The trend in America toward moving to the autocentric wastelands of the Sun Belt continues, as the Census Bureau reported that Phoenix - a onetime tank town in the middle of desert with no intellectual or cultural stimulation - has surpassed Philadelphia as the nation's fifth largest city. Phoenix shouldn't even count as a city; it's a piece of suburban sprawl with a state capitol in the middle of it!
More people are moving to the Sun Belt to escape cold winters, but they leave behind real, once vital cities that have been through hell (and are waiting to be revived) in favor of these ugly sprawlscapes. It's always the same - lower taxes, bigger houses, larger yards for the kids to play on. (In the desert?) Wait until the citizens of Phoenix and Las Vegas have trouble watering their lawns or getting water for anything else, just as the cheap electricity becomes more scarce as the national energy supply gets tight.
It's sad to see old cities like Philadelphia, my father's family's hometown, get treated like this.
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