Lived in Scottsdale several years and loved AZ!!! The light is fantastic and Sheriff Joe is my hero!!!! Most of the year it is so nice, but summers are too hot. Don’t like the snake/scorpion look-out but you can manage it and the gardening/vegetables/circumstances is not good. Easy to get Vit. D, for sure. I even saw snow twice but not enough to cover the ground.
I lived in the bay area for years. California weather there is beautiful. Lemons/oranges are wonderful...gardening is excellent. Best place to have young kids play and explore and have sand box and water play. Everything is close—beach/mountains/zoo/parks/museums/ice rinks/ etc... Loved it there...but the politics and taxes are the worst.
It’s a shame that the liberals have ruined California as a great state. I’ve never been, but it seems like such a grand place.
I don’t think I could live in southern Arizona because of the heat. Northern AZ would probably be my choice if I had to leave CO.