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moshe eli
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If you’re looking for really warm, think about Phoenix, Arizona. It gets very, very hot for about four months. Really hot! It may be a dry heat but it’s HOT! Day after day, month after month, doesn’t even cool off at night. With that in mind, from mid October through May or June, it’s beautiful, sunny and warm. Phoenix is a large city, that covers a lot of area, things are very spread out. You won’t feel closed in.It’s scenic, with mountains right in the middle of the city. Beautiful parks also. Housing is much cheaper than NY, and you get more for your money, and taxes are much lower.

In north central Phoenix is the Jewish community. Within the area are six orthodox shuls, two are Bucharian shuls. In north Phoenix, there is another Bucharian community, and housing is a bit cheaper. Just outside the main community is the Chabad of Phoenix. There are Chabad houses throughout metropolitan Phoenix.There are two day schools, a boys high school, and a girls high school. Two pizza shops, a number of restaurants, and kosher food is readily available, including cholov yisroel.

In nearby Scottsdale , there is smaller Jewish community. There’s a Chabad, an Ashkenazi shul- Aish HaTorah, and a Sephardi shul. Housing prices are higher than Phoenix. There a a number of restaurants, but the schools are all in Phoenix, at present no school bus service is available.