PHOENIX — On “King of the Hill,” the animated sitcom that aired for 13 years on Fox, the character named Peggy Hill once called Phoenix “a monument to man’s arrogance.” Last summer, on a day the temperature broke records at 115 degrees, someone posted a segment on Reddit under the thread “Phoenix, Arizona, should not exist.”
And that is just a small taste of the disrespect often heaped on the nation’s sixth-largest city.
Image: A view of downtown from the revolving Compass Arizona Grill restaurant atop the Hyatt Regency Phoenix hotel. Credit Caitlin O'Hara for The New York Times
