When I first began my search for a new house, I thought it might be an intruiging process to blog about. Turns out that buying a home is instead a generally tedious, dull, and frustrating process. Something like 10% Exciting, 5% Hope, and 85% @%!$, &^%#$, and @#%^ß@$!#*.
So, now that I have an accepted offer on a house, I figured that maybe the process of moving and learning about my new surrounds would be a more suitable blog. Hopefully I will have better impressions of the process a year later than I did on the search.
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I'm a Phoenix Transplant (one of the many to be sure), and where I'm from originally seems less and less important as time goes on. I moved here after college 7 years ago, and despite some fleeting thoughts during the summers, I've decided I'm happy here for the long haul, hence buying a house and actively settling in. I'm an Architect by trade, so I have a fair amount of interest in communities and neighborhoods. What surrounds our house can be just as important as the house that surrounds us.
Good fortune willing, I'll be moving to a house in the Alhambra area of Phoenix, in the vicinity of 19th Avenue and Bethany Home in the next month. I've been in an apartment not too far from this area, but my actual knowledge of it probably scratches little more than the surface. As I see things, learn stories, and meet people in this area of Phoenix, I'll try to relate those here as well as my own biased observations as I settle in.
I'll do my best to keep everything in this blog related to the Alhambra areas, I have a map printed out so I know the boundaries! I'll keep everything house, Phoenix, and Arizona related sectioned off somewhere else. So, look around and enjoy the blog, as hopefully I look around and enjoy the area!
Oh, as for the blog name: Alhambra should be pretty self-evident. 13-9 is the two climate regions that Phoenix falls in to (Sunset Zone 13, USDA Climate Zone 9), it's my way of differentiating this Alhambra from the others in my own obscure and quirky manner.
