Lived in Tucson for 6.5 years. All I can is it was stupid hot and Phoenix was noticeably hotter. Visited my wife's uncle and he had his air set around 90 to feel cool. Traffic was terrible when we drove to Phoenix to visit, not just in Phoenix but the actually drive on 10 was bumper to bumper. I had terrible allergies while living in the south and Midwest nothing in AZ. AZ public schools were ranked 1-2 in the nation and was way ahead in actual education, cant say now. In our 6 years we saw a very noticeable growth in crime with breaking into cars almost every night, we had a break-in from 15 year old punk who pried open our bathroom window with wife and kids at home alone, she met him standing in our bathroom at 2am unarmed, she left the gun bed side to investigate she has since learned and then a neighborhood peeking tom that I chased away several times, someone opened our kitchen door and stole my wallet on top of the fridge, people wondering around looking for trouble. Last time we went to Nogales, someone tried to steal my son, grabbed his arm and started walking off, I grabbed the guy and we all started yellowing but no one would help, just looked, another couple seconds and he would have been gone. We had enough.
We drove to the mountains almost every weekend to camp, it was hot, too dry to have a camp fire for hotdogs and such, we camped off road not in camp grounds that were over stuffed with trouble. Visit the crashed Doolittle raid B25. Had scorpions in our house and yard, snakes in our yard, everything bites or stings to include vegetation. Last few years we discovered a snow melt stream coming out of the mountains with deep pools, on the weekends it was hard to get wet but during the week, we were alone but a few snakes. Cant remember where but a river float we did a couple times a year. Dropped off by bus, float all day. Lots of booze and drugs and riff raft so we stopped going. Always heard about the Kalicommies moving in and changing it, just like everywhere.
Someone said Boise, just left there and its a mini Phoenix high desert, 115 in the summer but has more access to water and cooler mountains, crazy traffic, rude people, its growing like crazy with liberals and companies but way better living than Phoenix. For now, Idaho has low crime.
I dont think there is any major city now worth moving too.
good luck
We drove to the mountains almost every weekend to camp, it was hot, too dry to have a camp fire for hotdogs and such, we camped off road not in camp grounds that were over stuffed with trouble. Visit the crashed Doolittle raid B25. Had scorpions in our house and yard, snakes in our yard, everything bites or stings to include vegetation. Last few years we discovered a snow melt stream coming out of the mountains with deep pools, on the weekends it was hard to get wet but during the week, we were alone but a few snakes. Cant remember where but a river float we did a couple times a year. Dropped off by bus, float all day. Lots of booze and drugs and riff raft so we stopped going. Always heard about the Kalicommies moving in and changing it, just like everywhere.
Someone said Boise, just left there and its a mini Phoenix high desert, 115 in the summer but has more access to water and cooler mountains, crazy traffic, rude people, its growing like crazy with liberals and companies but way better living than Phoenix. For now, Idaho has low crime.
I dont think there is any major city now worth moving too.
good luck
