[cloudmountain]

Now we have AC and snowbirds (winter visitors). There is still a lot of wild Arizona, but Phoenix is a huge metropolitan area...
Even Yuma seems to be getting rather crowded to me. Over 100,000 population now, and people are saying it is the next Phoenix...

OH NO! Not Yuma! Over 100,000 people there? That dusty little town almost on the border? My goodness. I went through there in the 1970's. I got REAL tired of going through Blythe. The Salton Sea held no interest for me at all, so there I went driving my 1968 little red VW right through Yuma, Arizona.

HOT. Yuma was hot. I drove through the summer because I had a little bug. I couldn't afford anything more expensive until I got married. Haha, I kept the bug. My husband thought it was a good car.

I remember that my VW seat belt buckle broke in Mexico City (honking constantly, leaning on the horn, as ALL of Mexico City does), so I went to the VW there, spoke with all those VW Germans also living in D.F. and got another VW seat belt buckle. Good days those were.

[WhistlingPastTheGraveyard]

We moved to AZ from San Diego this past summer. Along the way, we hit Yuma at around 12:30am. It was 102 degrees... in the middle of the night.

It was quite a “Welcome to Arizona!” moment.

[ArmstedFragg]

Lived in Yuma for a few years in the mid sixties. I had a significant out of warranty problem with my Kombi wagon. The dealership there also had that strong German presence, and volunteered to do the two day repair job free because “our cars should not have that problem”.

Prescott has been impacted by significant numbers of California libs moving in and bringing their “sensitivities” with them.

[marktwain]

“OH NO! Not Yuma! Over 100,000 people there?”

That is permanent residents. Our winter population swells 3X and traffic is annoying in the middle of the day.

I looked at Alaska, but it was so rainy and cold...