Yep, Phoenix in the summer. Tucson's about 10 degrees cooler, but once it's over 100, "It's Hot!" I worked as an iron worker putting up high steel one summer in Phoenix during school. That was an experience, especially on my last day we were standing columns between Wickenburg & Sun City West and it was over 120.
Back to the subject. Hope your friend has a good interview. We moved to small town Montana with some trepidation. I am a native Tucsonan and we've been here for 9 years. Our kids don't know any better. I look at it this way, I traded year-'round golf for year-'round flyfishing. In our local drainage we have fishing open year round, some rivers and sreams are not open all year.
The only negative is that wages are quite a bit lower than in the sunbelt. Quite a few people have more than one job to make ends meet. If you offset that with the miles you have to drive to find a mall, you may not spend as much money. Takes a little discipline, which I have failed instilling in my wife and apparantly my 15 year old daughter.![]()