Lemme tell ya...Arizona is filled with Diamondback Rattlesnakes, Gila Monsters and Tarantulas. We even named our baseball team the "Diamondbacks." It's 125 degrees in the shade every summer, and you get your pick of deserts: Sonoran and Mojave. Illegal aliens come here to die.
Cowboys say "Eff this!" and move on to Utah and Wyoming.
Then there's the Roadrunner and Coyote Wars in my yard...Loony Toons got nothing on real life in Arizona. This is the real deal.
I'm tellin'....ain't no place for sophisticated people.
Well, we don't have any of those critters (okay,a few rattlers crawl out from the middle of the ball in the spring here and there) but most freeze to death in the six months of winter and subzero weather.
No problems with the view, though, once you get out of town (about 5 minutes if the kids will get out of the street) you can see tomorrow on one side and clear to yesterday on the other. Nothing like those nasty trees and mountains to block the view of, well, forever...
Skiing isn't much unless you're into cross country. It's a mite uphill in any direction, though.
We only get over 100 every now and then in our three months of summer, and when Fall hits, the leaves change color on the way down, at least where there is a tree. Mosquitoes here are aggressive, though, they KNOW they don't have long to live and come in, nose out, flaps up, and splatter on articles of jewelry that happen to get in the way (thirsty critters, too).
So if you like watching snow blow by (on its way to Minnesota), because 20 knots is just a light breeze, by our standards, you might like it here.
