I came to AZ 6 years ago now, so I think I'm acclimatized. I simply do not miss 9 months of winter, which is what Minnesota really has. I used to close my pool after Labor Day and reopen the first week of May. It had a heater, or those dates would have been pushed. Also forgotten is the brutal humidity one month of the other three.
That leaves 8-10 weeks of really nice weather.
Here, it has still not gotten really hot. It has been 50s to 70s at night for 4 months and even when it has stretched to 100 during the day, maybe 3-4 days of any humidity. July and August will be hot, but it's like January and February in Minnesota--you stay inside. Come September, it will be like February to June. December and January its 40s at night and 50-70 during the day.
I have a second home in north central AZ, at 5800 ft. Snows some in the winter, but only gets below freezing a couple of nights a week. The weather is fantastic (July in northern MN without humidity or mosquitoes) from March to December.
The hot in AZ is pretty damn hot. However, if you are not in direct sun, its not even as brutal as a Minnesota summer 80 degrees with 70% humidity. You don't get stuck in it, you don't have to shovel it, and there's no weather related traffic jams.
Would not trade the weather here for Minnesota's, and I was born and bred.
The Gophers are still my team, and I wish them all the best. To discount the weather is flat out provincial ignorance.