is just slacking off and is putting in about 40% effort. Most of the time there aren't hard deadlines and you won't be under the gun to get something done like you would be in private industry.
doesn't that pretty much describe any government job?
Yeah that is probably true! lol
There are many workers with the "Mañana" (do it tomorrow) attitude exactly like there are everywhere but it is easier to find people here who'll work their butts off. I'm from Philly. Nearly a million have left. It now has the population it had over a century ago. The exodus is happening in NYC, Chicago, Detroit, and states across the country. Where are they going? California (as during the 1980s when it was run by Republicans)? No. People prefer Republican Texas and Florida. 1600 of the 1800 business that left Silicon Valley have gone to Texas (like Apple, Google, and Samsung). Tucson (and rent) has grown greatly this last year. However, America's #1 fastest growing city is Phoenix (another Republican stronghold). It has everything the author wants. Great freeways, big tech (beside Motorola and Intel, it is the capital for self driving software), and the same good weather. 19 of 20 people moving here tell me (quite loudly) they would never consider living there. They love Tucson. Much of NORAD was moved to Sierra Vista and govt money flows from there to Tucson - mostly to small contractors. Do you own a stereo? I have a half dozen Yamaha's. Every one has a made in Tucson Burr Brown / SONY chip in them. Much of Mars engineering is done here. I worked for a company that redesigned Hubble (it's the world's #1 location for optics - starting with the #1 optics program at the UA ... the Vatican's astronomer teaches there). I can be hiking in minutes no matter which direction I drive in. Due to the nightly scrubbing in those mountains, the air is cleaner than Phoenix. There is no better place for golfing (or bicycling) - 60 courses in the county. Seems Tucson, in truth, is the largest small town where we're all connected by just three degrees of separation (half normal). And oh, we have the world's best school system (private charters run by Basis) due to having the world's best Charter School laws (thanks to Lisa Keegan). If you love your children, you will move here and enroll them even if that requires making bombs for the military. Duh.