Sunburned boomer couples love Arizona. Young people, not so much. I talked to some younger people who were running a cafe in Prescott (a weird place, one of those which is funded by some religious cult) and they said it took half a decade to build a satisfactory social circle there. You'll probably give up long before then. But if you only want to work, smoke weed and explore the natural areas with no friends or anything, then Arizona is all right.

I also had a 25 year female friend who moved from Texas to Flagstaff. She started dating one of her Navajo coworkers, met his family, then broke up with him because she's a fickle pea-brained little hippie girl who constantly makes impulsive bad decisions. The Navajos loved her, but the whites kept their distance. Last I checked she posted a lot of pictures on Facebook, but never with her friends like she always did in Texas. In Arizona she is always alone.

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I lived in Tucson for 6 years and hated it. People don't try to get to know new people or expand their social circle, so unless you find someone else who just recently moved there you're going to have a hard time socializing. Phoenix was even worse.

Small towns in Arizona are slightly better, but still have similar issues with how transient the local population is. Snow birds really ruin everything.