Current Events > How the **** do people live in Arizona

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Easily. With water and A/C. Yeah, the summers are hot and looong but I prefer it to the snowy freezing winters I grew up with.

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Being born here helps. And being part-arabic gives me extra heat tolerance at the expense of easily perspiring just from walking down the block.

Not a fan of the cold, even just in Phoenix. I couldn't imagine living anywhere else. It's far from perfect, but it beats any of the other supposed "better" states out there on the East coast.

Also if you're from California, fucking stay there and quit moving here. Honestly just quit moving here in general regardless where you're from.

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To people who live in Arizona, how many of the summer months is it too hot to be outside?

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El_Lingo posted...

To people who live in Arizona, how many of the summer months is it too hot to be outside?

For me, it's only June, July, and August that get like that, with the latter two compounding the heat bullshit with frequent thunderstorms. Most years at least, last year was super dry in my area.

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El_Lingo posted...

To people who live in Arizona, how many of the summer months is it too hot to be outside?

5-6 lol. Though if you can handle your heat just 3

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pkmnlord posted...

Honestly just quit moving here in general regardless where you're from.

Sorry, but no.

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El_Lingo posted...

To people who live in Arizona, how many of the summer months is it too hot to be outside?

like when it gets hot in the south, you generally don't do outdoor activities from 11-5, out there it's literally miserable all damn day

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pkmnlord posted...

Also if you're from California, fucking stay there and quit moving here.

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Good grief, 3 to 6 months is a long time to be avoiding the outside. I guess not having cold winters makes up for it though haha

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El_Lingo posted...

Good grief, 3 to 6 months is a long time to be avoiding the outside. I guess not having cold winters makes up for it though haha

Tbh unless you're doing sports or a housing improvement it's not that wild. It's usually cool enough at night or when I wake up to take a walk.

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El_Lingo posted...

Good grief, 3 to 6 months is a long time to be avoiding the outside. I guess not having cold winters makes up for it though haha

yeah but you are literally sacrificing 3-6 months lol

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Extreme_light posted...

Tbh unless you're doing sports or a housing improvement it's not that wild. It's usually cool enough at night or when I wake up to take a walk.

It was 100 degrees at 10pm when I was there

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I moved there in August. I got acclimated to the climate pretty quickly.

gamer167 posted...

I moved there in August. I got acclimated to the climate pretty quickly.

do you rarely leave your house?

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Give me Arizona's dry heat over the humid heat in places like Houston any day. Literally was getting headaches and problems sleeping when I first visited family in Houston in the summer.

JBaLLEN66 posted...

It was 100 degrees at 10pm when I was there

Key word: usually

Those record-breaking weeks were something different

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project_night posted...

Give me Arizona's dry heat over the humid heat in places like Houston any day. Literally was getting headaches and problems sleeping when I first visited family in Houston in the summer.

At what point does the dry heat argument lose its luster? Could it be when the temperature goes up to 120 DEGREES and summer days merely consist of retired people in air-conditioned cars driving slowly around mall parking lots looking for spots that are marginally close to the shade? Not there yet? How about when it's too hot for planes to take off? Maybe three is too generous?

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When it 100+ with high humidity like in Houston during the summer, you have a hard time breathing if you are not use to it. Plus the humidity makes the air feel thick and everything sticky. 120 sucks, but 105 with 85% humidity is like hell.

project_night posted...

When it 100+ with high humidity like in Houston during the summer, you have a hard time breathing if you are not use to it. Plus the humidity makes the air feel thick and everything sticky. 120 sucks, but 105 with 85% humidity is like hell.

Yeah don't go outside during the peak hours. When I was in Phoenix in the summer, my nose was dry af and eyes hurt from all the sand in the air. I thought I could go and take a walk outside during the night like I usually do, but I couldn't because it still felt like I was in a damn oven lol.

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JBaLLEN66 posted...

when we think arizona, nobody thinks of flagstaff...sorry bro

lol

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SolidShadow3 posted...

Theres a reason theres a place called Death Valley though.

Death Valley isnt much worse than places like Phoenix tbh.

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project_night posted...

When it 100+ with high humidity like in Houston during the summer, you have a hard time breathing if you are not use to it. Plus the humidity makes the air feel thick and everything sticky. 120 sucks, but 105 with 85% humidity is like hell.

Isn't 100 with high humidity literally in or very close to the "wet bulb" range where you will rapidly die as your sweat will be unable to cool you?:

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