Arizona is the best state

I agree been here 45 years!

Whenever I leave my shitty state of FL for AZ, I feel a wave of relief. Everything is better out in AZ, safety included. And Arizona's downfall IS the crime rate, mostly because of the Latino population

....not in tucson, unfortunately for me. fucking democraps are every where here but luckily its still a hick town and open carry pistols are common and the libs are scared little sheep here.

i equate it to the lefty professors at U of A and all the snow birds, whcih now have the nickname of Q-tips or Bedshitters.

other than that, i like AZ.

Last Edited by Krinkfan on 11/14/2016 02:31 PM

Yeah nothing like living out in the middle of the desert where its 110 degrees and you are totally dependent on AC / electric just to survive. I'll take FL where I can fish, swim and grow a garden year round.

LOL...nothing like living in a sauna where its 90% humidity and 90 degrees and hurricanes destroy everything you own while the bugs eat at you decaying carcass.

AC is the worse thing that ever happened to AZ.

Last Edited by Krinkfan on 11/14/2016 02:46 PM

Diversity? Not really. Its a desert. WA stat is diverse.
Woman? In parts of phx, yes.
Friendly people? Not my experience.
Lots of nature? Yes.

Hot as balls...No way!

The only saving grace for AZ is that a couple pornstars that I like are from there. That's it. No other saving graces.

I'm in Tucson too. I hear bro. I know people born and raised in Tucson who grew so upset with everything they moved out of state.

Oct - March is great though.

never been to flagstaff, payson, showlow, prescott?

WA is a desert in the center of the state and in fact once you leave spokane and get past chenney it turns to shit all the way to ellensburg and down to the tri-cities so whatever.

i lived up there for 20 years, loved the eastern part of the state for the people. those seattle people are not so great.

Last Edited by Krinkfan on 11/14/2016 03:00 PM

that's a very telling statement.

trolls are trolling hard in this one.

Funny. I live in spokane, cheney. moses lake and seattle.
ITs an extremely divers. Canyons, desert, mounts, coastline lakes rivers.... amazing place. But the winters get old.

People are nice there. Better quality in services and products.

WA is truly diverse but so are alot of west coast states.

spokane is one of the best towns i've ever lived in and been too. not to big not too small. lots of recreation too.

and the holiday weekends downtown are to die for, if your into the party thing. especially st patties day. been a long time though, last time i was there was 1992-1995.

Love Arizona, wish I could move there again. Lived in Sedona in 91, also liked Flagstaff. Beautiful country, people who want to be free.

Agreed, OP. Arizona IS the best state.

Plus, it doesn't do daylight savings.

LOL - we'll let you keep that stereotype - it helps keep our little secret safe.

Some fun facts about Arizona (various sources):

1. Arizona has 3,928 mountain peaks and summits— more
mountains than any one of the other Mountain States
(Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah,
and Wyoming ).

2. All New England, plus the state of Pennsylvania would
fit inside Arizona .

3. Arizona became the 48th state and last of the
contiguous states on February 14, 1912.

4. Arizona ’s disparate climate can yield both the
highest temperature across the nation and the
lowest temperature across the nation in the same day.

5. There are more wilderness areas in Arizona than in the
entire Midwest. Arizona alone has 90 wilderness areas,
while the Midwest has 50.

6. Arizona has 26 peaks that are more than 10,000 feet
in elevation.

7. Arizona has the largest contiguous stand of
Ponderosa pines in the world stretching
from near Flagstaff along the Mogollon Rim
to the White Mountains region.

8. Yuma , Arizona is the country’s highest producer of
winter vegetables, especially lettuce.

9. Arizona is the 6th largest state in the nation,
covering 113,909 square miles.

10. Out of all the states in the U.S., Arizona has the
largest percentage of its land designated as Indian
lands.

11. The “Five C’s” of Arizona ’s economy are:
Cattle, Copper, Citrus, Cotton, and Climate.

12. More copper is mined in Arizona than all the other
states combined, and the Morenci Mine is the largest
copper producer in all of North America .

