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ANYBODY HERE EVER HEAR OF ANTHEM? That's Anthem, Arizona? No one knows about it. JA? DO YOU?

I got a job in this town.  I never even heard of it besides just a mention here and there, and I never entered the town.


Now I work here.  It takes time to even get an idea of how unique this place is.

It is part STEPFORD WIFE and part heaven.

People tip large.  People are nice.  They are a pleasure to work for.   The grocery stores have bars.  LOL


Posted - March 27, 2019
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  • Why is everyone yelling on here today???, lol. 
      March 27, 2019 10:56 AM MDT
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  • 46117
    I sound like this in real life. I want you to have the TASTE of that.
      March 27, 2019 12:06 PM MDT
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  • 7939
    Hahahaha. Yeah. I know Anthem. That's wayy out there. I remember when it was being built. Everyone was talking about how it was creepy and Stepford-ish because it was the first community in the area to be built with everything it needed from scratch, down to the schools, I believe. Now, that tactic is commonplace. 

    There was actually a reality TV show that featured an Anthem family a while back. It was called "Downsized." I'm trying to remember the details, but I think the dad was in construction and was hit especially hard by the recession. The show featured a whole lot of the area. 

    For the longest time, I was doing regular jaunts up to Northern Arizona to see a friend. Anthem is the last possible stop-off as you leave civilization or as you're coming back into the Phoenix metro area. I know the Starbucks there all too well. lol

    But, yeah... It feels like a younger sibling of Scottsdale to me. Not quite as snobbish, but with similar lifestyles. Maybe like what would happen if Gilbert and Scottsdale had a baby. lol 
      March 27, 2019 12:04 PM MDT
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  • 46117
    AS GOD IS MY WITNESS.. I SWEAR.  I HAD NO IDEA OF THIS.  OF THIS HISTORY.  THIS MAKES IT MORE SCARY.  BECAUSE ALL YOU HAVE WRITTEN SO FAR?  I THOUGHT I MADE UP EVEN THE STEPFORD WIFE COMPARISON.  THIS IS SOME ECHO FROM SEDONNA AND THOSE ALIENS.  I KNOW IT.  I JUST KNEW THESE PEOPLE WERE NOT REAL.    


    I KNEW YOU WOULD KNOW IF ANYONE WOULD, BUT I HAD NO IDEA THE WEALTH OF INFO YOU WOULD PROVIDE.  I AM ONLY HALF FINISHED WITH YOUR ANSWER AND I JUST HAD TO CHIME IN WITH MY ASTONISHMENT.
      March 27, 2019 12:09 PM MDT
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  • 7939
    Anthem was built while I was still in school. I'm betting you were not living in Arizona at the time. Once it was up and running, talk about it went quiet, especially as areas like Mesa and Gilbert were developed further. Now, we've got San Tan Valley essentially doing the same thing. Whole communities just explode in a matter of months. It's normal now. Back in the day, Anthem was the only place to do it, and so it was treated with a bit of apprehension. 

    I don't think it's similar to Sedona. Sedona residents are more or less "new money." It exploded in the 1970s or maybe even the 1960s with people coming out from LA- movie stars, directors, and people in that scene. It wasn't until later that the hippies really started seeping in, but even now, Sedona prices are insane. The median home price is closing in on half a million there. In anthem, it's 330k. Mesa is about $230k. Scottsdale is up there with Sedona. It actually crosses the half-million mark a bit. 

    At any rate, the real Sedona people... they're people with money. The nutty ones don't actually live there. They live in the surrounding communities of the Verde Valley where it's more affordable to live. Sedona does attract the hippie types, but they're usually just visitors. 
      March 27, 2019 1:18 PM MDT
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  • 46117
    I have no idea how much Anthem and Sedonna are alike as far as the city itself being run and built is concerned.  I am just looking at the beauty and the layout.  It is a perfect little mountain town and Sedonna could have been a paradise and they turned that thing into a huge parking lot filled with telephone poles, tons of toursits, cheap restaurants and tacky junk shops catering to "new age" wanna- bee's mostly.

    The people in Sedonna don[t have THAT much more money than the Anthemites.  They are VERY WELL TO DO.  You get your breast implants as a high school graduation present.  

    And your new car.




      March 27, 2019 1:27 PM MDT
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  • 469
    I HEARD IT ALL THE WAY OVER HERE IN COLORADO! 
      March 27, 2019 3:03 PM MDT
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  • 6988
    What a Surprise. I hope you have a Goodyear.
      March 27, 2019 8:31 PM MDT
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  • 17596
    I'm not familiar, but I'm glad you are working somewhere that you like. 
      March 28, 2019 12:34 AM MDT
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  • 46117
    It's about time.  Almost 70 years in the making.  

    I always try to do a good job no matter what and I always try to make it fun, but I can count the times I did not go to a job without a knot in my stomach, with one hand.

    This is mostly wonderful.  

    About Anthem?  This place is so unworldly.  I cannot put my finger on it.  It's not that anything is WRONG.  IT IS THAT NOTHING IS WRONG. EVER. LOL
      March 28, 2019 12:49 AM MDT
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  • 17596
    It is a long commute for you?  I could go for 'nothing is wrong..ever.' 

    Not much is wrong in my little town but the county is opening up to big developments and growth.  That's bad news.
      March 28, 2019 1:07 AM MDT
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  • 46117
    Re: On your town.  Yes. It is very bad news.  I don't like big developers.  They ruined Sedona.  Anyway, it is not much of a commute.  I get to go straight highway and it takes about 25 minutes.  Not bad at all.  That, compared to my last job, which was closer, but had so many traffic lights, it took as long or longer to get there.

    And I usually had a knot in my stomach when I went in.  

    Hope your little town stays pristine for a long time to come.
      March 28, 2019 1:12 AM MDT
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