Not too long ago I lived in the Puget Sound Region. My wife and I bought our first house in Bremerton, WA intending to make that our community for the foreseeable future. After 13 of my own moves, some after I got married, I didn’t want to move again. But the wintertime depression was crushing, killing, unsustainable. No amount of running or pharmacology or use of natural supports was going to be enough to endure them, much less than thrive in them. My wife, myself, and one toddler decided to leave liberal Western Washington to try our hand at living cheaply, in the sun, surrounded by a white Christian nationalist supermajority county in central Arizona. More than one of our friends objected to the idea. But the Seattle area was done with us so we fled for the sun anyway. We visited Arizona frequently before and during the pandemic. We researched it as a geographical solution to our vitamin D deficiencies. We had family in Prescott, found that housing was affordable and