Moving to AZ- Suggestions? Tips?

Just what the title said. I guess my main issue will be acclimatization, because I currently live (and always have) in Minnesota...

your first summer is gonna be like living in hell, but you get used to it. most people here don't even really experience the heat, they go from air conditioned house, to air conditioned car, to air conditioned job, etc.

just drink lots of water and stay out of the sun and you will be fine.

other than that i find most places not all that different. i lived in chicago for awhile.

Make sure you have an income, money to rent or lease, a skill that is in demand fopr work. Phoenix, Tucson and Yuma are extremely and oppressively hot. Suggest you move further north....Prescott, Prescott Valley, Flagstaff area. The state is ultra conservative with 9 supremists groups spread about. If buying land, have money to sink a well in any region....it's expensive. Spend a month or so raoming AZ before you move here. Once here, if ya hate it, its hard to get out of. There are a few intentional communities; some are just scams, others overly restrictive, some just flop places where no one does anything and then there are the religious, wealthy.

Wait, spend at least 6 months roaming about here. That alone will tell ya what ya need to know.

I move here (mesa, AZ) from Michigan. I really didn't think the heat was that bad. I guess except for the electric bill. Just think about the 5 months of terrible leather and wool piercing cold vs. the 3 months of blistering heat that can easily be escaped by taking a trip to walmart. lol