The Phoenix/Scottsdale/Glendale/Tempe/Chandler/Mesa/ etc. etc. megalopolis is a mass of humanity and traffic - nothing like the relatively serene desert of the 60s and 70s.
My wife is from Scottsdale. She left there about 25 years ago.
While some of her best friends are still there, and we go to visit now and then, every time she says there is no way she could move back.
While the area is nice (but did anybody mention the heat yet?
), I guess for those that were there back then, it's just changed and grown way too much.
