What's it like to live in Arizona?

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What's it like to live in Arizona?

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I moved to Tucson from CA almost 2 years ago. I love it here. Yes it gets hot, but much of CA, especially once you get away from the coast, is almost as hot, the humidity there is higher so most of the time it's actually more comfortable in the heat here than there, you just need to drink a lot more water that's all.

As others have said the experience depends on where in AZ you are, lower elevations are scorching hot in the summer, but depending on where you live you can escape to the mountains to enjoy cooler weather. Phoenix is typically close to 10 degrees hotter than Tucson for example. The Phoenix area has gotten so populated that the air pollution is enough to set off my asthma and reminds me of LA in the 70's, while Tucson is very clean in comparison.

It's not all barren and dry here, again it depends on the elevation and how close you live to a wash. I'm at 3200', two washes run through my property and there's a lot of mesquite and palo verde trees growing in and along them. Being that I'm in a rural area and not right in the middle of town, it's very alive, provides habitat for lots of critters, rabbits, roadrunners, squirrels, birds and lizards of all sorts, tarantulas, frogs and toads too! More scarce (especially as development is closing in around me) but still occaisional visitors are coyotes, javelina(wild pigs) deer, bobcats and mt lions. It's a wildland zoo I will never get tired of.

One of the things I enjoy here is the monsoon season, of course when it causes flooding it's a pain, but it's one of natures finest exhibitions, I never get tired of watching the lightning shows and the incredible downpours, it's like 2 months worth of 4th of july fireworks every night.

Arizona is an at will work state which generally translates into more difficulties finding good paying jobs, If you're not a professional, contractor or a business owner, a decent paying job is not that easy to come by. You can buy a nice house here in the low $200,000's but the cost of food and goods tends to be higher because relatively little is manufactured or grown here, much has to be transported long distances and that costs money.

Anyway, nuf said, for a few of the local sights I think you will enjoy the link below. Source(s): http://virtualtucsonmagazine.com...
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It's like living in a desert, because Arizona IS a desert. Other than that, wouldn't it depend on WHERE in Arizona you lived?
Yes, it would.
Well I don't live there, but my brother lives in Tucson, and has for a couple of years. It's esactly the same, it's hottttt, like now.
Phew, but it's wonderful, nice community,
very well-kept, clean, it's a great place to be,
besides the heat.
Very hot right now. What specifically are you looking for?
HOT really.really HOT burn the bottoms of your feet even when you have shoes on hot!
hot and dry