Scottsdale is one of the most expensive places to live in the country. Phoenix is liberal compared to the surrounding areas, but don't expect to get treated well by the law enforcement there. Read up on Sherrif Joe Arpaio, and I would not be trying to move ANYWHERE where it's legal for the cops to stop me and ask me for my papers and throw me in jails of 3rd world conditions
They got a good art scene and some cheap housing in some sections, but majority of blacks live in poor areas along with the Latinos and the Indians. (Arizona got a big native peoples population) And you know what they do in these neighborhoods, they build their fukking plants and asphalt factories and dump their chemicals and shyt in the water and blow smoke there. The black hood in Phoenix is one of the most prevalent CANCER CLUSTERS in the country because they let their companies dump shyt all over the black people.
It is incredibly racist, and i love my people but i would not live in a hood where I could get cancer if I was coming to that community. You are better off moving into one of the growing artist hippy districts, but be prepared to have police on your ass. It is entirely legal for the sherrif to just order police cars parked outside your door and even if it isn't, they aren't going to throw him in the bushes.
Source: i used to do some managerial consulting for a legal defense fund out of Arizona. The racism there is the real deal.