A house can still be bought in a decent part of Phoenix or Tucson for something like $125k, but not in Flagstaff or Prescott. Gas is cheap and taxes are low. Avocados are $1 or less, so technically, you can have it all: avocado toast and a house!
Snow shoveling won’t have a place on the household chore list any longer. Neither will lawn mowing or leaf blowing. That’s the tradeoff for warmth and sunshine — a beautiful, low maintenance landscape.
What is this arcane time-change practice?
Small towns like Bisbee, Jerome, Sedona, and Tubac are creative havens, while larger cities like Phoenix and Tucson have strong local music, theater, literature, and street art scenes.
Boots and hats are standard; holsters (with real guns) aren’t unusual. Alternately, you can just wear flip flops wherever you want.
San Diego is but a desert-crossing away, and Rocky Point, Mexico is Spring Breaker paradise.
Dogs are welcome more places than not. Horses, llamas, chickens, ostriches, and snakes make a family complete.
The state is finally beginning to see some compromise between the extremes of the political parties.
From unique endemic plant and animal life to famous sunsets, to ecological zones ranging from riparian wetlands to desert canyonlands — it’s hard to escape the beautiful vistas.
In most towns, churches outnumber bars (barely), but we have no shortage of non-Christian beliefs: healing crystals and indigenous practices still very much alive. 