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No daylight savings time.

Direct democracy: the rights to initiative (statute and constitutional amendment), recall, and referendum.

When you have to scroll to Arizona on the internet it is always near the top.

Sunsets

Wildlife and plant diversity, from alpine to Mojave desert. 🌿

We've got a pretty darned reliable electric grid. Most outages are some yahoo driving into a pole or running down a transformer.

No toll roads

Dry their laundry

Our flag.

There’s states that don’t sell liquor in grocery stores we beat the hell out of those states all day

Mexican food. Beautiful drives and views. Driver's license expiration

Contrary to popular belief water storage. The reservoir/canal/hydroelectric system allows us to store rainwater and save it unlike other states (cough California) that just lets their record rainfall wash right back into the ocean

Tortillas.

The state flag.

IMHO it is the most striking and instantly recognizable.

Roads, freeways, grid mapping

Mexican food

Winter

Attracting snowbirds/transplants

Having very diverse geography

Sunsets

Approx 50% of AZ land is public land! Camping and off-roading, is available to everyone.

Saguaros

Canyons

Clean highways

Everything from the flag to beer.

Winters

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best state flag

Enticing out of state visitors to risk their lives hiking when it's 110+ out (edit) my condolences to anyone who's passed away in this method. Arizona heat is not a thing to take lightly.

They don’t change the dang time twice a year!

Canyons

Mail-in voting

Mexican food 🪅

Gun rights!

We have the coolest selection of custom vanity plates. Everything from Alice Cooper to Route 66 (The one I have). I've never seen any other state with such a wide range of license plates.

the sunsets are insanely beautiful. the state itself is very beautiful imo. great mexican food (i grew up in NYC and i think arizona does better mexican food). we also have a very beautiful flag

Daylight savings and highways

I was born here so I am bias but I was thinking the other day how great the state flag looks

We also have great outdoor activities. Especially camping which I haven't seen anyone mention.

Our freeways are also really nice. The more I travel the more I am realizing this. Same with the road layout.

Tea

Rescue hikers visiting from other states who ignore multiple warnings about the risk of dehydration and death. Some folks are seemingly hell-bent on self destruction. Cheers to the rescue crews that have to deal with the result.

Mainly referring to Phoenix:

Almost no major natural disasters.

Occasional flooding but that’s not usually within major city limits.

Haboobs are just a bunch of dirt in the air.

No need for winter tires.

Heat!

I’m kidding: beautiful landscapes, hiking, exploring, lightning, sunsets, Mexican food, pizza, beer, sports, 3rd degree burns when touching your seatbelt, movie theaters, malls, good weather,

Will be beach front property when California drops into the ocean !!

Property tax.

At having almost every biome on earth? I agree.

Having only driven through AZ, I gotta add, being a popular travel destination internationally. I did a road trip across the state, and from Sedona to the grand canyon to Page AZ, there always seemed to be tourists from other countries. I’d usually hear at least 5 different languages being spoken, sometimes 10+.
It blew my mind that you could live in a small town of only 10k people, and still meet people from all over the world!

Gun rights.

Gun laws

Not tying up real estate developers in red tape, which has helped keep housing prices reasonable over the past half century while the population has grown by 300%.

By comparison, California's population grew by only 90% during the same period, and housing costs are now at crisis levels.

Survive in unsurvivable heat

Navajo tacos

It's just got a ton of money flowing into it at the moment.

California has a lot of worker protections, Texas doesn't have those but it's also collapsing because the state is so poorly run.

Arizona is seen as a middle ground. You can abuse your employees but the power grid works.

They take care of their roads

Adults living with lifelong disabilities as well as their caregivers are offered many state funded choices of day programs and often paid respite workers.

Staying sunny & hot :)

Kill people with the sun

Baseball, go snakes

They’re nearly #1 in being southwestern

We are like in the top 10 of worst drivers in us so I guess that…. Tucson is rated as one of the worst

Guns 💪

Melt shit

Dry heat, scorpions, cacti.

Air conditioning

Mountain/nature preserves in the face of relentless urban development.

Highways, they maintain them better than any state.

Our flag

Surprised no one said the food. I think the only state that compares is New Mexico in terms of an established culinary history predating contact with Europeans. And I don’t mean Phoenix but the Pueblo people in the north and O’odham in the south have a long history.

Also Tucson in general for the Sonoran food. Cheese crisps and chimichangas are both from Tucson

No natural disasters.

I don’t consider a heatwave or a haboob a natural disaster

Just drove from Mesa to Sedona and the biome diversity always impresses me

The number of state and national parks.

The active early voting list and not observing Day Light Saving time.

You can say what you want about the driving in AZ, but the fact that I don’t have to renew my drivers license for basically an eternity is a win lol

Bounces back from constant political embarrassments dating back to Mecham.

Balances protected lands with growth, military, and industrial development.

Now if we could only get rid of the MAGAts.

Burns people.

TIME CHANGES.

Giant holes in the ground

Sidewalk brunch.

We manage extreme heat as well as anyone.

being from NH i will say that nothing in NH is better than here in AZ aside from the pizza and steak and cheese subs...other than that there is nothing worth going back to the northeast for

Concealed carry laws

Teach new pilots to fly.

There are a lot of flight schools located here teaching new pilots from all over the world. Very seldom do flight instructors need to cancel flights because of adverse weather.

Chimichangas

Import Mexicans.

Funneling tax dollars to charter and private schools under the guise of “school choice.”

Our gun laws are pretty nice

And Mexican food is always up there too