13. Clark Gable and Carole Lombard,two of the most
prominent movie stars of Hollywood ’s Golden Age, were
married on March 18, 1939, in Kingman , Arizona .

14. Covering 18,608 sq. miles, Coconino County
is the second largest county by land area
in the 48 contiguous United States.

15. The world’s largest solar telescope is located
at Kitt Peak National Observatory in Sells, Arizona .

16. Bisbee , Arizona is known as the Queen of the
Copper Mines because during its mining heyday
it produced nearly 25 percent of the world’s copper
and was the largest city in the Southwest
between Saint Louis and San Francisco .

17. Billy the Kid killed his first man, Windy Cahill,
in Bonita , Arizona .

18. Arizona grows enough cotton each year to make
more than one pair of jeans for every person
in the United States .

19. Famous labor leader and activist Cesar Chavez
was born in Yuma .

20. In 1912, President William Howard Taft was ready
to make Arizona a state on February 12, but
it was Lincoln ’s birthday. The next day, the 13th,
was considered bad luck so they waited
until the following day. That’s how Arizona
became known as the “ Valentine State .”

21. When England ’s famous London Bridge was replaced
in the 1960s, the original was purchased,
dismantled, shipped stone by stone and
reconstructed in Lake Havasu City , Arizona ,
where it still stands today.

22. Mount Lemmon , in the Santa Catalina Mountains ,
is the southernmost ski resort in the United States .

23. Rooster Cogburn Ostrich Ranch in Picacho , Arizona
is the largest privately-owned ostrich ranch
in the world outside South Africa .

24. If you cut down a protected species of cactus in
Arizona,you could spend more than a year in prison.

25. The world’s largest to-scale collection of miniature
airplane models is housed at the library at
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Prescott, AZ.

26. The only place in the country where mail is delivered
by mule is the village of Supai , located at the
bottom of the Grand Canyon .

27. Located on Arizona’s western border, Parker Dam
is the deepest dam in the world at 320 feet.

28. South Mountain Park/Preserve in Phoenix
is the largest municipal park in the country.

29. Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station, located about
55 miles west of Phoenix, generates more electricity
than any other U.S. power plant.

30. Oraibi, a Hopi village located in Navajo County,
Arizona,dates back to before A.D. 1200 and is reputed
to be the oldest continuously inhabited community in
America.

31. Built by Del Webb in 1960, Sun City, Arizona was the
first 55-plus active adult retirement community in the
country.

32. Petrified wood is the official state fossil. The
Petrified Forest in northeastern Arizona contains
America’s largest deposits of petrified wood.

33. Many of the founders of San Francisco in 1776 were
Spanish colonists from Tubac, Arizona.

34. Phoenix originated in 1866 as a hay camp to supply
military post Camp McDowell.

35. Rainfall averages for Arizona range from less than
three inches in the deserts to more than 30 inches per
year in the mountains.

36. Rising to a height of 12,643 feet, Mount Humphreys
north of Flagstaff is the state’s highest mountain.

37. Roadrunners are not just in cartoons!
In Arizona, you’ll see them running up to 17-mph
away from their enemies.

38. The Saguaro cactus is the largest cactus found in the
U.S. It can grow as high as a five-story building and
is native to the Sonoran Desert, which stretches
across southern Arizona.

39. Sandra Day O’Connor, the first woman appointed to the
U.S. Supreme Court, grew up on a large family ranch
near Duncan, Arizona.

40. The best-preserved meteor crater in the world is
located near Winslow, Arizona.

41. The average state elevation is 4,000 feet.

42. The Navajo Nation spans 27,000 square miles across
the states of Utah, Arizona and New Mexico,
but its capital is seated in Window Rock, Arizona.

43. The amount of copper utilized to make the copper dome
atop Arizona’s Capitol building is equivalent to the
amount used in 4.8 million pennies.

44. Near Yuma, the Colorado River’s elevation dips to
70 feet above sea level, making it the lowest point
in the state.

45. The geographic center of Arizona is 55 miles southeast
of Prescott near the community of Mayer.

46. You could pile four 1,300-foot skyscrapers on
top of each other and they still would not reach
the rim of the Grand Canyon.

