These are both spectacular and frightening events. I am not ashamed of trying and failing. I have to say Arizona is quite diverse and a beautiful, inexpensive state to live in! Snowbirds. I saw no potential in Arizona. If sports arenât your thing, no need to worry because the Woodstock of honky-tonk comes through every year. There are so many other factors and these two places are so different in so many ways, you can’t just isolate one variable such as gun ownership. Respect for the midday sun. Granted, the benefits are good, but they aren’t that good. Over a year, the area can get between four and eight inches, with the summer months producing the most rain. Greater Phoenix has been and continues to be one of the hottest growth areas in the United States. The farthest my family of three ever moved was roughly 30 minutes away when we left our Phoenix home for the suburbs of … Just because you have a gun, doesn’t mean you’re using it to kill people. The City of D.C. itself has a very similar gun murder rate as does Phoenix Arizona, which would be a much more appropriate populous comparison. You wanted to see something besides this year round: You hated that these four people were your state mascots: You realized that the coolest parts of Phoenix, like The Row, were in better cities and as a perk they were literally. Suddenly Phoenix seemed so full of potential. Florida is awful! I live in AZ and i have to tell you, Your numbers (and understanding of them) are completely wrong, and disingenuous. 1. Having moved from West Michigan and Chicago, the roads here are a BREEZE to navigate without GPS. as opposed to melee weapons. When someone around you does have it, you also need to know what to do. People throw ice in the pool to try and cool it down. For example, AZ is hotter than DC. Are your references specifically to the Phoenix area, or some other city in Arizona? And I heard a disturbing voice rattling through my head: I don’t feel that way now. So you really need to learn to read something other than Right Wing talking point web sites. The greatest gift my father ever bestowed on his youngest son was the armful of papers he brought home every evening, tucked under his arm as he trudged home from the train station. In 2011, California Governor Jerry Brown unveiled a "draconian" budget plan that included 12 billion dollars more in spending cuts and that maintains 12 billion dollars in recent tax increases. People like to visit us during the winter to escape the snow. As reported by the Federal Bureau of Investigations (http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2012/crime-in-the-u.s.-2012/tables/4tabledatadecoverviewpdf/table_4_crime_in_the_united_states_by_region_geographic_division_and_state_2011-2012.xls), these are the murder rates for: Arizona: 5.5 per 100,000 people I missed Harkins movie theater popcorn, falling down at Great Skate, record shopping at Stinkweeds and seeing shows at Crescent Ballroom. In order to live in the desert, you do have to adapt your ways.