Hi fellow Arizonan- I'm from Idaho originally, but now I consider myself an 'almost native' of AZ. The transformation from the 'green of mountain states' to desert wasn't too hard for me as I was too busy raising kids and attending their functions to think about it. Although, when we went on a picnic one time, here in AZ, I asked where 's the water ?(lake, river, stream, ) and my husband turned to me and said,"What are you talking about?", that I realized there was a BIG difference. But, I love AZ and wouldn't think of living anywhere else.