Metro Phoenix Has Seen Its Best Days
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11/13/2009
The 60-mile wide sprawl called Phoenix is polarized by the haves (NE) and have-nots, mostly transplants, ununified, unrooted. In the last 30 years summers have changed (due to cement) to longer, warmer at night, and monotonous. Empty playgrounds sizzle. Charter schools have sprung up (white flight) to counter illegals, who have crippled this area, and Tucson, to its knees as "sanctuary" cities in the courts, hospitals, and schools, with Spanish billboards and check-cashing shops almost everywhere. Phoenix was built by HOA home builders throwing up beige stucco boxes on treeless streets, anticipating that the climate would continue to bring people. Good while it lasted, but it's over for at least a decade, until someone has the foresight and money to solarize water and air conditoning and rebuild it from the ashes. Aptly named Phoenix.
PJB | Glendale, AZ