having lived in Phoenix, Texas and now Florida, i can tell you which is unbearable and it is not Florida.
Florida has a lot going for it - governor and current government notwithstanding. Texas, as well. there is nothing to redeem Phoenix at all. Arizona as a whole is lovely, however. Phoenix is not.
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To the great surprise of me and some of my co-workers a trans colleague of mine just made the decision to move out there to take a new job at Universal Studios, and she’s very excited about the move. She’s not happy at all with the state government and will have to jump through some extra hoops to receive her healthcare but she still loves the Orlando area. I doubt I would have made the same decision if I were in her shoes but I’m kinda glad that some people out there are willing to do it. The state government in Florida will never change for the better if all the folks who are getting discriminated against flee the area and no new liberal-minded folks move in.
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Oh, every place has something good about it and some places will always be more dangerous for some of us than others. I don’t feel safe stepping foot in either Florida or Texas right now. (Florida is the only state in the union that’s specifically on the “No Fly List” for me. I really hope that changes soon.)
Yeah, Phoenix is way to hot. I think I’ll just stay up here around the Great Lakes! 
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Wow, I salute her. I probably would have at least considered it when I was younger, but my days for that are long past. (Hell, it’s bad enough in the Chicago / Milwaukee area sometime!) I absolutely agree that if everyone flees (and not everyone can) or refuses to go there, it’ll never change, but that doesn’t mean I want to be the one to do it.
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“the 100th straight day where the temperature reached at least 100 degrees. The previous record, 76 days in a row, was set in 1993”
Wouldn’t the previous record be 99 days? Set the day before?
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That’s been our experience since moving here as well. Of course, as a cisgender white dude I get all that on easy mode, but still - Orlando is good people, and it’s really not a bad place to live at all.
Austin was already too hot for me when I lived there. I cannot imagine 100+ days of 100 degree weather in Phoenix. Madness.
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Here Scott Anderson, Arizona Golf Course Manager, celebrates their reduction in water use.
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I’ve only ever been there in late September and November, but the heat+humidity was still pretty hard to ignore. How do you survive summers when sweating does nothing to cool you down?
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cant wrap my head around it;
The region is among the fastest-growing metro areas in the US. Roughly 2 million people have moved here over the last 50 years, with nearly a million more expected by 2060
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So, when I moved to Austin (In May of that year no less) the heat was such a departure that I thought I had made a terrible mistake.
Fast-forward five years and I can go into my AC-less humid as hell garage on a 32C/90F day and think to myself “Huh, it’s nice out today!” - to my complete surprise.
The key is staying out of direct sunlight. That DayStar will roast you in no time, but shade at midday really is enough to feel pretty comfortable once your body gets used to it, and no one is more surprised about that than I am!
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The Sand Traps are probably getting larger each year.
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Can’t find it for the life of me, but Lenny Henry’s brilliant series Chef! had an esp excellent episode in which English wine plays a large part.
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