Just to state an untruth, technical or not, makes you a liar. That’s a low hurdle to clear. This looks like an example of lying with statistics. 71% humidity in Detroit is not like 71% in Miami would be. Omaha, where I am, quotes 69%, a figure that would have had me aghast had I not been living here for years and realizing that it reflects night time and precipitation times. It isn’t sweat city.
You’re also coming on pretty snobbish about Arizona. Good for you, I suppose, but if we are trying to compare apples to apples and not apples to bananas, we’d have to look at temperatures too.
I didn’t state an untruth. 71% humidity in Detroit is 71% humidity, that is the published average. And in summer, when temps are high, it sucks. It’s sweat city in the Great Lakes region. I grew up there, I know. Though really as a kid the worst part about the humidity was actually in the winter. Makes the snow all slushy and it doesn’t stick together. All those cool snow time activities go away. Can’t make snowmen for crap, the snowballs are slushy. Great Lakes weather is, demonstrably, terrible. Now Detroit is a little nicer than Chicago where I grew up, being not a reclaimed swamp. But it’s still hardcore humid Snowbelt. A part of the world people are fleeing in droves.
I didn’t say anything about AZ thus any idea that I’m being snobbish about AZ is pure fiction. We want to AZ fine: it’s hot as hell. And this summer is REALLY humid. Weird monsoon season, the storms keep staying. Which is nice because we need the rain, but 74 degrees and 95% humidity sucks hard. But it’s an outlier, I’m betting in September they’ll announce we’re in an El Nino, that’s what happened the last summer like this. But it’s going to be swimming weather in the winter. Not much beats BBQing Christmas.
And in the end weather is YMMV. It doesn’t really matter what the rest of the world thinks if you like it.