We have seen it all after living in AZ for 20 years but now we are moving back east as the Californians have taken over the state like cockroaches.
A nice place to visit but you wouldn't want to live here.
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I live near the ocean (and could never give that up regardless of how backwards the politics get out here) but I love the desert. Couldn’t live there but like you said, amazing to visit.
A couple years back we took a road trip up the Cali coast on Hwy 1 all the way to Washington state and we did not want to come back.
Way prettier and more majestic than the East coast.