Posted on 12/20/2017 6:18:24 PM PST by Az Joe
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When I moved here in 1963 there were about 1.4 million people here and the state was ranked 34th in population. Now it's just north of 7 million and ranked 14th.
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I love AZ but in 2018, there’ll be two less in AZ as we are moving to New Mexico to be licensed to practice law. So more than 7 million minus two.
Water. Water. Water.
It is the illegals and Mexicans that breed like rabbits. Kick them out and you can have your state again.
Make that 7 million minus 4.
We've loved AZ too but the wife and I are moving to the Ouachita Mountains of Arkansas next month.
Arizona is a great state and we'll cherish all the years we lived here.
...and enough water for everyone to have a swimming pool and private golf course.../s
My parents lived in Tucson in the early 1940s when there hardly anyone there.
There were 2.3 million in Arizona when ‘75 - ‘76. That’s a lot of growth. When I lived in the White Mountains then, places like Pinetop, McNary, Showlow and Snowflake were typical little western backwater towns. You could go 100 miles and not see a stoplight. I’m sure it’s all changed now.
I always wondered how people lived in AZ in the summer before air-conditioning was common. It was AC certainly that encouraged the massive growth in AZ population.
“It’s a dry heat.”
Not in the Quad Cities area.
I moved to Prescott Valley in August.
I was raised in Phoenix before Most people could afford air conditioning when I was younger Phoenix was surrounded by Farms yes it is hot during the day but every night it would cool if you couldn’t stand the heat you would soak a sheet and water and pinion up with close pins in front of a fan so the work like an evaporator cooler before we are rich enough to afford a cooler
Judging from the Senators y’all pick in AZ, the growing population hasn’t resulted in an uptick in wisdom.
When we moved from Georgia to Florida it was number 10.
Now it’s number three. From 5M to 20M
No more long walks exploring in the woods.
And Alligators were much sparser - you could swim in most freshwater above big cypress swamp.
Damn Yankees
I grew up in Higley, pop 10?? Moved to Chandler 1961 when it was 12,000 & my graduating class at CHS was 100.
Today, Chandler is 250,000 and a dozen high schools-—many named after family friends.
We used to drag race next to Mesa Comm. College on Sat nite-—an 8-lane (empty) highway.
IDK how that happened. But hopefully by Jan 2019 that will be over!
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As another said, we don’t go to that popular place because it’s to crowded.
I used to hunt doves where the Red Mountain Freeway 202 and Pima Freeway 101 now intersect in NW Mesa/NE Tempe.
Sigh, the good old days!
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