Arizona is now the fastest growing state. Let me just tell everyone thinking of moving here that the State is full. There is no more room anymore and we are beginning to stack people in the Grand Canyon. A friend in Nevada says that they are crying in the streets over losing this title. Please, help Nevada get back on top as the fastest growing state.
*Note: I love Iowa!
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Brian Timoney
// Dec 23, 2006 at 9:06 am
And that snow in Colorado? Happens every week.
Sure be ashame if someone moving out here with the family in the U-Haul veered off the road and got stuck in a snowdrift–probably wouldn’t be found until the Spring melt-off.
So yeah please stay in the upper Midwest with its glorious weather (in May and September).
BT
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Hilary
// Dec 23, 2006 at 4:00 pm
When I lived there, the stat we threw around was that for every five that move in, three leave.
It was that transient aspect of AZ that finally made us leave - we never did make any real friends, and it just got too hard to have no friends and no family nearby. So we moved back to Missouri and are much happier - and have plenty of friends and family nearby (who also aren’t likely going anywhere - peoples’ roots grow deep here).
I liked much about living out there, particularly the opportunities to get to major wilderness. The appeal of Nevada is however, lost on me.
I’m an ASU grad myself (MEP) - it was way back in the early 90s and I was involved (only peripherally really) in trying to get GIS going campus-wide.
Hilary
3
edarrell
// Dec 24, 2006 at 7:34 am
Stacking them in the Grand Canyon? Open the spillways at Glen Canyon, they’ll all wash downriver to Nevada. Easy solution!
(Of course, a few may be picked up by the intakes for the Central Arizona Project, but they’ll be more timid once they get pack through the pipeline across the desert.)
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Bill and Kathee
// Dec 24, 2006 at 1:00 pm
At Sky Harbor International Airport this morning it looked like they were all leaving.
There were people lined up at the skycap stations at Terminal 4 that stretched the entire length of the terminal.
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AZexpat
// Dec 27, 2006 at 1:17 pm
This comes as no shock to me as I sat in stop-and-go traffic on Bell Rd. on my way to Surprise to visit my sister last week.
My wife and I are both Arizona natives and ASU Grads and have relocated to Sacramento, CA. It is amazing how different the Valley looks whenever we fly back. Are people really buying new homes in Buckeye? We occasionally think about moving back but it looks like there isn’t enough room to squeeze in.
-Steve
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Eric Andelin
// Dec 28, 2006 at 1:44 pm
Just left, so there are 4 more spots available. I love AZ and will probably be back someday. No place else I know that you can double your money on property in 2 to 4 years. I lived most recently in Anthem, and as a native remember when I17 stopped at Dunlap. Lake Pleasent Road/Carefree hwy were dirt everything else was farmland.
Somebody go run up and down Sqaw (not Piestewa) peak for me.
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