UH....no. This they do with no encouragement at all. Having lived in the Valley for some time and worked all over the state my impression is that, apart from the retirees that wish their grown children would visit for two hours once a year and then go home, there are two major groups of people:
One, the people who actually like living in Arizona and wish everyone else would just leave, and Two, those who know disaster is just one lease payment away on the condo and BMW.
True, there is a huge group of people mowing grass and running leaf blowers that keep exotic pollens and valley fever spread far and wide, and others doing all the really necessary things like selling beer and smearing stucco in every imaginable place and shape but they are the grease not the wheel, the tide that comes and goes with the latest housing boom not the shore.
Besides, they're in the hateful, heated lower elevations while the “real” Arizona is found in Sedona and Prescott Valley or about the Rim.
New arrivals that feel the need of a reinvented self will find their matches quicker than E Harmony ever could. In the dark and dank pubs wedding rings and memories of “the ex” disappear just as quickly and easily as the new and improved version appears, and are just as real.
Arizona..When the coolest temperature of the day is over 100 degrees it really is the heat.
I always laugh when I read articles like this. I moved to the Valley 10 years ago. I grew up in Ohio. I will take AZ and its culture, economy, and rugged individualism over the Midwest any day of the week. When I first arrived here, I did think it was the “wild west” a little bit. But the reason that I thought so, and to some degree still do, is that I was not used to the freedom here. There are fewer laws here than in Ohio. Taxes are lower and the scenery and weather are a whole lot better.
To those who complain about living here, I ask one question. Have you lived anywhere else? Yeah, its hot 4 months out of the year, with two of them being really hot. Try the Midwest, where it rains 6 months out of the year and the rest of the time its too cold to do anything outside!
As far as our laws go, if you do not like it, move a couple of hundred miles West. The libtards in Cali would love to have you! Just don’t come back or send any of them here, we don’t want them!