You said something good about the most populus state in the union ... this isn't going to reflect good upon you. I can delete this thread if you'd like and before the other Arizona people see this.

There's so much to do here that I never get bored. There are plenty of sport teams, live concerts, year-round outdoor activities, places to go, things to see. Real estate taxes are fixed at the time of purchase of your home so you don't have to worry about that major bitch like most other states. My state taxes are about 1.5% a year which isn't too bad concidering I've made 35-45% each of the last three and a half years I've lived in my home.

I've love to live out in east San Diego county but find my self a bit north of there in east Riverside county. There's horse properties in the next sub-division over and being this far away from LA we're pretty conservative, crime is way lower, and traffic is reasonable. The cost of living is pretty steep but the fixed real estate tax and no taxes on foods or medicine helps the retirement. If they only didn't tax my federal retirement income I'd stay here.

You understand that you can't bring any assualt weapons in ... but then they're not banned either so we keep the ones we have.  Get yourself a nice M1 Garand or M1A and you'll still be unarmed in the eyes of some of the poodle shooters but not when it comes time.