47. The hottest temperature recorded in Arizona was
128 degrees at Lake Havasu City on June 29, 1994

48. The coldest temperature recorded in Arizona was
40 degrees below zero at Hawley Lake on January 7,
1971.

49. A saguaro cactus can store up to nine tons of water.

50. The state of Massachusetts could fit inside
Maricopa County (9,922 sq. miles).

51. The westernmost battle of the Civil War was fought at
Picacho Pass on April 15, 1862 near Picacho Peak
in Pinal County.

52. There are 11.2 million acres of National Forest in
Arizona, and one-fourth of the state forested.

53. Wyatt Earp was neither the town marshal nor the
sheriff in Tombstone at the time of the shoot-out at
the O.K. Corral. His brother Virgil was the town
marshal.

54. On June 6, 1936, the first barrel of tequila produced
in the United States rolled off the production line in
Nogales, Arizona.

55. The Sonoran Desert is the most biologically diverse
desert in North America.

56. Bisbee is the Nation’s southernmost mile-high city.

57. The two largest man made lakes in the U.S. are Lake
Mead and Lake Powell—both located in Arizona.

58. The longest remaining intact section of Route 66 can
be found in Arizona and runs from Seligman to Topock,
a total of 157 unbroken miles.

59. The 13 stripes on the Arizona flag represent the
13 original colonies of the United States.

60. The negotiations for Geronimo’s final surrender took
place in Skeleton Canyon, near present day
Douglas, Arizona, in 1886.

61. Prescott, Arizona is home to the world’s oldest rodeo,
and Payson, Arizona is home to the world’s oldest
continuous rodeo—both of which date back to the 1880s.

62. Kartchner Caverns, near Benson, Arizona, is a massive
limestone cave with 13,000 feet of passages, two rooms
as long as football fields, and one of the world’s
longest soda straw stalactites: measuring 21 feet 3
inches.

Last Edited by ScoobySleuth on 11/14/2016 03:06 PM

Much of SP has had a facelift since then.
Newer cleaner nicer but the economy still sucks.
I moved here thinking it would be better... about the same.

Moved here from north Mexico (SoCal) so much I miss about the OC but in AZ there is so much else to do, regardless of the 1205 days, I love love love the desert and the quiet, nothing like any nature in Cali, with discarded diapers, coke can, and other trash left by illegals at every park and Forrest in Cali, always can find a huge expanse of land that hasn't been touched in 10+ years.

The Dove, Quail, and deer/elk hunting is superb, so much sky all the time, the stars are so bright, the air is so clean, no helmet law rules when Im riding my 05 Deuce up to cave creek, always something going on out in the sun from first Friday, to the Glendale Glitter lights thing, to the fair, downtown Glendale, Tempe town lake and all the music, downtown Scottsdale at night, all the milfs, and UofA hotties. 4 hours from Vegas, Cali, and Mexico.

Not to mention the open carry laws, every time there is a riot, or protest I step outside to see if anything is going down in my town with my 45 on my hip, and it seems like that crap isn't happening here, maybe because Im not the only one with a 45 on their hip here in AZ, so no burring buildings or overturned cars here in AZ. We may get the random group of misinformed pedestrians pedestering on the freeway over one cause or another, but here in AZ the vehicle has the right of way not the pedestrian, so its a few extra speed bumps on my way to work, no biggie, its an open carry state, so if anyone of them get lippy, the front end view of my 45 always changes their outlook on the next 20 minutes of their lives and it always works out with them backing away with a different attitude. I so love the look on their face when they can see the tip of the round looking down the barrel of my iron, if you have never seen that look before I suggest you move your ass down to AZ and try it for yourselvs, there is no other pleasure that measures up to seeing someone have their world view changed by looking down the barrel of a open carried piece of steel, its so so soothing like no other.

Love AZ, Bring me your tired and huddled masses and we can deport them for you or at least re-adjust their attitudes towards actual American citizens, the ones who open carry.

Long live Trump, the Flag, America, and the Republic.