Come to Arizona. One of the major bastions of American culture and Western heritage. Also very low cost of living compare to other states. Nine months of the year in Phoenix and Tucson are simply paradise. The folks here are good and decent and celebrate the holidays with gusto. Big problem is that the summers are everything you’ve heard but you can either leave the valley or keep inside the ac at museums and similar locations. Plus if the Mrs is still playful the prospect of staying in bed all weekend and @ is always something to look forward to and can make summer a heavily anticipated 9 weeks...
If he’s from Illinois your summers won’t faze him a bit... they will actually feel cool without the humidity he’s accustomed to enduring.
THe desert is already overpopulated. WIthout diverting water from the rivers and aquafiers people would be dying of thirst.
“Nine months of the year in Phoenix and Tucson are simply paradise.”
That is nonsense and you know it! You could say that about Flagstaff and the AZ “high country,” but I used to work for a company that had a plant in Casa Grande and that place is “Satan’s Oven” for more than three months out of the year. And don’t get me started about the summertime flash floods. It can be 1000 degrees and then you have a storm that’s like a cow pi$$ing on a flat rock, and all of a sudden every arroyo is disgorging water like a broken dam. And that action “upsets” the rattle snakes who don’t like to have to swim.