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My Opinion of Arizona
Do you like white nationalists and weird ass looking rats that can gore you?
So I’ve talked a little bit about my experiences in Arizona. The TL;DR of my experiences — nope, no fun, bad times.
But setting the outright weird and mindnumbingly boring elements of my experiences in Arizona aside, is Arizona a good state to live in?
Well, the answer to that question depends on a lot of factors.
I’ve lived for long periods of time in three states total now; California, Oregon, and Arizona. My childhood was spent in Southern California, my late teens to mid twenties in Oregon, and fifteen months in semi rural Arizona. And I can confidently say that, despite the fact all these states are technically in West USA, each is very different culturally. It’s actually as though I have lived in different countries, to tell you the truth.
Arizona has traditionally been a red as a tomato state, producing the likes of John Mccain. However, that’s changed, due to the enormous demographics shifts as a product of the California refugee crisis. A mass exodus of Californian natives to Arizona actually made the state go Blue during the last election.
