Growing up in the 6th largest city in the country provided lots of adventures and memories. Anyone who has never been to Phoenix imagines it as a dry, flat, desert wasteland, but you know that it’s anything but that. Here are 20 clear signs that you grew up in the Valley of the Sun!
With an average of 300 days of sunshine a year, you would think everyone in Phoenix would be a gloriously tan god/goddess. But with temperatures often reaching well into the triple digits, it was way nicer (and sometimes even safer) to stay inside. Phoenix is the one place where people might actually get paler during the summer.
People from anywhere else usually have never even heard of javelinas. (Note to non-Phoenix residents: they’re really weird boars that live in pretty much every wash running through desert neighborhoods.) But thanks to every single elementary school teacher in the Valley, you know exactly what a javelina is, and you also know that it’s NOT a pig.
Carolina’s Mexican Food changed your life. Tostitos who???
It’s inevitable. It happens to the best of us out here in the Valley of the Sun.
Whether you come to flirt with the overly friendly hipster baristas, enjoy an overpriced Rebel energy drink, or find out who’s going out with who – there’s always something going on at Dutch.
“Yeah, I’ve totally traveled internationally.” Meaning you’ve driven 60 miles past the Mexican border to a beach town completely occupied by American tourists.
Even though your calves hurt like a b for a week after.
It doesn’t matter if you’ve never even set foot on either school’s campus. You HAVE to pick one.
After about 10 minutes, someone would say, “There’s literally nothing to do in Phoenix.” And then you would all end up at your local In-n-Out Burger.
PV Mall used to be THE mall of Phoenix. Now, half of the stores are empty and it legit looks like the next setting of American Horror Story. You know that saying, “I bet Stacy shops at PV Mall” is a MAJOR diss.
Is it the crazy flavors and toppings, or just the cute pink building that make this place so amazing?
If you grew up in Phoenix, you’re used to a “winter” of about three weeks of 60 degree weather. Winter coats? Snow? Temperatures below 60? All myths.
Sweat?? We don’t sweat until it hits at least 110. You can spot an out-of-towner just by their intense sweatiness.
And you know it has nothing to do with boobs. Unfortunately. That would be funny.
What’s this stuff falling from the sky???
Copper, cotton, cattle, climate, citrus. Elementary stuff.
And you definitely remember the Vine that made him famous.
“Your friend in the diamond business, on the southeast corner of Scottsdale Road and Acoma.” They really don’t have enough commercials.
You probably have at least one mutual Facebook friend with every person in the Valley. If Mariah Carey lived in Phoenix, she would never get away with pretending not to know someone.
Most people imagine Phoenix as dry, sandy, and dead. You know they’re wrong, and you’ll always have a special place in your heart for those amazing desert sunsets. You can move thousands of miles away, but you’ll always be an Arizona Girl.
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