Folks if you don't already live in AZ please stay where you are. If you do live here and came here in the last 20 years please consider going back to where you came from. We don't need newcomers here.
If you insist on coming, please bring your own water. This is a desert climate. You can't have a lawn like "back home." Stop moving here to get away from whatever ails your current home only to try and make AZ just like where you came from.
Traffic is awful; you will just make it worse, especially when you move out to the suburbs and then expect folks in older, established neighborhoods to allow their lives to be disrupted by your desire to get to where you're going in a hurry. If you demand freeways and insist in moving to AZ, please go to Phoenix, where they have some. Phoenix is in the middle of the state and is the capital, but it's not really a part of AZ.
Our politics run to the conservative side with a few lunatic exceptions. (There are plenty of right-wing lunatics too, but most of them live in Mesa, a suburb of Phoenix) Don't be like the lady who moved here recently from Boston and now bemoans the fact that our U.S. Senators are McCain and Kyl and her Congressman is Kolbe; "Terrible choices" she was quoted as saying. She apparently overlooked the fact that these gentlemen were already in office when she moved here. I don't know why she didn't like Kolbe; he is gay after all. If you want Ted Kennedy as your senator, please stay in Boston.
Many of us carry guns; openly and otherwise. If you don't like guns stay in NYC, Chicago or D.C. where there aren't any.
There are many hazards here. We have scorpions, rattlesnakes, Gila monsters, killer bees, Hanta virus and despite having only occasional rain, mosquitoes that carry West Nile virus. Thanks to the influx of illegal aliens, Hepatitis and TB are making a comeback.
If you have school-aged children they will need proof of vaccinations against these diseases. The children of illegal aliens don't need this proof. Your kids get to mingle with them in bi-lingual education class.
Two of our three Interstate highways are now primarily used by drug and alien smugglers. Be prepared to blunder into the not uncommon running gun battle between competing smugglers or to avoid the frequent vehicles fleeing the police.
Don't even think of moving within 50 miles of the U.S.-Mexico border. U.S. Army Intelligence is headquartered at Ft. Huachuca, AZ. The grounds of Ft. Huachuca are a drug and alien smuggling route. If the U.S. Army can't keep them out of its yard, how do you think you will fair? And if you do try, the government will take your property away and give it to the Mexicans.
It gets hot here. Real hot. And it's dry. Your skin will shrivel up like a prune. And speaking of skin, AZ is the skin cancer capital of the northern hemisphere. And there's no shade. Our desert trees would be called bushes where you come from. If you want green, stay home. The desert is occasionally green but for the most part, it's really gray. It's not for nothing that most desert animals are gray.
No, if I were you, I'd definitely not move to AZ.