Leah, I’d give my right arm to move OUT of Arizona! Yes, Jan and Sheriff Joe are giving the feds the middle finger, and I do appreciate that, but after being born here and living in Phoenix all my life, I STILL HATE THE DAMN HEAT!
I know, I know...you don’t have to shovel heat. Still, I get tired of living like a mole for 5 or 6 months of the year. Utah looks really good to me, maybe Texas.
I've lived in both Minneapolis and Phoenix (Scottsdale).
Mrs. Whiskers and I made a point-by-point comparison of all of the quality-of-life indicators, and Scottsdale won on all of them except...
1) education (colleges in particular)
2) the weather.
So we moved back up here: best decision we ever made.
Cheers!
For Quinn’s sake, don’t come to Texas if you’re trying to escape the heat!
Move to the White Mountains...a tad chilly in the winter, especially at Hawley Lake. But it is a wonderful place to live and no more heat!
Houston has been hovering around 98-100 degrees all week. Starting today it is going to be humid and hot. I hate the heat too but our falls winters and springs are wonderful.
My spouse and I are in our 70's--just the age where most people try to escape the snow and cold but not us. We live on a beautiful lake and winter here is beautiful. The leaves are off the trees and the lake is frozen and we can see the twinkling lights of the homes across the lake on the ice. We watch entire herds of deer crossing the frozen lake.
Life doesn't get any better than this lake in the winter time. Sure, he has to plow some snow, and last year there was plenty of it but he loves it. He likes plowing snow so much he goes up and down the street plowing out the neighbor's drives. Winter is easier than summer. Grass, flowers and weeds are more work than snow.