Honestly... What's Arizona like?

I want to relocate there with my husband by 2013.

I currently live in Vancouver. It is a boring dreary city full of aloof unfriendly robots and rich foreigners. It has the most obvious disparity between super-rich and dirt poor homeless junkie fuckbags that I've ever seen. There is no room here for a middle class. But there are more group homes, fetal-alcohol zombies, damaged street people, drunk natives, and various examples of eugenics in action, per square inch, than possibly any other place in the world. The police are brutal and unaccountable to anything [But I suppose that's the same anywhere in North America]

I like sunshine and actual Mexican food. I like cacti. I am tired of getting my vitamin D from little white pills. I look great with a slight tan, and I haven't seen stars in the night sky in about 7 years.

Would Arizona be a good fit? Are there a lot of hippies? That could be a deal breaker [still better than fruit-picking French-Canadian hippies any day of the week].

Alls I know is, as an American, I've fucking had it with Canada. I turned 18 and I had the desire to either live in the desert, or the pacific northwest. I also sought to escape the increasingly fascist climes in the states. I made my hasty decision, and while it was fun for a while, the fruit is off the bloom. I loathe this place and everything about it. The fake greenwashing. The massive superiority-complex. The lame drug culture. The excessive number of Asians. The rich trust fund kids. The smell of mildew and dankness. There's so little sun here, I still have green tomatoes in my garden.

Tell me the grass is greener there. Please.