Description: Sharing my thoughts with everyone
It’s been 4 decades since I moved to another state. I’ve moved addresses, zip codes, and counties, but not states, so when we moved to Arizona – even for just a year – I had to consider if I wanted to go through all the legalities of becoming an actual resident or not. Our mailing address is in Washington State, so technically we could say we’re still residents, but…
Arizona considers you a resident if you live in the state 7 months in a year; we will only be here 6 in 2023 and 6 in 2024. I wanted to register to vote, and our insurance requires us to be residents in order to have our cars insured, so I gathered my documents and found a local licensing facility on the AZDOT website . I expected to have a long wait as I didn’t make an appointment.
The building is well marked on the cross streets and from the street, there is plenty of parking (although not a lot of shade). Entering the spacious building, there is a ticket kiosk and three well-marked lanes: “Walk-In,” “Appointment” and “ADA.” You pull a ticket (even though there are no lit ticket counter machines). THERE ARE 26 WINDOWS and all but 6 of them have staff. The lines move quickly, and there are SMILING and pleasant people behind the desks. They have several desks with Spanish-speaking sign