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I lived outside Seattle, WA until I was 10 years old, and then we moved to Las Vegas, NV. We moved in July...holy fucking batshit crazy heat. As OP stated my nose would start gushing blood out of nowhere the first year I was there.
When I was 18 I joined the Marine Corps and ended up in Jacksonville, NC where's it humid as all hell and gets quite hot.
I'll take the desert heat every single day of the year versus this hot sauna humid muggy bullshit. While the desert certainly sucks at least you can stop sweating. Usually once April rolls around I don't stop sweating until November or December..just brutal and I hate everything about it. If my wife didn't have an awesome job out here we would have left years ago. I would actually like to live in a place which has a decent enough winter as I miss snow. We get snow here about once every 3 to 4 years, and it usually only sticks around for a day or two max.
To each their onw I guess though. And @HunterSdVa29 Twenty-Nine Palms can well and truly go fuck itself. I was on the receiving end of a horrendous winter CAX...ungodly cold and we were living in a fucking tent for the whole month of January. When we went to leave the roads were frozen and there was a fatal crash on the highway between 29 and the airport. Our bus almost slid off the road trying to stop so our Corpsman could try and render first aid. When we finally got to the airport the wings of the fucking airplane were frozen and their defrosting equipment was broken...took us like an extra 12 hours just sitting at the airport waiting to leave. Fucking miserable!
Yep, I'm the same way. I can take the dry heat of the desert but I can't stand being where it's hot & humid. I can't stop sweating in those circumstances & it sucks. Even with the AC on I sweat in hot & humid conditions. That's why I'm so happy to be living in Arizona now.