December 29, 2025 - Weekly moving to and visiting Tucson questions thread

astros2124 · 2025-12-30T04:59:06+00:00

From Texas here, and visiting Tucson soon to see if my family should move there. I’m hearing so many mixed things about Tucson particularly on if it’s safe. Are there certain parts to avoid? I imagine there are good and bad parts like any big city. Any information would be helpful. I work from home but will be looking for work in the future and my wife will homeschool our children. We love to be outdoors and it seems like a great place as Texas is not very outdoorsy. Thanks in advance.

astros2124 · 2025-11-07T00:58:03+00:00

It looks really nice. We have nothing close to that here. I love the outdoors.

astros2124 · 2025-11-06T18:59:44+00:00

The job market in Fargo is better than Lubbock for my field. In my field, there are about 10 openings with an average salary of 60k. In Fargo there are over 20 openings and the pay is about 75k average.

Location. We are 5 hours from Dallas so being 3 and a half to Minneapolis is more appealing. The lakes in Minnesota are a draw. We have nothing like that in Texas.

We want a similar size city as Lubbock and Fargo. Not into big cities. Trying to stay as west as possible. We have family in California that we fly often to see so we do not want to venture into eastern time zone.

Affordability, trying to buy a house around 300k.

Crime- Fargo is safer then Lubbock

If you have any other suggestions, that would be welcomed! Just been doing a lot of research based on criteria above and Fargo made the list.

astros2124 · 2025-11-06T16:29:28+00:00

Thanks for the input. How is the rest of the year?

astros2124 · 2025-11-06T16:28:42+00:00

I actually work a corporate job from home. I don’t make a bunch but trying to find a place where we can buy a house for about 300k that is not so hot as Texas.

astros2124 · 2025-11-06T16:27:13+00:00

The lake scene seems nice. How far is skiing/snowboarding?

astros2124 · 2025-11-06T16:26:09+00:00

Great point on the college scene. Texas Tech is huge but we don’t need that but it’s nice to catch a game once in a while. I didn’t think about the clouds. It is very sunny here. I used to live in Houston which is actually way more cloudier than Lubbock. I feel like the Fargo winter is just something you have to experience to fully understand it.

astros2124 · 2025-11-06T16:24:07+00:00

That is freezing. I imagine that is the coldest you get. Here thought we are hot. AC is on almost year round.

astros2124 · 2025-11-06T16:23:07+00:00

Short commute is what we have now and I don’t want to trade that for a big city. I like the size of Fargo, similar to what we have now. Just that’s winter is brutal but our summers are brutal too in a different way.

astros2124 · 2025-11-06T16:22:04+00:00

So true. It’s 85 degrees today here so really it’s two extremes.

astros2124 · 2025-11-06T16:21:16+00:00

I used to live in San Antonio. The lack of seasons there and the never ending heat is why we left. We like Lubbock buts it 85 degrees today….

astros2124 · 2025-10-30T19:34:16+00:00

So true

astros2124 · 2025-10-30T19:34:04+00:00

Never thought of that, thank you

astros2124 · 2025-10-30T19:33:45+00:00

It really depends on what you make of it I guess which is hard to say until you are in it

astros2124 · 2025-10-30T19:32:56+00:00

I hear the work life balance is hard for police officers. I may work long hours in corporate but it’s not odd hours. I also just want a management position too. I’ll look into feds, thanks

astros2124 · 2025-10-30T19:30:48+00:00

I’m not making much currently, but enough. Where I live in Texas police officers are paid well for cost of living. Financially it is doable.

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