Reverse Marketing! We’re Sick & Tired of People Moving To Arizona!

Arizona is a terrible place to live.

Every day in Arizona, we battle legions of scorpions, tarantulas, and rattlesnakes from the moment we step out of the door until we return to our domes in South Tatooine.

These terrifying, venomous creatures are literally knocking down our doors, making friends with our children, and teaching us to speak Spanish as a second language every scorching Arizona day. Goodness knows that's no way to live.

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Did You Know the Grand Canyon is Located in Arizona?

Reddit is a great place to take the pulse of life in Arizona. The thread r/Arizona decided to conduct a 'Reverse Marketing Campaign' to discourage people from visiting or moving to our state. They shared impressions people from out of state have about life here in the Desert Southwest.

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Here are some of the things people from outside Arizona were surprised to learn:

• Arizona is not filled with billowing sand dunes.
• Water is available.
• The Grand Canyon is in Arizona (seriously.)
• Arizona is no longer the Wild, Wild West.
• People don't (typically) ride their horses to school.
• Arizona commuters don't travel by stagecoach.

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The Grand Canyon - in the Grand Canyon State??

The Grand Canyon, if you can believe it, is actually located in Arizona.

Some of the folks in r/Arizona shared stories of friends and relatives who didn't realize that one of the world's most impressive natural wonders is, in fact, in our state.

Speaking of the Grand Canyon, others thought you'd have to get there by stagecoach because, somehow, the 20th century never came to our state. Yep. We put our six-shooters on just like anyone else.

What else were people from outside of Arizona surprised to learn? Here are 10 things we've decided we won't correct people on just to keep that Reverse Marketing Campaign rolling on Reddit.

Sources: AZLibrary.gov | Reddit r/Arizona